Borneo International Marathon 2010

Three reasons why I decided to do it;

1. My bf's new year resolution was to make me run 5km
2. The marathon was held in my hometown, so watta heck, I used that 10k route to school everyday
3. Signed up for the run with my bf. As simple as that.

I do admit that I can be very irritating-ly optimistic-ish sometimes. But only after the run I realized how I've overestimated my decision.

Reason #1. My bf's new year resolution was to make me run 5km
But I did a 10K instead. Ambitious. It wasn't easy for a first-timer like me. Plus, with no consistent training or what not. Luck was really on my side. Phew!

Reason #2. The marathon was held in my hometown, so watta heck, I used at least half of that 10k route to school everyday
Riiiiggghhhttt. While I was running (and walking most of the time), I realized my mom DROVE me to school using that road and NOT run.

Reason #3. Signed up for the run with my bf. As simple as that.
And he got selected for the reality TV show called DiGi The Next Level a week before we're supposed to go back to KK together. So he's now locked away for seven weeks for the shoot! Hence, I had to run alone.

Lesson learned.

We can only plan, but it's up to Him above to actually manouvere the plan.

Whatever it is, completing a 10k run makes me discover the one thing about myself --- determination. I admit, I felt like stopping at every KM, but no, I told myself to keep on going. Maybe because I knew that my mom actually woke up at 4.30 in the morning just to send me to the starting line (and actually waited for me at the finishing line); and maybe because I was thinking about my nephews and niece who knew that I was going to run in a marathon (and so I thought, what would they think if their auntie didn't finish the run), or maybe because, I didn't want to let my bf down. All of those maybes. Oh well. I thought, I've started this, so might as well be done with it.

And so I did.


That's my mom in the picture ;) We're at the finishing line.

It's done. With less complain, but much much pain. Ouch.



Read this: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Arts and wine

Simply divine.


This masterpiece was born during *our wine and doodle session at home.

Quoted from the bits and pieces of our conversation during the session:

"Don't let the inner child of you go away, ever. It means hope."

"Just doodle. There's no right or wrong. This is our world."

Aaahh.

Wine and arts.

Simply divine.



*My boyfriend and I

What's up!

If blogs have the ability to collect dust, mine qualifies to be one of them. I've abandoned this outlet for almost two months already. As much as I hate to admit it, but yea, here goes...I've been bogged down with work :S Was busy managing the preparation for the launch of Anlene Clinically Tested Four Weeks Campaign --- for its *BTL materials as well as the Website. All is done now but. And I've actually hopped on to another new digital campaign for a different Client. So yea. Gotta get this blog running before it becomes one of those furniture in the cyberspace (if there's such thing).

So what's up?

Few things happened in the past two months...
1. I joined Yoga classes. Heck, I'm turning 30 next year, so I guess it's about time to take my body seriously,
2. And took up running. I'm not so much of a runner as I grew up playing sports that involves a lot of people in a team. But yea, I'm doing it mainly to support my boyfriend's passion (and I actually signed up for the Borneo International Marathon in May with him, doing the 10KM). Madness, I know.
3. I cut my hair short-er (think Pink, the singer). Just for the fun of it. Nah, actually I was curious about how I'd look like with my hair super-short.
4. Did a bone health check at the launch of Anlene's new research study (the event that I talked about earlier). And it turned out that I scored -3.1. It simply means; I'm at risk of Osteoporosis. Gulp. Hence, the item #1 and 2 above.
5. (Succesfuly) organized a suprise birthday party for my boyfriend on April 3. Till today, he's still buzzing from that night ;)
6. Been off coffee for almost 30 days now (and counting)
7. Gradually cutting down rice and beer at the same time (not easy).
8. I haven't been painting, let alone touch my painting stuff :(
9. My boyfriend went for the audition for DiGi The Next Level. Call me a kiasu girlfriend, but I'm super-confident that he's going to get in!
10. And last but not least, booked a holiday to Bali for the coming August! ( I can't wait!) ;)

Yepp, that summed up my happenings in the past two months. I just hope I'd be able to blog more in details soon. I just don't like summarizing stuff. Simply.

Peace.

*Below the line

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Valentine's Day

It's a universal day of celebrating love and affection between lovers. And as always, I'm always super-thrilled with the celebration ;)

Now this post is not going to be about how I spent my Valentine's day with my amazing boyfriend (though yea, we did have a mighty good time on Valentine's day!), but this post is more about finding the root of why I still believe in love --- in this oh-so-cruel world that we're living in today.

An obvious truth (or finding):

This is a portrait of my mom. A picture of which she sent to my dad after they just got married...


And this is what she wrote at the back of the photo;


I.T.A.L.Y = I Trust And Love You
M.A.L.A.Y.A = May Angel Look After You Always

Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!!! ;) I remember my siblings and I always had a joyful laughs everytime we see this pic --- still do, actually (thanks to my eldest sis who actually scanned and posted this photo on her Fb).

After more than 40 years of being together (of course, they've had their own roller-coaster ride throughout the years), my parents are still together now, but. They've shared their ups and downs together, I've seen. Yet, as they get older and grey, the relationship becomes closer and tighter with each other. All because of love.

Heh, twas not really that difficult to dig the root of the case ey! ;)

All you need is love!

Happy Valentine's day peeps. Wish you all the love in the world.

Chinese New Year

For the first time in my working years, I had to experience the lion dancers visiting my workplace ---the office, today. After three days off work (due to the Chinese New Year hols), our office re-opened today. Hence, we welcome the Lunar year with a lion dance perfomance ;)

The lion --- entering our office

He's now placing the good luck coin on my desk --- he's so cute! ;)

Reaching for the "ang pow" and the lettuce!

The good luck coin that was placed on my desk ;)

Call me a small kid, but I can really get over-excited over this kinda thing, still ;)

Rebak Island Resort

Yes! I'm a beach holiday-sucker ;) The one thing that I've begun to develop eversince I lived away from home (where the nice beaches are).

Last weekend, my colleague and I went to Rebak Island Resort, Langkawi, an exclusive resort with its own jetty and boats to the from the main land to the island and back. The distant from the airport to the jetty is about 5 minutes and it took us 15 minutes of a boat ride to the resort. It's a rather quiet resort I must say (they only have about 80+ rooms/villa). It's a perfect place for those who loves a quiet holiday --- the only water activities that they have are snorkeling and kayaking. Serious. So you can imagine the rest of your holiday would be, sun bathing, swim (if you can, cos I can't), cycling around the resort, monitar lizard watching (which was not very appealing to me because I grew up in a house where monitor lizards were crawling like nobody's business on the yard---okay maybe I was exaggerating but yea, they're nothing extraordinary to me. Unless it's komodo or something), eat, drink (I mean, like a lot of alcoholic drinks --- it's Langkawi okay!) and sleep.

We stayed in a two bedroom villa --- an awesome two bedroom villa! Only a little drawback, the room was not sound-proof! Bleh. For two nights in a row we got called up by the hotel receptionist telling us that the guests below our room were complaining because they heard noise came from the room above. Yea, the first night was the sound of Channel V on TV and the second night was because they could hear my colleague and I were talking. Whatever. The good food and the friendly staffs of the resort compensated it all :)

But yea, it was a good weekend getaway overall :)