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and a happy new year?
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and a happy new year?

its pretty strange... i am not afraid of getting old, but why do i feel so moody when my birthday is around the corner?
when i was 16, i hoped to reach 21 a little faster.
when i was 18, i cried because i felt old.
when i was 21, i was somewhat happy. only because of the ang paos i received.
now that i am 24, i am both moody and slightly happy. feeling slighty happy because today is pay day with aws.
how to descibe the moody feeling? i dunno...

if my life was a movie, it would be a dramatic comedy. sometimes i find myself in situations where i simply have no idea why the hell it happened.
i remembered i decided to join this standard chartered singapore marathon run was due to myself being disillusional over what i am achieving so far in life. i tried to be as committed in my training as possible, although towards the end i kept skipping my training sessions. i surfed for information on how to run a good marathon, even though i'm just running 10km.
you can say i have pretty high expectations over how the marathon day should have turned out.
i will sleep early; then i wake up early; i eat a banana and drink some water; i am to reach at 6am to support the start of xianru's half marathon; then i mingle with other fellow 10km runners; we take pre-marathon pictures; while waiting i study the route map; i warm up and prepare myself for a 10km long run; i squeeze together with the crowd while feeling pretty excited; i start to run; by the time i reach 5km i expect myself to weaken and struggle but i shall persevere on; i make a dash for the finishing line; and smile!! while the camera man takes my beautiful picture; i collect my medal as i return the chip; i walk with fellow runners feeling extremely proud of myself; we take some more pictures and have breakfast provided by scs.
yes, this was what i have planned or expected in my head. BUT in reality...
i woke up and the time was 7:34am!!!; i panicked as i remembered i cancelled my alarm at 6am; brush teeth wash face dump stuff into gym bag; i changed into run wear in the speed of lightening; scream yell frustrated pissed and stress all at the same time; i yank off a banana and took a small bottle of water; the time was 8am when i got into a taxi; thank god no jam; pinned my bib, ate half of a banana and tied my chip to my shoelace in the taxi; i jumped off the taxi after paying; made quick steps to the deposit counter; panicked on the way to the starting line; begged the person to let me run; ran; feeling embarrassed when a whole lot of people running back stares at me; struggle; finished running; saw xianru and sim hui!!; got my medal and never saw another familiar soul since then...
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and the part where i was suppose to smile!!! at the camera to take a great picture turns out to be this...

and so...
lessons learnt.
(1) thou shall never watch drama shows till 12am the night before the run.
(2) thou shall set more alarms knowing that i snooze a lot.
(3) thou shall not visualise situations and have high expectations about it.
*sigh*
anyway... even though my gun time was screwed up, i'm quite pleased with my net time.
| Entrant | TAN GERALDINE |
| Event | 10 Km Woman |
| Date | Sunday 3 December, 2006 |
| Race Number | 35220 |
| Gun Time / Chip Time | 2h:2m:19s / 1h:6m:22s |
hopefully i can keep up with this exercising lifestyle, and score a better timing next year. i am still angry with myself over this... its gonna take me sometime to 想通 and 看开...

it's been a while since i've visited a bar, the last time was during april earlier this year. we had a discussion and decided to have a post dinner & dance gathering for fun, and we chose this new asia bar.
located at the 70 plus floor, we can admire singapore's night view... very nice. it's very hard to get seats, so luckily we didn't have to wait too long for ours. some pictures taken from our post dinner & dance gathering at new asia bar... enjoy...



and the glimmering of xianru's boobs will go on...

i've decided to make a long story short.
monday morning i start work; have lunch; then work; 3pm arrives; rush back home; get dressed; wait for xianru to pick me up; we were late; enjoying the programme; eat; laugh; i scream; xianru kena saboh on stage; i scream; xianru acting; i scream; take photos; watch programme; curse the programmer who did the lucky draw application; eat; i scream; laugh; take more photos; continue cursing... as the top 10 prizes were all males...
xianru won $100 shopping voucher though!
behold... the pictures...





ahem... by now you should have noticed xianru and her glimmering boobs. if not??!!! where the hell were you looking at?? mine??? mine won't glimmer... wahha...
joke arh xianru... just a joke.
for fairness sake, i shall make my boobs glimmer. okay?? fair enough xianru??? :-)

uh yah... there you have it...