Tampines North Run 2012

(My Third Run... Around next month you would be seeing the 4th run on Poceri Run ;D )

The Tampines North Run held on 7 Oct 2012. It was during Exam period and i actually had the mood to do such activity anyway if i dont go for this run, i will also be sleeping at home.

Ok, i woke up at 6am and left home about 6.30am(i can't remember actually, 6am++) We couldn't find the place and made a few detour before we found the right carpark. Then we had a 5mins walk to the event area.



As usual, take photo, put our bags in the baggage area and the 10km race starts. Mum and bro took part in the 10km run.



20mins later, the 4km one starts. I "choing" at the begining to get away from the crowd and it was finally less crowded and i placed my aim on this girl, a pretty short girl like me too but she was rather fast and consistent and im behind for the whole run. There were times i felt really tired and want to slow down(as you know i haven't been training much due to exam and i was sick for more than a week before the run so i couldn't exercise either) but i determine to follow this girl. Dad was with sis all the time, way behind. There were a constant small group of people running together. I don't know if there were more people in front a not. Probably we were quite separated due to the traffic like where some of us had to stop for the traffic( mum was really pissed off by that cause she had to stop which really distract her)



Finally, im reaching! I saw the cone area(where i saw those in the morning which marks the end of the race. I started sprinting. This was one of my longest sprint as there was actually still quite a distance before the finishing line. I overtake all of them and finish the race in 25mins. Though i don't know my position, i was so proud of myself. The sad part was i finish the race silently, as in there was barely anyone there. Those people there just see you run pass without clapping or anything. Probably because im only running the 4km run which doesn't bother them and is none of their concern. Our number tag dont even have the beep thingy(if you know what im refering.to )











Oftd:





Ohh and towards the end, Mr Masagos and Mr Heng came as VIP. We so happen to stand at the entrance and Mr Masagos came to talk to my sis. He was saying that he used to jog a lot but he stop and it's hard for him to pick up again, plus his knee hurts now cause last time they dont have proper shoes, they run with Sanders. So he was saying that we must wear go shoes etc. After that the organise also asked us to stay till 9am to do short filming which will be on the news. Now you know? Those news footage are fake! They are all planning. The filming process was hilarious as well. While waiting ,we watch a performance and prize presentation.







In the end, we really saw ourselves on ChannelNewsAsia news but no one see us. I mean who watch ChannelNewsAisa, people watch channel 5, 8 and U news. Anyway it was a pretty short one. At least, I'm om TV! Not everyone can ok.


XOXO

The Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2012

(Here's my other event :D)

The Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2012 held @ Changi Prison on 16september. They are having this run for the 3rd year already and this is my 2nd run. It was a totally different experience compared to the Metta Charity run. Its a bigger scale with much more people.



Ok, let's start the day. I woke up at about 5.50am and we left home at 6.15am you walk to tampines JC and took bus 9 to our destination in about 15mins. We actually missed the bus or we could have reached earlier. We took some photos before putting our bags in the baggage truck which will be sent to the ending point. We took a short walk to the starting point. The 10km run started first which commenced slightly ealier( about 7.35am instead of 7.45am). We waited for quite a while before our 6km run start at 8.15am.

I got a little irritated at the front because there's a lot of people. (From what i heard, there's a total of 10k+ people in total ) However, at ths later part where all the slope are, i started to slow down. Those slope were much harder than i thought. My legs were really tired then. I was exhausted. Toward the end, i kinda gave up and walked a little before running again. And soon realised, i finish the race! Here's my result [ yes, these are screen shot, sorry about ]

















Then we went to take our bags, food, drinks and goodies.





Muffins made by offenders.





Sponsored drinks







Goodies







Love the medals



Then i and mum went to look around the exhibition and bought some handmade items made by the offenders.







Just some thoughts here...

Hmmm you might be thinking Why help these people? I mean, after all they are prisoners, offenders, people who do wrong things. They might be theifs, loan sharks, murders or who ever that breaks the law. Why help them? They harm and cause so much through to the people, they ought to receive such punishment! Honestly, i never though of this question about Why help them? Because, all i know is that im doing charity work. Probably im too kind heart *thick-skin* such that i don't mind helping people thus never thought of such question. But these was what my mum said regarding that question: "if you don't help them, they would not be able find a job or a source of income, they might end up looking for their gang again and start doing bad stuff to earn money etc " In my opinion, everyone makes mistake due to various reason which may not know and i believe in giving people a second chance. And if i do get to open my own business(which is unlikely though) i would make half my employees be ex-offenders.

And i guess the purpose of this whole event is to also convey the messgae of "The road to acceptance"



Other photos:

Badminton

This is what i quite felt during my first lesson for badminton last Aug for my NYAA which i type them after my first lesson...

Hehe, first lesson for  badminton today. Got alot of scolding though cos i didn't do what was being told and taught. Just realised that i have been playing badminton for the past 6 years the WRONG way and I'm too used to that.

First,  he asked us to play probadly want to see what's our standard...

Then we did basic warm up through foot drill. That warm up had already made me very tired....(15mins)

Follow by doing drills. Standing in the middle, turn back and skip twice, Swing your racket and skip back to the middle. *X15* Those skip through and fro, whacking your racket super duper hard... totally drain all my energy away. I can feel that my muscles are aching. And guess what, its only like a quarter of the session. We rested quite a while before we were called by him where he serve and we are suppose to hit as hard as possible over(that's where i got all the scolding, i forget the proper way to hold a racket, the foot step and using only back hand)

After resting, we played in a triangular formation where player 1 start from the back to receive the ball and later to the front of thd next part of the court while player 2 move to the back of other side of the court( yup, i made the same mistake again, its really hard to change those old mistake, it has been a habit)

While the others are practicing, we did simple work like hitting and jumping at the same time.

Lastly, we queued up to recieve serves from the couch

What i learnt today:

1. How to serve

2. How to hold the racket(at the end up the racket)

3.Always swing with your rackey from the back and swing towards the right

4. How to hit just over the net( racket lie flat)

Things i hope to achieve at the end of the session( besides learning skills of badminton):

1. Keep fit (better stamina + muscles XP )

2. Lose weight

3. Grow taller (HAHAHA!)



This is how i felt after the whole programme...

Time flies and that's the end of the programme. I have no doubt that i have learnt A LOT from the whole training. Most people there are adults. Towards the later months, the people are more friendly (not that the rest don't!) I try to teach you when they feel that you did not do it the right manner. For example, till today i can't serve the right manner which is from the side (I have been serving from the front for years and only then i know it'd only used when playing doubles)and so the uncle tried to help me by demostrating how to serve and asked my to keep practicing. Even i felt Paiseh. A badminton player can't serve... JOKE! Like i mentioned, i learnt so much skill and i benefited a lot. No doubt that it burns my tue night but i guess i gain more than i loss.

From the "Things i hope to achieve at the end of the session" list, i think i only manage to have muscles and keep fit definiately. I felt so MACHO, really macho. I got muscles on my arms and i really felt very strong. I got better stamina and more muscles at my legs as while. Still having fat legs but at least they are muscles.

Sadly, they are ALL GONE! After not exercising and especially now, not even jogging anymore due to exams and i don't know if i have time this weekend to do so. So many evernts coming up... I seriosuly feel fat+weak now. Okay i know i'm not really obese but i can really see my tummy and i can't stand them anymore. I'm gonna start my extreme work out after Chinese Olevel~

That's all for today. I know the first 2 post is like very dry and boring... I promise to have photos for the next few post :D

XOXO

Just intro

Hii,okay i'm like new here... i really don't know how to change templates, background, arrows etc etc. The only thing i know is probably... writing random stuff here :D

Why am i making a blog... actually i always wanted to but i just don't know how to(apart from creating this blog). Okay maybe... i'm not totally new, i actually had a blog lonnnnnnng time ago but i don't feel like using that anymore, it's kinda dead. That blog is not perfect of course but definately much nicer than this plain old standard template. But after all, contend more important right? ( Please say yes XD ) I have to say i'm a computer noob, apart from watching dramas, Youtube videos and use social media, i don't really know what to do with my laptop. So back to my point,my previous blog is beautified by my dear friend who is a blog pro (better than me at least)but now i don't feel like asking her to help me because the previous time she help me i think it took her quite a while. She tried teaching me, but being a computer noob, i don't quite understand. When i click to edit template, all i see was !$dfn$Tf/FIs: wkxu> uv83idm% and i will be "Huh?" Even the whole dashboard thingy looks so different from last time. At least it was more user friendly when i used them 2/3 years ago. I feel old XC I went to Google and Youtube for help but i still don't quite understand what the heck are they all talking about. I really hate it how Youtube video always make things so simple, even stuff like hair tutorial. But when you tried doing, you don't get a single thing.

Another reason why i wanted to make this blog was because... my English suck. I think you can totally tell from my writing here. I hope you don't mind my spelling errors, punctuation, grammar or sentence structure... My English backgroud: My best results was when i was P1 70+ and that it. As years go by, it gets from back to worst. BUT i don't know how and why i got A for my PSLE. It's all about luck i guess.I failed my English when i was Sec1 (thankfully i got promoted)Sec2, just pass. But sec3, shock of my life i got a pretty okay mark (i can't really remember the marks though ><) Once again i don't know how but my other components (Listening compre,Comprehension and oral)were much better than others. Except for my composition, i only just pass. As you can see from my writing here i think the teacher is being very nice to pass me... It's purely luck and i'm serious about it. Especially for oral, i manage to turn the topic to talk about something that i have said when my teacher had an oral practice with us. Suay suay on that day i was called but during the exam day, i felt blessed. The only reason i can think of for why my English improve all of a sudden is few weeks before the End of year exam, one of my lovely friend intro my Shopaholic and i got addicted to it.I end up reading every day before i sleep. Can you believe how powerful is that book. I'm someone who would NEVER touch a book. Even if i do, i usually give up after the third chapter. I don't have that patience and time to read. And also probably i just somemore started listening English songs which i don't, influenced by My bro and my lovely friend. I know i'm a weird person, i only listen to Chinese songs.

Hmmm okay i know i don't have a fixed thing in writing this blog, it's like all over the place :( Will be posting more events all the way back from last year. There's so many things to write about though i know it's out dated already~

Stay tuned.

XOXO