Super long time since I’ve posted anything here. So here we go. After about 2 months.
Work is great. My job is getting busier by the week but still no complaints. It’s what I’ve been wanting to do from the start and now that I’ve started doing evaluations and reading up on post market issues, I’m really getting to the crust of regulations and how we’re gonna be running things in the near future.
My cousin, Pupsy was here for a week! Oh man! Been ages since she kept saying that she’ll be coming in a few months and finally she did come! We had a great time catching up – although time was tight after work and been tired all day to go out and have fun, but then I think we spent the time we had the best we could. One more weekend would have been great but then in Singapore, I think she’s basically seen everything there is to see. Sush… why are the pics not on FB huh?
Running:
This was a crazy up and own experience. TNF100, as expected was a hellish experience but then I managed to finish it. Almost knocked out cold after the event. For the first time after a run, I sat down and cried like a baby – it really is that hard. But then I had to be a finisher – not for myself but for my partner – who after finishing the race actually came back to look for me. Thanks Elaine! =)
The next couple of weeks I just dreaded run and I hated the pain and the agony. Ghosts of TNF100 kept coming back again and again – till NB Real Run. I was strong again. My time from km to km was so fantastically consistent and smooth that I loved the fast pace race. Seems like the trail and the terrain running really helped. I missed my PB by 1.5 mins but wth! I knew that I was back.
Last weekend was the best run ever – I finished my marathon training for StandChart by clocking 45km in a little more than 5 hrs – no soreness or agony what-so-ever. It was a fantastic run.
Basically, that’s how life is when u start working I guess. Very little time to myself. And the time I’ve had, I’ve been watching a show Choon Hong recommended to me – One Liter of Tears.
Sheesh, this show really made my cry- more than once. It’s hard not to….
I signed a contract on Friday with HSA’s Medical Device Regulation Branch on Friday. Woots… Good start to a career as far as I see it. Something I wanna try my hands at. Just gotta find time to run, for freinds and family to have a work-life balance. Then life’s perfect! =)
So… as of now, I’m a government empolyee.
On a totally unrelated note, I found a new show that’s I really wanna watch! Quick Gun Murugan. It’s about a tamil vegetarian cowboy who’s after Rice Plate Reddy – his nemesis who wants to make a non-veg masala dosai. He better ‘Mind It!’
Here’s the trailer:
And the title song… ‘Tamil Bhangra’ by Mika.
And the rubbish that got Kayne West called a ‘Jackass’ by Obama! Haha…
Conveys the many meanings of love… and what it is underneath.
Inside of Love – Nada Surf
watching terrible tv
it kills all thoughts
Getting spacier than
An astronaut
Making out with people
I hardly know or like
I can’t believe what i do
Late at night
I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I’m standing at the gates
I see the beauty above
Only when we get to see
The aerial view
Will the patterns show
We’ll know what to do
I know the last page so well
I can’t read the first
So i just don’t start
It’s getting worse
[chorus]
I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I’m standing at the gates
I see the beauty above
I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I can’t find my way in
I try again and again
I’m on the outside of love
Always under or above
I can’t find my way in
I try again and again
I’m on the outside of love
Always under or above
Must be a different view
To be a me with a you
I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
I’m standing at the gates
I see the beauty above
I wanna know what it’s like
On the inside of love
Of course i’ll be alright
I just had a bad night
Although there was much fanfare about Kambakkht Ishq – which was a major disappointment (except maybe the Soundtrack), New York was a pretty good show with its twists and good story telling. Well for people who critically review the film, I’m sure You’ll have a lot to say about the driection, production, camera.. blah blah blah but for a layman consumer like me, I think it reflected pretty well the human side of terrorism and how to deal with it.
The story follows Omar, an Indian Student in NY State Uni who seven years later, he’s taken in by the FBI for questioning under the Patriot Act and told a deep dark secret that haunts his past as a student. Then he’s sent by the FBI as an undercover agent to open up the pandora box of troubles. The maybe-only-fragment-of-truth is the way South Asians and Middle Easterns are viewed in the public eye.
Trailer of New York
Other shows I’ve watched that deal with these issues – which I loved was:
Seems like I’ve finally let my anger go now. I’m no longer upset about the past and although it took me so long to avoid, ignore and keep it all in, I don’t know when in this time, it all went away.
I’m ready to move forward.
This became so much more apparent when I was watching How I Met Your Mother. Ted, a single guy, who’s looking for his future wife, gets to know Stella – a separated mom of a 7 year old daughter. He gets to know her better and they end up almost at the altar – where she leaves him to go back to her ex-husband, Tony. He’s angry and sad and a whole host of things that one would feel but eventually, sees the light. As he narrates this story to his kids, 20+ yrs in the future, he says:
“…and that was it, in that moment I wasn’t angry anymore. I could see that Stella was meant to be with Tony.
Kids,
You may think that your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone’s face. But there is a third option, you can just let it go. And only when you do that is it really gone, and you can move forward.
And that kids, was the perfect ending to a perfect love story. It just wasn’t mine. Mine was still out there, waiting for me…”
Of a post! Well, obviously, nothing much is happenning in my life so there’s nothing much to write anyway.
But I’ve been upto a few things recently… except job hunting of course. I’m off to India for a good month on the 7th. The tickets are super duper cheap – 160 with everything in! Tiger Air rocks! Can’t wait to see mum and dad after so damn long! =)
A few of us went blading last Wed. Pearl and Yuen Ling have been trying to organise but the weather kept playing games with them. But it was great weather on Wed and off we went! The turn out was pretty good and was fun hanging out after blading with a bunch of cool frenz!
The blading dudes
The blading dudettes
The two champs who’re on their way to Olympic Glory
And the two Lance Armstrongs – who picked 2 wheels over 8
Oooh… I bought a new pair of running shoes. I wanted to just go and check out the prices and the stuff but since Yams got his tennis racquet re-strung, Eliza and Vin got new racquets, I didn’t want to be the only one left ou in the shopping spree! So here goes my new running shoes. I havn’t tried them on a run though so I can’t comment. They’re still being heavily appreciated for their beauty in my living room. =p (The though of which kinda made Eliza cringe thinking I’m weird… OEY! I’m not the only weird one. You are too!)
My new Mizuno Wave Rider 12s
I went out for dinner with Winston and Joanne again on Friday! They’re a fantastic couple to hang out with! They not only keep poking fun at each other but also very open in a comical way that makes you comfortable to talk about many issues (esp young parenthood, marriage, marriage proposals??) that I have no one to ask about! We literally had to be chased out fo the resturaunt.
Sunday’s Passion Run was freaking awesome! Although I was feeling weird and perpetually tired, I finally managed to break the shit cycle and psycho myself to run at full blast for 15km – the longest, fastest brutal push I’ve ever done – 15km in 1hr 16min 02 secs.
Went for some Tennis training with Eliza, Vin and my Shifu – Yammy. Thanks for taking so much time off to teach me the basics Yams. He’s a fantastic coach – critiqing, correcting and giving continuous feedback all through the two hours. Vin – sorry about the NASA action and rockets flying off man! Haha… sheesh! I owe you 4 tennis balls woth of tea now! Eliza… Haha.. you owe me Ben and Jerry’s – half a tub!
My Asics Gel Kayano are about to retire soon – 30th May 2009 after 42.195km. Amazingly, I have worn out the shoes i bought in min Jan – with over 1000km in this short period of time! Sheesh! The training better be worth it on Race Day next Sat night.
Time to SUIT UP! and watch ‘How I Met Your Mother’! =p
You are intellgent and introspective. You like spending quiet time reading or listening to music. You are a natural leader who prefers diplomacy to war.
I woke up to a good day today and after a while, it all went downhill – this would be rejection No. 3 in 2 weeks. At times like this, I miss dad.
Reminds me of a scene from Star Trek: TNG
Data: Captain, I anticipated every move, executed every possible strategy and tactic and I still lost the game. I ran several self-diagnostics determine possible errors in my programming. There are none. Thus, I can only conclude that something is wrong with me, which I do not know and till I determine what it is, I am unfit for duty. I am a danger to the ship and its crew should I make errors in judgement – something I have shown to have potential for.
Picard: Data, sometimes, even when you have taken utmost care in attempting to do everything right, everything goes wrong. It’s not that something is wrong with you. It’s life. I’ll see you on the Bridge – that’s an order.
To my FYP since I have practically tried everything that there is to try! Haha… after one more set, I’m good to go for whole set of results for thesis.
We had our overall presentation today and I’m glad it went well – esp since I messed everyone’s mind up with Organic Chem! Haha… Was pretty encouraging to hear Kristy say that she actually understood a wee bit of what I was doing after so long! Haha… wee bit = one inch!
But all in all, no matter what result I get I’m glad I tried everything that there is to try and that’s good enough a closure for me!
Comes at a great time too! I celebrate my 6th anniversary of enlistment! Haha… wat a day to be enlisted!
Oh and same goes my GEK module! Was a real pain editing pics but learnt that Yams has a real edge when it comes to photoshop! He’s good lar – damn good! Can’t wait to get over and done with the test! One more lap…
Believe it or not, year 4 has been the best year in NUS of my life – I have so much freedom that sometimes I dunno what to do – practically, I’ve done it all!
Run as much as I want to – even got time and energy to try stunts – this week being 10km/day for the whole week! Been running with the MIR team since the start of the year!
TV! Finished Friends, Mind Your Language, Goodness Gracious Me. Almost done with Star Trek TNG (7 more episodes to go). Finished Big Bang Theory (upto date). Watching Dexter’s Lab (Season 1 now).
Watched so many movies that I can barely count! I’m super updated with movies!
Slack at home on days I don’t want to go to lab and still not feel bad!
NO STRESS during reading week or studying for mid terms and still get good results - I LOVE THIS! Like Roops says… now it’s time for us to mock them! =p
Finishing papers and projects well almost on time – without needing to rush it!
Can blog/Facebook/MSN whenever I want to – just that I choose not to!
Read at almost two novels per month since December! WOW!
Have enough family time to go for Hindi movies again!
Time to cook whatever I want to!
Catching up with friends is one thing I gotta do when I get the time!
I love my final year in NUS! Gonna pull the ultimate stunt after BioMEMs exam – which is the only exam btw! =p
