Super tired now...just got home from the City to Surf run.
It this annual 12km run right here down under in Aussie land...
Kinda similar to our the Nike real run back home...just that the climate is nicer to run in and stuff.
Apart from that, City to Surf start off in the city center itself and u run the 12km route which leads all the way to this place called City Beach...(which is a beach)! Dun be fooled...think its just some run....u need to check out the terrain....up and down slopes throughoout the entire course...the up slopes were the main killers...they're pretty steep for ur info! Desipte the wet and cold weather....that didn't stop any of us nor the other participants....everyone still ran, and its quite a sight to see the ppl dressed up in coustumes running...i saw a whole famiy of clowns, bumble bees, spiderman, a hotdog...and heaps more...wonder how they actually run in those thingys!
Quite a few of us from the HM gang took part this year...everyone cleared it in pretty decent timings! :) Apparently this yr there were about 25 400 participants...cool eh!
My quads are aching...and i have this blister on the sole of my right foot...ouchie!
I'm so gonna be aching tmr....sighz!
I'm totally buggered out now!
It happenes to me every single wednesday, even though my day at uni isn't really that long....why u may ask?
COZ I HAVE SWIMMING FROM 8AM-10AM...that's why!
Well at least the bronze medallion test is over, well I think I passed it..hopefully!
Anyway, now that we've done our bronze medallion (life-saving exam stuff...u know, CPR, EAR, rescue operations and underwater search patterns) it was time to move on to 'How to Coach Swimming Squads/Teams)...so as usual, doing it the HM style...u have to do it to feel it and understand it better...u can't be a teacher/coach w/o having a rough idea of how ur atheletes feel! So yes...we had to do squad training...for the next 2 weeks i must add! As quoted from a mate 'If this doesn't improve my stamina...i dunno what will!' It's tiring ok...i think we easily clocked abt 2km worth of swimming. Little u might add? Well try doing it under timings and stuff like that...ok maybe i'm making it sound really bad....but yea, i mean its all managable, but u just feel so worn out. The feeling's always great after a swim...feeling refreshed and all...abt 2hrs later sitting thru lectures and tuts, the effects starts to set in and like now...as i'm here TRYING to revise for a test tmr, i hear the bed calling out my name!
I'm not really looking forward to this but after we go thru the squad training thingy, the rest of our swimming practical lessons are focused on water polo coaching...hahaha! The moment i heard that we had to learn water polo...i didn't know what to feel...excited- to learn a new sport or dreadful- coz i know i will suck badly, having not played the game b4 and not even knowing the rules! hahah! The only thing i ever knew abt the sport is that the water polo guys usually have great bods! Just becoz the uni built a new water polo pool..this is what we have to do now! Surely! I'm still finding it kinda hard picturing myself playing the game...in the first place...have u ever seen the height difference between most of my aussie coursemates and me??? *slaps forehead* Well...we'll see how it goes, i shall update about my water polo attempt when the time come....
The downsides of Wednesdays!
It's been such a fun-filled week! Heaps of stuff happened...maybe a lil' too much, when I should be devoting more time to living up to my nerd-ish ways! I feel a lil' guilty for not hitting the books...but then again i look back and i dun think it was a lost. coz i really enjoyed myself!
Yesterday nite....was a nite of glamour and heaps of photo taking and merry making! It was the nite of the Human Movement Ball down at The Esplanade Hotel in Freemantle. I had a ball of a time on my part...everyone looked so dazzling and stunning gorgeous.
After much shopping with the rest of the gang over the last 2 days in preparation for the ball, the big nite finally came! Woohoo! Everyone gathered at Sue's place in the evening (of coz the gals came much much earlier to doll up and look as pretty as can be...what'snew rite?)..and the guys walked in fashionably late. I must say, u'll never ever see any of us dressed up so nicely and formally that often...afterall, we are studying sports science...and sporting attires are what we caarry off best! Ahhhh...the babes looked sooooo stunningly beautiful and the guys hot and suave!
Headed down to The Esplanade....
Cocktails....photos, great big smiles, everyone looking all dressed up and ready to have a great nite of partying away.Food was pretty good, and according to the rest who attended last yr'sball...the food was much better...i reckon dessert was amazing, too bad by then i didn't really have much space for the pasteries. Like any other event, it wouldn't be complete with the continuous flow of alcohol...wine and beer...more photos again, and some taken by the professionals, which i'm really looking forward to seeing how they turned out.
Hmmm....well, I'll just leave it here and let the pixs do the talking...coz i don't really think u would really give a damn what we did...
I had a ball of a time...
Enjoy!!!
It's been miserably cold the pass few days!
Not just cold....
wet and windy as well!
This is not right,
it's suppose to be the end of winter already,
and it feels colder than the start!
Cycling in the cold is horridly horid!
U're hands just go numb...
It was like down to 2 degrees last nite...
had quite a bad sleep coz i kept waking up...
to 'popiah' myself up in my blanket!
That's why i feel so grumpy now!
The ugly side when eating fries....wine anyone?
Oooo, i love the hat...to drink or not to drink, that is the question...of coz drink lah! 
Cheers....look at that muddy mudcake, its simply delicious!!!
The yummalicious pizza....crunchy golden fries with dip
The muddy mudcake...my pretty dangling earrings..nice?
LITTLE CREATURES .....is such an awesome place! Ok, the name sounds a lil' cheezy, but once there, u wouldn 't really care even if it had some other doggy name like 'Blue Siren Bar' or 'Vangen Shack' ....ok, dun ask me abt the examples i used...bad i know! Anyway, did I mention that the place was awesome??? hahaha....Ok, so it's this brewery/restaurant place down in freemantle, somewhere in Perth. They serve amazing food at pretty reasonable prices, and the portions are decent (unlike other places they cheat ur money!) Their woodfire pizzas are yummalicious, the spicy lamb one that we tried was superb! Fries was like any other simple dish, but this had its own unique taste to it...dunno how to describe! Desert....oh my goodness...7th heaven....ok,am i making u guys jealous? Anyway, we tried the mudcake, the texture when placed in ur mouth is just....oooLala! Hhaha...yea, little creatures outing with both my housemates, along with charles and jon was great.
Oh yes, how could i ever forget....its a BREWERY....they brew their own beer there! How can u go there and not induldge in a glass of booze. I swear to u guys, once u try the beer here, u NEVER EVER wanna drink SG beer again, so much for Heineken and Carlsberg fighting and competing with each other, they are wasting their time! Sg needs to export some of these good stuff back. Anyway, we tried the plae ale and amber ale, personally i love the amber ale better....chels likes the pale ale though.
Oh, another plus point of the place....HOT HOT HOT waiters! Chels and I were like spending half the time drooling over the waiters there lah, including the female ones....coz they'rejust so HOT lah! They dun have a fixed dress code there, so each has their own fashion style, which just makes it all the more interesting! Most of em' are pretty funky and cool....we likeeeee! Saw this waiter who charles initially reckon was GAY....but chels and i beg to differ, and yea, i think we're able to firmly say that he's straight! *phew* The best part.....HE SERVED US!
Awwww....god, he looked so cute, the way he squat down, taking our orders, and trying to use funny hand gestures to show how big the meal portion was! *faints* Yes yes...chels and i were always hoping that he would come over and check on us...and when he really did...both of us were acting all coy and stuff...haha....can u imagine? Bet u're rolling ur eyes rite! Tootfaces! Hahah!
Hahah....but Chles also thinks some other waiter is damn hot lah...someone called CLAY???? *chels...dun go off to wonderland when u read this!* But too bad he didn't shave rite? Chles is still damn proud that she took a pic with him! *rolls eyes* Big deal lah chels!
Anyway, we decided to dress up a lil for the evening out, just for the fun of it! Need to enjoy when u go out man.....oh ya, they have this 'Waiting Hat' that u put on when u're awaiting to be seated...damn funky lah, was cool coz we got the black one..and it matched wat we were waering that day..... will post some pixs soon....I had a GREAT time...Thanks Roomies....
My week has been pretty eventful so far....
Since wed, i've not really managed to get much studying done coz i was hanging out too much and just enjoying....and certain events that happened made it all the more interesting....
There was Mambo Red on thurs nite. Its this semesterly clubbing event organised by the Singapore Student's Society,but mind u, it does not come close to the original mambo back home @ Zouk....the music is not half as good, their mambo music is bloody cheezy, there's no ah bengs and ah lians with their amusing hand dance movements, the podum dancers are not as happening and the crowd sucks lah! But nonetheless i still had heaps of fun, and i attribute that to the company of friends i went with...mainly my HM faculty mates (HM-human movement). Well i guess the only good part that can't be compared to back home is the chaep alcohol...hahaha! Nothing comes close to Mambo back home...it's definitely has its own taste and its one of a kind! I miss clubbing back home with my friends...and if my friends were wondering and betting....NOooo....i wasn't drunk, nor did i even close to being 'high' or tipsy- coz i had a lecuture the next morning! *bleaghz* hahahhaa....
The following day- Friday was just as interesting! Hmmmm....dragging myself out of bed, having slept at like 5am after the clubbing trip was pure torture! I was lucky at least not to be suffereing from any hangover! Well yes, so cycled to uni for my lecture....when i walked into the lecture room, it was like any normal day, sat down at my usual place then this dude came in and said....'the lecture for today is CANCELLED' .......Wah, @%&$#@!#! i woke up for nothing! Dammit! when i could have slept and recoperate from my lost beauty sleep! Arghhh!
Nvm, that was not the highlight of the day.. headed down to the city with Min and Debs. Was pretty cool, coz Min borrow a friend's car and drove us all down, so yes, didn't have to take the bus down! Yea! Well, we had a great time shopping, tried on ball gowns....yes, i need to find one by this sat - it's my faculty's ball and i need to look pretty pretty! Headed back to the car after like 3 hrs of shopping....happily got in all ready to go home....THEN..... THE CAR COULDN'T START!!!!!! *gasps*
So yea, we kept trying and trying...but still no sound, the dashboard has lights, but no sound, tried to press the horn, but the horn sounded as if it was crying lah! Min was all panicky coz it was a friend's car....suspected batt was dead. So yes, we had to call our SOS help from our wonderful hero friends who had to drive all the way down to the city to save us...and of all places that we parked in, we were in the mutistorey carpark smacked in the city,so yea, u know expensive parking ($2.10/hr). How suay rite....anyway, its a long story how the whole car got started and i shall not ramble on abt it...but lets just say...God really works in ways...hahaha...well we all managed to get out of the bloody carpark like a good 1 1/2 hrs later...thanxs to our wonderful heros again! hahah...Min was surely relived alrite...u shd see the grin on her face when the car finally jump-started! hahha!
Well, at least the closure to the nite was gd....Pat invited Sets Maniac (our social legue volleyball team) to her house for dinner. Food was awesome and solid lah! She cooked up a feast, chicken rice, hokkien mee and to end it off, mango pudding! The chicken rice was super yummy lah, so reminded all of us of home....sighz! Well thanxs again to Pat for the yummy dinner...great cook she is! *lucky housemates of hers!*
Today was tiring....had to conduct out sports psych experiment this afternoon, which i would say wasn't all that perfect, but at least we got some results. Well, nonetheless i'm still happy....coz u really wanna know why???? .....................
Looking forward till tmr evning...heading to little creatures (brewey/restaurant) down in Freo for dinner with my housemates. Yummy food awaits!
So yea, i guess this week much has happened, mostly starting off in not such a great way, but ending of with something positive! Hmmm.....
Hmmm....I'm not too sure if anyone reading this will be able to understand what I'm rattling on and on about, or say even relate to it....
Past 2 days have been pretty miserable. Well, not too sure how to really describe the feeling...its not like its miserable-miserable...its just one of those times when u feel 'lost' in this big world we live in, and everything that's happening around u just seems like a blur, or seems to have lost its meaning, when in actual fact it had some significance before...hmmm...am i making any sense? Its complicated hey? (gosh, so aussie!)
Its just weird how one's emotions and feelings change so quickly. Sometimes u're aware of the main cause behind the change, but it just gets all the more frustrating when u don't, or when u know there's a reason but just can't figure it out! Yea...so its just one of those days again!
Sometimes i know its denial...like how u know that this particular situation or reason is what's affecting u, u're conscious and aware of it, but u just sweep it to the back of ur head and pretend as if its not one of the reasons.....i know heaps of ppl do that, but everyone denies it! Its the weird psychological thingy that's going on within....how we always want to make ourselves appear like angels and hide/not accpet the flaws that lies within each of us (self-presentation theory....hahaha...i sound like some freaking psychologist who doesn't know what she's talking about!)
Friends of mine would probably know that by character and personality, I'm pretty much a perfectionist who likes things organised. I like structure. I plan alot...sometimes too much! (my housemates thinks that I plan too much and that i can be quite a freak at it!) I can be pretty stubborn and strong headed (eg: i ask someone for an opinion but in the end i'll always revert back to my own, so it's as good as not asking in the first place!) I have my serious side, especially when it boils down to work related stuff, but of coz i have that fun and bubbly side that most are familiar with.....it's to the extent that people know when i'm down or not myself! *so freaking obvious, coz i won't smile*
So yea, I have lived 21 years of my life now, gone thru much of the Sg education system, currently completing my 2nd yr of Uni, a wonderful and supportive family back home, great friends.....hmmmm....yet for the past 2 days my life has just suddenly seem to have lost its entire meaning. There are like tonnes of questions that have yet to be answered flaoting about in my head. My once clear path and goal of this university life has now raised more questions and doubts. It's hard coz i really love what i'm studying now, but i can just sit and stare at my books, the once fired and ready to go-full on attitude has just seemed to died off. It's like an oil lamp running low on oil (oh wow, what an analogy...ahaha!) Then, there's the good ol' friendship problems, i will not deny that i don't care, coz i treasure my friends alot. There's also the self-seeking problem, where as u grow, u do some soul searching, but in the end u just make ur life more complicated coz more stupid questions are raised!!!!! I try to ask myself what's wrong, but it all seems to be in a mess. I feel as if i'm suck in a huge maze (u know those enchanted mazes built from huge tall hedges)...like a sole person, lost within the maze, knowing that u have one goal in mind, and that is to get 'out' and 'free', but yet u do not know what stands in ur way, or what to expect ard each corner or bend. U feel trapped coz u can't look 'over' the tall hedges and u just have to walk the 'path' and keep trying till u do eventually find the 'exit'......ok did i make any sense at all? Pardon me....i'm a troubled gal! hahahha!
So yea, life's no bed of roses....its complicated! But then again, life would be too perfect for living if there wasn't as well! I really have no idea what i just talked about....i better just end it here for now....need to clear my head! Hmmm...maybe some sleep will do good....zzzzzz
I dunno if it's good or bad but this semester just seems to be zooming by just like that! It's already almost the end of week 3 of the sch term and yet it seems as if i've only gone into 2. I must admit that i've been doing quite a bit, hanging out with mates, playing significantly more sports this sem and just being more constructive with time rather than just staying at home. Hence, the days just go by.....
Great, now i've turned into a sickie....*sniff* down with the flu! I'm waiting for Dr. Huang Weikang to pass me some medicine tmr, in hope that i'll be able to get well quickly. I hate falling sick, i usually hardly fall sick, but when i do, it goes on for quite awhile - lets just hope this is not one of those that drags....i dread it so badly! *sniff sniff* I'm the kind that needs to be occupied constantly and telling me to stay home and rest in bed is totally not one option to suggest to Ja. I'll feel damn useless coz flu makes u tired and weak....i want to play tennis, volleyball, ultimate frisbee and swim with my friends......*sniff*
I can't breath properly....i have this huge box of tissue in front of me, my entire dustbin is filled with used tissue filled with my watery mucus! I look as if i'm in a terrible state....i can't even smell my peppermint tea infront of me! My eyes are puffy! Arghhh!!!! I'm so sad.....but i shall spare u guys from more of my lame ass whining, i know its painful to hear....but i'm sick...so bleaghz!
I know this sounds childish...but i really want my mum or my daddy by my side now! *sobz* 
Funny how we always compare and want to be the best in everything we do. I mean then again who doesn't right? It's a great feeling, no doubt! Gives one a certain sense of pride and achievement.
On the other hand, how about being the worst?
I know this is kinda weird in a way, but I was just sitting at my table, and it's one of those random thoughts that just floats past in your mind. Anyway, back to my pondering...
Just think about it...how many times have you heard someone say that 'I totally suck', 'I'm damn bloody god damn lousy' 'I'm the worst player ever imagined' and whatever not. When you think about it...is that even possibly true. Ok, I know people don't mean it when they say that, coz logically its not really possible and afterall, its just an expression using words.
But when you come to think about it literally....who is the worse? I don't really think u'll really know. Is there even such a thing as being the worst....coz definitely, somewhere out there, no matter what u are comparing, I bet there's sure to be someone who is worse off, or in a worse off situation than U! It's like this never ending chain u'll never find out....not that anyone even really bothers to do so.
U see....for the best, u know...we have the weird ass Guinness Book of Records...where everything u compare is the best, be it something risky, of great talent, gross or just plain dumb and lame. U have it!
So...we're surely not as bad a we perceive ourselves to be. Maybe since u're able to identify ur weakness and u know that u suck, it's probably a good time to start and work on ur problem. Train harder, play harder, study harder....
Just remember, u're definitely not the worst in the world....
You are like 1 in a 1242378849921840988940927481t3617823123018312947823088128039.... people out there in the world....hopefully that comforting enough.
So stop complaining and whining...instead, do something about it if u think u suck. U're not just gonna stand there are u????