Adidas Sundown Marathon' 09

I'm participatg in Adidas Sundown Marathon this Sat at 8:30p.m.!

My friend Winnie asked me along for the 10km women category.

I agreed, out of a kind intention to be there for her.

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But after studying the exact route a few days later, I almost wanted to back off.

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It is the stretch btw Changi Village to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal!

I will never forget e ARDUOUS experience where I did night cycling there (click to read), not once but TWICE! And this Sat will be the 3rd time, travelling on the same route!

That stretch is a KILLER (no exaggeration)! It seems like a NEVER-ENDING route.

Cycling, alone took me 1hr and my bum HURTS after that.

I wonder how fast can Bus 11 take me...

2 hrs? 3hrs?

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Others count sheeps to pass time... I will count the number of airplanes flying over my head?

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And yes... MP3 is definitely a must-have!

Probably, I will then fully appreciate a leader's favourite...

"Help me, help me, help me... All I need is You!"

*LOL... If u noe what I mean*

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Share with you the whole experience in my next post!

Work has been pretty busy w many added responsibilities- all gotta do w figures n MORE figures! Number crunching n eye straining...

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I hv to admit... sometimes, at the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is to open my laptop and look into the screen again.

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Looking on the bright side, the new work scope trained me to look more closely on the cause & effect of reporting.

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Well... Above work, there are different challenges ahead too! Really gotta JIA YOU!

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"A rubber band, once stretched, will never return to its original shape"

M&Ms

I finally went for my long-awaited body massage!

The thought had been in my mind for quite a while, and two Saturdays ago, I settled for one after supporting my members at a basketball match.

I went to a shop at the void deck of some flats near GWC.

One hour of full body massage for S$40. Quite a good deal!

The massage was quite ticklish at some points and I was trying very hard not to laugh!
If you see my expression through the hole, you will catch me helplessly squeezing my eyes and pressing my lips to suppress my laughter!

Anyway, the experience was rewarding!

Stiffness gone! My morning stretch regained those “cracking” sound and I can now bend my body forward with my knuckles touching the floor! :)

Hmm... Thought of treating my mum with a massage session during Mother's Day.

But on the actual day, due to time constraint, we only had dinner at “The Green Room Café”, Bishan Park.

It is a tranquil place, surrounded my beautiful greenery. My family & I love it!

Hee... after the food arrived, I sheepishly asked to be excused, quickly left the table to attend a conference call with the cngls, to settle some matters.

Mum gave a look of dismay when I returned. Pacifying her, we joked & talked about other things before going home.

A good time spent!

The next day, my cg visited Chinese Church!

“Chen Meng Qi” was there to sing a few songs and the singer’s mum also shared her testimony on God’s healing in health & relationship!

It was very touching and all of us were moved.

During altar call, one of my members’ mum who came to church for the 1st time, accepted God! *Happy!!!*

After svc, the cg proceeded to 4th floor café which was being transformed to a mini game centre (somewhat like the Open House of New Life Church). Very creative!

There were 7 booths with each giving out points based on players’ performance. With the accumulated points, one can redeem free gifts like CDs, The Body Shop lotions etc.

The friends were reluctant to play initially cos they were a bit worn out after the past three weeks activities on Sun.

But after going, they really enjoyed themselves, with some wanting to linger around to complete all the stations before lunch!!!

(New friend Christine taking the Karaoke Challenge)

(K-Queen An Wei... She can really sing!)

Our cg rocked the house with our spontaneous cheering and drew a lot of onlookers & supporters! Some even paused their games to join us!

Overall, it was an ENJOYABLE experience!

“Go Green!”

This was our subzone event on Sun!

The ppl had to brave through the forest trails, answer questions, play games, and dance.

“Ping Ping Pong Pong” station

“Catch Me If You Can” station

Teaching the people how to do “Square Dance”

Here's Edward & team doing “Visa Dance”… Still have formation!

The final mass dance...

The 3 teams from our cg...

Edward & team self-proclaiming winners!

This group was e 1st to arrive at e finishing point! One & a half hr earlier than rest… Wow!

Selena & team! Very united!

Trudy & team emerged No. 1 in "Go Green"!!!


Our cg photo... 14 friends came!

Hey guys! I'm really proud of ALL of you!

Having the STAMINA to last the race and being so SPORTING to play the different games! Good attitude!

Subzone photo!

Haha… It was a loong day esp when I had only one & a half hr of sleep before svc!

I’m in charge of this station called “Color Power”!

It took me a longer-than-expected time to complete the preparation!

Halfway through, I ran out of glue!

Checking the time, it was already 3a.m.!

Do I really need to go to 7-11 at this hour to buy glue? I "whined" to my mum.

15 minutes later, there was a knock on the door!

My mum appeared with a bowl of hot milky stuff…
Wow! So nice of her to cook soup for me at this EARLY hour?

To my surprise, it was not soup but GLUE!!
My mum actually took the trouble to boil starch! So CREATIVE!

Hmm... On the other hand, I prefer using my favourite slide-on BIC stick than this home-made watery glue, worrying that the liquid would cause unsightly patches on the papers.

But... I guess I had to give in to my perfectionism at this hour... So there I was, using the hot glue to continue my pasting...

I worked from 1a.m. to 7a.m. to plot the game strategy, cut the papers, and paste them on the papers! 20 strips, with 7 colors each. Hard work!!!

On seeing the results, I was very satisfied!

Probably you might be curious on how to play the game…

There are many flexible variations!

Here is a simple one…

Each team has to memorize a 10-color sequence within 15 secs. After which, each player has to step on the correct color sequence while those waiting for their turn are NOT SUPPOSED to watch/ help. The fastest team, with all members successfully memorized the color sequence, WINS!

Dazed by the different colors... the teams saw "rainbow" and took quite a while to complete the game! Phew! Not easy as I think!

Henderson Wave!

Our subzone is playing station games at Mount Faber this Sun! Gonna be FUN!!!

Last Sun, we had a combined subzone event at Expo.

(Xiao Lu & Christine stuffing bread inside mouth)

Big crowd!!!

(N351 rocks!)