Kids will be Kids.

Seems like there's always some bugger out saying the most irritating things that makes my blood boil. I don't care who you are, and you are entitled to your own opinion, and you can say whatever you like. But I can do that too. Seems like just one year gap can make so much difference, it's true what they say, those 91' and after are the 'new gen', the kids, that have had things handed to him all to easily. I am particularly bothered by something a person said to me just now, but I don't see the need to host a rebuttal or rant my veins out. This is because kids, will never understand what life is all about. Heck, it's not that, it's people with a child's mentality who will fail to grasp or understand knowledge and experiences beyond their level of comprehension. That is why I will...

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Free as the Birds

How I wish I can be free as the birds.Look at them, flying gloriously in the limitless skies, in whatever weather conditions, be it rain or shine.Look at them spread their wings, so magnificently, so gracefully, as they prepare to soar and rise with the wind. Look at them, unbounded by territory, unrestricted by rules, effortlessly roaming above the heavy grounds.Look at them, free, uncatchable, untouchable!How I wish I can be free as the birds. Sometimes I want to be just like a bird. Blessed with the ability to fly and go wherever I want, and do whatever I want. I look at my situation now, and I look to be the exact opposite. I'm...

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Houston, we have a Problem. *SOLVED!!!*

I am in serious jeopardy of not being able to make it for Malaysia trip. Oh no. Let me just link things up for the easier picture.Planned Msia trip-->Passport expired-->Made a new one-->Supposed to arrange for collection today-->I did a stupid mistake in camp-->PC punishes me with MINUS 3 days off-->Now I don't have any off to take-->Must book out only after 1730 everyday-->ICA CLOSES at 1630-->This Saturday appointment is booked FULL-->SUNDAY IS CLOSED!-->My trip is on the 9th-->So I don't have any possible time to collect my passport-->So I CANNOT leave Singapore-->GOOD GAME.Yea. Yea.Yea.Who...

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You just LUURVE me signing EXTRA.

Oh, what can I say. I am most probably going to SIGN EXTRA. It's a very long and complicated story...basically, I pissed off my PC by "bending the rules" and in his own words, "breaking the trust". Oh well. I guess me being, me, would normally go into a depression again. Even if you are a normal person you will. First I got 2 days off cancelled by Staff for long hair...now this. But the whole day I was in Istana thinking about this, and I guess I couldn't really be bothered anymore. If you want to pass judgment, I can honestly say I have not committed any procedural offenses. If the PC uses 'malingering' or 'failure to contact' to shoot me, then I just have to take the punishment. =/From what I heard, minimum he is going to make me sign FIVE extra duties. MINIMUM. For just pissing him...

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Time to $AVE UP!

If there's any time to admit to myself that I've been over-spending, it would be now! I have been using my September pay so quickly that now, my painstakingly well kept '$1000' balance has been tarnished. Some of the money was for necessary spending, the rest of it mostly on new running equipment. Let's see, $180 on the wasted contacts, $50 on New Balance apparels, $40 on M'sia lodging, another $100 on the Mizuno trainers...and not to forget all the travel, food, gym expenses...yea, no wonder my mediocre monthly pay of $500 isn't enough for me to save up.*Watching Bolton-ManUtd*And don't even get me started on the contacts. I am angered enough already. Let's continue logging our Race training, then. *Bolton scores again argh!!*Completed 21k this afternoon. Today's aim was just to clock...

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New Hoot!

Finally got a new pair of running shoes! Despite saying that I'd go with the Asics Gel 1150, eventually I got the Mizuno Wave Nexus 3 at $99. The former, at $179, was just way too overpriced for my budget.This is quite an old model, but like they say, "oldies are goodies". Rated by RW Magazine as Best Buy for Mar 2009. Cheap, good cushioning, tested and raved, but most of all, cheap. That was why I went with it, amongst all the other choices. Yes, maybe, just maybe Gel-Kayano is screaming in my head now, "GET ME!!", but damn it, $269 is just too pricey for me currently. I can't afford such luxury. But hey, some day I hope to get it too! Back...

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14 Days to Paradise~

Working hard, running a lot these days. Self clocking mileage in addition to CPFA is not easy, but I'm getting the hang of it. As I've said, duty days will be my resting time so for the rest of the days I'll just have to suck it up. After all, I will be able to enjoy to the max during my upcoming planned 4 days off+leave! Hopefully no duty on that Fri so that I can take off before my leave on Sat to Mon. Finally did another 13k yesterday, after a long slumber. The Kent Ridge park-Mount Fbr via Alexandra Arch is no joke man, there are a lot of hills and inclines. I admit, I found yesterday's run to be very tiring. Hope that it does the...

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Great Work Today!

Hmm let's see, today I did a total of 3 different workouts: Intervals, Gym and a (short) long-d run.Well, I was surprised that this morning's CPFA turn out to be a speed/str training session instead. Had to quickly readjust my plans for the latter part of today but in the end it turned out good. Did a 500m x6 interval sprints at 2min/.5km with 3 mins rest periods. Honestly it was quite shack, as I haven't been doing intervals for a long time. It gave me a throbbing headache afterwards man. But a great workout nevertheless. Following the day's activities I headed to Pioneer gym to do some weights training. All the while I was enduring this nagging headache but I just couldn't bring myself to cancel the session. The prospect of me hitting a good timing for all the sacrifice was always motivating...

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A Forecast to the end of Sept...

22, Wed: Compulsory CPFA 4.8k at platoon (leisure) speed. Strength training of push up variations, lunges, jumping jets, abxercise. All of which I believe are pretty useless. Not taking PM OFF, as I only have one day left and I want to keep it for Thurs and Fri. Going to use MPTS Gym in the afternoon. (?) Complete 8k slow run after book out. 23, Thur: Booking in in the morning. Take PM OFF. Do a 15k leisure run (Include hills) from 1pm to 4pm/3pm straight to city hall meet CH. Continue with Running Lab's training run of 5k-10k (?). 24, Fri: 4.8k CPFA again. Take PM OFF to hit the gym. Need to book in at night.25, Sat: Duty/Rest26, Sun: Duty/Rest OR Join Nike training run 5k/If not joining 5k run, do another 15k leisure/21k time trial by myself.27, Mon: Duty/Rest28, Tue: COG rehearsal...

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Pushing through the Pain.

Absolutely no inspiration to blog recently. It seems that life, after the recent AHM and NQR, has gotten boring again. There is nothing to look forward to, nothing to be excited about. And it doesn't end here. The demanding strings of parades and duties are going to hit again. And this time, they will hit hard. I just recieved news that I would be doing 24 man, 72 man AND Change of Guards. That's 3 out of 4 parades scheduled. Haix. Truth is, even though time inside MPEU seems to have past, and already another new batch has posted in, we are still the 'newcomers' until they get their platoon postings. I guess this hectic life won't end until maybe Feb/Mar, when the next two or three more batches come in. Then we can throw the parades to them. =)And working with such limited time is challenging....

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Nicorette Quitter's Run: Review

Hey, I'm back after a short hiatus. So yesterday we did the 'first ever' Nicorette Quitters run at East Coast park. I thought it was quite well organised and vibrant for such a low profile event. Surprisingly, the event drew a larger number of participants than expected. I guess it may attribute to the appealing marketing strategy as well as the low entry fee, which was only $10. Upon receiving the race pack, we thought that the goodies inside was pretty value for money; though I've mentioned that before. So onto the run itself. When we reached the gathering area, we were greeted by the eye-pleasing green and white promotional colours from the posters all around. Yes, it was a small event, but they didn't compromise by presenting us with a lackluster event. The placement of booths...

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"Honestly, I don't know what's going on"

The above mentioned title just summarizes how we, or I, especially, felt for the past two days.If you may have already know, I faced a sucky situation in which I wasn't able to participate in the Nicorette Quitter's Run. However, after like 10000 times of things changing here and there, lots of confusion and unconfirmed rumors, I am still able to go for it tomorrow. YAY! It is an extremely long and complicated story. And I've learnt one simple lesson from doing Istana; nothing is CONFIRMED until the last SECOND. How true it was for my case. If anyone wants a feel of being in Istana platoon, I would describe it as: emo---MORE EMO-----SUPER EMO----SUPER HAPPY!!---nervous---paranoid---SUPER DUPER EMO---SUPER HAPPY AGAIN---SUPPPPPER FREAKING EMO---and the cycle continues. Basically,...

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What a Change of Events~

Sometimes just a single "OK" can change so many outcomes. Yesterday was one of the case. Which was also the primary reason for me to blog about. Well, TODAY, Wednesday 15 Sept was supposed to be my duty. But no, it occurred that the situation changed and I ended up not doing today. So I was booking in yesterday night with a heavy heart, and the 3SG had to make things worst by asking me if I could cover THURS also, which was NOT my duty. It was to help a platoonmate, he said. In my mind I wanted to say a BIG NO THANK YOU immediately...but..he was quite pressing. So I was like, "Oh shit...I don't have a choice, do I?" I told him to let me consider it and provide an answer tomorrow. As the situation was, the duty HAD to be covered by either me or another guy, so I was mentally...

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...Aaaand we're back to REALITY.

THE FEELING OF HAVING TO BOOK IN AGAIN SUCKS, >.<.Can I start to look forward to ORD now? Haha, in my dreams. Still 1 year 2 months to go...If not for the military life being so uninteresting, I might just complain less. I mean, going back to that boring schedule...the politics, the overdose of unnecessary and toxic MALE hormones collision... Don't like it, never will. We are still on schedule, guys. Today was the continuation of my pre-marathon training after my very first AHM race. Strangely I felt extremely weak and unmotivated today. Should I be worried? Is it just fatigue, or could it be that my body has reseted to square one after not doing >15k for so long? I only did near 9k today at a snail's pace, yet throughout I felt like giving up all the time. Whatever the...

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A taste of the fun times.

Surprisingly, today turned out to be quite fun. It was almost like we were back to the 'sec5/J1 era' where the group of us would just hang out for the entire day and do stuff, and just chill. A day like today are few and far between nowadays, especially with everyone being so busy. So treasure it...It was weird, cos' both ky and ch said the same thing about each other during our talks about why we were still hanging out with each other even though there is just so much differences and tension nowadays. The answer was simply, '我看开了, 我认命了.' Well, if only I could '看开'. Jealousy? Bitterness? But anyways, just glad that ky lived up to his word and finally made the passport today. I am looking forward to the KL trip! Gym session today was great. Did whatever I wanted and more....

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Army Half Marathon 2010

I feel like shitting now, srsly. So let's summarize things up. The most prominent thing I learnt today. You can never run a personal best if you don't start in front. I mean, the crowd was INSANE. OVERTAKING WAS SUCH A CHORE. All kinds of people blocking your route, and the sad thing was, I didn't get my best timing NOT because of my physical limit, but because I couldn't do my best. There were just too many people and it was so freaking squeezy you literally had to nudge and tacticalize your way through the mass of runners. Crazy man! Since there's no race bib for 10k runners, I took my own timing. 51:25 min. I am so tired of...

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Butterflies in my Stomach.

Due to Ky commenting on how I use too much expletives in my speeches, I shall not type any for this post. Oh shucks, today flew by too quickly! Done 2/3 of things to do, except for collecting my contacts. Don't know when the optics shop is going to call me, but I don't really look forward to it anyway. =/This is getting nerve wrecking! It's going to be less than 12 hours to Flag-off tomorrow! The Army Half Marathon! I know many of you are also getting excited since it's going to be quite a large scale event! I was still binging and having fun in the morning, totally forgetting about the run tomorrow. But I managed to come home early today,...

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Istana Open House!

Before I commence, allow me to say just one word. DISAPPOINTING.Just could not even bother. There are many kinds of F***ed up friends in this world, but you'd agree with me wholeheartedly that those kind that back out last minute on their word sucks the most. I've got nothing more to say. Anyway, let's not dampen the mood too much, I SHOULD BE SUPER HAPPY now. Let's see, for the month of Sep, my 'Hell weeks' are already over, and now I can just clear my offs! I've already done so, from tonight to Tue, meaning Sat-Sun-Mon-Tue I'm free, free as a drunk bird, I tell you! Finally, this is truly the meaning of, "先苦后甜", Yea!!!I LOVE IT, it feels so much better when you can enjoy so many days off after a crammed duty schedule. I am going to enjoy myself until I go mad!!! Today was...

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Thoughts on this Sunday's AHM

It's Wednesday today, and I'm finally starting to feel the excitement for my first ever race, the Army Half Marathon. It's only three days away! All my work, every blood and sweat has and will come to this day. This Sunday's race will reveal where I stand in the infinite world of competitive running and I hope to garner some positive learning exI can't really comment on the route as I've never done it before. But in a race like this, my very first one, do you think I'd be thinking about the route? I'm all for a good run and relishing the experience. Hope the weather is good also, as it would really ruin things if it rains ala Yellow Ribbon...

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Back To Basics

Phew. What an eventful day. I spent most of my time doing exactly what I wanted to do, which is to me, the best I could ask for, on an off day. As I emphasized, I was going to start training again. And I did just exactly that. Today I was going to familiarize myself with the routine workout I always did, so I decided to do both a gym session and a LSD. From how my body is feeling now, I think I've accomplished my aim today. Will be looking to get some dumbbells real soon; I am going to stop going to public gyms for the time being, for personal reasons. The run today (10.7k, Home-Jln Buroh-Boon Lay) was quite enjoyable and the pace was...

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Stalling and Recuperation -End-

This is the final day of "Stalling and Recuperation". The 'hiberating mode' has stopped. I have done minimum exercise. I have ate a lot.  I'm glad I have gone through the past 7 days and survived.Guys, have you taken this time to catch up? Did you train your hardest? I know I went into a deep slumber. And my fitness has dropped ten folds, indeed. Did you cease your chance, these last 7 days, to overtake me?Today, the F***king stalling ends. I am restarting my training tomorrow. I am going back to where I left off. I have recovered from  this illness, and things are back to normal now.It's going to be brutal. I am going to rage. With AHM this Sunday, I am going to kill it, starting tomorrow, with my first gym session for a l-o-o-o-n-g time. I have stalled enough. I...

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Stalling and Recuperation Pt. 6

This is day six of "Stalling and Recuperation"....is it ending?Yes...soon it will.Until 1 day later, I will be in a 'hibernating mode', doing minimum exercise, and eating a lot.I can hardly take this lifestyle anymore.Just a bit more...I do not want this, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am powerless to do anything.Suffering...suffocating.Numb.Guys, take this time to catch up to me. Train as much as possible. For I know I am going into a deep slumber. And my fitness will drop ten folds. This is your chance, this six days, for you to overtake me. So train hard.You better catch up...I have given you enough time.But come the day after tomorrow, I will rage. I will re-start my training. I will go back to where I left off. I can't wait.Tick-tock-tick-tock -- The bomb is going off soon.I...

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Stalling and Recuperation Pt. 5

This is day five of "Stalling and Recuperation"....is it ending?Until 2 days later, I will be in a 'hibernating mode', doing minimum exercise, and eating a lot.I can hardly take this lifestyle anymore.I do not want this, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am powerless to do anything.Suffering...suffocating.Guys, take this time to catch up to me. Train as much as possible. For I know I am going into a deep slumber. And my fitness will drop ten folds. This is your chance, this six days, for you to overtake me. So train hard.You better catch up...But when the 2nd day ends, I will rage. I will re-start my training. I will go back to where I left off. I can't wait. I succumb to this 'illness' that is Istana/MPEU life right now, but fret not, soon, things will turn back to normal.Endure......I...

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Stalling and Recuperation Pt. 4

This is day four of "Stalling and Recuperation". Until 3 days later, I will be in a 'hibernating mode', doing minimum exercise, and eating a lot. I do not want this, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am powerless to do anything.Guys, take this time to catch up to me. Train as much as possible. For I know I am going into a deep slumber. And my fitness will drop ten folds. This is your chance, this six days, for you to overtake me. So train hard.But when the 3th day ends, I will rage. I will re-start my training. I will go back to where I left off. I succumb to this 'illness' that is Istana/MPEU life right now, but fret not, soon, things will turn back to normal....I will be back.*Interesting~Performed as guardsman in 72 man GOH contingent for Prince of Liechtenstein at Istana...

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Stalling and Recuperation Pt. 3

This is day three of "Stalling and Recuperation". Until 4 days later, I will be in a 'hibernating mode', doing minimum exercise, and eating a lot. I do not want this, but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am powerless to do anything.Guys, take this time to catch up to me. Train as much as possible. For I know I am going into a deep slumber. And my fitness will drop ten folds. This is your chance, this six days, for you to overtake me. So train hard.But when the 4th day ends, I will rage. I will re-start my training. I will go back to where I left off. I succumb to this 'illness' that is Istana/MPEU life right now, but fret not, soon, things will turn back to normal....I will be ba...

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