long day wednesday

today a little more relac at work...can multitask with webmessenger, open office, irfanview, alt+tab when someone comes near...

boss kevin jio me go pc fair...dunno can dompang his car after work tmr anot...mum gave the green light to get a lcd panel to replace our half dead crt...

after work went home for a quick lunch and after that met shirong go national stadium for the usher job...s'pore vs m'sia soccer match...

first time getting a glimpse of a live soccer match...didnt get to see much...was stationed below the grandstand there handing out and collecting "pass out" cards (yes the card said PASS OUT...i tot it shld be OUT PASS or sthg...hmmm) to pple who needed to go toilet, buy snack or smoke break...

pay wasnt spectacular...but for such a no brainer job cannot ask for too much i guess...
from 4pm to abt 9+...go back office collect pay (they even credited $3 to cpf...wooooooh) then left abt 10 with derky and leonard...

reach home...bathe...dinner-ed...and here i am now...blogging...with a mug of milo...yummmy

grandma's birthday gathering

my mum's side gathered for the VERY first time since dunno when to celebrate my grandma's birthday...celebrating supposedly her 80th but my mum said not 80 actually...

a total of 24 people...full attendance from every family...
dinner was at teochew city restaurant at centrepoint...superb stuff
shou tao, cold plate, shark's fin, prawns, goose+beancurd, pomfret, scallops+vege, chicken, yee mian, ou ni...yummmy....

全家福-mum's side =)

mummy dearest

had a nice long chat with mum while having dinner...
i told her about the happenings of my work downstairs...
she told me about the happenings of her work and the course she went to for the past 2 days...
it was a nice moment...sharing and updating each other about what's going on in our day to day activities...

i came across this article in the saturday paper, where bob dylan paid tribute to mothers on mother's day
M is for the many things she gave me
O is for the other things she gave me
T is for the things she gave me
H is for her things, which she gave me
E is for everything she gave me
R is for the rest of the things she gave me

decisions we make

over the past few weeks i have been receiving quite a handful of free advice...from boss kevin, from boss kevin's father, from the auntie who sells coffee beans next next to boss's shop...
boss kevin says it's free seminar talk for me...

we dealt with a smorgasbord of issues...
about how we should 敢敢 try out and learn new things...about not abusing your power/status...about how we should speak up and stand up for ourselves when wrongfully accused and we have done nothing wrong/illegal...tips on how to chase girls...about how opportunities are always flying around you and how we should catch hold of them and not regret later...about not doing bad things cus what comes around goes around...about changing yourself to suit the surroundings when it's not possible to change the surroundings to suit yourself...about listening to what others have to say and how eventually after hearing and learning from others, we will still have to make the final decisions based on our own judgement.

i would like to believe that i have picked up a thing or two from all the chit chat advice i've received when working downstairs...maybe someday i might be the one handing them out to another person...heh...but till then i am more than willing to be the quiet listener (who hopefully can offer whatever 2cents worth of opinion he has if required)

this morning muay had to make a tough decision on IM canada...being the listener type, i wasnt able to offer much constructive suggestions/advice...
after seeking advice from friends, weighing out the pros and cons and thinking through what was the real goal of her taking part in IM canada, she eventually decided to give canada a miss

"i want to slow down n enjoy the process of trng. not becos i need to complete a race then i train, but more becos i love doin it n getting stronger thru it"

加油muay

fun run resumes+2nd round of BROWNES ATTACK

yesterday came back from work...saw loads of brownes yoghurt and chilled mocha drinks in the fridge...all expiring 26,27,28th...hohoho
so anyways i had 1/2 carton of chilled mocha + 1 small tub of strawberry cheesecake flavored yoghurt for lunch...yummy stuff...somemore i was very hungry after work...

this time round not so bad compared to the 1st BROWNES ATTACK a few months back...
that time ate in afternoon then at night diarrhoea...
this time ate in afternoon then at night no diarrhoea...just kept farting only...

after lunch resumed my gundam astray blue frame kit...do until sleepy then napped for awhile

woke up and decided to go for a run...havent ran since last saturday's ippt...
at first i thought i just do the tanglin mall route...but when i reached tanglin mall...i felt very energetic and decided to continue on with the long route i have been running for the past few fun runs...think i will call it the "holland V route" ...heh...

the run was shiok...i did not feel tired or breathless...maybe next time i should up my pace...either that or i should explore longer routes...

came home, did stairs and man was my tshirt drenched or what!

and guess what i had after dinner? strawberry sundae yoghurt+chilled choc mocha...
fart fart fart
fart farting farted
woohoo

paint-me-happy wednesday

yesterday woke up automatically at 6 despite setting my alarm for 7...i was thinking of lazing on my bed for awhile longer but i thought might as well go muay's place earlier so got more time to paint...and i was starting to feel hungry anyways...

so i got out of bed...had breakfast...and hohoho...lugged the tins of paints to tiong bahru mrt...
at first i was afraid the plastic bags cannot take it but after crossing a few streets i began to worry abt my arms instead...
so after a handful of arm resting breaks on route to tiong bahru, i finally reached my first check point...full of perspiration already...heh

upon reaching muay's place, we started moving the furniture...
while moving...muay played her piano for awhile to entertain me...and showed me lin junjie's jc photo...he looked...er...different...
guobin(we were from the same camp during nsf can u believe it?small world!) arrived just as we were getting the white wash ready...

paint paint paint until lunch and muay made us char beehoon+ribena...yummmy stuff....
after lunch break it was paint paint paint until muay gave us each a surprise cookies & cream cornetto each....yummmmy
paint paint paint until dinner when muay's mum cooked fish+chicken+veg...yummmy stuff again....hohoho

after dinner it was cleaning up time...we shld have made full use of the masking tape RIGHT from the beginning and made sure everything was well covered...the floor,wall corners and quite a few stuff were sprayed with specks of paint...
armed with cloth, turpentine and scraper...it was clean clean clean and after that we started moving the stuff back to their original positions...

ended the day with another glass of refreshing ribena...hohoho
lucky guobin was around...he covered the whole ceiling...the most shiong part...
if he wasnt around we wont have been able to finish the room...
tired arms+neck...but we had fun and it was a good workout!

"my girl and i"

simple...funny...goose bump generating...certain scenes can cause tears to well up in your eyes (but blink blink a few times shld be able to prevent you from crying)...
a pretty nice korean romantic-comedy on the whole

09:29 + adrian gets his $400!!!

happy happy happy
had one of the worst "want to throw up" feeling i ever had during the 2.4run...
but it's all bloody worth it...
all the trng has paid off...
now for half marathon...
woopie
happy happy happy

9:44:42 + dinner at hing wa restaurant

had dinner with jeffrey, shirong, yongliang and weiming at hing wa...
its a nice chinese eatery along beach road...
dinner was also to celebrate shirong+me+weiming's birthdays over the months of mar+apr+may...
we had Hing Wa Fried MianXian, Fried Beancurd Skin With Kailan, Stewed Chicken With Chinese Herbs Soup, Fried Prawn Egg, duck with yam claypot, fried garoupa...fantastic stuff...
today's 2.4 run was extremely trying...constantly having that want to throw up feeling...
BUT...everything will all be worthwhile if i can reproduce this timing on sat...sigh
muay got discharged from nuh today...wishing her a speedy recovery so she can run, bike, swim and do whatever she pleases really soon

payday+interview+muay in hospital

got my pay from boss today...
attended an interview at prudential...was only notified abt it only last night...anyway waited quite long for the interviewer...almost 30min...end up the interview was quite short...hurhur...oh well...
visited muay at nuh after that...
bizarre bike accident at the bt timah trail in which brake lever stabbed into her left thigh after she took a bad fall from her bike...
ouch

fun run under th...fun run sunday

no sun today...so reduced to just "fun run sunday"...
home-tanglin-holland v-commonwealth-queenstown-delta-home-stairs
no more blisters this time le...yay
replacing the blisters are pulled calf muscles and a orh che kind of pain (without the orh che) at the top of my right foot...
better let my legs recover...
cus i have a date next sat
with ippt
4pm
maju camp
woopie

run adrian run

weather has been great these few days...so much so that i have been running running running...heh
mon ran, thurs ran, fri ran...if the weathers good this wkend i will go for my fun run under the sun...
woopie

9:44:78

hohohoho...
2.4 getting better...
brilliant weather today...
took my saucony out for another run+the new new balance socks ah muay got me...
after 2.4 i went for another 8km slow jog...took me 48:24:30...heh...
another fun run under the sun...
i love running...running loves me
ha
woopie

mr bean soya ice cream...mmmmmmm

finally got to taste the mr bean soya ice cream highly recommended by ah muay today...
all i can is that it is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!
not too sweet and the soya taste is so rich and yummy...
me and muay had a cone each and we both agreed biscuits+ice cream is a heavenly combination...
hohoho...

and just for your info...the ice cream is not available at all their outlets...in fact their menu differs from outlet to outlet i think...
so far i've been to the tiong bahru one-it has soyabean+papaya those kind of drinks, those red bean pancakes, tau huay, normal soya bean drink, no ice cream
the one at people's park food centre-got ice cream, tau huay, normal soyabean drink, no pancake snacks
other branches selling the ice cream-raffles place mrt(international plaza), 10mile junction and bt panjang plaza...

so after that light snack i made my way to grandma's place for a dinner feast...
hohohoho...
ma you ji, braised pork, prawns with chilli, dong gua soup, packet otah, fish...
for fruits we had grapes and mangoes....
hohohoho...

this morning followed dad to the tiong bahru fruit stall...to learn and also to help carry the fruits home...
we bought 3x honeydews, 4x pineapples, 1kg plums, 8x mangoes, 6x rose apples...
i learnt how to choose the honeydews and pineapples...haha...oooooh

toys of yesteryears:episode 1

as i was climbing the stairs after my run today, i saw some water guns(those that look very sud and got large water canisters that can store alot of water ammo) left on the floor by some kids on one of the storeys...

it kinda reminded me of when i was younger and the puny squirt gun i had...well technically it wasnt mine...i had to share it with my bro...it looked sthg like this...well more or less...

then there was a period of time when supersoakers were all the rage...and they looked sthg like this...well more or less...notice the significantly larger ammo storage compartment...

and look how these soakers have evolved over the years...oh my...have they grown or what...hurhur

and that brings us to the end of toys of yesteryears:episode 1-water guns
stay tuned for episode 2...

return of the "fun run under the sun"

polling day...rainy morning...my first time voting.
afternoon sun came out and went for my fun run...havent done that for many weeks le...
from home-delta-jiak hong chu route-tanglin mall-botanic gardens-holland v-commonwealth mrt-queenstown mrt-street with all the car showrooms-delta swimming complex-delta-home-stair climb...
took me 1hr 09min 42sec to complete the run...
legs were tired...very thirsty...stinked like crap...BUT hehhey!!!the feeling was great man heehee...

recent purchases...

new shoes new toys....
thank goodness boss at motherland is letting me work part-time again...
think i spent alot in april...many many birthday presents for myself...heehee

the thing that adrian does after every exam

spring cleaning...its a ritual for me...
during mugging period when i start day dreaming and look ard my room...i see things/areas i want to clear up or move things here and there...
so right after exam...i spring clean
so last night and this morning i spring cleaned...
in the midst of spring cleaning this morning...my area's mp Dr Lily Neo came by my block for a walkabout...and i got to shake her hand...hehe

during my spring cleaning (that is like the 5th time i used the words "spring cleaning"...now its 6th) i came across this scrap of paper i kept many years back...
its called "friends forever" and it goes sthg like this:

friendships need continuing dialogue, from banter to heart-to-hearts.
they need trips to the movies, cups of coffee, dinners in and dinners out.
if that's not possible, then at least they need frequent telephone conversations.

most friendships are in desperate need of a whole lot more spontaneous, purposeless fun.
never rely on momentum.
and never forget that friendships wither from lack of attention

(and for the very last time i hope...) please stop writing...

last paper...haha...warao...power packed...
1st qn was such a morale booster...until i reached the 2nd qn 2nd part...i thought 6+7marks can skip first...
then 3rd qn 1st part...not so bad...2nd part...basket...
then came the bomb at the 4th qn...sigh...
with abt 1 hr to spare but with no idea how to solve the remaning qns...
banking on moderation and ca to pull me through le...not exactly the way i wanted to end (hopefully) my last paper in ntu...
fyp presentation next wed...
can almost see the finishing point le...
woopie

9:57:76

2.4 never improve...had quite abit of those wanna throw up feelings during the run...made the run very unbearable...
last paper tmr...
fyp presentation next wed...
almost there liao...
woopie