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Sigh. If only the clock can be turned backwards.
Yes I am trying to just keep those legs spinning but why oh why can't I be moving! :( Saying it's windy is just plain EXCUSES :( Sigh
I will, try.
Oh, and I met Mr Switzerland (if I'm not wrong?) at the pool today! Haven't seen him since LAST YEAR! And, I moved from lane 6 until lane...... EIGHT today! I HATE PPL WHO PLONK THEMSELVES NEXT TO ME WHEN THE NEXT 3 LANES ARE FREAKING EMPTY AND THEN KEEP MOVING NEARER. WHEN I MOVE, YOU STILL MOVE, MOVE AND MOVE UNTIL I MOVE TWO WHOLE LANES AWAY!!!!!!!!
Yes, so irritating...............
Now, on to happier stuff, yesterday was one awesome day! Starting with settling the Spain stuffs in the wee hours of the morning, followed by a 4hr sleep, then, had the Jambion's company for 15 whole hours! Pancakes and scrambled eggs for breakfast! Honey, nutella, peanut butter? Hershey's choc chips! :) :) :) And, my favourite NIE pasta for lunch, and Korean instant noodles for dinner! And to satisfy the one hungry stomach left, we decided to do pancake round 2, with ICE CREAM! However, the oil-less pan left us in a strange situation and we had ICE CREAM ROLL. Hehe. FUN it was! Pancake flipping!!

The day before was my last paper! French! We had like 3 essays to write. Minimum 260 words! So mannyyyy! And so, that concludes my life in NTU. I hope I pass! It's fun to sit for elective exams because you see so many other ppl and the ppl around you are all friends you know! And since they started using the pre-recorded instructions it's pretty funny. Because they never stop it on time, there're situations when it goes "Please stop writing" after the "You have 15mins left. You are not allowed to leave the exam hall until the end of the paper." And during French, after the stop writing thing it continued on saying "You may leave the hall now." And the guy in front shouted NO! Hehe. Funny. Bladder controlling is not fun though.
After so many years of exams, I think I enjoy doing papers in NTU best! Somehow, I don't know why, but I quite like it hahahha.
Look for the monkey on the traffic light! Click to enlarge! Hilarious! Junction of Macritchie Lornie road at SICC! It was sitting on top of the green part for a bit!

And a bright happy nice morning.
Good day all!

Where's the omelette version?
Ooooo PANCAKES :)

After a whole day at the French man's house studying French,
A little moodlessly listless.
No work completed today.
I hope I haven't lost the sixth-sense which comes from people watching.
And because of that, I think I know.
And the thing which I think I know is not something I want to accept.
It's amazing how innocence still exists so pervasively.
And so why did that come about?
It's the point-form syndrome kicking in.
Read between the lines.
You see, I knew it all along.
Today I rode without a watch! Felt so..... empty? Free? Hmmmm :) Ride was boring though. There were SOOOO many ppl. So many "near misses". Others I mean. So a lot of noise everywhere. And so slow............ I need a change! Mr Polka Dot became Mr White today! Inclusive of arm warmers? (Is that what they are) and SHOE COVERS! Teehee :) I haven't had that "riding so hard until I feel my insides are coming out" feeling in... well..... a long time...
I've concluded, MY BUTT HAS GROWN SMALLER! Or... shrunk? Grow means bigger no? I do believe it's the riding!
And because after that day that Jiwen mentioned about prata, I just had this bad craving to eat just that! I tried to recall when was the last time I ate. And it actually dates all the way back to my batch's self-organised nightcycling! And that's in December 08! I had ONE prata and will probably never eat it again for a long time to come. But it was............. GOOD :) Still, can't rival the one in M'sia..
Oh, and the stretchcords slapped me this morning :(
I've had many a horning these past 2 days. Both from driving, and from riding! TERRIBLE ME! :( :( :(
Yesterday was a nice fun happy day! THANK YOU JIWEN FOR ALWAYS FEEDING ME HAHA.
And I do miss all the "news / gossips" going around our accountancy cohort because I haven't been socialising much with anybody recently!! SO it was good to catch up with all the updates with Teddy that day! :)
Off to teach the kids!
Time to think like one!
For one day at least.
Or for 2.5hrs the bare minimum.
As much as I'm looking forward to post-exam activities,
I am TOTALLY unprepared for this paper!
Studying is one thing, applying is the more important part which is currently the one that is lacking in experience.
Banking on some of my interning work here!
Really looking forward to crawl around the school compound and soak some water later!
Not forgetting home-cooked food + the night ACTIVITY! teeeheee :)

When it comes, it's all helpless!
Sit and wait it out I shall...
As you can see, I'm trying to blog a little something everday, even if it's just cute cartoons from NatalieDee!
And so, today I used the new pair of goggles. What brand you ask? Now, have you ever saw a pair of NIKE goggles!?!?!
Nice, clear, scratch-free, anti-fogged and DARK! Ooooooooooo i love new goggles!
And so I actually completed today's swim set altho it took me a little over 2hours! You see, it's the curse of swim set #1. The mileage is lesser and yet I can never finish it! Why does 3x400 seem so much worse than 12x100 altho I'm going on same time! Sigh it's all in the mind.................
I have had a lot of inactivity and rest days over the past few weeks. Too many! It's hard to get going again. I had to drag myself down to the pool. But once I hit the waters, it's, hmmmm, love at first sight again? I really like it all! Happy!
Yes that actually happened once again in the pool! Kick kick kicking! And then I recall the most embarssing time when Leewei asked "why are you smiling to yourself!" OoPS! hehe :)
Lunch was pasta again, cooked in THAT pot! Yes, the one which became the Jambion's hat! Hehe. Okay not posting this one on fb!
As you can see, he was humouring me..... Hehe..
I saw a weird yellow bird on the window of my house that day and SNAP!
Then while snapping multiple, I realise the sunrise I caught is really pretty nice :) Blue skies and white clouds!
I was one excited girl as I headed to Longhouse for the morning ride, although Mr. Pump made me cycle as fast as my legs could carry me (okay, exaggerating here) and I just managed to catch them before they left!
Strangely I was going very hard gear but yet it felt fine. Perhaps I've had too much rest recently! Hehe. The steady guy today wore his polka dot jersey, with polka dot Specialized helmet, polka dot SOCKS, and red shoes and bike and gloves! Hehe... CUTE! He has a polka-dot friend as well and I found it really funny that his friend couldn't ride up simple slopes. I mean, there you are, wearing the polka dot jersey and even ME (who is SOOOOO slow!) ride past uphill! Hehehee.....
And the guy who refuses to pull ever said "Hello young lady, you're here more consistently now! So next time we're gonna see you in the newspapers? Winning triathlons! Top 3?" Cuz last week he asked why do I ride and I told him cuz I'm doing tris. Anyway his comment made me laugh to myself! THe only person I talk to on the rides usually is........ me, myself and I! I hope the ppl around me dont think I'm crazy. But yes, sorry, I self-entertain / self-amuse!
And I got more and more excited nearing passing through Westcoast! H-A-P-P-Y!!!!
Thank YOU J, for riding some with me!
SO it wasn't Keppel Flyover now, but South Buona Vista Road! Bumpy bumpy......... The only time I ever rode there is at 6am with the sis on Saturdays! And any ride through town is always exciting! The east was forsaken due to not-so-strong legs.
The rest of the day was plain boring.
Here's wishing the Jambion a SPEEDY RECOVERY!
Otters hold hands when they sleep so they won't float away from each other :)
Now, time to start singing..........
Annie's favourite song! :)
Yes, that's my current mood now and if anybody comes near me, wishing you all the best.
Pretty annoyed with a whole lot of things.
Oh, screw the world, screw aa304, screw everything that's called, my life.
I feel like I'm on the verge of doing an about turn and just, scram.
On a happier note, I received my pay today so I'm feeling a tad bit richer. Yay.
Hello one and all,
the days have been this and that. Tuesday's bike and swim was crap. Probably cuz it's the 3rd n 4th training all in 24hrs! I think I can safely call it "the curse of the Swim Set #1". I think it's the 4th time attempting that programme and I have NEVER finished it thus far.
Yesterday morning was a "Let's speak French Day" with some help from Mr. I-can-speak-French-very-well. French oral, we all ended up doing role play! After which dad commanded that I drive all the way down to Thomson while they use the van to bring the grass cutter to cut some grass somewhere. So I decided to do my run around the area! Fun? YES! It was a random mishmash run all around places I know pretty well from going around in the bike since young! According to mapmyrun it's a little below 12km which.......... kinda equates to a usual run!
After the nice workout (which I discovered some pretty cool new places) and the showering, used the internet and got updates from the little cousin. "I SPY!" Useful source really! Hehe. Dinner was pretty good with zi char takeaway dishes and rice.
Eye opener and much food for thought and wonder to be stored away for future references to draw conclusions.
Then vroomvroom to the squirrel's house! I think my driving is getting more haphazard! So we've covered life from Day-Baby to Day-3ans! :)
Moist knife sharpening rock
all cartoons courtesy of NatalieDee
Yes the arms ARE turning into........... FLABS!
Today has been a pretty good day! (Of course the mood is currently high because it's less than 24hours!) But, VERY HOT day.
It started with teaching the 2 girls in the morning. The air was kinda hot, that both the teacher and student were very restless and moodless to pound on the black and white keys! THen, the mozzie attacked. And both of us were squirming away! Hehe. So then I gave up on the playing and we did theory instead so that left me with time to attempt the assasination of the mozzie, who then became smarter and made itself scarce.
French was frantic copying of answers. Hmmm... HOW TO PASS!?!?!
While walking downstairs my block, I looked up and noticed this pair of birds outside my window, just perched there looking so companionable! I didn't bring my hp to class so on reaching my room, I took my hp and crept up to my window, and just as I snapped, one flew away, followed by the other! Really cute, they weren't normal birds u see everyday!
The run was strange. I realise I really haven't done a good long run in a loooonnnnngggg time! I had stiff legs for the first round and somehow felt like I was back to level zero all over again like those days of long ago! Then on round 2, I got a very bad pain just slightly below the heart! I CONCLUDE I AM TOTALLY UNFIT! I was literally crawling and had to carry on for a good half round or more in that manner! And then as suddenly as it came, it disappeared and it wasn't only till the last 9-11km did I feel like myself again. So, I seemed to have travelled through my training years all in one run!
The air when I set off was SOOOOooooo thick, HOT, and stuffy! It was pretty terrible! And then, it drizzled towards the end. And I'm not sure why when I was in the room touching my toes (stretching u see) that I realised, my toe is bloody! Really strange. Couldnt figure out where it came from cuz it didn't hurt either.
Statics then to the pool I went! Programme was easy today but decided to do the 10x100 pulling on 2mins but going hard. Thank goodness for HENRY! :) I am Soooooo thankful for him, without which I wouldn't push till like THAT! Happy with timings totally :) A good WAKE UP to the lazy muscles! Then we had kicking too! I'm so thankful for the company to push, because I think I'm really in need of that wakeyyyy! So I'm feeling quite pleased! And I finished my intended programme too! With Michel's drills which were both fun and the effects are pretty cool! :)
THen, char siew bao #2 for the day for dinner, and I'm back here, feeling so proud of MY JAMBION and HAPPY cuz it's LESS THAN 24 HOURS did I mention? Hehe
Just a long ride tmr and a hard swim, and then, I'M OFF TO FLY AROUND THE WORLD! Can't wait!
And, THIS is my current new song. If I can play this at half the speed I'll be happy! :)
So, now you know where my mind is currently!
On updates,
I woke up at every single hour last night.
Today's ride was my first West ride in a month and it went like that:
very slow - VERY FAST (I got dropped) - very slow
After all the slowness along Mandai, they went off near the start of neo tiew and so that means a whole lot of hard till the end of LCK. Oh, LCK was soooooo crowded cuz of the cleaning graves thing. Then outside NTU was real slow, Westcoast was decent, and I was so scared they'll ride off fast again leaving me stranded on Keppel! Thank goodness it wasn't too bad (tired from the unexpectedly long hard at Neo Tiew I was hoping they'll be!) and I actually pulled at the very very last bit! Teeheee :)
Now aren't you thankful to be a girl? It always seems indecent when a guy sucks a girl's wheel but not when it's the other way round no? hehe
All these takes time. From training one day resting another, to one session almost everyday, to some days two sessions, to almost everyday two sessions? I've come a long way hmmmmm....
Now, to run. Gulp.........
Oh, and today I was reading this article in Life section, on buying gifts for girls written by this guy. About how for guys very simply, they want practical: angbao.
Recalls my 21st birthday present suggestion for the band-its.
Makes me question this niggling feeling if I'm not a guy! Hmmmmm...
To all friends currently in UAE: à mardi!
And to all running friends who love PBBs, hehe
Suddenly, I have this looming fear of the month of May.
It seems,
long.....
and......
never............
ending..............
H-O-W! I'm asking myself! :(
But for now,

Doesn't Mr. Turtle just make you smile! Teeheee :)
Lionesses are so hard to find!
It is only day 1 and the Jambion probably hasn't even reached the desert! Tuesday come quick please!
Squirrel eating corn! No? :) <3
(Check out the veins by the way)
My 55 Ribbon Pasta dinner thanks to Master Chef Wenz :) 55, counted in......... FRENCH! cinquante-cinq
And so, priorities need to be straightened out. Much thinking and reflections needed currently. Much rearranging of things in my life! Time Out!
Did you see the rainbow today? PRETTY! I was at the pool, and I looked up and saw another CIRCULAR rainbow, around the sun again, this time much much clearer! Can be seen without having to wear anything! (By that I mean shades!) And it was more cloudy over the sun, so much easier to look up. REALY PRETTY!
I love rainbows :)
Updates are in store!
*Warning: Long Post, Read at your own risk
Firstly, HELLO to jie jie Ji Zhen! Hehe :) And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PAMWAM :)
My body alarm clock is pretty strange. I tend to wake up a coupla minutes before the time set on my alarm: which for today was 5.50am. Cuz it rained away last night, I peered out to check the ground and it was really pretty wet! REALLY didnt feel like riding on half-wet roads. (Plus it's west loop YUCK) Sky was clear tho save for a few random pink puffy clouds. BACK TO THE BED I went. Thank God I was LAZY, cuz it poured at 6.35am and has been raining since then. Really, WHERE did all the rain come from?!
So with my assignment in and no work left to do, I'm feeling FREE for once! :) :) :)
Yesterday! I did JR Changi ride for the first time since...... February! Pretty long ago yes... I think riding my bike has made me grow up in lots of ways! More conscious of my surroundings, more alert, more independent. AND I get to see REALLY interesting stuffs! A few weeks back I saw some birds (less than 10 I think) flying a V-formation, IN SINGAPORE! Somewhere along Mandai, nearer Upper Seletar Reservoir area!
On my Wednesday lone long ride (first in a longggg time!) I saw, this weird looking dark beige car! Strange colour. Weather was amazing! Pretty hot before I left but while out, the clouds covered the sun and the skies were sooooooooo BLUE! With wispy clouds. LOVELY! :) Along LCK, I looked up and was wondering why do I see colours in the sky!
Okay, this is taken by my hp camera. A little dark cuz it's aimed directly at the sun.
What I saw was surrounding the sun in a perfect circle was a patch of dark grey clouds. The clouds seemed VERY far away, like there's some storm going on up there. Then between the dark clouds and the blue sky was a rainbow ring. REALLY amazingly lovely.
The strange thing was, when I took off my shades, you can barely see the rainbow! It's like, putting on some magic glasses! As you can imagine, I was there for a bit. Too much staring at the sun gave me some sort of headache on my way back haHA :)

My camera doesn't quite do justice to the bright nice happy blue that it was! A little too dark.... Welcome to LCK!
Yesterday, we went to TYR and got 2 pairs of cool goggles for $11.80! Yay. Taught the little kids. Church was somehow, very good I felt. We had communion and the biscuits changed to this round kiddy looking biscuits which were like 4 times the size of the normal one. Everybody seemed to chew for very long! It somehow looked VERY weird, kiddy biscuits in a serious looking communion plate!
FRIDAY was one uber retarded day. It started out with me getting the pump stuck to my bike wheels and having to have the most kind-hearted Jambion come to rescue me. All he did was turn and it came out though. Really unfair. I turned till my 2 fingers have BLISTERS. Hurts really bad :( Then the front D was cranky. BUT THANK YOU JIWEN cuz it was good and fine during yesterday's ride! :) So, after sweating all over in my cycling gear, I didn't ride in the end :( Then, my tendency to kick things in my path (knowing full well they are there) left me whacking 2 toes against the door. And this time was really bad cuz the BONES felt, sore. And it made my foot ache real bad for the rest of the day. It felt kinda sprained! Plus the fact that I was feeling bloated and bleeding. URGHHHHhhhhhh.
Oh not forgetting, Mr. Boyfriend's FAILED surprise attempt. HAHHAHAHAHHAA. I'm not laughing AT you my dear, I'm laughing WITH you! (I'm sure you laughed too didn't you!) If you wanna know what happened, go ask him! Hehe YOU make me smile :) <3
After RedBrickRoad, apple juice, banana nut muffins and chocolate buns, I had pasta for dinner (pictures another day!) and watched Sports@sg. Makes me wonder so much. About. Something.... Hmmmmm :)
THURSDAY I felt rather bad cuz I got my thing that morning and was too lazy to get myself all wet in the pool, plus I had to rush home on the bike. So I went to the pool to tell Mr Netherlands I can't swim! Felt bad cuz he came all the way to NTU from Kallang! But I'm pretty excited to try out the new Dutch-translated training programmes I'll be getting, EVERY WEEK! That's really nice of him! AND he gave me a hug! Oh my... I'm pretty sure I'll get to see him on TV at the Olympics next time! And then I can say: I once got a hug from THIS SWIMMER! Pretty cool yes pretty cool! But he was telling me how hard it is to get a slot at Olypmics cuz of their strange selection criteria....... But, still cool!
And so I cycled home via the fastest way 1hr earlier than planned cuz swim was cancelled. Thank God really cuz it rained afterward!! I really still am so amazed how God worked everything out way before hand! Like in the month of Jan/Feb I was feeling why life is so unfair cuz I got my thing like twice in 2-3 weeks? But because of that, it landed up exactly in the one week break of my 4 races and came the week my races ended! ISN'T IT AMAZING! :)
PHOTOSHOOT for Shape magazine. "We like our Shape girls to be simple".... Hmmmmm.... For the first time I had a makeup artist work on me! Pretty cool! Combed eyebrows and lashes? Mascara and eyebrow curlers used for the VERY first time. (Never to be used again voluntarily) So hard to remove! Poor lashes :( Jump shots! I think I don't make a good running "model"!! Interesting experience though! And I got 2 nice Nike shorts which I like! And some tops, though PINK. Oh.. Bright I will be! And a pair of shoes!
Then I had a DINNER DATE with Mr. Boyfriend at Marina Square's Pasta de Waraku! Filling!
WEDNESDAY was one looonnnggggg day! I did my morning ride (in the morning), and then was in school from 2pm all the way till 8.15pm! And then did a (very) slow nice x2 rounds jog with leewei for company! It's been eternity since I last ran with him! I've come a long way since the very first time I must say :)
Next up: Some random hp pics from a-while-ago!
Hmmm.. have you seen a 20 sided die?

Cool shoes? Yes! Very! I like very much! THANK YOU MR J :)
That is, the "Tree of Education"! It can be found in NIE. HAHA. I just find it very funny. The name of the sculpture that is.
Thank you Jiyin! C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E! Oooooooo :)
And my $1000 note from Sing Bi! :)
Provisional Results up for Aviva
And the rest are pictures from OCBC Cyle Singapore!


Have a great week everyone! THe weekend has never seemed so long before! :)