The RUN!

Yeah! The nightmare came alive! Danny had been asking me for the 10K run in Sentosa. His description of the terrain already freaks me inside out, outside in. 1K on Sand, 1K up slope.... and he goes on and on... That was not even a choice to run, it was meant for my information only. That was what Danny said when we met last thursday. I was excited looking forward to it, and started running and preparing for it rather late, last friday. smiles. Full of expectancy for it. Somehow I love the feeling of running fast like how I used to be in the glorious Cedar times. Look at the worn down stamina I had this year, I was rather demoralized when my Dad overtook me in a 2.4K run this year by 200m. I was shocked at the state of deprove! :P I want to fight it back, the stamina, the passion and the fitness. It feels good to run without limitation and perspiring as if water is free.
Entering the gates of Sentosa!!
That is Anqi. A faithful friend who decided to run with me because she just want to accompany me. Thanks Sis, i really appreciate that. To think that running was never a joy to you, you took up the challenge.
He, looking all ready, all happy, for the run..



In the end, we didnt really run 10K i think at most 3K. But it was good to be in Sentosa, running. It was good with the breeze brushing past your face. :)

WE ENDED GLORIOUSLY!!

Having fun in the toilet.

My shoes!!
Danny said, a good pair of shoes that will last me for the run will be Asics. That reminds me..
The shoes of peace. The shoes that will make us ready for the race in life.

How would you run this race? With feet dragging? As a jogger, you can choose to run with strength, that is, lifting up your thighs to leap forward or you can simply drag yourself through.
Alot of times having met difficult grounds, we tend to drag our feet through, we may even stop running not even walk through these grounds. Alot of times when problems occur, every circumstance seemed to be against us, we are trampled by all these seemingly potentially fatal problems. What does God say then?

I came across this in the book that hit me today:

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is fir us, who can be agaibst us?" Rom 8:31 If God is on our side, you are always the majority.

"You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because he hwo is in you is greater tha he who is in the world" 1john 4:4. if the Greater One is inyou, everythintg else you will face in life is less.

smiles. be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.

haha still so energetic after the race.

last tuesday

Believe it or not. It was my second visit to Vivo with my dearest Friend Rachel. What are we there for? hahaha that was the faithful task of a dog-owner:to bring Tingting to cut its hair and to cut its finger nails at the Pet Shop!! :)
The Petshop was fantastically big with a lot of amazing things there!Look at what Rachel is holding? Haha You are right! A Spaghetti top for little dogs!! :)

That was the Shapei doggie from Aussie. So many wrinkles! He is so sweet.. haha and camera shine! Count the no. of wrinkles man!!

We started roaming around Vivo, shopping! This shop caught our eyes! Yes! Adopt-A-Teddy!
You can choose the skin for your teddy and pump in the cotton wool! yeah.. finally a birth certificate for your teddy!

You are right! All the clothings for our teddy!Superman suit, spiderman, Batman... hahaha...Winnie the pooh suit, mermaid.. wow..even accessories for the bears. the shoes, the earrings.. the bikinis.. i am so amazed! Yup thats me.. looking so blissful with teddy



Reveal her innonence, thats Rachel looking as cute as the bear.

Introduce to you a interesting, nice friend. Her name is Caitong. Rachel's colleague. She is a very nice person!!



thats TingTing's operation room.

Home Sweet Home

My friend Rosabel

Secondary school days were the days I made the closest friend. Her name is Rosabel. Well.. Who is she? A girl who doesn't really care about image, a 100% sincere friend. Back then, who cares about image? As a cedarian, we were spontaneous, loud, crazy and united.

Who is she? She thought me how to be frank with my personal feelings. Back in secondary1, I wasn't a vocal person, never whom I am right now. Reserved, quiet, very low self-esteem...and I was a very lonely person. I looked terrible, ugly...To me Rosie was a friend who looks very fierce, very noisy and someone who snatched my best friend (YeeYing) in primary one. She is tall, and she had big hair back then. It was only until sec2 that I got to know her better. She is a great basketball player. Yup, you are right, I was from basketball. Never the best player, I only have one talent: perseverance. She and Cynthia were people whom I wanted to be with when I was in Sec 2. I will never forget the day they confronted me , asking me not to stick so close to them, they found me rather irritating. I was cut to heart. Shattered. But that marks the beginning of this friendship.

Sec1-Sec4-the trainings, the horrendous long runs, the basketball matches bonded us together. Me, rosie, cyn and chris. These are the people whom formed the best times I had in Cedar. I think without them, Cedar will not be as fun for me. God, thanks for friends like them. Whenever I was done, although I seldom expressed, they were there for me.

Rosie was in the same class as me. My partner!! I loved sitting beside her. I really cherished the times we went home today, went passed the house where there resided a golden retriever pup. I loved the times we just laughed straight for 1 hr at rosie's bus pass. I love the times we sat and spent time at the canteen. I missed the times when we chiong for our recess breaks all the way from 4th floor to the canteen. Sec3-sec4 We helped each other with studies. Who is she? She is my best sister and still is now.

As we went to JC, althoughh separated to different schools, we were still very closed. There were times that we felt depressed but somehow we got even closer, friendship moved to the level of depth-communication. I shared with her abt my class 25/02, dixon,weeshan,nic....etc. My friends were as good as her friend. At the same time, she would talk to me in front of her friends. She went through a tough season in J2, but I was there with her. Even though its not easy we pulled through.

After JC, she got attached. Well, what happens when your best friend gets attach? I guess you should know the answer. Lesser time, different focus.. but nonetheless Rosie is still my faithful friend who never fails to surprise me in every birthdays. I am very thankful that she is always there. Our perception of life started changing, thinking also changed. Still, we kept in contact, no longer having so much time with each other. From the daily conversation, it turns into weekly sms and finally monthly calls.. and after that...occasional meeting. Friendship stagnated. Its nobody's fault, but its just a period of self realization in separate ways. Well that beauty memory lingers in my heart even till now.

Uni-She was my room mate. :) It wasn't easy staying with someone as we all have different habits. Nonetheless, it pulled us closer together! We slept, eat, bath together. thats was my first year in Uni. After that we had decided to go back to our house to stay, contacts as usual lessened because of the school work and also our personal agenda.

Just recently we go together again! :) We went shopping together. Felt comfortable with her. Just very happy to be with her once again. Back to the simplistic friendship without agenda. Want her to know that no matter what happens, no matter how many best friends she may be having now, i am always here for her. :) Rosie I love you as my sister my friend all the days of my life-an imperfect love.

Hahaha whose legs!!!!

Back from the camp....

Wonder where have I gone to for the past three days? I have spent my day in a camp with 200 over students of FuHua Secondary..
On the faithful morning of 25 July 2007, the bus brought me back to the nostalgic Jalan Bahtera. Shaking off the moulds on the shirt that says "Instructors", I decided to led this group of interesting people from 3S3 to the wilderness.
Talking about cheers, hmmm... I have forgotten all about them, serious*
In the bus, I met some interesting characters like Aaron, ChongCher, YiLe, YouRen, Jul.. The girls are slightly more quiet so its easy hitting off with the roudy group of guys.

Here, assembled in the MPH, all of them gathered, ready to be send up the high elements. I still remembered me trying to lead my dear group 5 to cheer and they refused to shout out my name.. hahaha. Its ok!!

Thats Daryl, trying to fix his "beautiful' hair (left) even when he is supposed to spot!! XD

YiLe, ChongCher & YouRen fixing their harnesses volunteering to be the first to go for abseiling! :) I think the most memorable part is the high elements. Being rusty with the belaying commands and the four steps of belay, I have to step out of this comfort zone to belay my kids of group 5. Nicolas took some time coaching me and running through the steps with me, though a little stressed, I managed to learn it with practice. At first I was a little discouraged, but looking at my dear group 5, God showed me that its all about trust.

ALL ON BOARD!! Hahaha... I can give you Gatsby~ Gatsby~..... Gatsby.. what a cheer.

This is the place they were made to go up and squeeze in one little tile. Fantastic guys! :) I realize that actually this group of people loves to play, they love challenges, loves timing themselves and they are so cute! Everyone of them is like a jigsaw puzzle, carrying different characteristics; when you place them altogether they formed a lovely picture.

After our first night game "Kidnapped" they have gone crazzzzzzeee... On the right is my laodi, Julian & Aaron the complain king!!

That night we played Kidnapped. ALl of them are so spontaneous, running around playing the game. I will never forget the power of unity. They cheered with mouth in their water..Jul led the cheer.

(right)ZHOU JUN WEI.hahahaha (Left) Look at Chong Cher's face.. muahahaha

ChongCher reminds me of Adam!!

The group photo!!MingYong and jiaying on the left look so cute. That's the quiet but adorable pengChuan in the middle. What's with that pose that youren keep making.. funny la.

The girls like Jean, YanMin, QingHui and Evon are so cooperative.

I read one of the reflections written by YiLe, I was superbly touched. He said something like he hopes the group will cheer so that Instructor we will make her happy. YiLe thanks alot, your every word is a n encouragement to me. Smiles*

FUN!!! hahah at the mud pool.. someone says he wanted to take revenge, but look at his nice smile!! He enjoys it right, Jun Wei?

Jul, you trying to chao keng right.. too bad, he had a bad ending doing that. He was sabo by everyone in the end.. hahaha

SPLASH!!!!!!

Eeeee... whose art piece on the back? hehehe

(left) My lao di and me...

The cute little instructor--> PeiLing, my dearest friend

Azri & Pillay you guys gave me so much blue black on my thigh lor... tsk tsk tsk

My angel!! GLORIA try harder la... your handwritting gave you away!! :P

MoJojOjojojojojojo rose syrup with milk aka bandung!!

Thats their hut for the campers!!
The 3 days were fruitful. The group broke through their fears. I looked back, i missed the instructors. Although I didnt really spend alot of time with them, but like what Pillay says its like home. Camp HA is like home. The every single instructors taught me alot of things. Lastly thank God for Gloria, PeiLing, HuiLing, Pillay, Azri, Veron, Mojo & Steven. Love you guys alot.