29th Generation

I’ve just found out that I am the 29th Generation in my family tree. Now that’s something you don’t learn everyday.

Next Run

After the arm up of the Nike 10K, I’m off to the next run in 2 weeks time the REAL Run, which I have signed up for the 15K event and that will be the longest I have run since like 20 years ago !!! It will all lead up to Decembers Standard Chartered Marathon event which I have signed up for the half marathon. Hope to get through that one :)

Nike+ Human Run

I was at the Nike+ 10K Run on Saturday. Well the day did not really start out great, the night before I forgot that I left my cranola bar in the office so I did not really have anything to eat for breakfast in the morning. I did drink just a pack of ice milo. Then when I reached the area I realised I did not pack my deep heat to warm the muscles up. Not a good start.

The Event started slightly after 7am. I have to admit it was a refreshing start as they had a rock concert going on and the stage was built just slightly behind the start/finish line and they built 2 tunnels under the stage so you literally ran under the band that was playing. It was pretty cool if I do say so myself. problem was the rock music blaring was really really loud. I really pity the senior citizens they probably could get a heart attack even before the race began.

We were actually flagged off by the band itself halfway through their number they started a beat and then the countdown began and off we went just a sea of RED. It was absolutely amazing.

So race strategy was to take it easy for the first half and come in strongly in the second. It was just after the 5km water point that I felt something sticking to my shoe, I looked down and saw what I though was a black tape so I quickly pulled to the side and scraped the piece off. Just about the 7km mark I felt the stickiness again and looking down saw another black tape like stuff stuck to the sole of my shoes. I stopped and pulled off the black item and I got a shock it was part of the sole of my shoe !! My left shoe was disintegrating as I ran !! I went oh-oh like a telly tubby. I immediately slowed down I did not want to do a Zola Budd and run barefooted. I guess after 2 years the shoes had enough and decided to call it a day on me. So I ease into a slow job and made my way back to the finish point thankfully in 1 piece.

 

I got the Nike band for completing the race, very nice. Had my bananas but missed out on the ice-cream, they ran out before I got a chance to queue up it was really hot so I had moved to the back away from the food stalls and missed my chance to get a free ice-cream.

Overall it was an enjoyable race and unique in many ways. Oh I think I saw Rod Monterio there among the runners as well.

Pre-Op Checkup

Recently just went for my pre-op checkup. I never knew they had such a thing in the first place. Surprisingly it was a relatively quick affair. Arrive early in the morning took my number. I got attended to by the Asst. Manager (first AM I ever met in a hospital) she guided me through the procedure what to expect and what I needed to fill in on the day itself. Took my weight, height and blood pressure, everything seems normal that day. Finally met the aesthesis' and got a briefing on what to expect from the knock out dose and the recovery procedures. All in about 45 mins spent at the hospital before I was out of there and off to work.

Maid in Singapore

We finally decided to get a Maid, previous week me and the missus pop in to an agency and being first timers at this we got to know of the little things that were needed just to get a maid employed here. Now I’ve never really had a maid myself, during my early years I remember we had a malay nanny who was a really nice lady I remember even after her services were not needed we would still visit her during Hari Raya but we drifted apart after both families moved. The rest of my early years I was looked after by my grandparents. The only other time a maid ever stepped in was to look after my elderly grandfather and we had a Sri Lankan maid. But that was for a short while. We did some looking around further and finally decided on an agency. Picked a maid, paid the fees (it’s like a human auction) and the missus did get to talk to the maid over the phone the other day and so far she seems ok. The agency said they need to do the paper work and some additional training was being conducted for them which was fine by us as we only needed her to come in around mid-Dec. The missus had to take a test as well and we needed to print out the cert (it was an online test) at the end as proof that someone in the household took the test. So now the big shift to get the babies and maids room in order.

TREMORS

The movie TREMORS which was about some giant earth worms which terrorises a small town, I love that show. They had a couple of sequels to it but the first was the BEST. Anyway it’s not about the movie but the recent Earthquakes and Typhoons hitting the region. I actually felt the 2nd tremor from the earthquake, the floor swayed a little it was like for a second or so but you could feel it, the missus on the other hand was totally oblivious to it. So with all this earth moving going on our estate has been selected by the BCA (Building and Construction Authority) to have sensors installed in the estate to monitor the movement, It will take a month or so for them to install the stuff and at various levels of the block for their study.