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yes, this is me... ^o)..have been receiving quite a few sms's and phone calls since this went out...
does it really NOT look like me?? i think it looks like me...
 [Shape Mag Aug07]
OSIM.. ODEAR...wat a disaster...
'rain rain go away, came again another day...' - ya.. i wish such innocent words were going through my head while i was sitting on my bike, spending more time energy holding the bike up straight against the sidewind than actually peddling forward...
OSIM Triathlon was initially temporarily cancelled, then put back on with slight modifications due to really bad weather (Some wld call it a passing shower, but id call it a mini storm..). The sad thing was, the women and some of the men's age groups had alredi started the race, only to be pulled off the course half way through the race. The ladies had completed the swim and about hald of the bike-leg. Some of the men were alredi on the bike course, but the majority were still in the sea. So after the race ground to a halt, it was restarted as a mini duathlon - 400m run sprint into T1, 20km bike and 5km run. Wat a shame... so many ppl trained hard for it and spent a lot of money. BUT.. safety comes first. Ppl DIE if precautions are not taken and i have to commend the organisers for doing wat they did. a lot of unhappy ppl, but at least they're all safe =)
and so we all live to race another race... oh well.. at least i managed to get a swim in, and bike 20km as well... the swim was a lil bit choppy heading out from the shore, but then.. its always like that. my swim cap was damn small, dunno howcome... cldl hardly cover my ears.
got to wear my new race-suit.. the new suits are black with the big yellow Swoosh. hardly get to wear it as i havent been racing much this yr.. too busy with house moving, getting married, mum over for the first half of the yr... oh well.. it always comes all at once eh?? love ya mum!!
[ndrea and me at Start line]
but ya... damn.. now i feeling bit sick.. think its the standing-around-half-naked in the cold rain that did it... Thanks to the folks from the Changi Hospital Physio Department that were on standby for the massage after the race... they spared me two towels to keep myself warm...-er...
Pat did her first Tri this weekend as well!! Super lucky man, u had good-enough weather to complete ur race!!! so now ull be moving on to OD?? poor andrea, her first OD and it ends like this!! dun worri babe, there will always be another race =) dun angryyy..  also hann and all the rest of the boys... they didnt even get to start!!! but oh well... better safe than sorri. its UP!!!! or shld i say im up.. ok, now the blogging fever has bit me again.. or maybe its coz im tasting life as a stay-home wife... i have been on leave since Friday till end of today.. Wednesday back to work. but never theless... i been checking into my emails... nice to see some nice response from a certain someone bout my Women's doors... dunno la... this is wat it looks like.
Mother!
This is for you also.. i hardly see u online but i know u read this... so u can get a glance of the pictures too =)
[Wisma Atrium Nike Women Shop - In Store]
[Wisma Atrium Nike Women Shop - Window]
[Ngee Ann City - Nike Women Shop - In-Store]
actually installation was quite entertaining.. the girl asked me to write on the poster. i said - madness!! i dun wan get a scolding (literally..) over something which in essense is really pathetic, but nevertheless.... oh well... like i said earlier... kein commentar... but in any case... felt nice to be asked
The new Nike Womens website is up too! seems that this season the folks at Nike HQ have totally re-done the women's portfolio. The shots are different (as in no more i-stories...) the website is different, the collection is TOTALLY different and nicer might i add... nvr have i actually bought so many items... damn.. im on the website too with a totally unglam shot... i did bout 3 shots for the website.. guess only one turned out nice... oh well. thats life i suppose - runners dun look good... MOVED HOUSE!!!YAY!!!
It was hard, but we finally did it!!!
in a nut shell... it was 3 days of hell.. but the end result is definitly worth it =)
Day 1 - Thursday... rush home to pack up everything that was still lying around... Then also quickly went to buy the paint for our new house. Met Alex for Supper and swapped my lil car for his old LORRY!!! Damn it... ha. so unglam.. but v v functional.. i have to say.
Day 2 - Friday
wake up & load up the lorry with load 1.
Drove to the new house and started to unload the first load. We brought HundKatze up first. =)
anyway, the plan was to be there while the furniture trickles in. while we wait, we apply the first layer of base coat for my bedroom coz the previous owner liked blue a bit too much.. all shades of blue.. from light to dark..
 ok, so we put the first coat, all the furniture came in.. and decided to go back to Clementi to get the last load of things. back in the lorry... lorry-ed our way over there from Sengkang... only to realise that we left the key in Sengkang
 Soo... almost 2 hrs wasted... drove back in the lorry to get the key.. then came back to get the last load.
It was kinda strange seeing my old house empty... i guess i jus love the West side... i went to school there.. Hann, yomama Pat and Voonie are there.. i used to train all around there... nvm. new house, new life,. u nvr know... maybe ill take up cooking!! HAHA
After everything was loaded up, the last dilema was.. i still got two cats to move, but only one box. so one has to sit in my arms. Amazingly, Frau Katze jus sat next to me in the lorry... (sorri ShiHui.... ) she jus sat there... didnt really move at all... she was probably too freaked out by all the moving vehicles around her. but farni... she jus sat there =)
When we reached our new home we put another layer of the base coat for the paint.. the dark blue was still visible through the base... fainally at bout 5am... we went to bed... zzzzz
Day 3 - Saturday
Woke up super early (845am) to pass my agent the keys to my old house.... Thank god she stays around this area as well.
but then i cldnt go back to sleep... !!! so it wld be a kranky zombified day....
HundKatze wasted no time in getting to know the place... first trip was straight to the neighbours... she jus walked straight in... a loud scream ended her stay there and she came running back to the house... the neighbour then came out... saw us moving in and we chit-chat a bit... we apologised bout the cat.. then she said oh, dun worri =) i was jus so surprised... where did that fluffy thing come from.. hehe. then turns out her daughter LOVES hundkatze... she thinks hundkatze is soooooo pretty =) so we let her pat hundkatze and she was all smiles =) Then I brought out FrauKatre... the lil girl said... the white one prettier.. i dun like this one...
 I guess FrauKatze will only be special to me =)
CAF called up his brother-in-law to ask him help with the painting... coz we were seriously not making any progress... so his sis, sis's hubby and his mum all came to see the new house =) the ladies then cleaned the kitchen.. the men painted the room. after the girls finished cleaning up... SQ sis and his mum took a short walk to the Compasspoint shopping centre which is a stone throw away. I stayed back to put stuff away. But in between we helped them paint the edges of the walls, wash brushes etc... all in all, we painted till bout midnight.
short story here:
Few weeks back - i said to CAF - 'hey, Voonie got this guy, he can paint our whole house for $xx... u wanna do??'
then CAF said - 'mad, so ex.. i do myself'
then - argue a bit here and there... so in the end... the convo ended like this:
vaps - 'FINE!! u paint urself then.. if at the end i dun like it ill call the contractor anyway!!'
So going back to Day 3... After we had finished the bedroom... CAF jus plonked himself on the floor and said - 'Darling, u still go the number of that painted?? I think u shld call him.. i cant believe i took 2 days to do the bedroom with increased manpower.. and i still have the living room, kitchen and spare room to do...'
Vaps - 1 : CAF - 0000000000
 Day 4 - Sunday...
Finallyyyy.. i get to lie in a bit... but i still look like a zombie.... slept at 4 am last nite coz i was cleaning up the bedroom floor... after they finished painting the night before, paint stains were alllll over the floor... i sat on that floor and scrubbed it for almost 2 hrs... *faint*.. CAF drove his fam home while i stayed back.
anyway.. today was money spending day. we went to ikea and bought loadsa stuff.. then went to all those hardware shops, buy all those small small things, then cold storage.. buy food... all things to make the home more homely... even bought a lil windchime and a painting!! hahhaa.. i feel so old now... and YES!! i FINALLY have TV and internet!! managed to clear up all the mess to make room for the computer and tv, plus open all the boxes to find all the relevant cables. maybe bad packing.. but oh well =) we'll save that improvement for next time =)
another short story here:
in our old house, the cats will normally come and greet us when we get home or walk through the main door. However... after we came back from IKEA, only one cat came to greet us... FrauKatze.. the rest were no where to be seen. i searched the house but cldnt find the other two. so then i noticed i had left one of the windows open... immediately i went out to search the entire block and surroundings... none of them cld be seen anyway.. CAF was also looking, but we cldnt find any of them!! without any luck, i went back... only to see that suddenly herr katze appear from no where. so now only hundkatze gone... we went to search the block one more time but nothing. So... resigning to our fate.. my pretty cat is probably lost... i dug out paper and pen to stick 'missing' posters.. only to see one hundkatze jus zip past me... she was sleeping in the washing machine
Day 5 - Monday... today...
im jus kinda stoning around at home... am feeling a bit sick... must be the many many nights of sleeping at 4am... my back is seriously gone shit.. my knees are crap when i need to bend down... my hands are all sore form the lifting and the two hrs of cleaning the floor with paint thinner.. i got one super huge cut on my finger from slicing myself with a pen knife
the cats seem to LOVE my new bed... they are all sleeping on it now... or maybe it the warm cosy feeling my room has now with its dark brown walls... the main walls are dark brown, the remaining walls are a brownish white.. furniture is all either black or brown... curtains are also dark brown... v cosy feeling =)
next up.... living room!! SOFA coming today!!!!
swimming... again?? has it been that long?hmm... howcome my last post is bout swimming too???
 it seems only like... well, only a lil while since i wrote the last trianing program... time is flying by, i cant believe it... im moving house in like... 2 days!! anyway, was feeling really really fat yesterday, - must have been the McDonalds Breaki AND lunch that i had... so i dragged myself down to swimming and it kinda turned out to be one of my better-feeling sessions. perhaps that was coz the distance was not so far, but still....Warm up - 200m
Kick - 200m
Main Set -
3 * 600m on 10:30min
3 * 500m on 9 min
3 * 200m on 4:30min
System 2 - 10 * 100m on 2:15min
Grand Total... 5300m...
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ok, nvm... it was the McDonalds... swimming is back on!!!!!SWIMMING IS BACK ONN!!!!
and in good old fashioned style... Coach was up to (no) GOOD as usual =) blessed my first session back with a super whamy session of 5KM!!!
Warm-up
300m easy swim
Test Run - 600m normal/slow pace
4 * 100m Kick
Main Set
4 * 600m on 11min (not so bad..)
System 2 style...
4 * 200m - turn into 3x
4 * 100m - also turn into 3x
8 * 50m
[all that sprint]
Making a grand total offffff: 5000m!!!
Then, coach's email to us on the day after:
Hi Swimmers,
* some text... welcome and all.. =)*
Some rules -
1. ...
2. ...
3. ...
4. All, 1, 2, 3 swimmer of each lane, rotat to lead. (except Vicky girl - ...
till I find someone to whack her)
*faint*
- and the last rule..
7. - DONT BE LATE
Good one coach!!
Then not so bad.. so i replied to his email, the convo went something like this:
Coach's email - as above,
Me - reply him, highlighting the TILL I FIND SOMEONE TO WHACK HER and saying... goodnesss....
Coach's reply - din know u swam so much.. lost control yday...
*faint again...*
haha. but all in good spirit!! Right coach?? Thanks man!! Swimming is BACK ONNN!!!!!!!!
for me...und es geht einfach weiter.. ich versteh es manchmal nicht aber es geht weiter... unsere existenz ist wie eine Lektuer mit wechselden lektueren die kommen und gehen, man sieht sachen und menschen und lernt von ihnen
oder ist es eher wie eine Achterbahn, der von den Höhen und Tiefen voll ist... am einen Tag fuehlt man sich als ob man
Man denkt, daß man Sachen versteht, weil man jedes Ende des Spektrums gesehen habt, oder was wir glauben das extreme Ende des Spektrums ist... Man sieht Sachen wo man sich wuenscht - ich will das niemals werden - weil man glaubt - das ist das schlimmste das ich jemals gesehen habe - aber man habt keine Ahnung, daß es sehr wahrscheinlich heraus noch schlechter gibt. und das schlimmste ist das man nie auf schlimmeres vorbereitet ist wenn es kommt... Ich meine... man koennte sich ja sagen, 'es koennte ja schlimmer sein'.. aber dann koennte man sich bis zum Todestag versichern. Jedes mal when man mist baut, oder im Mist ist koennte man sich ja versichern, aber am Ende ist man immer noch nicht zufrieden... diese Gruendung hilft dir vielleicht das Schlechte zu verstehen und zu handeln, aber ist trotz allem immer noch das selbe.... es gibt dir einen es ist das 'warte-bis-der-preis-faellt' syndrom... z.B - du willst einen laptop der $xxx kostet... am ersten tag siehst du diesen Laptop und sagst - 'ich warte bis der preise faellt'. und der preis faellt und faellt.. und du wartest und wartest... und der preis faellt immernoch... und die versicherst dich das du diesen laptop nicht kaufen wirst weil der preis noch weiter fallen wird.. aber waehrend der preis faellt bist du unzufrieden weil du keinen laptop hast...
ich bin wahrscheinlich aus meiner Achterbahn gefallen weil ich zeit habe ueber diesen Mist zu schreiben... ich sollte mich wahrscheinlich wieder anstellen und wieder auf die Bahn zu gehen... den so ist das Leben... besser auf der Bahn als auf der Seite wo man nur denkt und wundert...
fraukatze hat wieder ihr essen ausgekotzt... verdamte fette kuh!!!
a tribute to the fatmamaactually she is not really a fatmama.. but she got a heart that sure cld be as big as a fatmama's heart...
but then again, her car reg number has SFM in it... so maybe some connection... hehe
but mum... i thought i will go first... but u beat me to it...
i still rem when i first met u... i sat right opposite u in the office... seperated by a wall only... u were kinda chopped off from the whole ppl coz u piled all the boxes up in the walkway so that no one can pass through and disturb u... or more like... SEE U AND UR MAC AND LAPTOP CHATTING ON MSN!!!! anyway.. then slowly got to know u... talk to u more.. open up more.. talk a little bit more.. laf a little bit more.. then see u wear Birks to work then i tink oki, i can wear Birks to work too..
 .. then stay out past midnight then the whole 'you got meee' and the birth of HANNNNN and HC... then u LEFT!!! but still not so bad.. by now i know u stay jus opposite me in the clementi joint.. then chit chat with u more on msn... u snap my ROM... drive me to hairdresser and make-up place as well... then kopi sessions... then now u really really goneeeeeeee... far far awayyyyy...  i think u like green a lot.. coz i always see u wearing a lot of green and carry green bags.. so i made this post in green...
thanks mum for being there... u like an older sis to me.. dun forget me when ur rich and famous and super successful!!! pls find a nice dad but most of all... enjoy urself!! i will miss u v v v much
btw, u chop the cow =) today i 'kena' wheel clamp...at fren condo...
damnit..
$53.50 to release it.. the boy so stupid... cannot write the receipt.. dunno wat to write for the 'purpose' part of the receipt. so he copied from previous receipt in the receipt book... so he copy letter by letter.. write one letter, check the previous receipt, then write another letter etc etc.. so took him 10min to write - 'Released Wheelclamp'
congrats mr ****** Soh, but poor thing.. cannot spell released wheelclamp... wth...
somemore... still try to be friendly with us... see CAF uniform say.. 'WAH... Airforce ah??' then some chinese thingys... he nvr use his brain... of course CAF not happy laaaa.. think CAF tell him to... well.. u know.. haha
 Master's Swim - done =)Sunday we took a break from the usual Triathlon Racing and did a Swimming Competition instead =) I swam 100m Breastroke (coz of UNCLE...), relay with the Yellowfish ladies - Elvia, Jacqueline and Cheryl (ex national Swimmers!!!) and me - and 1500m. Ego took a beating yesterday though.. i got beaten by a 57yr old guy in my 1500m =( lost out to him by 10sec. but hey... respect man, i hope that when i am 57 i can still swim somewhere near to what i can swim today... actually the event was quite an eye-opener - the slogan of the competition was 'Age is No Barrier' and it truely came out yesterday - when we were doing our relay, we were competing with a team of ladies, where the age ranged from i think 50+ to 80+!!! and yes, they took damn long, but they did it!!! Respect!!
Anyway, tally for yesterday -
1500m - 22min 10sec
100m Breastroke - 1:30
Relay - Total Time - 2:18
So its back in the office againnn.... and as usual.. mr D will clear his farni forwards to us.. i think i have seen it all... from snake swallowing a hippo, to this guy getting hit straight on by a car after which he stands up and runs away to this:
[spongebob in Muar...]
Another one he send me...
Is your birthday day 21 of the month?
Your Life You are curious and a true follower. You can please someone so much that it seem like you are trying to charm that person. You hide your disagreement under your smiling face. This is a charming quality of yours . Your Love You are quite unlucky in love. You are loved by someone you don't like while your dream man is so far away. Your love life is occasionally under turbulence. Sometimes you don't have the clear view of the guy r gal in your heart. What a sad person i must be.... not only do i have no mind of my own, im also unlucky in love and have no guts to show my disagreement to others... but its not that bad la.. its called CHARMING!!!.. wtf...
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