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 !!!!!