Completion of my 6th Army Half Marathon

Yesterday was a good run - weather is good, I'm feeling well and the roads are not as congested. I managed to complete the AHM in a timing of 2:35 which I haven't been able to achieve in a long time. The only thing that irritates me is the long hours that I took queuing up for baggage collection - I spent 2 hrs on that alone.

Also bought myself a new pair of Reebok for the StanChart later this year, hopefully I could reach my new planned timing of 5:30 when the time comes. :)

My new motto for the week - You can excel and will excel and overcome all obstacles because you are born a champion.

Running for another full marathon....

The Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is back again. This year will be my 4th attempt on the Full Marathon. Different from the previous years is that this year I'm back in army service. So, I should have sufficient training to at least run a timing of 6:00 hrs or so I hope; previous few timings are around 7 - 8 hrs.

My first milestone for the Full Marathon will be the coming Singapore Bay Run (previously known as Sheares Bridge Run / Army Half Marathon ). Sixth attempt this time but I will not strive for better timing since I haven't been running for quite a while - at least for the past 6 months. I think it'd be good if I could complete the AHM within 2:50.

I think this goal should stretch me a bit since it's definitely more challenging than completing the marathon. It'll also definitely get me more in shape - just nice, it's part of my goal for health.

Hmm.... I think I should also have a detailed training plan in order to achieve the timing. Let's do a search and see what I can get - okay, I think I'll use this with some modification since there's also training in camp. Think I'll have this blog serve as my running log too... haha~

An article that I read on Mr Brown Site

An article on Mr Brown site

Just before I'm going off, I saw an article on Mr Brown site featuring some Taiwanese show that's penalizing on the government of Singapore. My only thoughts on this are, true, there are a lot of debatable points that has been raised out but which government is 100% perfect? Even developed countries such as UK and USA also has a lot of issues with their government systems.

I think that as long as the system works in a whole, is able to provide good and effective infrastructure for it's citizens and is continuing to evolve for the better - it's a good system and I think Singapore has done well to ensure new bloods are in the government for a more stable tomorrow. All those said, I still will not want to work in government sector.

A simple reason - I like the dynamic environment in the private sector. Period.

First week after enlistment...

Hmm, my first week of re-enlistment...

Hectic time, initially though I would be able to go back in the end, it turned to book in no book out from then.

Lots of things unsettled, busy with shopping lists in e-mart (where army staff can be brought with credits from army), getting used to the pace of life in the unit - 5BX (5 basic exercise), equipment checks, Army open house poster design, fitness test, conformance to unit standards, army half marathon. All these sure has taken a toll on me and somewhat I feel the effect on Fri evening - body aches, fever - not feeling well in general sense.

Think I will feedback to my supervisors that I'll need to go on a slower pace this coming weeks to get myself used to the pace, otherwise I will fall in no time.

Luckily on Friday, I managed to meet up with other AIESECers to at least makeup my social needs - they had been a good bunch of friends whom had been sharing my life and supporting me in this time :) Sat - further meeting with other AIESECers at the AGM, more catch-up as well as meeting new people such as Grace Yuan from China who's down in Singapore as a CEEDer as well as Yasir from AIESEC in Canada who is down in town for an internship at Phillips. Had a long AGM going though all the constitution as well as the compendium - 4 hours at least.

There after, we had a BBQ - not that good though, think the fire wasn't really setup properly, so the food wasn't really that well cooked. But, I would have to thank those who had put in effort in BBQing the stuff since I wouldn't have anything to eat if they weren't there. Was not feeling well yesterday to help out with the cooking. Luckily for panadols from SY - felt much better after taking those.

And now, it's Sun 3pm in the noon. 7 more hours before I'll be back in camp. Think I better start packing my stuff, meet them for dinner and go back to camp. My first weekend sure has been gone fast. Praying that the second week will be better adjustment for me.