This is fucking ridiculous! After all the preparations I made for so long just for today, this had to happen. Time now is 0730 hrs on Sunday morning, 24 August 08, and rightfully speaking, I shld be somewhere along the marina bay area, or east coast parkway, halfway thru my 21km. but instead i'm sitting at home, blogging. ALL BECAUSE I FUCKING OVERSLEPT!!

seriously, i have no idea how i could have even overslpt. because after my 15km passion run in june, in which i only slpt 1 hr and end up running a crappy timing, i realised the importance of slping enough the night before.

thus, for today's ahm, i actually went and conditioned myself by sleeping early the last few days, and waking up early, just so i could go to slp early on saturday nite and wake up on time to make it to the run fresh and energised.

end up i still overslpt! wtf sia... there's no one to blame really, except maybe myself, but even so, i still have no idea why i could overslp at all! i mean i went to slp at 9pm on saturday nite, but couldn't get any slp in, and so i tossed and turned ard until i finally slpt at ard 12 mn, woke up shortly after 3am, went back to bed, deciding to wake up as per the alarm i set at 430am, but when i actually woke up, it was ald 630am, when my race category had just flagged off..

really, i am sibei tulan now, but dunno who to tulan at also, since there's really no one at fault here. i guess the only thing to do now is to wait for standard chartered marathon at the end of the year, of which i will only take part for the 21km cat and not the full marathon. cos there's no way i can do a full marathon without even first doing a half. fucking sian...

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looks like i've been neglecting this space again. and for quite a while i guess. but doesnt matter la, since i doubt anyone is really interested in my boring life anyway. but still, here's an update, just in case there are the kindred few out there wondering whether i've vanished off the face of the earth or anything.

first things first..after nearly 3 and a half years, i'm finally in school again! yep. i've recently just started my part time degree at MDIS dhoby ghaut campus, doing a overseas program from Bradford University of the UK. And I'm doing marketing once again, even tho i've got zero creative juice inside me to really make it as a marketeer or creative director or anything of tt sort.

nvm, its the shortest path to a degree for me, since the school actually waived me for the first year based on my diploma, thus making my course only 2 years instead of the usual 3. and best of all, my company is sponsoring my course fees! but tt also means i've got to work extra hard to make sure i score good grades, cos if i fail, my company won't pay for any extra fees incurred in repeat terms or sup papers.

now, not to say tt i want to make things sound bad, but either its i too long nv touch any academic stuff and somehow lost track, or tt im really slower compared to the rest of the class who advanced from year 1...cos somehow, its only been two weeks since i started, and i've ald begun to feel lost. not so much for the first module, consumer behaviour, as i ald touched on the stuff in back in poly, and its more or less the same, albeit a little more chim at the degree level only..but very much so for my second module, organizational design/ theory..which i totally liat bo kiu, or rather "catch no ball" as some singaporeans will say.

now, i actually made it a point to revise my lecture material every weekend so that i wont have to last min cheong everything during exam time.. but so far, i've only managed to do it for the first week, after which, im either too occupied with other stuff, or im just plain lazy and keep making excuses for myself. shit.

to top it all off, the lecturer for my OD module seems to think tt i'll be able to do very well for the module, being from poly and all..as he got this thinking tt students with poly dips are of way better std than those get from private institutions one. problem being, he has no idea i scored like crap for my GPA, which to date, i haven't seriously gone and calculated at all, just roughly estimated it to be at the 1.5 range or sthing worse. lol..

alrite, nuff said abt sch, think the more i gripe, the shittier im going to make myself feel, better go and review my lecture stuff now instead of wasting any more time..

till the next time den.

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ytd, for the first time ever i ran in a distance running event ~ the 100plus saucony passion run. and it was quite an experience i got to say.

although it was only 15km, and i clocked a disappointingly lousy timing of 1hr 39 mins for such a short distance, the feeling of finally finishing was still quite great. well, at least i finally ran in some sort of running event. hah.

anyway, to start off, we got there late. cos of fatass la..tell him to meet 0615 to take cab there since our wave flag off at 7am sharp..he fucking wake up at 0615 and take his own sweet time showering and changing, coming down only at 635. heng wei jian's father drove us there. if not we would not even be able to reach by the time our wave flag off. worse thing is, fatass still thinks he did nothing wrong. wtf..

when we finally got to ecp carpark e2, we decided to slow jog over to the start line..and just then.. we heard the counting down followed by the blast of the horn signalling the start of the race. well, kan cheong now as we were, we just cheonged over to the baggage deposit area and dumped our stuff and started running towards the start line..and by then it had ald started for 3 mins liao.

so well, after we settled into our individual comfortable pace, we just started running as per normal, treating it like a normal training run, just with a hell lot more ppl involved. haha. at first, i was running quite briskly, overtaking alot of ppl, until i saw the 3km sign board..i was like, WTF??!! i've been running for quite a while now and its only 3km?!! after which, the signboard for every kilometre seem to come slower and slower, and i got so sian i just slowed down and ran slowly, taking in the sights and sounds rather than concentrating on finishing with my initial aim of 1 hr 20 mins. by the time i hit 10km..i was abt 7 to 8 mins slower than my usual 10km timing... and at this point..i started feeling even more sian for some strange reason..and thus..needless to say..i finished with my lousy timing of 1 hr 39 min in the end.

finished the run, collected the finisher medal and goody bag (more like trash bag!) since it contained nth but stupid flyers and pamphlets from those companies involved in the organization of the race..commercial crap telling u to go buy this product/ service or the other.. a sport visor and no finisher tee.. unlike what was stated on the race kit package and website. and when we enquired abt it the information desk, the bloody woman had the cheek to be quai lan to us by saying, " what u expect for 18 dollars?" certainly not this bag of trash that i got with me right now! i wanted to retort back, but decided not to argue since we were both tired.

fatass wanted to wait and see whether we would tio the lucky draw, but end up we didn't and wasted 2 hrs at the tentage just being bored and tired. i had only slept an hr on saturday night, before i got up for the run on sunday.. and thus it was even more tiring.

by the time they finally got to the first prize and we realized we were not getting any..we got up and started another 1hr route march to the end of ecp, to where the former big splash was..got there even more tired, what else..but it was totally worth it..had carl's junior until we were filled to the brim..finished lunch and finally we got on a cab to home sweet home.

although ytd's run was quite a disappointment..it was still a good experience i think. personally, i realized my lousy performance was due to lack of trg and sufficient rest.. since i hadn't been slping well the entire week and was also lazy to train in the 3 weeks preceding the event. but not anymore.. for the next event, the army half marathon.. im gg to make sure i train sufficiently and slp well the previous night, so that i might achieve my goal of finishing it in under 2hrs.

ttz all for now.

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cant really think of a title for this entry, so i think i'll just stick with an 'update' haha.

anyway, even thou i said earlier on that i would upload pictures of my thailand trip last month, my nua-ness has managed to get the better of me and i just kept putting it off until i finally decided not to do it since there weren't so many pictures to start with anyway.

well, 3 weeks has past since i came back to singapore, and in that time, some changes have occurred at work. firstly, i no longer sit back at the logistics section of my office; i've officially moved up to the front office to a workstation that is right opposite my boss, of all people!

and i now no longer deal solely with logistics/ inventory and the occasional technical issue that may come up..i am starting to learn the ropes of sales and running the local market from my senior colleagues.

this is mainly because while in thailand, my boss fired one of the guys there, and he decided not to hire any more thais to run the local office there as the previous ones in the past few years have all fucked up one way or another. thus, he is now sending my senior who is singaporean but half thai (he was born thai anyway) up to thailand fortnightly to manage the stuff up there. so, whenever he's not ard, i have to start taking charge of his business here in the singapore market/ i.e. liaise with his dealers, make presentations and stuff/ send biz quotations blah blah blah and basically just abt everything on his scope.

and thus, today started my new challenge of manning the fort when he's not ard since he just left for bangkok this morning and won't be back until saturday.

and well, i'll say it was quite challenging but still not that bad la..suddenly, phone calls started coming in directed to me!(seems like he had informed his local dealers to look for me during this week of his absence) and initially i had no grasp of what's happening..i jumped here and there looking for his files on pricelists and specs and what nots and kept referring to my product manuals in order to solve the enquiries coming in.

but hey, in the end, i managed just fine and i can say it was a good start to my baptism by fire, if i may even call it that.

i believe tmr and the days that follow will get even more challenging for me but thats ok cause with greater power, comes greater responsibility and now that im starting to be in the hot seat, it kind of feels right even though i am constantly being bombarded by calls and emails and enquiries and the like. i actually feel that i am doing something fulfilling ever since i joined geberit 1 year ago.

so keep them coming! the challenges i mean, and i will give my best to overcome everything in the way until i can one day be given the responsibility of handling a sales market/ region of my own. lol

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just got back from thailand late last nite, and i must say, its been a whirlwind 10 days.

got pretty pissed off at the airport when i got in and couldn't find my luggage at the conveyor belt. made a report but couldn't really do much else except go back home and twiddle my thumbs and wait. luckily they found it this morning and delivered it back home for me while i was at work. turns out it got stranded back in bangkok. hah.

haven't had the time to upload any pictures yet, but anyway, its only a few cos i didn't have any time for sightseeing since its a working trip. will try to post the few presentable ones up here once i have the time. and there's so much to talk abt my time in thailand tt i cant really rmbr everything but i hope to be able to give an accurate if not an interesting account of it once i've sorted out my stuff and have more time.

but right now, im just really tired and im gg to bed liao. nite ppl.

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greetings fr thailand. been here for the 7th day now. working. haven't had the chance to go shop or do anything else since i get back late to the hotel every nite tired like a dog, and go str to bed after showering. but really see many interesting things here.. like taxis in a variety of colors nt found elsewhere. and super hot girls, or ladyboys, i dunno la.. cant really tell. just hope i dont ons the wrong one, haha. otherwise, its been a good experience so far. cant really say more, gotta go back to work liao. pictures when i come back. ciao.

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