*burp!

orh luat.

bbq peng hir.

la-la.

gyu-tan.

run again

21km army half marathon.

within 2 hours.

happy.

communication problems.

frustrations.

helplessness.

run...run away

enjoyed a 10km run on Sun.
new balance real run.
finished in around 53 min.
running on sand was something new and fun.


52 months.

Challenges ahead

Went for a seemingly impossible task earlier.
Met up with 4 running enthusiasts at queensway.
headed for a 40-storey flat and up, up, up we went.
managed 3 sets.
at the last, i was panting and thinking what the hell i was doing. trying to end my life earlier?
wouldn't have made it if it wasn't a group climb.
see, nothing's quite the impossible.
it's all in the mind.
well, this will continue every tuesday until the trail race on 3 Sep.

turning point

think life will be pretty different soon.
mum came home with an announcement.
she will be quitting the coffeestall business.
the main stall has been her most of her life since 1999 and her secondary stall since 2003.
i was bewildered.
she claimed that she asked to quit.
but i bet the coffeestall owner had demanded both the stalls back.
she couldn't stop her tears from flowing.
the stalls have been more important than many things in her life, many times we suspected more than us.
now that she will lose her job, her income, i have no idea what is ahead of us.

Disappointments

the holidays are coming to an end...
dealt with several disappointments these few months.
first of all, applications for internships at Sumitomo Corp, Fuji Xerox and Yusen all came to nothing.
then, failed to pull through to the finals for the Japanese Speech Contest, only made it to the semis.
next, flopped at an interview for a part-time admin job at a Japanese company.
most deadly, lost the chance to go to Japan this year when the Monbukagakusho Japanese scholarship slipped through my hands.

Sigh. judging by the turnouts above, getting an A for Japanese in school is just not enough. i need to leap by bounds.

learning to take failures and rejections as part of life.
believe that whenever one door closes on me, another will open.

the part of me which yearns so much to leave is weeping for the chance has gone.