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!
 
 
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
//Long Post ahead! Watch out!
Warning! The following post will be extremely long so watch out!

It has been a long long time since I last blogged eh? So many things have happened for the past few weeks and I am gonna take my time to slowly blog about it before I start mugging for my examinations next week.

I was practically very busy since the week my mum went for her gum treatment. I cant even recall what movie I had last watch... *thinking*.. *thinking*.. oh HANCOCK! Yeah that was the last movie I had watched and come to think about it, I have missed quite a few good ones like Hell Boy, The Dark Knight and etc but sigh I really don't have much of a time to watch movies these day. :(

On 19th July, I went to HSBC tree top walk with my colleagues and friends. I was supposed to attend the first nike plus training run but I had to give it a miss as I had already promised my friends that I will be going for the hike. It was pretty interesting. We had Bak Kut Teh early in the morning at Sin Ming Road. I heard that its pretty famous but too bad I am not a Bak Kut Teh lover. I had brought along my Garmin ForeRunner 305 that day but it had failed me terribly. No matter how I turn it on, it will just auto shut down by itself. I tried for many times till I finally gave up and just continue with the hike without my garmin to track the distance that we had covered.



We didn't really take the longest route but somehow the shorter one as there were a few ladies in the group who were doing their first hiking session and we don't really want to scare them away haha. I was pretty energetic the whole day running up and down and trying to see if I can spot something unique but yeah it didn't happen la. The only encounters we had was only with a few monkeys as well as a few monitor lizards tryin to cross the road. Before 12pm we were already done with the hike. We washed up, had some ice-cream before I made my way to school for a 2pm lesson and afterwhich I went to Scape to collect the race pack for Mizuno Wave Run 2008.







On 27th July, one week after my HSBC tree top walk, I went for the Mizuno Wave Run at Temasek Polytechnic. I woke up around 6am and reached the place a few minutes before the start time. I had to even take a cab down from my place and to think that I am only staying a few streets away (ok shame on me). :( The run was pretty ok! It initially started out like a fun walk because everyone was practically walking and I was packed in the middle of all the runners, so I had difficulties trying to squeeze my way through. Eventually I made it to the east gate and saw Half-Timer there and said hello to him. While running, I saw brokenrunner in front and had wanted to go up and say hi as well but she was zip zapping here and there and then I lost her lol. I then continued the race myself and was going on at a pretty steady pace but eventually saw people one by one zapping past by me. I skipped the first water point and thought that there might be a few more ahead but I couldn't really see any. Eventually I managed to get myself a bottle of water and I had a few sips before dumping it away and increasing my pace a little towards the finishing line. I completed the race at a timing of 56mins. However the time on my watch was around 54mins. It was a good run alright and I will definitely be back next year!

I met niwaz at the finishing line as well as broken runner. Said hi to them and went to collect my race pack before walking back to the running tracks to see if I can spot any sgrunners. Eventually we were slowly gathering as I said hi to chacha, ckoksing, Paul, Ripley, zco, DreamRunner, TLR, sleek0000, happie, FrootLoops, aerorunner and a few more others. I was dumb enough to say hi to Stardust and asked if he is eugene. I am dumb alright but I tot he's eugene (another forumer) xD. We then gathered to have a group photo taken.. alright there were quite alot of cameras going around so we took quite ALOT of pictures. I didn't get to see kc that day though but yeah he told me he was there.



*Photo courtesy of tekko :)


After staying around for chit chatting, I went for breakfast nearby with aero, froot and ckoksing. We had prata and chatted on alot of things ranging from marathons to shoes and hobbies. It was around 11 plus before I made my way home to bath and to go to school.

On the following Monday, something bad happened to me la and I almost met up with God and etc to have tea but I was really lucky to have escaped! Anyway, to cheer myself up, I went to Sim Lim Tower to buy the Garmin ForeRunner 405. After getting some reviews from quincy, my new buddy from SgRunners, I was addicted to it. By the way, if you are thinking what happened to my Garmin ForeRunner 305, it's on its way back to Amazon.com as we speak. :) I emailed Amazon about the problem and they said that I can send it back for a replacement or refund. God I was glad! I tried emailing the local Garmin distributors and they told me they would charge me $120 as an administrative fee for processing the repair! That's almost like paying abit more to get the 405! And so I decided to proceed with the refund with Amazon and to get myself the 405. Yes I am loving it alright, its really cool and I think it is a must buy for all Garmin lovers out there! The bezel is sensitive enough to response to your touch, you just have to lightly tap on it with two fingers and the light comes on. Tap on it again and the light goes off. Same for other functions and yeah if you're worriedthat it will be too sensitive, you can even adjust the sensitivity of the bezel! Its that cool! :) Unlike the 305, it comes with a USB stick so that the transfer of data between the watch and the PC can be done wirelessly. Its effortless, you just have to plug it to your laptop or pc and it will automatically sync the data back. One bad thing for now though and thats the support with mapmyrun. I have yet to find a way to sync the information to mapmyrun to track my trainings. :(

On tuesdays and thursdays as usual, I went down for I-Run but Thursday was alittle bit more special because I met up with Mr Nick Chia. I had still remember how I used to have problems with him in camp back in our good old army days with him as the 2IC and me as the Company Clerk :P (but its all just fun!:D) but now we're like talking so much about running almost everyday. He's a freak, he has already done 3 maratons and is ever so hunky but girls, he's already attached so too bad for that :). He came on Thursday to do an I-Run with me after much of harassment and persuasion from me and he actually find it fun! I-Run is indeed fun la with all the encouragement and motivation from the I-Run pacers. I will definitely make sure I attend every week! We went for dinner at City Link and yeah the food was pretty good. We had pasta and pizza and talked about training for the upcoming stand chart marathon. We also talked about work and stuffs lah but those are rather boring to me now.

As for the other days in that week, I was practically trying to complete the Java Assignment on time! (ok it was off time because I had missed the submission date). I was doing it till I dozed off on the sofa several times with the lights in the room still on till the next morning. It was that tired for me for that whole week but luckily I managed to complete it (a half past six job) by Thursday and submitted it online through the slow and laggy web ct. I thought that maybe 3/4 of my class mates has already handed it in but I was wrong when I found out that I am like the SECOND person to hand in the assignment! Bloody Assignment really made me hate java and programming!

On Saturday, I attended my first stand chart running clinic. I met Paul and Ripley and we spoke abit before I said good bye to them. It was quite a good session as I learn about the various injuries and medical conditions that I should watch out for, the various planning for my marathon training and the importance of getting a good shoe. I saw a familiar face during the talk and I had waited towards the end of the talk then I approached her and called her name. She turned round trying to find out who was calling her and apparently, she couldnt remember me. :(. It was an old class mate back in the days when I went for the first three months of Junior College. I still remember her as the group of cute and fun convent girls but sigh she has already forgotten about me! But haha its alright, we caught up with each other during the running clinic and I found out that she's organizing the Stand Chart Marathon! Cool! I then stayed to talk to her till I am like the last few ones to do a foot scan. I had already previously done a foot scan once at adidas - The Cathay but I thought it would be better to do it again just to confirm on the results. Yeah my right leg is over-pronator while my left leg is neutral and so I'm recommended a control shoe such as supernova sequence. I went to borders @ marine parade after the running clinic to walk around, I also went to TopMan to buy a few tops for myself before heading home with lots of junk food for myself and my mum. (sinful!)

The following day was the nike plus running clinic and this time round I made an effort to wake up early to attend it. It was fun as I met DO, DreamRunner, brokenrunner, cfred, quincy, ckoksing, sleek and many more. I was running with quincy and we were trying to pace a girl from the MR25 running club. She's fast man and her pace was very consistent! Of course, the two of us eventually lost her but it was a good morning run. We both ended up in 20th and 21st places respectively. We mingled awhile with the rest before planning to go for breakfast but then there's still the lucky draw so we waited for a while. To my surprise, I actually won a prize in the lucky draw! A Nike Audio Waist Belt! :) Something that i will need for my marathon haha. After the whole thing ended, we walked over to Parkway Parade for a morning Ya Kun toast. Chatted till around 10.30 before quincy left to go home as he had to rush to board a flight. I took a bus back with justin aka ckoksing and we went to TM to accompany him to find a hydration bag. I reached home at around 12 plus before I wash up to go to school. I bought a book from borders that day titled The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Its something that I had always wanted to read but couldnt find the time to source for the book. Finally I had gotten my hands on it. I then walked to The Cathay planning to have my customised Mi:Adidas shoe made but was told to make an appointment so I went home empty handed. :P



*Photo courtesy of Broken Runner the stylo milo photographer cum pacer :D


And as for the Mi:Adidas session as well as last tuesday I-Run with Sean, I shall keep it to the next post. I am tired now and wanna spend abit of time to read through some slides before going to sleep! xD
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