Intro... and I thought for a while what to put here about me. :) What do you wanna know? I am just a simple guy working in an IT Company handling Operations and Project Management. I'm also going through a torturous 16 months "express" double degree course at Kaplan APMI - Murdoch University. In this blog, you will basically find alot of nonsense from me. I like to complain and yes I complain alot but for things that are not right. If you know me well enough then you will know that I always complain for a reason :D otherwise I am just like any quiet guy next door starring at the laptop screen. This blog details my daily experiences as well as my training for my runs. I have taken an interest in running since last year and I am working towards completing a Marathon this year... Do feel free to comment or message me I will definitely reply and if you need to email me, feel free to drop your emails to terencetkp@gmail.com!     >> ill for one week >> sick sick sick >> Oops APMI did it again >> Power Failure + Ti Amo >> First Day of School and Work >> irritating rashes - hives >> 吳克群 - 越愛越難過 >> Do Do Re Re Mi Mi Re Do >> retail therapy >> Dinner with Ivan + Brewerks   >> November 2007 >> December 2007 >> January 2008 >> February 2008 >> March 2008 >> April 2008 >> May 2008 >> June 2008 >> July 2008 >> August 2008 >> September 2008 >> October 2008   >> SG Runners >> May My Run >> Bad Guys Win	Monday, June 9, 2008 //All Cleared to go! I have been lazy. Over the weekends I had wanted to redo my blog skin with something new.. but till today I have yet to come up with anything! Gosh! *slaps myself* I noticed that my last blog was like two weeks back and yeah I have been busy with work + studies. The research work required for Knowledge and Information Security is taking up too much of my time. Although its stated on the Unit Guide that I will require 3 hours every week to work on it.. I'm like spending 48 hours (2 days) to complete it. Anyway I'd wrote a very long email on behalf of the class to Mr Danny to report on Ms Malar's teaching style. I guess her style is not meant for Degree Program like ours. Its more like a Secondary School and Diploma kinda style. I won't talk so much about it as my class mate Jia Khang has already summarised everything in this entry: http://badguyswin.blogspot.com/2008/06/not-attending-classes-is-actually.html So after reading my email and Jia Khang's blog, I think the school has realized that there is a serious problem with her mode of teaching and they are now putting on hold the submission of assignments and to push back the examinations for Software Architecture. Hurray one less subject for now! They are also looking at changing the lecturer to our 5 Star Lecturer! Yeah! :P Besides that, I was busy with work lo. Have quite alot of things to coordinate and so yeah stayed late and stuffs in office to get them completed. On Friday, I went for a half day as I had a medical appointment at CGH Sports Clinic. Actually, I have made that appointment for me to attend the CGH Weight Loss Management Program. My existing doctor at CGH wrote me a referral and yeah so I made an appointment and went for it. Just a little history, prior to my runs.. I have weighed closed to 79 - 80 kg last year in September 2007.. but however as of present weight, I am 63, which means I have lost a total of 15 to 16kgs in a period of 6 months and my BMI is at 21.1. That's quite a achievement for me and some people might be thinking.. why the hell is he attending the weight loss program? The reason I had was for me to learn the right way of lossing weight (and maintaining it) without causing any harm or damage to my body. So I went for the appointment and the Dr was pretty shocked that I am sitting in the room. When she saw me outside the clinic, she thought I was there for sports related injury treatment but she didn't know I was there for the weight loss program. After speaking to her, she said I had exceeded the goals that the Weight Loss Center has set for its patients and said that I'm not suitable for the program. However after I told her that the reason why I want to go for the program was to allow myself to learn the right way of lossing weight and to eat right.. she said she can direct me for a consultation with the Dietician without going for the full program. (Save $$$) :P. She also said that I'm fine to go for my runs as long as I have taken my medication prior to my runs and so I'm all cleared to run AHM and I was discharged from the clinic on that day. I then met up with the Dietician who I gave a summary of what I have been eating for my breakfast, lunch and dinner. She said I needed a total of 1600 calories a day but from what I have been eating, I am only getting 1400 calories and so its still good. She then guided me on the right kind of food and gave me a meal plan that I can follow. I am gonna document it down here so that I will remember them. On a weekly basis: For my Breakfast, I can have - Weet Honey Crunch, Fruits Mix with Milk for 2 days - Tuna in Water, Mix with Low Fat Mayo and Celery for 3 days - Mee Fen from Hawker with Vegetables for 2 days - Coffee-o or teh-o, not good to drink normal coffee For my Lunch, I can have - My usual Porridge but can ask for Chicken or Fish Porridge instead of Pork Porridge - Cai Fun Porridge with Two Vegetables and One Meat - Mee Fen Soup or Yong Tau Hu Soup but don't drink the soup cos its high in Sodium. - 1 to 2 Slices of Fruits or Fruit Juice For my Dinner, I can have - Subway, Oven Toasted Chicken or Turkey Breast. My choices of Honey Mustard and Sweet Onion is fine as sauces. No Cheese and No Pickles as they are high in Sodium. - Abit of Rice with Fish Soup or Mee Fen Soup. For Fried Stuffs, generally I can limit myself to one to two times a week. I must also be taking more fruits and cereals that are high in fibre as I'm lack of those. And also because of my existing medical condition, I shouldn't be taking food that has a lot of sodium content, and thus no presevered vegetables and food like sour plum (OMG). I was also given a guide book on all the hawker food with their calories intake. :P Will be bringing it along with me everywhere I go. Generally my daily intake is ok as long as I know how to control myself, so I felt happy with the appointment as the money was well spent. I got to know the dos and donts. Ok Lastly I know this entry is pretty long winded but haha do bear with me. Last week I went for a 10km run around Tampines and Pasir Ris and I clocked in a timing of 57mins. It was quite an achievement for me as I have not been running two weeks before due to the bad cough that I am having. In actual fact, I am still having a little bit of the cough though (cough cough). Today I attended my first ever competitive run after so long. I registered for the Saucony Passion Run 2008 as my first race for this year. I have never participated in runs before and during my life in the army, I was always excused (cos I am PES E) from runs and so I never had the chance and yeah at that point of time, I wasn't so interested in running. Anyway I woke up early at 5am today to prepare myself for the run. Changed and etc and left home like 6am and reached the venue like 6.30am. The first wave of runners for 15km starts at that time. My run starts at 7.30am as I am on the 10km run and so I was there too early (Lesson Learnt). I deposited my bag and was initially wearing my nike top but decided to change to the event running top. Went by to the SgRunners booth to say hilo. Though I'm not sure who I was supposed to approach.. I managed to talk to Renoh and Ripley and a smile to FD. I then proceeded to one corner to do my warm up and shortly after, the MCs started calling out for people running in my wave. In the count of 3, 2, 1.. my first ever competitive run has begun. I slowly tried to use those people infront of me as pace setters and to tell myself to push hard and to overtake them if possible. Soon I saw 2km.. and I was like wth.. I run so long still 2km only? I felt demoralised but continued to push myself and then I saw the 5km mark and my watch was showing me a timing of 33-34minutes.. I was like how can that be? My usual runs of 5.2km clocked in at 28 minutes but never mind I persevered on and took a sip of water from one of the water point before continuing. Throughout the 10km run, I didn't stop at all and was pushing myself pretty hard and I could eventually see the end point but omg.. I have to run pass the end point to do another U-Turn and so I felt demoralised again as I had used up my maximum energy to dash for the end point :P. At the end of the run, I clocked in at 1hr 6mins. I collected my goodie bag and medal and headed for the SgRunners booth to continue to know more people. :). I waited for the event to be over before walking to the busstop to take a bus to Marine Parade. Dropped by the hawker to get some food for mum and her favourite tau kwa pok before taking a cab home. Slept till 5pm to eat some food and surf the SgRunners forum to realise that the actual distance covered was closed to 12km.. so HAHA I'm happy with my timing. Ok that should be all for today. I ought to sleep. Its a start of a new week and I have yet to check my emails for work since Friday. xD posted by Terence @ 12:44 AM| comments? (6)