Sunday, December 14, 2008

Great voices

Just realized I haven't compile the singers I like in my blog.

My favourite voices are:
1. JJ (林俊杰)
2. Eason Chan (陈奕迅)
3. Stephanie Sun (孙燕姿)

I always think JJ has very nice voice. And he's a good composer too.

Have a look at JJ singing live here. I tried to look for short and nice clip so you all no need to wait until the middle only can listen to him sing.



Very very heavenly voice!

Another male Chinese singer I like is Eason Chan. But I can only find this prize giving award which has better microphone sound quality.




Then for female Chinese singer, I think Stephanie is brilliant!


(Can't find her live A cappella clips)

Hehe. I think not enough. I put one more concert live clip of her

Friday, December 12, 2008

Randoms

Just met mum yesterday! =) Brought her to Pavilion and treated her lunch and tea. Only two of us for the first time. I love the time we hang out together. Feel really really warm in my heart. =) Hope I can do the same thing with my dad one day. Hehe.

Oh and yesterday went repair my car because the car was really noisy when I drive up to only 30-40km/hr. It was the gear box. It sounded like a truck! lol. Plus the brake pads were also exhausting due to lousy quality of local vehicles. They had solidified and powdered already. The repair costs me more than a thousand ringgit. I'm officially broke now. Again.

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Was looking for Korean drama. Then I found Iljimae which was filmed in 2007 and released this year. Still looking for place to download. Hopefully can get the drama. The main character in this drama is filmed by Lee Jun Ki who acts as a Robinhood at night but a naughty guy in the day time. I think it is going to be funny and sad in this drama.



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With so many public holidays drawing near. I'm currently under holiday mood. =P I miss those school times when I can have months of holiday. Holiday is a luxury for me now. Sigh. Grown up life is so so so different. How I hope I can go back to childhood time. lol.

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Oh gosh. I keep running to toilet today! It's something I ate yesterday or the day before. I remember I started having stomach cramp and feel like diarrhea since yesterday morning right after I woke up. Add up together with yesterday I ran to toilet for almost 10 times already. Sigh. Need some 保济丸 if you know what it is.


Sunday, December 7, 2008

My first quarter marathon experience

Just came back from Singapore, and Singapore Marathon.




I started my first quarter marathon in my life with 10km women category. Finished at around 1 hour 29 minutes. But according to those who went to last year's marathon they will start count only after I pass the starting line. I was way behind in the long queue before the starting line. So it will be lesser. Hehe. Convincing myself now. Never mind, I will get the record from them soon.

The night before the marathon, I felt my heart beating really fast and my head kept thinking of excuses to not turning up in the marathon. But the nervous feeling disappear right after I passed the starting line the next day. I ran until 5km and felt my legs wobbly. Actually it's all mental. I was doing well before this. Non-stop running. But when I saw the signboard showing 5km (it was the first signboard that stated how far we had gone), I thought to myself "What? Another 5km?". And then my foot instantly went wobbly. lol.

So from then on I started to do the interchange of walking and running. Hehe. Thanks to the organizer and sponsors, they had many drink stations which provide mineral water and 100 plus every 1km or so. It was actually the signboards stating "drink station ahead" which gave me the motivation to fasten my pace and keep running. Haha. And thanks to those first aid stations which unlimitedly provide muscle pain relief cream. I think those drinks and creams are helping in terms of mentality. Coz I felt refreshed after having them. And thanks to Zhuang's Agel energy boost which I brought along.

And some spectators who kept giving firm support with really strong and loud voice really helped. I think "Keep running! You can do it!" is really a great line. Two white men (one was a photographer and another was a passerby) only repeatedly shouting this firmly could already lifted up my spirit. And "You're reaching 5km" dampened my spirit a lot coz it made me calculate the distance and the muscle pain I had to endure before I reach the finishing line.

50 meters before the finishing line, the MC was really supportive and kept pumping up everyone's spirit. I guess it was the motivation from the MC, I gathered up my energy and sped towards the line. What scared me was that right after the line when I started walking slowly I felt like my lungs were collapsing! OMG! Maybe I should not speed 50m before the finishing line? Luckily the pain in the chest slowly disappeared.

I really enjoyed the marathon. The triumph when you finally manage to reach the finishing line is so so so much different from seeing an "A" in your exam paper. It's pretty similar to the triumph feeling I had when I reach the top of Gunung Irau eight months ago. But the crowd and the noise in Irau was not as bombastic. Marathon was like a party. Hehe. ^^

Regardless of the medal and certificate, I also get to know new friends (e.g. Ken, Charles and Michelle), meet up some Monash friends who were also joining the marathon and met some representatives from Monash Australia. The time was too packed to meet up with my hometown friends though. Plus my international roaming for Maxis was not set up (I din know have to set up one. lol.), totally cannot contact everyone when I was in Singapore. lol.



Update: Pictures below! (Taken from Shiang and New's facebook)

Before starting

 The crowd was running towards the finishing line

Me, Shiang, Suk Jiun and a guy whom I dun remember his name.

 Kokum and I

Giant Adidas shoe! With YY...

Girls with medals (from the left: New, YY, me, GP, Ying Hui, Michelle and a girl I dunno her name)

See the white fence behind me? I fantasize these kind of fence in my garden! hehe

Me and Shing Wei

Suntec Foodcourt! Can you believe this is a foodcourt? OMG! I thought it was an old Chinese bookstore.

Christmas is COMING! Awww... I'm so obsessed with christmas decorations!


Friday, December 5, 2008

Care more. Love more.

I'm packing up for the Singapore marathon on Sunday. Actually I'm yet to start packing up. lol. I'm planning to pack up.

I'm having a lot of thoughts right now and start evaluating myself.

Just now went out with CY and New and found that CY has very very good debriefing and motivating skills, which I lack. So now I'm evaluating my own motivating skills. I think I have zero. lol.

And when I came back and met Heng online, he asked me "Do you think you're a caring person?" I answered pretty fast. No. I'm not caring. Not even to my family members. I know it's really bad. But even though I really love them, I feel very awkward showing care to them. Sigh. I think I should start learning now to care for people and to console people. Coz I duwan myself to have a personality I dun like. Wish me luck for this. And for the marathon too. Gosh. I'm yet to pack! And it's almost 11pm now! And I'm going to meet the Monash folks tomorrow at 6 something in the morning. Gotta go pack already.

See you!


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Chinese fries

When I craved for Mc Donald French fries last night, I bought this instead when I passed by the stall.


I bought these Chinese fries! -- 'ham chin beng' and 'yaw char kuai'. They only costed me RM1.20! Hehe. Way cheaper than a packet of fries. I love the sweet taste of this kind of 'yaw char kuai'. This is not the normal one. This kind is slightly sweeter than the normal one. And 'ham chin beng' is my favourite! Coz I like the red bean paste inside! Yumm!! And the sesame seeds make them even more tasty! Hehe.


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Zhuang said I should write more often. Hehe. Paiseh. I run out of idea most of the time. Coz recently I didnt do much things...

Oh ya! I did do something last weekend actually. I went out with Chee Hui! She came to work in PJ just a month ago and I had been waiting for her to call me to hang out together. Coz from her blog I know she's too obsessed with her TVB dramas. Hehe. So didn't want to kacau her. CH came to stay over last weekend and we had a lot to chat!

I counted back the years we've known each other and found that we've known each other for more than 10 years already! If I only count from the year when we started talking to each other, it was way back in 1997. It has been 11 years! And if I count from the year when we were in the same class, that will be around 14 years! We managed to keep in touch again after a few years of out of touch after the graduation from high school. I really treasure that. =)

It was her novels that kept us in contact. She posts her very original and interesting stories on her blog and I always had to follow them coz they are very well plotted. Coz I like those weird weird stories involving past life, mysteries, investigation. I believe one day she will become a famous novelist in Asia. I'll be the first to buy her book if she publishes her stories. If you all are interested with her stories, this is her blog. I'm consciously promoting her blog. Kaka. Coz I think the stories are really good!