KAP GANG...

wah... today was a really Swimming day for me man... morning went training on my own... then joined Hall 3 waterpolo for waterpolo training at SRC swimming pool... then at 11am... Swimming time trials started for IVP and I had to help out... after that at 1245pm I rushed down to Clementi to Meet dear for a swim at Clementi Swimming pool... hahah... initially he thought I will be late... but then as I was walking towards the swimming pool near NTUC... I pounced on him! yup... haha... then after swimming obviously lunch... yummy and healthy protein lunch again... have been eating only protein these days... fish soup, chicken meat and not even a single carbo... AM I ON AKIN'S DIET??? haha maybe?? who knows...

after that rushed back to have a nap at dear's place ... one hour power nap.. when I woke up, I was really super sleepy.. din wanted to go to Yishun Swimming pool to train with Coach Emily's husband.. wanted to take a break actually.. but then Sumiko is Sumiko... No matter how tired... I will still force myself to go for training...i LEFT HOUSE LATE! AT 545PM.. WHEN i had to reach Yishun at 6pm... wah I was wondering whether to take cab... luckily I din... and so i reached at 645pm...trained with Emily's husband... swam with his student who is almost the same speed as me.. we did 20 x 100m sets at 2 mins each (including rest time) ... and then after that warm down and then do plunging.... I think thats all.... hah... and i rushed to town to meet the KAP gang... its been some time lol...

mET AT ICHIban restaurant at Wisma for some food... dinner... and then we waited super long before we were allowed to go in...THEN WE ORDERED SOME NICE SET MEALS... THIS IS SIONG AND DESMOND TRYING OUT MY NEW PHONE...

AND THEN CYNTHIA AND ME...

AND SIONG'S FOOD CAME FIRST...

AND THEN I TOOK SOME PICTURES OF THEM WHILE THEY WERE BUSY...AND CHUNKY MONKEY DESMOND LOOKED AT MY CAMERA! HE EVEN MORE BLURR THAN ME... GOT THE SAME PHONE AS ME BUT THEN DUNNO HOW TO USE THE FUNCTIONS... i thought i already very stupid.. but now I know I am not THAT stupid...haha!

and then me and Desmond... haha... I got the first photo to be present in his phone!

and more pictures of the 7 set meals on the table...

and then Cynthia and Ken left... then Henree, Des, Ben, Siong and me went to Starbucks... finally I can have my long awaited Green tea Ice Blended... the last time I had it was at a meeting with Wenquan... and ever since then .. that stupid brother of mine doesn't seem to have time to meet me... eh bro if u are reading... You better watch out! ahah

YOU JUST LOOK AT HOW TIRED I LOOK .. YOU WILL KNOW WHAT TRAINING HAS DONE TO ME! HAGGED AND TIRED!

AND ABOVE IS bEN, hENREE AND SIONG...

AND THEN MY GREEN TEA ICE BLENDED AND A PICTURE OF THE PLACE... SUPER TIRED LE.. JUST WANNA GO BACK TO HALL AND SLEEP!

races...

ha i just came back from Keming Primary school... went to meet the Principal... expressed my intention to do my teaching practicum in Keming and also to stay on and teach in Keming... and he was very pleased to have me there... he agreed to write to MOE to support my decision and invite me over to the school...hopefully everything goes on well... I still have to write to MOE and cc to the Principal and then he will write to MOE too... practicum starts in Feb and my teaching starts in July... I am so excited!
ahaah then now I went to friendster to copy and paste my races... ok races of 2006 and coming up races...

A new chapter of my 2006 training life has started with my coach ALEX:
-IVP Swimming 800m-3rd
-IVP Biathlon - 3rd for indi, 2nd for overall women's team and 1st for overall combined team!
-IVP track 3000m-4th
-IVP road relay- Team relay
- 4nd-IH track 4 x 800 first
-IH road relay- first!
-Surf and sweat- 1st for indi and 1st for mixed team
-KL marathon- top 20..
-Vertical marathon - 1st for indi and 1st for couple challenge
- MOE Swimming race-13th March, 50m free- 3rd, 50m back-2nd, 50m breastroke 3rd, medley-2nd, free relay- 3rd
- Singapore biathlon - 3rd for women's open (swim-30:13min, run 45:10min)
- SAAA cross country 1 April 2006
- 11th Indi and 2nd Women's team open
- Adventure Singapore 2 April 2006- 9th Mixed team open
- Interministry swimming race-400m free -1st(broken record!), 50m back-2nd & 4x50m medley-1st for team! 1st for Woman's overall and team !
- Interschool aquathlon- tertiary Woman's Indi-1st- 28th May
- kabung Baru Run 4.3km-Women's Open - 2nd
- 1st June- Golden Mile - 1.6km - 6:09min, 6th
- 4nd June-MR25 time trial: 4.8km at macritchie: 21:10min
-17th July - shape run- 15th-27th July
- Army Half Marathon :Women's closed 5th- 2nd Sept
- New Balance Aquathlon - 1st for women's open- 6th Sept
- NTU X-Campus Run- 2nd for indi and 1st for team!
- 7th Sept - IBG road relay - team 1st- 9th Sept
- Public Service Run - 5th for women's open...
- 23rd Sept - IVP 3km indi-2nd and 4 x400m relay 3rd
- 30th Sept - NIE Biathlon- Indi and Women's open cat- 1st, 2nd for mixed doubles
-29th Oct - Great Eastern race 10km -
- 4th November- Corporate Triathlon - 3rd for women's non profitable category
- 3rd Dec- Standard Chartered Marathon ( 21km )
- 31st Dec- MR25 Ultra marathon(completed 60 km- top 10)

Coming up races 2007:
-IH Swimming
-IH track and Field and road relay
-IVP swimming - 20th and 27th Jan
-NUS bi-4th March
-Singapore Bi-17th March
-KL marathon-18th March
-Singapore Duathlon-3rd March

and this is what I do when I think of the races I have been through in 2006... some happy...

some excited...

some confused...

some angry...

and some raring to go again this year! yeah!

yeah man... when I look back... there are times when I force myself to compete... there are times when I reallly wanna compete.. they are times when I feel like I have under performed... and times when I feel like a total idiot... times when I feel like I burnt out... times when I wanna tell myself " this is the last time I am going to have this race.. no more".. but in the end... I feel great after the race and i tell myself " I better win it the next time again!"... there are times when I overperformed and exceed the expectations of my coach... however there are times when I hate to compete and tell myself that I will never win... and indeed I would not if i told myself that!

but when everything is over... it always seem to nice and clear... I feel great this year... I have my coach Alex who takes care of my whole running training... I got to know Coach emily who takes care of my swimming training now and I have gotten to know Dear who trains me on my bike... What more do I have to ask for? I am so blessed with everything, everybody around me... and I am much more luckier than other people...

ULTRA MARATHON

I did my ultra marathon on Sunday... it was supposed to be a 7am to 7pm continuous run... but i reached macritchie at 930am..i woke up late and then was obviously late for the run... but the run can be start at any time...initially I only wanted to run like 2-3 rounds... one round is 10km... but then when I got there... my emotions got so high.. and then because Rongyang and Melvin came down to support me and accompanied me to run the first round.. din want to disappoint them then I ran and ran...and Andrew from my running club (Da ge as we called him)....accompanied me to run... gauge my running speed and also helped me to determine the number of rounds I can finished up till 7 pm... he gave me tips on how to run and I listened attentively... I was the youngest runner there and had a lot to learn... Da Ge accompanied me for 2 rounds and during the 2 rounds... he really guided me through and told me Ultra marathon is something about keeping your pace slow steady and right and not chiong all the way... he was really patient with me.. and i really appreciate him for giving me the advices.. without it i think i cannot ever finish the 60km...after 2 rounds.. he went home to accompany his wife... and then I continued...

I ran and ran... the first 3 rounds was easy.. keeping a good pace... but when I came to the 4th round.. i started to include some short walks... everything was still fine until the 5th round.. legs were sore.. calves and thighs began to cramp up... I had to walk every slope i see.. then I realised I had not eaten anything since the morning... and it was about 3 pm already... and because of the running I was feeling hungry for the first time... I finished my 5th round and then tried to force some food down my mouth... they bought chicken rice and I could hardly eat any chicken.. I only ate the rice... a few spoonfuls and then wanted to stop running but then Uncle Vincent asked me to run one more round... I could be actually the champion... then I ran... the last round... perpetually was walking the whole round except for the last 2 km.. I had a friend Berbard who walked the 6th round with me...we walked and walked.. I got irritated at times because I was really in pain... and I really din want to go so far.. but I had already started on the route and turning back was not a choice... I nearly wanted to cry because of the pain... but I just continued using the motivation from the Ipod... its the one JD passed to me to ease my boredom during the run... it was his motivation for me... I had to keep moving.. I still remember before leaving the house he said to me "dun run too much ah"... what was i doing!!!!!! haha run so many for what... FOR THE SAKE OF LOSING WEIGHT LA.. BECOME LEANER LA...HAHA...

at the end, I finished the race... and got a shock... my timing was actually 1st in position... but because I was late by 2.5 hours... I got pushed to 6th... the race starts at 7 am to 7 pm ... though i had used only 9 hours plus to complete the 6rounds... and the top five had use 10 hours to 11 hours to complete their 6 rounds.. my timing was added 2.5 hours ..penalty...haiz... and the prize for first prize is 2 pair of nike shoes, 1 nike bag and cash.... wah... it was really stupid of me.. wake up so late... but still I guess coach is satisfied with my run... he was happy that I won and did my best.. and me too.. at least I know the fact is I won.. prize dun matter...and i did lose 3 kg after that... ahah

BUT MY SHOES ARE DEAD BY NOW... SO POOR THING... THEY ACCOMPANIED ME THROUGH THE WHOLE RUN AND NOW THEY ARE DEAD...

out with trackies....

i back in hall again! woo hoo... had a great day last week... aahah lets see what happened on friday... met my PJC trackies for an outing.. I had training at Sentosa in the morning.. lets guess where did I have my training!

yeah some of u might have guessed it correct... I had training at Tanjong Beach at Sentosa.. swam with Xueyuan and then ran.. I did a slow one because I knew the next day I still had an Ultra Marathon coming along.. haha.. but somehow I enjoyed it a lot!

and then after training... I went to meet erm... My baby Trackies at Minds Cafe... lets see what we did that day.. actually I think the games we played at the start were kinda mind draining! haha... but still We enjoyed each other's company!!!

This is Delcine eating her food!!

and then some photos of the teddy bear that Fab gave to Mummy and God Mum!

and some photos with Fab...

and then we played some games.. and some people ganna forfeit.. haha see what happened to Mummy and Delcine!

and we continued to play and chat ...

and lastly I took a picture of my Diver's card! thanks to Jason for passing it to me!

mao's bdae...

I organised Malcolm's birthday party on Tuesday night... haha i guess I was a bad organiser.. I was so so so into my training that I had actually had to engage the help of Xian and Sharon to help me plan this... this is ridiculous bah... yup.. we tricked him into going to Marina South... told him that only a few of us were coming .. in the end he came and saw every one of them... Sharon, Qianni, Zijun, Olivia, Xian, Yan, Kenneth, Samuel, Helen, Paul and me... haha I guess it was an enjoyable night.. I went there straight after my Swimming training and INter hall hockey match.. here are the pictures..
this is my darling helen and me... I dun look good here... sianz.. no time to style my hair..
and then me and my darling helen and her darling paul... and me, xian n yan...
this is the birthday boy and his gf... both look so innocent and nice...

and kenneth and samuel...

and we took some group photos...mao n girls...

i helped bdae boy to settle the lighting of the cake... ahah

and then there were some fun shots haha... passing the cake!

and this is the SHOT OF THE DAY!!!!!

and then we went to Mao's house...and presented him with his Mahjong present! it's black in colour!

and then some pictures of them playing...