Perceptions are the truth

1234! lyrics - Plain White Ts
Songwriters: Higgenson, Tom

1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Give me more lovin' than I've ever had
Make it all better when I'm feelin' sad
Tell me that I'm special even when I know I'm not

Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
Barely gettin' mad, I'm so glad I found you
I love bein' around you
You make it easy, it's as easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

There's only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There's only one way to say
Those three words and that's what I'll do, I love you

Give me more lovin' from the very start
Piece me back together when I fall apart
Tell me things you never even tell your closest friends

Make me feel good when I hurt so bad
Best that I've had, I'm so glad that I found you
I love bein' around you
You make it easy, it's as easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

There's only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There's only one way to say
Those three words and that's what I'll do, I love you
I love you

You make it easy, it's easy as 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4

There's only one thing to do
Three words for you I love you
There's only one way to say
Those three words and that's what I'll do, I love you
I love you

1, 2, 3, 4
I love you
I love you
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Give me more lovin' than I've ever had
Make it all better when I'm feelin' sad
Tell me that I'm special even when I know I'm not

I love you...

Regards
=)

Forgetful-ness is when you dont bring your water bottle to work.

Stupid-ness is when you leave the car's window wound down for the duration of your work..

Unlucky-ness is when it happens to be a rainy day.

Regards
The forgetful and Unlucky Stupid Idiot.

I woke up and realise i forgot to bring some documents from my office home with me. This really means that i cant do much work at my satellite office. =(

Anyway,
To keep people motivated to work on weekends, we should reward them with something tangible.

I.e Every weekend you work, its an extra $50 on top of your pay.

Refunding the weekends through day offs during the weekdays is just stupid! Its even more stupid when these days off are subjected to work load requirements.

Theres really no incentive to work on weekends.

Regards
Workaholic.. not by choice.

Just this afternoon, a friend of mine got particularly upset about the no show of his several other friends over an outing he was organising..

The trick to avoid such an situation is to manage your expectations and have friends of different level. Here are some categories of people in my life..

1) Your colleagues are your colleagues. Do not mistake them for friends.
I have many colleagues.Many many of them. We hang out sometimes but i dont talk about anything else other than work...or gossip about others.

2) There are some friends whom you can have lots of fun together.
Do not mistake them as friends whom you can turn to in times of trouble. (Trouble does not mean white gold when your relatives or your dad pass away...)
I have many of these friends too... They fill up my life sometimes and keep me entertained when all is well.

3) Then there are people whom crossed path with you a long time ago..
I have many of these people in my life too. We meet on the streets..and practically every where else... Some of them, i dont even remember their names. Sometimes, we hang out for awhile... but they often disappear as sudden as they appear..

4) And finally there are friends whom i turn to in times of trouble...
They know most of my trouble and i bitch the most to them when i see them (even if i dont see them for awhile). They usually cant help me when im in trouble (because i get myself into soo much trouble nowadays) but its always comforting that they are there. If i have to hide away from the world... i would go to them.

Once you know what you can expect from the people in your life... you tend to not get disappointed soo often.

Live and let live. You'll be lucky if one person in your life falls into Category 4.

Regards
Your friend

Heres another one... i'll try to find happier songs next since its the holiday season but you cant really blame me if thats all they play on Radio. Suspect all the stand-in dejays aint too happy about working on a holiday.

Nobody can be happy working on a holiday. =)

你们要快乐- 李圣杰

你哭着拿下银手链还我的时候
最近你躲我有了理由
别说我的爱让你惭愧不配拥有
珍惜不就是温柔

但你说抱歉爱上了我的好朋友
原来心酸比心痛难受
茫然的走到了门口
倔强还是念旧
我听见我 回头说

走出这扇门后至少我还有辽阔
你们要快乐要紧紧牵手
你们不幸福我会难过
成全最爱的人不是为了看着她
寂寞

过去曾让你笑得很甜
不代表有权利要你纠结
虽然遗憾爱情也有它的季节
风不能吹就作最潇洒的落叶
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你们要快乐要天长地久
你们没有错爱是自由....

Rite.. only wusses says that. I would have wished that they rot in hell.. =)

Regards

Its these songs that makes you wanna go KTV.
The ones with accompanying girls... KBox are for wuss.

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后来的我 - Pin Guan

越过那条长街再转弯
那是以前我常来的地方
谁还传言和感情的窗
你一直希望对面是一片海洋

后来听说你一直想搬
太多寂寞在屋里一直烧不完
在别人面前我们总显得大方
说还是朋友或许只是一个假象

后来的我们一直都遇不上
仿佛都在避开某一些地方
在人群中都走得特别匆忙
怕一不小心就认出对方

后来的我们又被谁而遇上
忍痛许久的伤终于能原谅
才明白眼泪只是一种行囊
而我们都是彼此幸福的转站

也许在某一天某个街上
无意中擦肩认出对方
我们只需自然
不会有人看穿
怕一不小心就会认出对方
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我们只需自然..不会有人看穿.

Regards

Yesterday, i was told that i was on 'OFF'.
Thats really nice since its the holiday season and considering im up to my neck recently... a break was definately welcome.

It was good until you realise that i only got to know about it at 1000hrs in the morning.

Im not complaining.. i would have went back to work even if they had told me that it was my OFF day but this goes into the black book.

Regards

I was watching Bodyguards and Assasins over the weekend and this song has been humming in my mind ever since.
Believe me, it was worth every cent of the RM10 that i paid.

"Die Another Day" - Madonna.

I'm gonna wake up, yes and no
I'm gonna kiss some part of
I'm gonna keep this secret
I'm gonna close my body now

I guess, die another day
I guess, die another day
I guess, die another day
I guess, die another day

I guess I'll die another day
(Another day)
I guess I'll die another day
(Another day)
I guess I'll die another day
(Another day)
I guess I'll die another day

Sigmund Freud
Analyze this
Analyze this
Analyze this

I'm gonna break the cycle
I'm gonna shake up the system
I'm gonna destroy my ego
I'm gonna close my body now

Uh, uh

I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go

For every sin, I'll have to pay
I've come to work, I've come to play
I think I'll find another way
It's not my time to go

I'm gonna avoid the cliche
I'm gonna suspend my senses
I'm gonna delay my pleasure
I'm gonna close my body now

I guess, die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess, die another day
I guess I'll die another day

I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go

Uh, uh

[Laugh]

I guess, die another day
I guess I'll die another day
I guess, die another day
I guess I'll die another day

Another day [x6]

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It's not my time to go...

Regards
Mr Sun.

Formula One: Schumacher signs one-year deal with Mercedes
Posted: 23 December 2009 0606 hrs CNA

I like him... but i think i like ferrari more. =)
Go alonso go!

Regards
Ferrari Fan

0704hrs update

I was just thinking.. F1 = Ferrari. But for road car, give me a Mercedes anytime. =)

I have a friend at my workplace..

He simply doesnt care about work anymore. In fact, he said that the only thing that bothers him is if they 'fire' him.

I spent about 2 mins thinking about the situation before i slept yesterday (thats really how much time i could afford before i drifted off to dreamland..)

About a year back when i actually went through this particular bad patch, i most prob shared his sentiments today.There was so much angst in me that i viewed everything with skepticism. Subconsciously, i was finding fault with everything and everyone.

Gradually, i realised that there was really nothing that i can change. No amount of world saving acts would change anything. Not for me and certainly not for the company. Not yet.

And since i wasnt able to change anything, there was no use letting it affect me. Why would i want to live an unhappy life because of things that i cannot influence?
I have since gotten out of that phase and moved on.

The recent episode set me thinking if this was something that happens everywhere...

Man finds a job that doesnt suit him or a company that doesnt share the same values and falls into abyss...never to recover from the set back and condemn to a life of doom.

For the moment, it certainly appears so.

Regards
Just another co-worker

新不了情- 萧敬腾

心若倦了泪也干了
这份深情难舍难了
曾经拥有天荒地老
已不见你暮暮与朝朝

这一份情永远难了
愿来生还能再度拥抱
爱一个人如何厮守到老
怎样面对一切我不知道

回忆过去痛苦的相思忘不了
为何你还来拨动我心跳
爱你怎么能了
今夜的你应该明了
缘难了情难了

心若倦了泪也干了
这份深情难舍难了
曾经拥有天荒地老
已不见你暮暮与朝朝

这一份情永远难了
愿来生还能再度拥抱
爱一个人如何厮守到老
怎样面对一切我不知道

回忆过去痛苦的相思忘不了
为何你还来拨动我心跳
爱你怎么能了
今夜的你应该明了
缘难了情难了

回忆过去痛苦的相思忘不了
为何你还来拨动我心跳
爱你怎么能了
今夜的你应该明了
缘难了情难了
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曾经拥有
已不见你暮暮与朝朝
情难了..

Regards

Boys Brigade says it is still short of 50% of donated items this Christmas
Posted: 15 December 2009 2236 hrs CNA

I love doing my part for charity. I have helped out in old folks home before but its seriously not my cup of tea. So... instead of doing nothing at all, i choose to give through monetary items.

I have been giving to boys bridage ever since joyce introduce me to the 'scheme' a few years back. Every year, without fail, i will go to AMK NTUC to buy packets of rice and deposit them at the Boys Brigade counter located outside NTUC.

This is extremely convenient because the sales of neccesity items shoots through the roof during those Boys Brigade donation drive period.

Yes, it simply doesnt make sense for me to buy a 10kg pack of rice from my provison shop and bring it all the way down to the Boys Brigade counter that is located conveniently beside NTUC. The $2 savings just aint worth it.

Regards
In Charitable mood.

Im contemplating..



How long do i need to train to win this?

Regards
No. 992

Cycling on footways to be legalised in Tampines - 13 Dec 2009. 938 live

Im deeply disturbed.

MP for Tampines GRC Mah Bow Tan explains :
"The first one is infrastructure, the second one is education, and thirdly enforcement. The last one was missing, enforcement. To keep the errant cyclists who endanger the lives of pedestrians to make sure that they’re not reckless. So, we wanted to make sure that cyclists obey the rules of the road, that they give way to pedestrians, do not obstruct, and if they don't then we will be able to enforce and take action against them."

Im deeply deeply disturbed.

1) What infrastructure?
2) How to educate?
3) Who to enforce?

I leave you with this series of photos. You tell me how to co-exist on the narrow footpath, how to educate these folks and who will be running around like headless chickens if these folks flaunt the rules...



For cyclist or for me?



How to siam?





Even the bikes want a piece of the road..It can only work if all of us are gracious and kind. But because the education system is an elitist one which focus on hard tangible skills, this exercise of having both the cyclist and pedestrian coexisting is nothing but a feeble attempt to clock some new initiatives under the minister's portfolio.

For my reader's info, i didnt deliberately went out to get the above pics after the report. I had them in my PC for a while after some very bad experience with these cyclist while jogging.

Now, can anyone remind who wanted to bring all these foreign workers' dorm to the heartland?

Regards
Just a jogger.

Just a quick one before i resume my unhealthy lifestyle...

I was out for supper with my friends the other day and i realise that they have changed. Maybe because i have been neglecting them because i was so caught up with my own life. Maybe we hve drifted apart...

And im not proud of them..



My handphone was dead and i borrowed a friend's iphone...guess what i saw as the wall paper.



Subsequently, when i returned from ordering my Orr Jian, i caught my friend trying to order soft porn on the go with his iphone.



While enjoying my orr jian, i caught sight of the above disturbing scene.



It went downhill from then on... je even proudly show me his stained burmudas.

Regards
Very Detached.

Brigadier-General Ng Chee Meng appointed as new RSAF chief
Posted: 10 December 2009 2231 hrs

We have the 'Lee' family. Now, lets welcome the 'Ng' family.

Regards
Lim never amount to much.

Michael Jackson’s “This Is It”

This is it, here I stand
I’m the light of the world, I feel grand
Got this love I can feel
And I know yes for sure it is real

And it feels as though I’ve seen your face a thousand times
And you said you really know me too yourself
And I know that you have got addicted with your eyes
But you say you gonna live it for yourself.

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn’t my plan
I never thught that I would be your lover
C’mon baby, just understand

This is it, I can say,
I’m the light of the world, run away
We can feel, this is real
Every time I’m in love that I feel

And I feel as though I’ve known you since 1,000 years
And you tell me that you’ve seen my face before.
And you said to me you don’t wnat me hanging round
Many times, wanna do it here before

I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn’t my plan
I never thught that I would be your lover
C’mon baby, just understand

This is it, I can feel
I’m the light of the world, this is real
Feel my song, we can say
And I tell you I feel that way

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Got this love I can feel...and I know yes for sure it is real

Regards
His Fan

The numbers dont lie...

This is for bragging rights. Everyone nowadays can run a marathon... just not this quick.





This isnt that bad considering that there must have been 10000 runners who passed me after the 1st 10km. I made up enough time to out run 8000+ of them.



Just about 150 girls infront of me from the entire field. Truth be told, i used alot of them as tertiary targets when i was running. Need to catch that lady in skimpy clothing.. Need to catch that lady in red bra(<---who wears a red bra while running...omg)?!? But they all helped to take my mind off the pain...



Seriously, i dont know what is this. Might be Singapore males at a particular age running...



All those training in the last 6 weeks done me some good. hahaha...



I found this amusing.. There were 10 runners who passed me during those last 10km. Considering that i walked the last 300m, these 10 runners could have passed me all within that 300m. hahahah...

Oh well, till next year.

Regards
4 time Marathoner

Alrite..
Heres the lowdown on SCM 2009.

I didnt win it. =(

However, i was there..side by side with Luke Kibet (Winner 2008 and 2009) for a good 15mins. They were allowed into the starting pan at 0515hrs and yours truly being very early this year, was able to stand just right beside them.

At 0530hrs, that was the last time i saw him. HAhaha...

For the rest of the hour, i struggled between bloated-ness and the crowd. I woke up with my tummy feeling extremely bloated and the run definitely got off to a bad start. I was having self doubts at 3km.. And by virtue that i was there in front, there were like 10000 runners waiting to make a pass on me. The other 7499 didnt train and couldnt care less.

Surprising, by 0630hrs.. i was a wee bit faster than that last time i ran in 2007. I was doing an astonishing 9km per hour. This was 1km faster! Talk about achievement.

I entered ECP (11km mark)..panting. Why? I dont know. Maybe i was looking forward to having my photo taken by Anson (this didnt happen). Or it could the lack of red blood cells(its a good reason to blame my lack of fitness)? To cut the long story short.. ECP was a long 20km run and as expected, people started to slow down. After being over taken by 10000 runners during the 1st 10km.. i was slowly matching the pace of runners around me.

During the ECP stretch, i had this Ang mo and Safra runner arguing about lane crossing/cutting. They were shouting at each other and i wonder if all those shouting did their run any good. But with 17500 full marathoners, it was always going to be difficult to find clear empty spaces to run. This brings about another problem.. Stinky runners. I most prob stink but definately not as bad as some runners. They were really bad. But they were reasons for me to pick up pace and siam them...

ECP was good for another reason because it was a to and fro stretch. This means that there were opportunities to see who is on the other side of the run. While i didnt run last year, i did took quite a few pics of people who ran the marathon and i saw them again this year! There werent very far in front of me by the 20km mark (~5mins-8mins) and it was a good enough reason to set secondary targets to catch these runners.

By the 23km mark, i was overtaking people. Phew. Bloated-ness was gone and i was actually feeling rather good. In fact, i pick up quite abit of speed during this section tht brought me close to my initial target of 10km/h. I was really only about 2hrs and 20mins into the race. It was also at this time that i stole a Powergel from the volunteers while she was exclaiming loudly to the runner before me that each runner was entitled to only 1 power gel. While she had her eyes strained on the runner in front, i reached out and took 2 powergel and stuffed it into my shorts.

Na ni na ni bu bu..

The 26km mark coincided with a drink station. And this is also what i termed as a great fall. I guess by this time, alot of people was struggling. Either that or they were all friends running together. WHY? Immediately after finishing they drinks, one by one, they fell to the floor and started stretching. It was a comical sight. I was standing there with a pool of bodies infront of me.. Amusing amusing.

I exited the 30km mark and ECP at 3hrs and 8mins. About 8 mins behind my intended target. This really perked me up quite abit because the timing affirms what i suspected through my weeks of trainning. I was indeed running faster than previous years. But self doubt crept in again wondering where i'll find the energy to finish the last 12km.

Mountbatten road and Stadium road saw the marathoners brushing shoulders with the pretenders (the 1/2 marathoners). This was devastating because i had to contemplate with pretenders who were walking for most part of their run. Pain was also catching up and i started to feel this soreness in my legs. During this stretch, i ran behind this old uncle (~50 years old??) who seems like a veteran at running. His legs were what i termed as chicken legs. Despite my best effort, i never really caught up... lost him after about 5km. He was simply too fit even at his age.

From Sims way till Crawford street, we again had some clear air because the pretenders went straight through nicole highway while i had to make a huge detour to clock enough mileage to finish 42km. It was at this time when i realise that the crowd has withered down to sporadic pool of runners, all struggling to finish the race. The good ones are way in front and the bad ones are way behind...

Time check, 3 hours 40mins, 7km to go... I have to push harder to make my intended speed of 10km/h. The weaving in and out of the mass crowd earlier is taking its toil and im seriously having lots of pain in my calfs.

4hrs and i turn into Republic ave... this signifies the start of a nitemare. The 10km wusses were there, the pretenders were there.. and i was there. Everyone was there! it was 3km of sheer madness. I couldnt even see pockets of empty spaces.

The last 3km was categorised with massive weaving and frustration as i try to find a clear spot to run. The pain in my calfs were also not helping and drinking didnt help as much as it did during the ECP stretch.

As i finish 42km of the run.. i slowed myself to a walk. I had promised my dearest Joyce that i would walk the final stretch so that she can catch me in action with her not very good CANON camera. Hahaha.... PKH and wife was also suppose to be there. TSS and Goken whom i hope to see during the run could be there too. i wanna see all of them.

So it was understandably quite amusing when the crowds starts to cheer you.

"Come on! Its just a couple more steps!"

I finished the race walking and i wondered if the folks at marathonphotos.com caught any pics of me. I had lots of wusses and pretenders running in the marathon side of the finishing line and i suspect they have blocked me all the way through the finishing line.

Naaa... I wasnt very keen anyway because i would love to be photographed by them someday when i win the marathon. Not today. Hahahah...

After the finish, that was when the pain crept in. Painful is too nice a word to use.

All in all, it was nice to be running again. Like i said before in my previous years posts, running the marathon is an individual self effort. When you get to the starting line, all those hardwork and effort you put in would be translate to the tangible results at the end of the run. Most things in life aint that simple... i wished they were. Too many things in life are a complex mixture of human emotions and manipulation (read: Bootlicking)

Till next year.

Regards

Potential 2010 SCM winner

In about 2 hours,

All the thrash talk would stop and i will cross the start line to start the Standard Chartered Marathon 2009.

I hope i dont pay too badly for all the mistakes i made over the past week.

Regards
Bloated.

Update

All the hardwork and preparation paid off. I was within 2m of the SCM 2009 Champion.. Dont say another word. I know im good.

Regards

Time now is 0937hrs.

I wonder what i'll be doing at this time tomorrow?

Regards
Apprehensive.

I feel like a loser. Im trawling the net to find ways to increase my red blood count. Things that i have done over the past couple of days..

1) I ate the iron tablets provided by the Donation centre.
HAhaha... those are for wuss but..im desperate.

2) I drank berocca.
It was provided free with the Marathon good bag and it contains folic acid which was suppose to help aid generation of red blood cells. I even found those packs from the marathon i took part 2 years back.

3) I forced mama to buy me pork liver....
And i drank the bloody soup that was used to cooked the liver. Errrm...3 spoonful of it. Afterwhich, i decided that if i were to suffer from poisoning, it would not aid in my run too... so i stopped.

4) Im going to SGH to ask for the packet of blood i donated last sunday.
Im going to ask for it to be transfused back into me later.. Apparently, this is the fastest way to replenish your red blood cells.

Point no.4 brings me to wonder... Are all vampires really junkie marathoners?

Regards
Desperate.

Update..

While i was out walking my body about 20mins back, i thought of more things that i did over the week..

5) I stopped tauting Raven.
Darn... hes strangely slow at marathons (dont ask me why) but i was easily 45mins to an hour faster than him the last few times we ran marathons.. but i never really got near him during those short runs.

6) i started looking for jogging buddies...
Xerox, keith and even jade.... i definately need to find excuses if i come in after 6 hours..
"Hey, i saw XXX..and he was struggling. I thought i'll walk with him/her so as to ensure that he/she completes the race" <---its going to go along the line of good sportmanship / friendship..

There are about 5 million articles warning athletes never ever to donate blood at least 3 weeks before a major event...

and i read none of it until now.

I timed the donation to be about a week before sunday's marathon because i wanted to force myself to rest my tired legs. In the world of sports, this is called tapering in which the marathon training takes a breather about 2-3 weeks prior to the event to allow the body's muscle to recover from all the months exertion.

Smart arse me has compressed the taper period to about 10 days prior to the event because i didnt even have enough time to exert the body enough im seriously much better than those lousy runners who is out to run another marathon...

In the past, i had one bad experience while donating blood and training for marathon before. I tried to run about a day after a donation early in marathon training season and almost fainted while coming home from a 4km run. From then on, i knew my body wasnt ready for exertion within 24 hours of donation...

The saving grace was that i did resume my 4km training runs about 3 days after the donation that year and felt fine.

So with that experience in mind, i was hoping that the week leading up to marathon would be n excellent opportunity to recuperate and save a life in the process. That feels so stupid now.

I ran 2km yesterday...and felt like a dog at the end of it. All those training down the drain... maybe i should just bring my camera on sunday and forget about running

Regards
Dont feel so smart now.

UPdate

The most encouraging post i read thus far tells me that perhaps its all in the mind. If donating blood reduces performance, then ladies having that time of the month would never be ready for long dist running.

Its all in the mind. Its all in the mind! Waaaooot...

Donating blood: effects on athletes
Gabe Mirkin, M.D.

"A healthy athlete should be able to recover completely from donating blood in eight weeks, but he may lose some of his ability to train for a few days. Following a donation of one pint, blood volume is reduced by about ten percent and returns to normal in 48 hours. For two days after donating, you should drink lots of fluids and probably exercise at a reduced intensity or not at all. Donating blood markedly reduces competitive performance for three to four weeks as it takes that long for blood hemoglobin levels to return to normal.

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HK liao. No wonder i cant even finish my 5km run yesterday.
Smart a** me thought that i could time this and save some lives at the same time.

Regards
Ex Potential 2009 SCM Winner

I walked while trying to complete a 5km run just now.
Maybe i aint as good as i thought. hahahaha..

Regards
Over-estimation.