More than 20km in one day
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
I realize that I missed my blog anniversary without knowing it… guess I was too busy with my holiday. After all, it is the unofficial (albeit) not very welcomed mantra that my holiday be more packed that normal school days… so as with every anniversary:
Thank you to JY for starting me on this journey! :)
Pesta Sukan was completed over last weekend.
On Saturday, I went straight from AMK by bus to find that I was in time for the beginning of the bouts… hehe… sat with Chong Yun and company for the entire day… Even Chong Yi came along, so that was a treat, coz we don usually get to see her very often… Alfred also made the trip down with the crew.
At the end of that long day, we went to McD for dinner, sans Alfred and the girls coz they had to go home early.
Sunday was the rush rush like crazy day.
Made the dash down from GEC after church and my lesson to the sports complex in a cab… 11 bucks go bye bye… *sob*
Rest of the day was so fun!
Spent most of the time cheering on the participants who I know. Trying to keep track of whose bout was on and where they were going to be taking place.
Shoon managed to make it down right after the eco-challenge, which was great, coz he brought in another perspective and since I haven seen him in a while it was an added bonus. :D
The SIM TKD cheer-team was a whole lot bigger than it was during IVP.
There’s a very warm sensation to seeing more people joining the club and supporting one another by turning up.
We had dinner at the local kopi-tiam before heading for home…
Kovan’s Medal Tally: 3 Golds, 6 Bronzes.
SIM’s Medal Tally: 1 Bronze.
Congrats to all who took part! :)
You did great guys!
Monday, relaxed at home before heading down to SIM for training… fumbled through one of my patterns. O.Olll
Unbelievable!
I do not usually fumble!
NOT AT ALL!
I really wonder why I ended up fumbling, so I suppose it is a good thing that I am not taking part in the upcoming black belt grading.
Yes, I have decided to give my legs another 3 months to heal before heading to TPY to prove I am worthy to wear that elusive black gi.
We trained and I went with Mr. Chow to Whampoa.
Ended up helping with the class and waiting for Shoon at the same time.
We had dinner at the local kopi tiam.
Hor fun was the meal of the evening, together with omelets. *yum-yum*
We were supposed to eat at Carl’s Junior but ended up having cheaper food… hehe… less damage on the purse ;p
Tuesday morning, woke up bright and early to get haul my bum to China Town to meet Diana and from there, make our way to Maxwell market for breakfast with Eugene, Bernatt and Herbert.
The prawn noodle store, which I bought my food from, has my stamp of approval. :) The uncle is very polite and the food was good. Excellent combination. Not like some other place near my church… I condemn that place liao… but that’s another story for another time…
From there, we went to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
We watched the tide come in. Took pictures and observed nature.
We walked about 1/3 of the reserve before heading for lunch at the geylang area. Curry rice sets… nice~
Next, we hopped into the car and zoomed to MacRitchie to go see what the HSBC treetop walk had to offer.
What it did give us was a 10km walk (over rough terrain), lousy service at SICC, and then less then 500m of walking amongst the trees.
Oh! Did I mention that I have a phobia of heights?
It took quite a bit for me not to start screaming my head off in front of the others. The fact that the bridge was very bouncy did not do ANYTHING to make me feel better about being more than God-knows how many meters up.
AND THEN, once the dreaded walk was over… we had to walk another 7km to Lornie road where we took a cab back to where the car was parked. By this time, Diana and I were out of water and we walk all kinda half dead from all that walking. Needless to say, my knees were killing me. I was not alone, Eugene also has knee problems… but he’s older so does that count?
-grows deep in thought-
While walking out, Shoon gave me a ring to ask about our progress with the nature walks… surprise, surprise! We were still walking, and walking pass the SICC golf course some more… shesh~
I have a very good reason to write in and blast them for the way they treated us.
SO!
In total, we walked around 20+km and then some.
The toll it took on my body was immense:
A HUGE blister (almost the size of a grape)
Painful knees
Aching arms (not sure from what activity)
Sunburn
Major headache.
What trumps it all was that it was FUN.
That’s the most important thing aye? :)
BUT WAIT!
The day did not end with the walking out of MacRitchie.
Diana some how misplaced her wallet in the taxi we took, and she realized that when we were in the car on the way back to the MRT station.
The hand-phones got whipped out and frantic calls to the taxi company were made.
Once Eugene dropped us off, we made our way to the police post to make a police report. Thank God, our prayers were answer, coz half way through the report making, a person called to let Diana know that her wallet had been found!
Praise God! :D
So, we trooped down to town, during rush hour no less, and collected her wallet from the kind souls.
To tangs we went to get us some grub.
And FINALLY, we went home.
It was a good day.
God had His hand in it all the way. :)
Wednesday morning, so much for getting a good rest, the school called me in for relief teaching.
High heels + HUGE blister = Agony
To avoid that fate, I had to burst the blister and paste a band-aid on the wound. Thus resulting in my feet being covered with 3 plasters, which came off during the course of my walking around the school. -.-lll
Painful?
More achingly irritating…
The crazy me did not go home for dinner and ended up borrowing books from the library followed by heading to Kovan to help with training - In my suit and high heels no less, were you expecting something else? :p
-psychotic laughter-
I only managed to have my dinner round 10.45pm whilst watching the last episode of Project Runway.
Yay! Chloe won! :)
It started raining that night and all the way through till morning.
Thursday (8am), alarm clock shills and wakes me out of sleep.
Went back to SRJC to visit the teachers. Teachers’ Day celebrations!
Woohoo~
Siya, Sheena, Adeline and Shoon went along too.
We talked to our teachers, spent the most time with Ms G and took photos.
I even got to meet my junior: Calvin. The famous one who thought that daffodils are ducks, among other things… o.olll
Had “Pepper” lunch before heading to Sheena’s house for our mahjong session.
The 3 of us had to teach Adeline how to play the game all over again, coz the last time she played was more than 2 years ago with us!
-hysterical laughter-
I learned how to play the same day she did, the only difference being that she never played again, and I took every opportunity to keep up my game… haha
Wonderful afternoon of shrieking, eating, catching up and basically - being us.
Thanks gals~ we gotta do this again soon! :D
Got home round about 10pm and once my head hit the pillows at midnight, I was out until 10.30am. After lunch, I knocked out again till 3.10pm.
Well deserved rest no?
Spent most of the day on the computer and then went out with YKM to buy lunch followed by a chat with Alfred and Lucien at the park… planning for the weekend…
And ya!
The UOL results came out last night… but I don think I wanna talk about it…
I got two places to be at when the sunrises… so that’s it from me for now…
Cheers everyone!
^-^
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
I realize that I missed my blog anniversary without knowing it… guess I was too busy with my holiday. After all, it is the unofficial (albeit) not very welcomed mantra that my holiday be more packed that normal school days… so as with every anniversary:
Thank you to JY for starting me on this journey! :)
Pesta Sukan was completed over last weekend.
On Saturday, I went straight from AMK by bus to find that I was in time for the beginning of the bouts… hehe… sat with Chong Yun and company for the entire day… Even Chong Yi came along, so that was a treat, coz we don usually get to see her very often… Alfred also made the trip down with the crew.
At the end of that long day, we went to McD for dinner, sans Alfred and the girls coz they had to go home early.
Sunday was the rush rush like crazy day.
Made the dash down from GEC after church and my lesson to the sports complex in a cab… 11 bucks go bye bye… *sob*
Rest of the day was so fun!
Spent most of the time cheering on the participants who I know. Trying to keep track of whose bout was on and where they were going to be taking place.
Shoon managed to make it down right after the eco-challenge, which was great, coz he brought in another perspective and since I haven seen him in a while it was an added bonus. :D
The SIM TKD cheer-team was a whole lot bigger than it was during IVP.
There’s a very warm sensation to seeing more people joining the club and supporting one another by turning up.
We had dinner at the local kopi-tiam before heading for home…
Kovan’s Medal Tally: 3 Golds, 6 Bronzes.
SIM’s Medal Tally: 1 Bronze.
Congrats to all who took part! :)
You did great guys!
Monday, relaxed at home before heading down to SIM for training… fumbled through one of my patterns. O.Olll
Unbelievable!
I do not usually fumble!
NOT AT ALL!
I really wonder why I ended up fumbling, so I suppose it is a good thing that I am not taking part in the upcoming black belt grading.
Yes, I have decided to give my legs another 3 months to heal before heading to TPY to prove I am worthy to wear that elusive black gi.
We trained and I went with Mr. Chow to Whampoa.
Ended up helping with the class and waiting for Shoon at the same time.
We had dinner at the local kopi tiam.
Hor fun was the meal of the evening, together with omelets. *yum-yum*
We were supposed to eat at Carl’s Junior but ended up having cheaper food… hehe… less damage on the purse ;p
Tuesday morning, woke up bright and early to get haul my bum to China Town to meet Diana and from there, make our way to Maxwell market for breakfast with Eugene, Bernatt and Herbert.
The prawn noodle store, which I bought my food from, has my stamp of approval. :) The uncle is very polite and the food was good. Excellent combination. Not like some other place near my church… I condemn that place liao… but that’s another story for another time…
From there, we went to the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.
We watched the tide come in. Took pictures and observed nature.
We walked about 1/3 of the reserve before heading for lunch at the geylang area. Curry rice sets… nice~
Next, we hopped into the car and zoomed to MacRitchie to go see what the HSBC treetop walk had to offer.
What it did give us was a 10km walk (over rough terrain), lousy service at SICC, and then less then 500m of walking amongst the trees.
Oh! Did I mention that I have a phobia of heights?
It took quite a bit for me not to start screaming my head off in front of the others. The fact that the bridge was very bouncy did not do ANYTHING to make me feel better about being more than God-knows how many meters up.
AND THEN, once the dreaded walk was over… we had to walk another 7km to Lornie road where we took a cab back to where the car was parked. By this time, Diana and I were out of water and we walk all kinda half dead from all that walking. Needless to say, my knees were killing me. I was not alone, Eugene also has knee problems… but he’s older so does that count?
-grows deep in thought-
While walking out, Shoon gave me a ring to ask about our progress with the nature walks… surprise, surprise! We were still walking, and walking pass the SICC golf course some more… shesh~
I have a very good reason to write in and blast them for the way they treated us.
SO!
In total, we walked around 20+km and then some.
The toll it took on my body was immense:
A HUGE blister (almost the size of a grape)
Painful knees
Aching arms (not sure from what activity)
Sunburn
Major headache.
What trumps it all was that it was FUN.
That’s the most important thing aye? :)
BUT WAIT!
The day did not end with the walking out of MacRitchie.
Diana some how misplaced her wallet in the taxi we took, and she realized that when we were in the car on the way back to the MRT station.
The hand-phones got whipped out and frantic calls to the taxi company were made.
Once Eugene dropped us off, we made our way to the police post to make a police report. Thank God, our prayers were answer, coz half way through the report making, a person called to let Diana know that her wallet had been found!
Praise God! :D
So, we trooped down to town, during rush hour no less, and collected her wallet from the kind souls.
To tangs we went to get us some grub.
And FINALLY, we went home.
It was a good day.
God had His hand in it all the way. :)
Wednesday morning, so much for getting a good rest, the school called me in for relief teaching.
High heels + HUGE blister = Agony
To avoid that fate, I had to burst the blister and paste a band-aid on the wound. Thus resulting in my feet being covered with 3 plasters, which came off during the course of my walking around the school. -.-lll
Painful?
More achingly irritating…
The crazy me did not go home for dinner and ended up borrowing books from the library followed by heading to Kovan to help with training - In my suit and high heels no less, were you expecting something else? :p
-psychotic laughter-
I only managed to have my dinner round 10.45pm whilst watching the last episode of Project Runway.
Yay! Chloe won! :)
It started raining that night and all the way through till morning.
Thursday (8am), alarm clock shills and wakes me out of sleep.
Went back to SRJC to visit the teachers. Teachers’ Day celebrations!
Woohoo~
Siya, Sheena, Adeline and Shoon went along too.
We talked to our teachers, spent the most time with Ms G and took photos.
I even got to meet my junior: Calvin. The famous one who thought that daffodils are ducks, among other things… o.olll
Had “Pepper” lunch before heading to Sheena’s house for our mahjong session.
The 3 of us had to teach Adeline how to play the game all over again, coz the last time she played was more than 2 years ago with us!
-hysterical laughter-
I learned how to play the same day she did, the only difference being that she never played again, and I took every opportunity to keep up my game… haha
Wonderful afternoon of shrieking, eating, catching up and basically - being us.
Thanks gals~ we gotta do this again soon! :D
Got home round about 10pm and once my head hit the pillows at midnight, I was out until 10.30am. After lunch, I knocked out again till 3.10pm.
Well deserved rest no?
Spent most of the day on the computer and then went out with YKM to buy lunch followed by a chat with Alfred and Lucien at the park… planning for the weekend…
And ya!
The UOL results came out last night… but I don think I wanna talk about it…
I got two places to be at when the sunrises… so that’s it from me for now…
Cheers everyone!
^-^
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