hooray tomorrow is the last day of school, then the fun filled june hols will come.
my life will be really busy from now to next thursday. tmr will be hc training and vc stuff, saturday till monday will be vc, tuesday will be chinese + ac visiting, wednesday will be hc, thursday will be anderson + ac.
vc sounds dam fun, but im worried wont be able to recover in time for hc. im looking forward to survival night, the cycling, the run, backwoods, building shelter with leaves and other stuff, bashing through some random forest in singapore, and of course being with 01-06. but im soo not looking forward to abraisions, blisters, and most of all mosquito bites.
and now i think the hc side is dam like hq side. dam scrup. lets just hope sup is still in =)
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
passion run 09
1:24:24! was a superb run for me, my leg didnt ache, the weather wasn't too bad, the water points were good, and i achieved my sub 1:30! my 10K time was 57:21 and 5K was 27:03. i paced myself around 5:45 per km, and the km markers were reallly useful.
now 21 seems much easier to achieve, and my aim is sub 2hr =)
now 21 seems much easier to achieve, and my aim is sub 2hr =)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
tau hui!
for those not in the know, i eat at least 1 bowl of tau hui every day. it costs 60 cents from the snack stall, and its filling and dam sweet. and today after act i was telling alvin about it, and he said it was the problem for hungry kids in africa. so on the bus i was bored and expanded on alvin's idea...
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P1 - Tau Hui is super sweet
P2 - Super sweet stuff makes you super active
C1 (P1 + P2) - Tau Hui makes you super active
P3 - Tau Hui makes you full
P4 - Tau Hui costs 60 cents
C2 (P3 + P4) - Tau Hui is cheap yet filling
P5 - Hunger and lethargy are caused by lack of food
P6 - Lack of food is caused by lack of money
C3 (P5 + P6) - Hunger and lethargy are caused by lack of money
C4 (C1 + C2 + C3) - Tau Hui is the solution for the problem of hunger, lethargy and lack of money.
P7 - The problem of hunger, lethargy and lack of money is called poverty
P8 - Poverty is a global problem
C5 (C4 + P7 + P8) - Tau Hui is the solution for a global problem
P9 - Any solution for a global problem is extremely good
C (C5 + P9) - Tau Hui is extremely good
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haha i should get full marks for philo
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P1 - Tau Hui is super sweet
P2 - Super sweet stuff makes you super active
C1 (P1 + P2) - Tau Hui makes you super active
P3 - Tau Hui makes you full
P4 - Tau Hui costs 60 cents
C2 (P3 + P4) - Tau Hui is cheap yet filling
P5 - Hunger and lethargy are caused by lack of food
P6 - Lack of food is caused by lack of money
C3 (P5 + P6) - Hunger and lethargy are caused by lack of money
C4 (C1 + C2 + C3) - Tau Hui is the solution for the problem of hunger, lethargy and lack of money.
P7 - The problem of hunger, lethargy and lack of money is called poverty
P8 - Poverty is a global problem
C5 (C4 + P7 + P8) - Tau Hui is the solution for a global problem
P9 - Any solution for a global problem is extremely good
C (C5 + P9) - Tau Hui is extremely good
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haha i should get full marks for philo
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
hc training =)
today we went to ecp for hc training! meeting time was 8am at the macs where we like to stone for after hikes, and i left my house freakin early cos i wasnt sure how long the ride would take. and early means 6.30, and there was SOMEONE who were still sleeping at that time. =) so i took 76, took the bus and stopped a few stops too late. i got off the bus, crossed the underpass to get to ECP, and walked for about 20 minutes to the macs. and i was STILL the earliest. ah well
we had a short briefing and met the ex-hc team, then we went to get our bicycles from a kiosk. apparently it is quite cheap, $10 for 4 hours and the bikes were of decent standards, of course still farfar off from my bike =) and at this point that someone who overslept came. ya so we all got our bikes and did some basic stuff like adjusting seat height, changing gears etc. after that we were given some paper with a map that has a checkpoint, and we were split into our teams to navigate to the checkpoint.
at the first checkpoint, we played the criss cross hands game, where everyone's hand were tangled up in the middle and we had to untangle them without letting go of each other's hand. the catch is that all of us but ernxu were blindfolded, and ernxu couldnt talk. =o we took quite a while to do it, amidst all the cock like ernxu trying to make me lift my leg higher than my head, which obviously was quite fail; benkhoo throwing peanuts at sup's mouth but missing almost all the time etc. but ya it was fun and a tough job for everyone, esp ernxu.
following that, we continued cycling to the other checkpoint, which was just outside of camelot. the compound was locked, so we just peeked inside as much as we can and get a feel of the place. the high element looks pretty daunting, the rock wall looks...tall. the whole place looks quite small, made me wonder how we going to spend like 10 hours there for the prelims.
then we took a jog to some random yellow thing sticking out of the coastline. at first the thing seemed quite close, but it is actually dam far to get there cos we need to take some mega detour. quite a cunning plan to degen people =p at the yellow thingie, we took a group picture which ernxu tried to jumpshot and failed, so we took another, better one.
then we did a 5km+ walk/jog. more of a walk, possibly cos people were tired from the cycling and the job previously, but at least we came in earlier than the other team. we ran back to our bicycles which were parked outside camelot, then cycled back towards ecp and did our 2nd game!
basically we were split into 3 groups, HH, Sherm and Tat 1 group, me miin nic 1 group, sup and ernxu last group. hh's group could see sup's group but they cant talk. my group can see hh group but cant see sup's grp. sup's group couldnt see and they could only answer questions. so hh's group had a task sheet for sup's group to do, but the challenge was for them to tell sup and ernxu what to do. so it went something like this: hh group will do some action, we will convert the action to words and shout it out to sup and ernxu. was quite fun, except it really kills me when hh group laughing at what sup and ernxu were doing, yet we cant see them!
following that it started to drizzle, so we chionged back to the bike shop, and were late my 1 hour or so, but somehow we didnt have to pay extra. then we went to bk, had a short debrief by the ex hc team, then makan!
some pics i took while cycling =D quite easy to cycle 1 handed on mountain bike compared to road.
oh and ben khoo is dam camwhore. =D
in other news, i got my race pack for passion run today! the singlet is bright red, fairly small, and the craftsmanship isnt that good, but at least its thin. the race tag is the same as sbr.
we had a short briefing and met the ex-hc team, then we went to get our bicycles from a kiosk. apparently it is quite cheap, $10 for 4 hours and the bikes were of decent standards, of course still farfar off from my bike =) and at this point that someone who overslept came. ya so we all got our bikes and did some basic stuff like adjusting seat height, changing gears etc. after that we were given some paper with a map that has a checkpoint, and we were split into our teams to navigate to the checkpoint.
at the first checkpoint, we played the criss cross hands game, where everyone's hand were tangled up in the middle and we had to untangle them without letting go of each other's hand. the catch is that all of us but ernxu were blindfolded, and ernxu couldnt talk. =o we took quite a while to do it, amidst all the cock like ernxu trying to make me lift my leg higher than my head, which obviously was quite fail; benkhoo throwing peanuts at sup's mouth but missing almost all the time etc. but ya it was fun and a tough job for everyone, esp ernxu.
following that, we continued cycling to the other checkpoint, which was just outside of camelot. the compound was locked, so we just peeked inside as much as we can and get a feel of the place. the high element looks pretty daunting, the rock wall looks...tall. the whole place looks quite small, made me wonder how we going to spend like 10 hours there for the prelims.
then we took a jog to some random yellow thing sticking out of the coastline. at first the thing seemed quite close, but it is actually dam far to get there cos we need to take some mega detour. quite a cunning plan to degen people =p at the yellow thingie, we took a group picture which ernxu tried to jumpshot and failed, so we took another, better one.
then we did a 5km+ walk/jog. more of a walk, possibly cos people were tired from the cycling and the job previously, but at least we came in earlier than the other team. we ran back to our bicycles which were parked outside camelot, then cycled back towards ecp and did our 2nd game!
basically we were split into 3 groups, HH, Sherm and Tat 1 group, me miin nic 1 group, sup and ernxu last group. hh's group could see sup's group but they cant talk. my group can see hh group but cant see sup's grp. sup's group couldnt see and they could only answer questions. so hh's group had a task sheet for sup's group to do, but the challenge was for them to tell sup and ernxu what to do. so it went something like this: hh group will do some action, we will convert the action to words and shout it out to sup and ernxu. was quite fun, except it really kills me when hh group laughing at what sup and ernxu were doing, yet we cant see them!
following that it started to drizzle, so we chionged back to the bike shop, and were late my 1 hour or so, but somehow we didnt have to pay extra. then we went to bk, had a short debrief by the ex hc team, then makan!
some pics i took while cycling =D quite easy to cycle 1 handed on mountain bike compared to road.
oh and ben khoo is dam camwhore. =D
in other news, i got my race pack for passion run today! the singlet is bright red, fairly small, and the craftsmanship isnt that good, but at least its thin. the race tag is the same as sbr.
its next week and my legs havent fully recovered from some sort of injury. hope to get below 1:30
Thursday, May 14, 2009
new blogskin
yea the other one was getting quite hard to read.
err today had napfa 5 items, bio spa, and maths cct. 1 of them i did fairly well, 1 of them totally screwed up along with a hell lot of other people, and the last one was pretty ok. so you can go and guess which is which, but it isn't that hard.
and hey, theres an improvement of 1 points! lets hope by j2 can max out.
oh and yesterday there was venture camp briefing/prep. it seems super tiring yet at the same time fun and cool! the cycling and survival night should be nice, although knowing that ill be sleeping with insects isnt very comforting. but ya should be quite fun to make your own shelter and sleep in it. hopefully watching man vs wild last time would help me at vc.
as for hillary, i really hope we can pass the prelims, then we can have some proper quality training during june hols
err today had napfa 5 items, bio spa, and maths cct. 1 of them i did fairly well, 1 of them totally screwed up along with a hell lot of other people, and the last one was pretty ok. so you can go and guess which is which, but it isn't that hard.
and hey, theres an improvement of 1 points! lets hope by j2 can max out.
oh and yesterday there was venture camp briefing/prep. it seems super tiring yet at the same time fun and cool! the cycling and survival night should be nice, although knowing that ill be sleeping with insects isnt very comforting. but ya should be quite fun to make your own shelter and sleep in it. hopefully watching man vs wild last time would help me at vc.
as for hillary, i really hope we can pass the prelims, then we can have some proper quality training during june hols
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
mega trainings!
got hillary challenge and passion run coming up, so my schedule is rather screwed, having to train for both. My weekends will 100% be spent running, so lets hope i get some time to go back cycling. hillary is trying to be hardcore, but quite hard to with all the different commitments that we have. prelims shouldnt be a problem tho, so hopefully we get more time to train during june hols.
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