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Monday, June 01, 2009

9:35:00 pm

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Coming back was much better, less traffic. Heading from Longhouse onto Thomson area and looking at the traffic opposite was simply appalling. Since I only had 1hr I turned after climbing the Lower Pierce hill and thankfully only had to face the traffic for 2 traffic lights before escaping to Bishan Park. I feel really great after riding. Like, high!

In the evening I was motivated to swim. Coincidentally leewei was going kallang basin pool too! So at least I had a friend for some part of the way. I'm really swimming very slowly now :( It's like I think something's wrong. I can't quite seem to grab the water or move past the water the way I used to. Trying hard to get the feel back. I WILL keep trying!

But apparently bro stole the bike. And so I decided to run to the pool and back. And my, I think I got a taste of what this Sunday is gonna be like and am feeling SCREWED :(

Wanted to wake up on Friday morning to run but decided against it for many reasons. 1) 4 consecutive training sessions is too much 2) my muscles were kinda complaining 3) the day's gonna be longggggg with no time to rest

And so Friday was normal work day, after which I walked around at vivo before getting picked up and eating a rotten apple, driving from east to west and to east and west again searching for the hotel for my cousin's wedding. Thank goodness Dolphine was in camp.

Food was pretty good. The service was pretty bad. It made me think about weddings. And how ours will be like. Sis said she's not gonna invite the uncles. Like no money. For me, I'll just say, not cuz no money, it's cuz u're NOT INVITED. Wahaha. And it's so ironic to get that uncle to be the emcee. Like seriously! Firstly, he didnt even know the bride's name. (!!!!!) And talking about what love and remembering this day etc etc. Like come on, you divorced your wife for goodness sake..........

And so, thinking about having to walk till idunnowhere to the van, and then having to squeeze with a bunch of idunnowhos and having to drop them off first, means we'll reach home like way past midnight. So sis and me decided it'll be faster to go home ourselves since vivo's pretty near home via NEL. Apparently we didnt know how to get to the tram and whether it's still working at 11+pm and since the taxis were out there, we just upped and cabbed home.

Family is so screwed. Why can't that uncle AND FAMILY just take a DAMN CAB HOME THEMSELVES. It's always charity ends at home for our case.

And so we reached back around 12midnight. With a lot a lot of thoughts about weddings and all. Like I'll consider asking lols if she wanna be my emcee hahahhahaha! And like I'll never ask that side to help. Never ever.

Anyway SATURDAY! saturday saturday :)
Late morning ride! Reached longhouse at 7am! Cassandra wasnt there :( So I was alone. Guess who I saw? haha.

So I joined joyriders and got dropped at the traffic light after the hill at Lower Pierce cuz I was in the middle of the pack and got caught by lights how sad :( So this girl talked to me. Pretty friendly bunch of ppl! Except tt it was pretty slow going in the beginning and rather frustrating.

At around Ponggol there the speed upped and I was cycling for my life not to get dropped. We were close to 40km/hr for one whole long stretch. I thought I was gonna die. And then I was so thankful when we actually caught up with the first pack! Imagine, that was how fast they were going!

I stayed around the back of the pack and I guess that was a wrong move. Any hills we met, I got dropped. But at least this time round I managed to hang on pretty long for about 50mins! So after awhile I was really tired and couldnt keep up chasing to join back again. And so got a little worried when I turned a corner and the pack was getting more and more out of sight, and as usual I seem to be the last of the pack and the slower ones behind me were nowhere to be seen. So I was worriedly looking back when this angmoh wearing a yellow long sleeve jersey came by and kinda reassured me I'm doing fine.

I'm so thankful for such nice ppl. He was the nicest rider I've ever met thus far. Cuz he pulled, just so I could keep up. Last week's rider was a i-pull-if-u-can-keep-up-good-for-u kind of thing. This week's was a i-pull-but-slow-down-if-u-can't-keep-up. Mann so nice :) So we talked abit, like really abit, cuz I was kinda panting and couldn't quite respond haHA. So after quite some pulling, we managed to catch up with the pack at around Tampines IKEA there. Thank goodness for the many traffic lights there! wahhaa.

Then it was this terrible consecutive hill climbing where I actually managed to not be last! But on the descending, we were caught by traffic lights :( So a group of about 8 to 10 of us cycled the rest of Changi village and down coastal all the way till ECP. Thankful for the orange jersey guy whose legs helped me survive coastal. I just stared at his calves. Like not taking my eyes off his calves. And just kept following. Pedal pedal pedal. Until towards the end he was like signalling me to go infront but I was quite desperate and panicking a little cuz I know without staring at those legs moving I wouldnt be able to carry on. But I had no choice anyway and tried to move on.

Thankfully the entry to ECP appeared not too long later and I cycled with the nice angmoh who was saying this is the best part, relaxing, and most scenic view. And we talked about triathlons and all. And how he said 'you should have no problem for the bike leg cuz u managed to keep up!' And although I was proud tt I really DID manage to, albeit the end of the pack, but still! Haha, but the bike leg is my most worrying leg.

But he was nice and saying how the sea swim 90% of it is in the mind. And giving tips and all :) He was really nice and I'm quite sad I didnt get to say bye!

And so I got to the end of Fort Rd where the bro picked me up and sent me to ACJC for a rather crowded swim training. It was pretty nice cuz it poured halfway! So, something more interesting than just swimming haha.

Couldn't join them for lunch at holland village cuz I had lesson at home with Rachel at 1pm. Coincidentally xianrong couldnt either, so it was us again at the mrt, heading home, having bread-talk. Like literally talking about the bakery again. HAHA.

Rachel 1-1.45pm, rushed down to pandan valley for weiling at 3-3.45pm, after which I went to Adam hawker to eat lunch/dinner. Decided to try the nasi lemak since no queue. It's either I'm very hungry cuz I only had 2 buns since 6am and after a 5hr+ of hard training, or the food is really good. Cuz the rice was heaven, the egg was yummy, the ikan billis woosh, the wings yUM and even the chilli! It was the best :) Since I had no cash left, I could only afford macs ice cream when everyone else were having island creamery :(

Church!

After which went back to pandan valley for one more lesson. And so I got to sit bus 7 passing through town for the first time this year! I miss bus 7 rides every sunday ever since I had to teach Hannah and Adel at JE.

Tired tired.

Next morning was wake up 6+ to get to pandan valley by 8am for first student. 8 students till 2pm. Squeezed them all so I could travel to Yishun SAFRA for abseil clinic for ATC. Where I met the rest of the team members. I must say sikwan and sam have very gay laughters but are full of nonsense. Are you scared 2 is our team name. And yes, even the team member is VERY scared actually haha!

Abseiling. The guy asked: how many of u nv wear a harness before. It's either they all nv put up their hands or I'm really a noob :(

I heard we gotta do alot of running. I'm screwed.

After the session I had a nice train journey back through the red line with lance. Ended up talking alot. But felt a little better cuz it was about work and how PA is going and what are my feelings towards work and the future which I've been thinking alot. And so it felt quite good to speak to someone abt it. I hope he wasn't like dying of boredom or something. But I was really thankful for the company and the listening ear.

Lesson with Hannah and Adel sometimes gets me very exasperated! But I try to think everytime I go there, I'm getting 50 bucks.

And so I reached home a half dead person.

Today's run gave me a heart attack.
And I really was very moody and moodless and grumpily gloomy.
I'm really the greatest joke of the year.
And I can't quite understand why :( :( :(

But I actually quite like the words lols msged. Thanks! :)

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