Last week of December

Believe it Or not.. I've not unwrapped most of my wrapped Christmas presents! ;I lazy yeah.. I'll do so before 31 Dec. ;) Had been a hectic week at work since before christmas - the dreaded year-end provision vetting.. Not forgetting that silent herbivore .. Silence is golden .. And I kinda prefer diamond 💎.. And diamond is tougher than gold. And yeah thanks for helping me to develop the fruit of longsuffering ... "whatever!" Ooo I managed to squeeze in to do one session of post service caroling & lo & behold spotted the groom & bride of the wedding of the year! And tris snapped a pix of me & fb-ed ... or! And in spite of mad deadlines, evil e resumed training cuz he said 'the fats are growing' ;/ As I'd missed his weekly target thanks to the womanly issue... Was coerced to turn up three times this week and ;( left gym last night 45 minutes before the shutters were down.. But prefer walking along orchard at this timing instead cuz it's peaceful at 11ish compared to the packed 10ish .. At mandarin galleries, the workers are replacing the bells with red flowers in preparation for CNY.. Byebye blue orchard! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Squashed!

If I'm still that huge (alright I was never that big in which my bum spills out of the seat in the mrt.. ), I will not certainly NOT attempt to squeeze into a seat that is narrower than the width of my body.

I'm not anti-plus .. But I mind my personal space being infringed and the side of your huge thighs fidgeting against mine is HIGHLY frown upon!

Not to mention sandwiched by another huge pear-shaped one (from the same family, apparent pear runs in the family!) on the other side! Felt like the silver of cheese in between two uber thick Brown toast!

The huge pear clan finally alighted 10 stops later!

I was shocked to see the amount of seat taken up by the huge pear next to me! ;(




Sigh! I should have just stand throughout the journey from outram to home. :(

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Cheap thrill ;)

Happy that I was bigger a couple of months ago that the striped top from MNG looked tight n fat on me that I refrained from buying it.. Cuz it was cheaper by 20 moolah when I bought it on Tues when I dropped by MNG VIP sale after getting my split ends fixed n lighten the crown of glory which was über dark - ash blond just toned it down a bitsy so I need to make a second trip this Sunday ;)
I confessed, I'd purposefully head to the standalone stall at shaw center ;)
Ooo but I paired that top with the topshop grey bandage skirt and ooo elongated body! Nice! Even the tea lady at work commented that I look slim!
Camwhored in the handicap toilet ;)




Bought another two dresses ;) which was quite cheap too ;）one for work n the other for weekend? foreigner (edited.. Typo due to autocorrect?)








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The last race of the year

Wanted to titled it the last paid race of the year.. Then recalled that my company reimbursed me the full $60 paid for the full mara.. ;) do rightfully it was a free run! (same for the newton 30km on 30.10.11 & the Nike 10k on 9.10.11)

Didn't do as well as I planned .. I was way on track on completing in 4:30 (was close behind the blue pacers balloons till the return leg at playground area which I decided to trail the 4:45..)

Was hovering around them until the 35km when I started walking n resting every water point ;(

Not to mention the heavy bottleneck part where the half Mara, 10km n the full mara merged.. Drats! All in all walked a couple of km.. Which I know I would definitely made it sub 4:45 at least or 4:30 if I had not slacked on the way.. ;)

Still happy to have done a personal best timing at 4:48:05 with barely 3 hours of snooze time n sore throat that itches a lot (which resulted from the nasal back drip).

Frankly the thought of me collapsing cross my mind cuz I was at some point feeling über light in the head (think low blood sugar) until I sip the gel n constantly hydrate every now & then.. Didn't know that actually a friend collapsed with just 5km more to go n it was might be one of his pb!. His thoughts on the incident.. Thank God he was alright though heard that he almost went Home earlier .. Though sadly one young chap passed away after completing the half. ;(

Anyway pics to commensurate the mini achievement on 4 Dec 2011..

Getting ready the night before



My new running flats! Barely broken in...




The fuel... (but I only brought along 5..) ;) rest reserved for training for sundown I supposed ;)



Brekkie before the 42.195: milo & bread from cedele ;)



In the train (which Smrt kindly extended the operation hours! Tq!).. Full of men! Ladies are minority but thankfully I can use the clean ladies @ orchard mrt without queuing unlike the snaking queue formed outside the gents! ;)



At the starting point.. Outside mandarin gallery.. ;) <3 the Christmas lights!



The official pacers forming a row in front of us behind the sub-4 runners n ahead of us sub-6..



Cheese! (thankfully my nano stays dry thru'out the 42!)



Happy that I'm starting the run with the friend that started me running - Ziv.. It's his maiden marathon! ;)



Completed the full course before 10am! ;) Walking towards the collect the finisher tee & medal & etc..



Thanks to lack of network coverage .. was unable to contact anyone.. Decided to go for the complimentary massage for the full marathon runners, cuz there was no queue! After which, I managed to bump into jac & jus by wandering around the non muddy area opposite padang..



Number supporter jac who went all the way to ecp/ barrage to support her hubby Ziv & me.. Sorry gal, didn't hear u calling me! ;p



Jus finished her first half Mara! Congrats! ;)


Breakfast @ cedele! Happy!! It was packed full house despite us reaching minutes after it opened at 11. ;)



The big brekkie which I didn't managed to finish.. Haha too much meat! ;(



Tummy filled .. Satisfied ;) we ran a good race guys! ;)






Applause To The best supporter of the day!! Thanks babe! ;)



Pookie trying to wear the finisher medal :)



The e-cert which got many people complaining that they didn't get their laminated cert despite paying for the run..


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