smrt

the past 2 weeks or so have been spent doing some things that i haven't done before.

last last sunday was spent running in the early morning in the safra bay run/army half marathon. okay well, granted that i actually signed up for the non-competitive 6km route. haha. i ran with hadi and liz. more of jogged rather. hadi fetched us and by 8.40 we were off (missed the flag-off by 10 minutes but no worries). eventually we did catch up with the main body that ran off at 8.30am anyway. 2 years ago i ran the 10km non-competitive one with my bmt colleagues, but this time i'm back as a civilian! haha. oh and i saw my old encik at one of the water points, and i purposely ran past the water point to avoid him seeing me. haha. during the race too i saw moms pushing prams with their children inside, and i wondered at the pace they were walkig at they were going to take forever to finish. because it rained in the wee hours of the morning, it was really cold and damp in the day, and what was worse was that the padang turned into a mudpool. many resorted to walking barefooted on it. well we managed to get the goodie bags and take as many free 100plus cans as we could. haha. luckily hadi drove, so we could change and dump ur stuff inside his car. haha. after drying up we were off to tanjng pagar railway station!

i suggested lunching there because i've been told the food there is nice but i've never had the chance to eat there. 1 problem is i've only been there once, like more than a decade ago, and that was just alighting from the train from kl and then heading home. and secondly, the railway station is really out of the way for me, and i've no particular reason to be there or anywhere near that area. well in any case the food is quite nice. should go there again sometime. the murtabak i had was really something, and the food my friends bought were quite nice too. so i spent the whole sunday morning doing 2 things that i've never really done before on a regular basis - run on sunday morning with friends, and eat at the tanjong pagar railway station. something i should really do more often (the first one see how, but the second one shouldn't be much of a problem. haha.)

last friday i went to comex and got myself an external hard disk drive from western digital. i think it's got a sleek look, and for 250gb i got it at 109bucks. an okay price for me i guess. far cry from the days when an 80gb external hard disk costed 179 bucks. now they sell 1000gb (or rather, 1 terabyte) at 199bucks! freak! i got my thumbdrive last year at 19.90 for 1gb,and now 1gb can cost you $5 only. tsk. even the cost of printers have gone down. haha. i met up with fahmi for a while and walked around comex to see other deals. like a telescope for 40 bucks that was being sold. haha. we didn't think a telescope could ever be that cheap. oh and i got to see the iphone. i didn't play with it but i just saw fahmi play around with it for a while. looks cool but abit too pricey, even the singtel plans that come with it.

last sunday was spent taking part in the smrt challenge! haha. a chance to win 2K cash was up for grabs, so me, firdous, rahman and juliana signed up as a team! initially we were put on the reserve list but on wednesday they emailed me saying we were taking part. so yup. again on sunday i had to wake up early (even earlier in fact this time round, at 5.30am!) and make my way down to toa payoh. other friends also took part in this, like hanan who teamed up with his family; iza, fahmi, fadhli and nadia formed a team; haekal was with his girlfriend and her friends; there was aisyah and her family too and hazirah and maryam with their friends. haha. well the whole thing was quite fun, even if there were alot of lame parts. haha. well the thing is it's a great way to spend with friends to escape the monotony of everyday life. running around and doing lame challenges on sunday morning was at least something different to do. after the challenge ended (came in too late to be in any prize-winning positions haha) we just hung around in the hope of winning lucky draw prizes but to no avail. after the whole thing i joined the gang in bowling, but actually we never really managed to find a bowling alley after going 3 places. so we just did what malays excel best in - just sitting around and talking nonsense. haha..

today was spent doing something i've never done before - shop in chinatown. haha. well not exactly in chinatown though. today i slept like pig and only woke up at 2pm. by 3pm we were out driving down to people's park complex (or centre) to shop at og. apparently my aunt isn't sure of the way so my mom asked me to drive. i don't really enjoy driving to the cbd at this kind of hours because of the jams, and in any case the way home was horrible, because it was really pouring and the peak hour jams were quite nasty. at least at og i managed to get myself a shirt and 2 belts so it's still okay. i've never really gone shopping at og, with my mom and aunt at that. og isn't really the kind of place youngsters would really go to shop at, and furthermore, we were in the heart of chinatown. haha. i hardly saw any malays, in fact i think i only saw one. and of course alot of aunties. haha. and now i'm thinking that i should have gotten that portable dvd drive from comex for my lappie, now that my pc is down and out for some time i reckon. but i suppose that's gotta wait. haha.

so now the fasting month has started, but even after 2 days i don't feel the atmosphere or the feeling. what kind of atmosphere or feeling actually, i can't describe properly in words, but i just can't feel it yet. in any case it's good, because obviously one can save pocket money during fasting month and still look forward to getting even more money during hari raya. haha. oh and the progress package due in october. that's quite lot of cash due. *rubs hands in glee*....

okay that's all.