What a busy day trying to complete my account application with optionsxpress. Finally faxed all the necessary documents by 2pm. I'm really sick of maple right now. That's because I wanted to get rich through doing quests and getting the ex scrolls. So I thought of roping in all my 3 characters to do their respective quests. But there's so many things to consider about. I'm washing my hands of maple tonight. Time to memorise the last 3 staves of Melodies of Life.

Z-OMG the investment site that I had is gone! Damn that hosting site. It was superb experience to use those neat functions they had. The company probably went under or found a good deal to sell it off. But luckily I had all the files on either my desktop or laptop. THANK GOD! I'd probably never try to do a website to host my files again.

I did 2:47:05 for 21km AHM. For the first time in my life, I felt what's it like when my lungs go, "TIRED ! NOT BREATHLESS !" My right calf cramped at around the 17km marker. It cramped again at the last 10 metres when I tried to push into the finishing banner. Wow and then stomach cramp. It was so bad that I had to quickly disappear from my group of people and sit on a stone block to rest until I could make it to the portable toilet with less pain. Thank God this RUN OF MY LIFE didn't kill me. I'm still ALIVE !

I went to Marina Sq to wash and change up along with Joel, Andy, Michael and Costa. Yeah he that Tanglinian with damn good english. We decided on Subway, which was just above the toilet. But after joining the queue we gave up the poor and one-man counter guy and headed for Carls Jr for a quicker option to fill our groaning stomachs. Z~OMG The queue at Carls Jr went out of the shop's premises and almost blocked that mall's particular corridor.

Countdowns ahead in order:
6 days to Finian's UN mission departure on 31st
1month to SINGAPORE F1 RACE on 26, 27, 28 Sept (I got the tickets today from Jurong Point's Singpost office, gonna post some pics of the package!)
76 days more to ORD and d'R"e^a`M's !!!

As a side note to the ongoing Olympics fever, I'm going to show you some interesting Addias commercials. Starting with Jeremy Wariner's. He always run with his shades on and with that arm movement in that exact cartoonic version. That's how you run 400m :P

In terms of athletic performances, this Beijing Olympics has been fulfilling.
Some of my favourite moments in order,

1. M. Phelps on the podium with his 8th Gold medal and also awarded a special token for his record 14th total Olympic Golds. That victory ceremony was emotional for all who witnessed it, live or TV. It's a defining moment in the history of Olympics. The whole world will be talking about the greatest Olympian, Michael Phelps. His name will flood through the papers with headlines. He and his relay teammates found it hard and made it possible for Phelps. If you've noticed, the gold almost eluded twice, the first time when the relay anchor won by 0.08secs and the other time Phelps almost lost out in his last swim. The runner-up was already stretched out to hit home for gold but Phelps was swinging his arms to the wall in motion and beat the French.

What is to come after Phelps' outstanding performance at the Olympics? I can only say it will only diminish the single or a couple of Golds efforts other athletes give. The eight-in-one-Olympics will not be broken for centuries to come, but the total Gold tally of 14 could be achieved by another Phelps-like breed yet to come.

2. Usain Bolt coming home first in the 100m Finals with WR 9.69s. In track and field, 100m is the golden event. All eyes are upon the athletics from the starting blocks to see who is the fastest man. Bolt went out of the blocks with almost similar reaction time with the rest and ran shoulder-to-shoulder with them for about 40m. Then he just tore through the pack with his 1.9x frame and even gave a victorious pat on his chest before he crossed the line. It was sensational because he clinched the line in WR speed with an unnecessary pat. With that, we all know he could run even faster times. After the results were out, he went on a long long victory lap. Getting kisses, hugs, photographs with the timer box stopped at 9.69s. Bolt will remember that night his whole life.

3. Singapore's Women Table Tennis getting into Finals, thus assuring a Silver at least.
That evening I got home at 6.30pm and switched on the TV immediately. CNA flashed the result. I was appalled by the result. "We are finally getting a medal ! Silver and better ! OMG OMG !!!" The excitement simply gushed through my veins and thoughts. We'll see later at 7.30pm if we're going further than Tan Howe Liang's Silver in Rome.

4. Tao Li through to the 100 Butterfly Finals. She was a winner in every way because no Singaporean swimmer has got through to a Olympics swimming finals before. And to smash the Asian record in the semi-finals, it was absolutely fabulous. In my opinion, she is the one to watch in our next Olympic medal hunt. She did poor in the finals because she has given it all out in the semi finals to qualify. To a budding young swimmer, that was the limit of her stamina.

If you like throwing paper planes, especially in classes! Play Classroom Pilot ! My best design is 120lb design 3 with 4 deg elevation. No wing tips. I beat the game in 11sec+ to rank 4 in today's score. Try your best plane now !

People cannot live on unless they are needed by other people. That's why everyone works so hard. For their studies, their jobs. In order to become a person who is needed by someone else.

-from Code Blue

Here's my hoots from Melaka! The boomerang costs RM19 and the wind chime was discounted from RM22 to RM20. I just had to buy that clay-made leaf chime when I was in the specialty shop. I like rustic objects that look less than loud. For that boomerang, I hope it will actually fly when I play it with Edmund ! But I don't want the colours to come off, but heck let's throw it first and see. Me and my 7 relatives got into the Melaka Museum without paying the entry fees! That's how slack their security is. We were coming out of our wagon car (Toyota Innova) and moved to the ticketing entrance. Then there was a large group of tourists hanging around and streaming into the building. So we tagged in along with them...Bah haha !


The trip was not bad for a healthy, and I was a pretty sick guy during the whole time. My throat had been very constricted since the morning before the ECP 15km run. I still don't know what made that long distance run possible for me that morning. I had a beautiful run I must admit. My condition got abit worse when I was crossing the straits. That was a bad day to cross the waters. There were so many walkers through the customs in Woodlands that my aunt and me had to be packed and herded like pigs before they let us through to the passport clearing booths. There is a big tent constructed separating the escalator and the bus berth. The tent is split into 2 segments, the front and the back. First horde of people move to the front side before a police tape, then the middle is sealed up with a police tape. First group moves up the escalator before the immigration police let the second group to the first police tape. Those with kids around are allowed to bypass and move through a side gap.

I felt more heaty on the journey to Melaka on Sat morning and even had small traces of red in my phlegm. Right now i'm under control. Still feeling some phlegm deep in the throat but no big deal. Anyway tmr's off day for me. Gonna lvl up to 75 !

Just to have a quick post. Going ECP for a 13km run early morning. No timing to meet. Just to chalk up the mileage to prepare for the 21km ARMY HALF MARATHON. Then going over to my uncle's house in JB at night to stay over so that I can go with them to Malacca on Sat morning. Back by Sunday night. Monday's an off-in-lieu. REST DAY!

Ripped off from playpark forum user Shadowseed.

Weeee! I am feeling great today! I went down to MacRitchie for a x-country competition. My boss always send me to races even when he knows my mediocre running times because other people in the building are deemed unfit for vigorous runs.
What to do? Suck thumb hard and go to be the last runner lor... But today was a great run because I outperformed myself and many others.

Here's the race report.

We did the left side route of 4.5km and flagged off at 4pm. Within a couple of minutes into the route, I was almost in the last pack of runners. I followed some guys I know from my block and ran for a long while until one of them broke out ahead. I just kept going until when I hit the highway pedestrian concrete way my throat was getting too dry to bear. But I moved on still, with that desert-like thirst all the way. There was a long stretch of runners just tens of metres ahead of me. I thought I could outrun several of them if they got too tired from running so fast during the forest phase. But they just kept going like me and I constantly kept the same distance behind the last guy of that group. The dryness was getting worse and worse and I rolled my tongue here and there trying to squeeze out more fluid. Not before long, I saw the left turn ahead which meant the final 50m to the finish line. I did what I was built for, that is to sprint beat 3 guys to the final point. I bet they were thinking no one would come so fast from behind to set them back a few more positions. Haha... Luckily I didn't trip or crash into them while overtaking.

Race timing: 22min+
Remarks: That is the best timing I got from running that 4.5km route all these years since secondary school.

Beijing Olympics 2008 is going to commence in 2 days' time!
I can't wait to see who soars the highest in Men's High Jump Event!
My sincere wishes to Team Singapore in getting a medal to end our dwindling pride in international athletics.

I just couldn't grasp what ppl wants to tell me lately...Mel's msg, "OMFG! u saw kevin aprillo's performance too! i am soooo friggin jealous!" I thought she meant she was jealous by that fact that I found and watched aprillio's video.

Another case was my staff sgt smsed me this, "Will not b in e morn." I was like wtf huh?! No heads nor tails ! He later explained that he will not be in the office in the morning. I soooo wanted to cut his lips into a smiley face. And I'll say, "WHY SO WRONG~??"

I visited JW's blog after hearing that, he's laid some girls?? I'll really go crazy if one of my best friend indeed is doing such unscrupulous acts.

I have been getting really tired going day after day in camp. It's getting harder and harder to get through each day. I'm becoming more unmotivated, prolly because I'm taking up alot of stupid work lately. But when I last checked, I dun really do that much stuff daily in office...Perhaps that Joel and CK is frustrating me with their WoW chit-chat session every single day. I always try to be nice and befriend everyone. I try to listen in to everybody's matters. But I realise it's impossible to get onto good terms with everyone. I'll then get very upset because that particular guy just dun like me. But some thoughts ran through me and I contemplated the fact that not everyone are so easy-going like Steven and Llywelyn. Personalities must fit each other before relationships get closer. For me, I think I've done a good job trying to get along well with everybody I know in camp now. My peers can easily strike up a conversation with me or vice versa when we bumped together.

The world is one vast space. It's lonely enough to be one person.

I realised moments ago that there were other versions of To Zanarkand other than the game intro one, the Piano Collection version and Ending Theme version.

Go youtube and search To Zanarkand reborn version. It's a creative remake by Michael Huang but it too bad it doesn't sound nice at all. It felt out of tune and it turned from music to noise for my ears.

The intro version is simpler than the Piano Collection which im good in, but i always felt the former is very repetitive. But everyone who plays To Zanarkand are reminding us how marvellous Nobuo Uematsu was and how perfectly it fitted the game.