Last day of the yr!

woopppiiiiieeeee the last day of 07.... Come to think of it don't really feel anything, i mean tomorrow is going to be tuesday then wednesday then thursday just another week in our life... Was telling someone yesterday new's eve just an excuse for ppl to get drunk and party. After 32 yrs of living not that i getting sick of it.. come to think of it i'm actually enjoying my life but so wasup with 1 more yr. A yr older we get, it's just all numbers on how we keep track of time to make things simpler for us to keep track off. I'm mean i sure if 60s to 60 mins to 24 hrs to 7 days to 1 week to 1 month to 1 yr we would be lost in some sense. So it's the new yr, i might actually be slp by the time the count down starts so i can wake up fresh for tomorrows cycle and run. Well some of you would say i'm insane but we are a bunch of insane ppl. Ppl who cannot go with out some form of exercise for 2 days in a row. So how was this yr for me. We have our ups and downs, so i say i had more ups then downs this yr. All in all a good yr, lots of new friends made as well. Did my first half iron man, half marathon. Next yr will be a yr of full distance stuff. Can't wait......

Not going to say what goals i have set myself for the next yr to come, all i can hope for is that god would give me an eventful one both good and bad, cause with out experiences then what is life for am i right.... s everyone likes to say lets see what the new yr brings to us. It can only get better!

wet & cold!

Man when the alarm rang at like 530 in the morning i swear i did not want to get out of bed, but to miss this ride would be a waste since so many ppl were going for it. About 18 of us in total if i counted correctly. In total we did about 70ish km today. Well i need to start building milage so this was a good start. We cycled from F2 carpark all the way to the west round about where the spc station was have no idea what you call that place. Along the way the group did 3 loops of faber hum i pass as i did not want to place any stress on my itb as i just started cycling again.
After we hit the turn around point man you should have at look at the sky i was so dark it reminded me of the rain this yr during the open water swim. The wind was blowing like mad, not to say it was bloody cold. This is the first time i'm saying the weather is cold in sg. I think during some parts my bike was tilted at an angle, that's how strong the wind was blowing. We decided to seek shelter at the west coast Mac as it would have been to dangerous to continue cycling in this sort of weather. After having breakfast which was suppose to be B.K tea but instead we had mac's sigh. I think most of us wanted to have the B.K tea that's what made us wake up for this morning's ride.......

Anyway, the rain kinda of soften itself up so we were on our way again, can i say the first 2km of the ride was abloody torture. Cold and was shivering not to say the trucks that were zooming pass us, it was an experience none the less. Well we slowly made our way back to F2 carpark. It was a good ride, i like cycling in the rain with out the traffic.

Andrew called me at like 1ish asking what time i was rdy to go over to jb, told me he'll be at my place in about an hr. So in the mean time i took a cat nap, one which i did not want to wake up from. The morning ride took out more then i thought it would have. O well i was not driving today so it was okie. Today was kelong sea food, which i say was nice and good only thing bad about it was the mozzie that were biting us. I got like 3 bits at the same spot bah i blame it on my blood type B+ which mozzie's seem to like to drink more of it.

Anyway, i must say training is going pretty good. Took my 800m interval timing yesterday i actually do about 3.30 a lap. Good but yes i still need to train harder. Tomorrow should be a rest day for me but i might just do something like swim or something. who know shrug......

Weeeeee!

I think this is one of the most enjoyable ENR sessions i ever had. Not only did i not get dropped in the cycle but the run after the bike session was good as well. Hit a high of about 46km/h today not to bad if you ask me, but then again i'm getting my new bike soon an as reves says anything below 40km/h for a pina would be an insult to the bike. I have to agree with him but right now keeping a 40km/h avge is pretty dam hard to do but i'll be working hard on it. Plus ah hock was saying you want to get the cycle worx Jersey sure kana attack one. So we did 2 loops of costal must say the head wind tonight was pretty strong but i still manage to keep up with the front pack unlike last week i got dropped like almost right away. After the bike went for a short run, was suppose to run around the food center and back to the carpark which would have made it 3km but decided to follow the rest an do a 5km run... but but noooo ... ended up doing 7km run instead. Boy did it feel good. Was maintaining about 5.40 pace after a hard bike as well. Never felt so good, i guess all the training is paying off. But none the less i still have to train harder.

On the other note, went down to cycl worx today, the new prince are in man totally fall in love with them. Now i'm so wanting to buy one hahahaha. Okie am tried going to zzzzz ... peace out world! :) An to all reading this , Have a merry merry Christmas and a happy new yr if i don't up date this as i'm kinda pack for the next week. An may god bless all of you!

Rain rain rain!

Once again the rain has kinda spoiled my sunday training plans, well not the first time this yr if you ask me. But all was well as i did about a 14 km run in the afternoon. So all in all i say the day was not lost.

Went to the durian to watch mama and chinaman perform they new album that will be coming out at the end of jan. Not bad i say, but then again if it's a local talent i'm always supporting. Singapore has to start from somewhere so yup anything an everything that we can produce locally will get my support.

Anyway can't wait to swim today, yes yes looking to be tortured in the pool as always but i always fee so dam good after that. Going to spend some time with me brother and sis this afternoon, we going crayfish fishing woot... hahaha just for fun la .. anyway we back to doing our present for the whole family , which is jigsaw puzzle 1000 pieces , it's a painting done by i think Michelangelo ... we did one of the last supper last yr. So this has become a yearly affair for the 3 siblings.

Was just thinking when i went to the super market this morning it's been a month an i have laid off my chocolates .. man do i sound like a gal or what ... lol ... well it's good so i stop getting fat. sometimes i wonder me not eating supper watching what i eat is it all worth it ... i mean i really am cutting down on what kind of food i eat... for me the person who loves to eat food. sigh .... o well Christmas is coming so eating it shall be but yes in moderation. This week is going to be crazy all the way till the 26th lol ... party party party , eating eating eating, okie i'll try to get everything on pics .. but you'll have to go to my facebook to see it, to lazy to dl it to 2 sights .. takes to long! Peace out peeps ...

Where to start?

So the weekend went by rather fast i must say. Saturday was just a plain ass lazy day. Since i slept like at 3am in the morning after coming back from my aunty's place. I had to pick up my cousin from the airport. He and his wife are back for good but he did not tell anyone but me as he need me to pick him up from the airport! All this was planned about a month back. So brought him home where first thing we did was to climb over the gate, Went to the back of the house to the maids room but they where not there. My grandpa sleeps on the ground floor an his window was not lock so we thought we will climb in from there an surprise my uncle and auntie up stairs. But we decided to try the front door which was not locked to our surprise, during this time we were wondering if the alarm was on, an my cousin being away for the last 2 and half yrs forgot the combi to it well it was off. So we just walking in the front door woke the maids up told them to keep quiet and my cousin went up stairs to give his parents a nice surprise. So now you know if you need something done in secret look for me! hehehehe ....

Okie so as i was saying saturday was a lazy day, woke up looked through the papers had lunch only to fall aslp, had intend to go for a run or a cycle actually but was just to plain lazy. Mum was cooking penang laksa that night so a few of me relatives were coming over and some of my friends. Of cause mum did not know that my cousin was back as well. I told her i had 2 very special friends come over to visit her, she was wondering who the hell could it be. hehehehe .. very sneak i say i am. So my cousin appeared an gave my mum a nice surprise as well. Nat(jie), andrew, stone and jx came over for laksa as well. Our stash of dvd had arrive from JB so it was going to be dvd night, only to know that my parents where going to be kara-ok-ing sigh. So we had to go to nat's place to watch the dvd, ended up watching 30 nights .... MAN WAS IT BAD... don't watch for those of you who plan to watch it.

Sunday went by rather fast as well, just church and had a doggie day at pawtobello.

Okie monday, well this the winter season.. man will it stop raining already, been raining everyday since last monday with out fail. Mum was like it's raining you still going for swim training i was like yar no lighting what. We did like 100 x 15 today. Did not think i could do it but i did. i keep an avg time of about 1 min 42 sec per set. The first 5 sets we took about 40 mins rest in between, the next 5 it was count down to 30 the last 5 was count down to 20. Man did i suffer but all in all it was good. I tried out my new jammers today, Dion help me get the long ones. Man must i say it was nice hehehehe... kept me warmer as well consider the water was cold.

All in all it was a good day of training! now i'm tried an my bed is so calling me ZzZzZzzzzzzz

Weird Ars ppl at swimming pools!!!!!

Man WASUP with all the werid ASS ppl at swimming pools! I swear do gay guys have nothing else better to do then sit in the fugging toilet looking at ppl shower. (sorry the language) BUT BUT BUT!!! As i was telling f-net that day, no idea why ah hock calls her that, but then again ah hock has like a nick name for everyone and anyone. Anyway, so i went for my swim right, enter the loo only to see this guy sitting on the bench facing the shower looking at some guy showering. Man. So i went for my swim which is not much 1500m plus warm down all in all about 2km. I go back to the loo what ya know, same ars fugging dude sitting there still looking at ppl shower. Is there no way to get peeps like this out of the loo. I mean WTF is so nice about sitting in the public loo looking at guys. I have to ask the gals if the lesbo gals sit in the loo looking at them as well. MAN.........

Well the past 2 days have been pretty busy. Let see woke up at 7 yesterday to go to the market with mummy to get stuff for the house plus mum is cooking penang laksa this saturday yum yum!!! Got back home, went to fetch my grand pa from east coast to west coast talk about going from one end to the other end, came home rest abit had lunch then send my bro and sis down to JH's house to help for the party at night, went to pick my grand pa up an send him back to my aunty's place came home took 40 winks. Woke up went for about a 7k run by this time i was late for the party, but you know the feeling of not having done anything for days. The run was good guess i more or less recovered from the SCSM 21km on sunday. Showered went to JH house, had to pick up ice on the way.

It was good to have the whole of people under one roof again. Friends back from overseas all sharing in fellowship together over dinner. Mummy and daddy went as well. Happy to see mum out an about again after her 1 yr battle with leukemia. yawnz.. to take a nap now or what... feeling hungry as well. Really been trying to cut down on the things i eat as well. An yes i have not had a waffle this week yet! 2 more days to go i don't think i would hehehehe.. O an andrew is bring me my milk fav tomorrow when he comes over YES! been craving for it for awhile now. BBQ tonight and i got to go to the airport to pick up apair of VIP. Can't be mention yet as i'm the only one who knows that they are coming to Sg.

Christmas bells are ringing!

Woot woot! what a day! okie i officially broke! FT1 is sitting at cycle worx for now. Took kenneth aka ah hock about half an hr to fit me to the bike, asking me questions here and there. We both came to a conclusion that along the way the bike would be tweaked to my liking. But all in all i LOVE MY NEW RIDE! Now i just need to get meself a set of wheels!

The elf's came over today to help us put up the Christmas deco around the house. Must i say it was fun, having friends and family putting up stuff. So now our house is all nicely done up. I'll put up the pics another time. It's in my other cam. Stone, nat, JX and adam came over for dinner as well. We had shepherds pie, chicken curry, fish curry, prata and stuff. It's like 1 big happy family. Fun fun fun. Putting up the trees and the stuff. The stars on the celling and the angels. Took about 3 hrs to get it all done. I must say we did a good job! Okie tired... i'll try to go for a short run tomorrow in the morning see if me legs are okie. Cycling back from cycle worx just now i still felt abit fatigue!

End of the year!

Well all i can say is woot! The race yr has come to an end well for me that is. All in all i've to say not bad for my first race yr. Nus bi, Trifam sprint, Osim tri( but did not do it, washing up would have taken longer then the race itself, 70.3 and SCSM 21km. All i hope is i can keep on going and doing all of this. Really feels good. Meet great ppl which i say all the time. Make really good friends along the way. Well i'm not much for one to stay still. Or my attention span is rather short as my friend would put it, but then again i've always done tri so don't see how i would be stopping. Just have not been doing it for yrs till now!

Well, back to yesterday. Did the 21km in 2hrs 5mins. Personal best for now. Once again i say for now. I sure going under 2hrs is not a problem now. Funny how we always think it is not possible. I was gunning for 2hrs 15mins but i shaved off 10 mins of the run. Amazing i say. But one mistake was i started to far back. I always seem to do that no idea why, maybe i don't have the confidence in me as of yet to start in the front. I should change that from now on. Then i would not have to side step so many people during the run. But then i thank the people who were in front of me, allowed me to play catch up. I guess that's how i manage to run faster as well. I guess i always like to start from behind an make my way up passing ppl. Rather be the type that starts in front an stays in front. Well i guess if i more confident i can just start from the front.

So during the run, i just looked out for a target that was in front of me an told myself i have to over take him/her. I want to look for the 2hr 15min pacer group at the start of the race but could not find them. I caught up with them somewhere around the 14k mark. Over took them, an knew that maybe i could do a faster time. So i decided to push myself abit hard. Keep my head up looking for Lloyd. Since he is the 2hr pacer, but culd not find him. I say ken though but he's in the 1hr 45min group plus he was on the otherside of nicole HW no way in hell am i going to catch up with him. I slowed down at the nicole HW part as the sun was beating down at that time and there was no water station in sight. Once we got back in to raffles bvld it was all okie. Once i turned down the corner out of marine square i picked up the pace, after cricket club i was trying to sprint my way to the finish line but there were just way to many ppl. But all in all i say good race and i'm not complaining! :) only thing is my legs are screaming now hahahaha but worth it! Okie part 2 in abit which is my trip to JB!

2 more days!

As my title shows, here i come scsm. Well i'm only doing the 21km heh. Anyway, it's just for fun something to keep me training so i don't get fat. For the ppl that know me i was rather round face last yr hehehehe ... but then i weight myself yesterday an guess whatttt ... sob sob i put on 2kg ... i blame all the waffles that i have eaten at haato's ... so i have to cut down on that one. No more full ones, just half from now on... well someone said she'll have 1/4 of it and i can have the other 3/4 i guess thats a start from a full one. I guess i need be more discipline when it comes to eating if i want to drop a couple of kg.

Anyway, i'm sort of planning my races for next yr. Well it will all be centered around the yr end IMWA ,08. Already signed up for the sing-bi that's happening in march. Currently waiting for the sun down run to open it's online registration. After abit of pushing, i shall sign up for the full marathon. Other races that i plan on doing bintan tri, desaru HIM, sing HIM( not to sure yet)that's 5 for next yr already. I'm sure a few others will pop up along the way where the shitz stirrer will get everyone else to jump aka the ENR group.

Will be going for a short 5km run today at 8. Will be meeting the ENR ppl at F2 for a short run just to keep the legs warm for sunday. Then down to the carbo loading party. Okie i know i'm doing the 21 so no need to carbo load. I'm just there to enjoy the crowd, friendship... The one other thing about this sport of tri's bi's and what have you nots is the great friendship you build along the way with ppl. Have to say thanks to trifam. New race yr is about to begain in 1 months time looking forward to doing more races with all of you!

Bid No. 27201!

Thats my no. for the scsm! Less then a week away. So this will be the last race of the yr for me. Well there is nothing very much after this. To say if i'm ready for it i think i am, but to say if i will finish it in a good time i think not. Been getting lazy over the last few weeks. Like today i have more of a feeling of just wanting to stay at home an veg out rather then go for ENR later. I guess it's been all the going out. Let's see last week it started on thursday with the martel thingy, then friday i know we went out to eat after that we went to Mimolette for a private fing. Saturday was work in the morning, wake boarding in the later afternoon followed by hotpot dinner and then hanging out at haato's. Sunday was lunch with ash and swhing, high tea at christ place then followed by dinner at bedok rd, forgot whats the name of the restaurant already. To end off the weekend we hung out at wala's, wanted to hear mama sing jap song but did not in the end. Man was it one crazy night as i think we ordered a total of 4 water falls and 2 flaming lambo.

So yar all in all i would say i tired out from all the outing which in the last month is more then what i do in a yr. But well i think it's about time i started going out an meeting ppl if not i'll never find anyone i would want to be with ya. hahahaha..... Christmas is like less then a month away.... how fast.... the little elf's will be coming over to do up the house next tuesday and yayaya .. my brother and sister will be back on monday woot! Once again the house would be alive for a short period of time, which would be good.

Okie have to get ready for ENR tonight ... haven done my sit up for the day either .....

one yr an counting!

Okie shoot me, i know it's been awhile since i written. Well life has been good lately. Re did my room, been going out abit to much but who is counting. Spending time more with jie which is good, need to catch up since it's been a long time. Training has been going well as well. HM is less then a month a way. Would be happy doing it in about 2 hr 15 mins if possible. Been doing interval training as well as long runs. Normally tuesdays or wednesday is the days i do my interval training 1.6km slow jog followed by 800m sets. i started out by doing 3 sets now i doing 5 sets. I increase the number with each following week. Man do they really help when i go for my long runs. I use to dread doing my long runs even when training for the HIM but now it's not that bad anymore, i still find that my legs are rather fresh after i finish my runs. Monday swims are still there. That has also been improving. It's like since i don't really have anymore races to train for it's less stressful during training. The only think i lacking right now is touching my bike. Did an ENR ride 3 weeks ago.. man was it painful... i need to start cycling again.

Well on a more important note. It's been 1 yr since mummy got diagnose with leukemia. And how fitting it is that by god's blessing that he gave us good news today. Mum went for her normally weekly check up to see if she was all ready for her last and final chemo session. She came home saying that doc has given her the green light. As in she does not need to go back for anymore chemo. All she needs to do now is to go back for check ups and stuff. So mummy is in remission. It's been a long and hard yr for most of us, more for my dad then me. We have fought the good fight but it is not over yet, but we have certainly reach a mile stone in it. I'd like to thank everyone for their support along the way. The countless prays and blessings that has been given on to us for the pass yr. To the friends that came by to keep my mum company or spend time with us or help us in anyway you are god sent. May god bless you and your family. I for one would love to shout for joy at this very moment. This calls for a mini celebration to come!
Love you all and mostly love you big daddy from above. With you there is always hope and miracles!

Aching Arms!

Had such a tiring swim session yesterday... was not funny... my arms were aching by the time we got in to our 5th set of 200m... which is weird as i normally would be more then able to swim 200x5 , but somehow yesterday my arms did not want to move i blame it to the 2 days of wake boarding. Friday and Saturday that's more combine in the last yr altogether, but i must say it was good to be out at sea feeling the sea breeze socking in the atmosphere was the best part about it all.

Had a really sinful week last week as well, beer beer and more beer plus pork knuckle and all the works, not to say deep fried chicken wings with fires plus more beer. brup think i'm making up for the last time. Since i started training for tri's and shitz i turned my diet around a fair bit acutally. I can sit down watch my friends eat supper and i would not be eatting, for one that loves to eat lol.

Well, would be looking forward to interval training today, haven done any in like 5 months i'm so going to suffer, but somehow this sort of pain i enjoy.

In a long time!

Okie i know it's been awhile since i wrote here, well actually a month. Been kinda of busy and to add lazy hahahaha ..... Did the open water swim today. It's nice to go to an event where you just meet up with people you know doing it. Seems like whatever event you sign up for you will have the same friends doing it as well. Thanks to the spirit i take it. O should i say only triathletes are crazy people enough to sign up for event after event year round. Did the 3km swim today. Which was to be a 3 loop course. Only swam once last week after which i feel ill to the flu bug an was out for the rest of the week till yesterday. Actually even yesterday, i was still abit under it. But having signed up for it was going to do it. Just take it like a relax swim and plus all the people who have donated to the cause i could not let them down as well. Thanks to all those who donated!

Having been so hot and sunny for the last few days, i was half expecting that i would wake up to rain like every other sunday morning so far, but no when i got up this morning it was not raining. Dragged myself out of bed, checked if i was still sniffing from the cold which i was, but thought to myself that after the warm up it would go away. Anyway, after having not been able to do anything for the last 5 days i was really feeling the need to get some workout done. Funny how now adays if you don't do something for more then 2 days one starts to get a bit moody. I've asked a few people an they tend to agree with me. I guess it just does not feel the same body wise. Okie back to the swim. Drove down to F2 reached there about 7am. Meet up with some of the bskl people they were heading off to tuas today as changi coastal has gotten abit mess with all the road works now. So a smoother ride would be to the west. Go west life is peaceful there came to my mind today. Meet up with small circle, jerrywan and awhole lot of other trifam people who where doing the race. All of us were in high spirits. It's like a get together session. My wave was suppose to start at 745 but we did not start till like 810 i think.

POOOOO the horn sound an we were off. Me being in the first wave as the second wave was the second wave was the masters which means people over then 35. Decided to start off at the back of the pack as we all know if you are up front it's either you zoom ahead or be in caught in the human washing machine. SO i slowly made my way over taking people, got in to my stride of things. The first lap went by rather fast i say. All in all i avge about 20mins a km not to bad la. The second lap i was thinking to myself why why lol .. i guess this is where the mental part of it all comes in to play while you are in the middle of any long distance swim you are doing. Switched between breast stroke and free style. Came to the third loop the final last km of the swim, looked at my watch was a little behind the timing i gave myself. So for the last 500 meters or so i decided to up my pace abit. Surprisingly i still had alot in me. I guess all the monday swim sessions paid off. People that over took me now i was over taking them now. All in all it was a good swim. Just that when i got out of the water man no thanks to the salt water i kinda lost my taste buds for awhile and my throat was sore, but after a few bottles of water it was all back to normal again.

All in all i had a good work out after a long time. Tomorrow i can go to the pool an play water as i already did my mileage for the week *wink*

part 1 of many parts !

Okie now down to writing my experience of my very first ironman 70.3!

Surprisingly i manage to get some shut eye .. was not excited as i thought i was going to be funny. I guess all the waiting for the actual day to come i was more burnt out then anything. Got out of bed at about 5am ... check my stuff for the last time as i did not want to forget anything.... got out of the doors at about 520... manage to hope on to a cab by 530 ... some how the cab uncle seemed more excited then me .. zooming pass 2 d lights speeding all the way... an i sure he has no idea what the hell was happening actually... got to F3 carpark by 545 thats how fast cabby was going lol ... Got out of the cab started to walk to F2 which seem like miles away.. i thought i was walking fast enough but somehow there were ppl over taking me on the walk as well lol ...

Got to T1 area ... there was already along line of ppl getting their numbers printed on to their arms, but the line moved rather fast so in no time i got my criminal number printed on me : 603... went off to my bike to get everything ready .. helmet, no. tag and such ... there was this nagging feeling behinh my left knee cap ... thinking to myself that i can swim it off later and things would go fine ... but it did not .... when you get to my bike leg you will know why... chatted up with titi, yanglyn, ken , gary boy, dion, daryl .. and many more ppl from trifam..... the time seemed to pass very fast ... always happens i guess when you don't want something to start...

Walked our way over to the start line ... the pros were the first to go off then came the age groups ... my wave was to go off at 730... surprisingly enough dad manage to find me in the mass of ppl took a few photos of me .... i decided to start from the back an make my way to the front of the swim in the water ... did not want to get caught up in the washing machine up front .... okie thats all i have time ... till .. part 2 comes along .. laterr...... I AM IRONMAN 70.3 muahahaha .... sry can't help myself ...

D day + 1 !!!

some pics of me! will do a write up later on my experience .. too lazy now .. actually tried :)

D day -1 !!!

70.3 1 more day to go. Lots of emotions are growing through me right now. It's been 9 months since i sign up for the first half ironman to be held in asia. 9 months of training, friendship made, experience gained.

This week has been a roller coaster ride for me. But i can say the wait for one of the biggest challenges in my life is only a day away. Ready for it i am not sure, but my mind is set i will cross that finish line tomorrow by hook or by crook. Worst fear is letting myself down. As they say ironman is about the battle with in yourself and no one else.

I have to thank alot of people who have help me along the way. Mr coconut and the monday swim ppl Dion, ken.. etc .. with out you guys my swimming won't be where it is today and thanks for the friendship as well. To the ENR group, flower boys lalalala .. thanks for the tuesday night rides, bskl and the national training ... we still have alot more races to jump together.

Well, i just spent the whole morning watching ironman 2006. Nothing more inspirational to see team hoyt, sister madonna, blazeman and more finish the race. If these ppl can do it so can i. I'm still wondering how i'm going to react when i cross the finish line tomorrow, for that we shall see. ..

To everyone doing the race tomorrow god speed and have a fun good race!

Over the weekend !

burger anyone? Had a DIY burger session at my place on saturday ... The patties turned out good actually ... 3/4 beef,1/4 pork with some beer, bread crumbs, olivi oil, black pepper and rose mary. For toppings we had bacon, cheese, mushrooms, mustard, tomatos, onions, pickles etc ... On the side there were prawns, chipolatas and salad... So all in all i thing everyone was fed rather well i must say so myself....

Was suppose to ride in the morning .. but just as i got on me bike an headed out the door the rain came ... so i had to pull out my trusty bike trainer an spent a good 40 mins on it before i got bored of it once again. Even while was watch anime. Come to realise that i need to be out cycling or running .. these trainer, treadmill shittzzz no work for me as i get lazy after awhile .. out doors you need to get your ars back home no matter what. So that was all i pretty much did over the weekend actually in terms of training. I know such a slack.

Sunday, was looking forward to a day out in the sun taking photos. Was asked to help take photos for the WBA event "My first Com" to help new ppl or ppl who are afraid of taking part in competitions get a feel of it. Was a very low key event. Nice and small event so we had a chance to mix around with the fellow wakeboarders old and new. It was a good time of catching up, the morning was going fine till about lunch time when mother nature said it was about time for morther earth to get a shower again. The rain did not stop till about 5pm by that time we have to cancel the rest of the com. So what did we do next? The next best thing that we could do was drink. We ended up drinking from about lunch time which was 1pm all the way till about 6pm .. playing games like "big fish ... small fish" " no.7" have to say been awhile since we had this much of laughter and fun. Kind of brought back the good ole days. The link to my photos are here if any of you want to have a look. http://www.davidngiam.com/albums/0708-myfirstcomp-julian

Had KY's thanksyou bbq dinner that night as well... As from the pic above you can see ah soon having a go at the choco fondue. It was a good night catching up with peeps whom i have not in over a month... All in all i can say it was a wonderful day. Was suppose to play DOW with the guys but the bed was calling me so while waiting for all of them to come online .. the Z monster was winning the battle ... snore .... snore ..snore ...

13 of August !

okie it's been about a week over since the last I wrote here ...... been kinda lazy ... actually today is like the only day i have time to myself to get down to writing again ...

The whole of last week was kinad of busy for me ... had a seminar going from monday till wednesday ... boy did that take alot out of me ... but once again i have been re-assured that it is possible to make 100k a month and more once i get my ars down to doing a few things which would take about a month to get everything sorted out so i can get started ... but all in all it was a good seminar ... had my trainings after the talks so basically i was dead by the time i got home every night ...

ND HIM training was very good actually .... the weather threatened to cancel the training but we all went ahead with it at 7am in the morning ... due to the rain and such plus lighting we did not start swimming till about 8am .... took me about 36 mins to swim 2km .. which was good ... after which took our time at T1 ... we were off to a nice bliss weather for the most of our bike ride which took us from SCSC all the way till the tuas check point and back again ... i skipped faber hump as my ITB was really tight.... got back to SCSC went for about a 7km run. We finished at about 1.30pm .. Thanks EdKor and Mrs EdKor for the arrangements, food it was a wonderful day.

After that, Shwing and I had to rush down to SAC for auntie Dorren's 60th birthday party.... we arrived at 2pm kinda of late but we still made it ... was limpping abit as my knee hurt abit no thanks to my tight ITB.. the lunch was great ... Auntie Dorren is like a long lost mum to me since i was 15 yrs old ... well more like i'm the long lost son in some ways ... Thanks to her for being there always ...

Spent the rest of the day vegging till it was time to go to tiong bahru to watch born ultimate .. having only watch part 1 and not part 2 i was kind a lost but soon enough i caught up with the story ... on a whole it was a good show ....

O yes .... lastly .. got to add about my rich and shameless trip to the Jakarta ..... i'll attach some pics of the placed we stayed at. Did nothing at all .. was a total veg .... well okie la went to the spa ... watch dvd's , played poker .. pool ... all this was of cause done at the penthouse lalalala .... If you asked me what i saw of Jakarta i would tell you nothing much ... besides getting from the airport to the apartment hahahaha ... ..

O yes i finally got my new phone today as well E65 ... after about 4 months of procrastinating

3rd of August !!

TGIF .. got lots to do today. Firstly, got to go to the wet market! have to stock up the house before i leave to night for Jakarta ... WOOT!!! .. can't wait .. it's been awhile since i been away on anything .... Well ever since mum was diagnosed with Leukemia last yr most of our lives took a tumble here and there ... But yes yes ... wet market ... i actually love going there ... especially the one at Smith street which has been relocated for the time being as it is under going a make over ... Always wondering what new exotic stuff they are selling eels, lizards etc .... Gives me new ideas on what to cook up next ... ever since i was a kid i was experimenting in the kitchen .. but it was always mum's kingdom as we so say... So i hardly use the kitchen at home ... but once in awhile she lets me play around hahaha ... actually more like i'm lazy when you got a mum that's the world's best cook which many many other ppl could tell you as well .. but then again we all think our mum is the world's best cook ... okie back to the wet market ... yup where was i .. ah ... stocking up the house ... well it's more of visiting the ppl there now as well .. since they all know me hahaha ... the fish uncle , the young couple at the chicken stall plus the elderly uncle and auntie at the pork stall .. not to say the vege auntie .. it's like my weekly visit meeting up with old friends :)

Okie, i so have to do a bike and run today ... i have not ran for the last week ... an i know i'm not going to get anything done while i'm in Jakarta so i better get some serious training done today .... still have to send lunch to mum in hospital and see her for abit before i leave tonight ... see if i can fit in a 40k bike and at least a 6 to 7k run ... then it's washing my bike since i have not washed it in almost 2 weeks ... well the rain during the osim did help me abit... but my gears are getting black ... time for digressing so it can be all blink blink again ...

Okie looks like my day pretty much sorted out... have to be in the airport by 8pm to meet ash and dez can't wait .. GO GO GO !!!!

O an i just signed up to do the fuji xerox open sea swim .. doing the 3km, plus the half marathon this yr. Still wondering if i should do the frog race on the 12 of august ... we'll see after the ND HIM if i'm still walking .... i've already booked a deep tissue massage the day after as i have been told that my ITB is very tight ... which i figured was the cause of my knee pains during the cycle and the sudden inflammation of my knee even after i warmed down ...

2nd of August !!!

August ..... Man the month of July really passed pretty fast i say.... I so need to slow down the clock ... It's 1 month till 70.3 an I'm starting to feel rather scared ... It's a doable distance but still .... i not afraid of the swim or bike ... but the run now the run hmmmm 21km ... well hopefully the ND HIM training would be good ... I think i just don't want a DNF on my name ...

Haven't really been training as well .. got this stupid cold that is lingering around me AND NOT GOING AWAY!!! Only think i did so far this week was a short bike and swim on Monday ... Well, hopefully i would be able to get some time on the bike today.... I think i need to even though i feeling lousy..

Anyway , yayaya off for a short break this weekend to Jakarta .... going to be treated like a king ... which means i do not need to lift a finger from the time i step in to the airport till i leave Jakarta .. Thanks so much ash ... well, i make sure i take some pics so i can start putting it up on this blog ....

Me fingers are feeling itchy, haven cooked in awhile maybe one of the weekends in august i'll do a feast for me friends to come over to relax and enjoy some food .. Well, that's all they do is to come my place to eat .... have to thinking on what to poison them with ... "drum rolls" TBD....

30th July!!!

So with not having done anything at OSIM.... i took a morning ride did about 25km ... short but i was pushing the pace abit ... did not want to fatigue myself to much for the swim this evening with the trifam ppl ... came back rested abit before i went down to passione bikes to get my aero bars put on to my bike only to be told that my handle bar ( thanks cannondale for having weird ass bars so i can't put on aero bars on to my bike) reason being .. GG .. is that at the stem area is oversized but it tappers downs so there is no way to cramp the aero bars down blah... so looks like i will have to suffer during 70.3 .... was hopping to at least rest myself on the aero's during the flat which is almost the whole route for the 70.3 .... but o well .... sigh hahaha

I always look forward to mondays swim... something to get the week started for me... i must say it has really helped me. When i went for the swim trails for the nus bi at the beginning of this yr my timing for 1500 was 34 mins .... a few weeks ago when i did some charity swim at SICC .... my 1500 was sub 28mins .. thats like 6 mins off my swim time ... an i only swim on mondays ... yesterday when we were doing 5 x 400 sets .. i actually did a sub 7min for the first 400 , followed by 7mins for the next one ... something i would never have dreamed off in my life ... i was normally happy swimming a min a lap that's all i wanted but to shave off a full min is something i must say .. actually, it's all thanks to joe aka mr coconut .. he pushes us every monday to swim ... :) i'm now a happy swimmer ...

29th July!!!

Sunday , OSIM day ... maybe not .... was down yesterday to support some friends of mine taking part in the sprint ... and at the same time to check out how the place was ... it was more of an adventure race at the transition area with the mud bath ... one of the guys was going it's more like a muddy place to waddle in with a beer ... So having learnt from yesterday ... i brought 2 coleman filled with water, trash bags, rags to battle the mud ...

So once again mother nature played a late April fools joke on us ... The sun was out this morning, was so looking forward to a nice sunny day doing the OD... but alas ... at about 11am a storm from the south west started blowing over ... lighting thunder blah blah blah ... so the whole race was postpone by half an hr .... there were still ppl cycling and swimming in the choppy sea .. the sea was white capped ... that's how bad it was ... tumbs-up to the ppl who were still in the sea swimming ... not to say the safety crew working out in the sea as well ... i'll put up picks once i can get my photo shop up to resize them :) Mr coconut at work hehehe ...

Okie back to the race .. so having delayed it by half an hr, it was about 11.40 before the rain stopped an everyone was eager to start the race again... But BUT BUT .. due to the time ... blah blah blah ... the roads need to be open at 2 pm there is not enough time for all of us to complete the race .... so the swim was canceled ... least to say we were told to cycle 2 rounds not the full 4 rounds and 1 round of the run not 2 ... So, i decided that it's not worth getting all muddy for a 20km bike and 5km run .. i went home ... so much for my first Osim OD .. my last as well i think ... next up is 70.3 woot !!!!!

27th of July!

Hmmm 2 more days to OSIM... lets just say this week has been pretty uneventful. Had the flu bug so that stopped me from training on tuesday and wednesday. Was suppose to go for a ride on thursday night with the ENR buddies but just as i got to the F2 carpark ... i forgot about my cycling shoes ... GG... i knew while driving on my way there, that i had missed something out but can't in my life figure it out till i got to the car park and by the time i got back home to get my shoes it was like 8.10pm so i gave it a miss ... i stay at upper thomson by the way so yar ... travelling back to ECP would take me at least 20mins ... plus the ride was starting at 8pm...

Woke up this morning thinking that i could get some household chores done then head out for a morning ride just to keep the legs warm for OSIM .. no mother nature thought it was better for me to stay at home. Kinda got played out since there were some rays of sun shine this morning. Thanks to the wonderful invention called the bike trainer i manage to do a 1 hr set before i got bored.. Well i most prob head down tomorrow to cheer some ppl on and take some photos. At the same time scope out how bad the bike route is..

23ard of July 07

Monday, somehow i always look forward to being tortured by mr coconut at the pool. Was suppose to do 10x300 sets, but ended up doing 6x300 and 3x200 followed by 2x100. Dion decided that we should put some kicking workout in as well. After, which my legs felt like lead. Daryl was going OSIM is like 5 days away need to start tapering down. I told him it's going to be like training for 70.3 which is a month and ahalf away, so why borther.

Went to passion today to finally get my carbon cages for me bike. Had enough of the wannbe chrom plating cages that i have on my bike now which makes it look totally uncool. Carbon ones make it look totall more happening. Was talking to Dan as well about aero bars for my bike as i think it would be better when i use them for 70.3. He was explaining that it had to be really short so that i do not compromise the geometry of my body position when cycling since i was using a roadbike. Cyclewerk's does sell their custom make ones for about 150 bucks. Not so bad if you ask me.

I still don't understand why OSIM has to start so late. 11.20am is when my wave kicks off, by the time i get to the running part it would be 1pm in the afternoon, not to say it's going to be bloody hottt!!!! But then again on the good side at least i'll have time to recover from Ash's and Schwing's birthday party. Not a good combo i say velvet on friday and party on saturday. Totally forgot when i signed up that it is like smack in the middle of both their birthdays.

Well, hopefully it does not rain tomorrow night so ENR will be on, i really need to clock in some cycling time not to say milage as well.