@hhChoooo… who sneezed?!?!

ITS HERE AGAIN!!

Lunar New Year! Another time of the year to pile on the pounds and get hoarse from the snack binge-ing!

Its also the same time of the year where you meet your relatives again. And they would be asking you some really tough questions… somehow its based on your station in life.

Age: 1-3
They go “Ah!! So cute!” *pinch* *pinch*!

Age: 4-6
They go “Wah grow so fast ah!” *pats on head*

Age: 7-18
They go “Got study hard or not?”

Age: 18-21
They go “So dark now hor, army tough huh?”

Age: 22-25
They go “When you graduate?” followed by “Where your girlfriend?”

Age: 25-now
They still go “When you graduate”… I go “Graduated 5 years ago liao”… then they go “Wah! so long liao hor.. So where’s your girlfriend?”… I go grrr…

Age: 30-married
They go “When you having kids?”

Age: Married with 3 kids
They go “So when is the next one coming?”… and my mouth falls to the floor…

Age: Kids grown up and working
Relatives would probably be long gone.. but I would go to my nephews and nieces and irritate the s**t out of them by asking “When you getting married?”

HAHA!!

So there you have it.. The questions most faced during Chinese New Year!

Have a blessed CNY!!

Pre-race: Woke at 3am to get myself ready. Was hoping to fully clear my bowels before the race, therefore the early waking time. Unfortunately, seems like my system is still asleep… will this come to haunt me during the race?

Start of the run

1km: Nice run, very cool morning

2km: Kenyan marathoners came running in the opposite direction! Boy! They are really FAST!! Its such a sight to see the non competitive runners cheer them on!

3km: Sky’s starting to brighten up.

4km: Is it just me or does it seem like more and more people are overtaking me.

5km: Yes, they are overtaking me.

7km: What?! Only 1/3rd the distance!!??

9km: I can feel the blisters forming.

11km: Something doesn’t feel right in the belly….

12km: Something really isn’t right in the belly… I need a toilet, and I need one FAST!

13km: Alas! Porta-Toilets in front of esplanade. Bomb time. Pray they have toilet papers.

13km: No progress… still bombing.

14km: Resume race, feel A LOT LIGHTER!!!

15km: My legs are sore, blisters getting to me.

16km: Nicoll Highway was never this long and this hot!!

18km: Finally, out of the Highway. 3km to go!

19km: Just a little bit more… Back at Esplanade…Hey, that’s the Porta-Toilet I used just now!! heh heh!

20km: So nice to have pple cheering you on. Perhaps its because “Going to die liao” is written all over my face.

21km: My first half marathon.

Had a great thursday afternoon swim with a whole bunch of brothers at NUS. Well we wanna stay and keep healthy and so we decided to swim regularly each week. Well, it was almost all brothers, YauChung’s colleague joined us for swim too.. and…. outswam all us guys, Yikes!

After the swim, I got to hang out with Linyi, Wern and Tze. At Wern and Tze’s place, I finally got my hands on something I wanted to try out. The OSIM PRO THERAPIST!! You know its the thing you see in the TV ads, where these shapely models stick some pads on their tummy and they pass some volts to the muscles causing it to contract. Its of course touted to make you have rock solid abs or whatever you’ve got hidded beneath that layer of lipids!

Here’s how it looks like!

Well, Linyi and myself managed to have a go at it… and the effects were… you can say different.
The pads were placed on the stomach and you have this control pad where you can choose the voltage and current being “zapped” to your muscles. Its quite cool coz you actually feel your muscles tensing and then relaxing. At times I could really feel my stomach muscles trembling vigourously but when I looked at my stomach, I actually saw no movements whatsoever!… I could feel nothing either with my hands… but I could sense the muscles moving?!?!

Then Linyi had a go at it… His stomach moved and his muscles trembled. And it was visible!

Enough said, I know the reason why I could not see any visible trembling or movement….
There’s sufficient “padding” to cushion any vibration. In engineering terms… the damping is good lah… Heh heh… Oh well, it has its use too… otherwise how can I float and swim better than the other guys at the pool??

Anyway, bible says… The fats belong to the Lord!!

Sorry folks, this is an insider joke that only divers would understand, nonetheless, some parts are still funny. For you divers… heh heh, better check if your buddy shows signs of these… Number 4 is hilarious!!

10) You have to lend him weight so he can get under.

9) He keeps calling his scuba cylinder an “oxygen tank”.

8) When he asks you to share air, he uses your snorkel.

7) He fills out a dive log entry for every pool session.

6) He plays victim in your rescue course, but he isn’t playing.

5) He says, “Just yawn to decompress, like on an airplane”.

4) He takes out his knife when you give the sign that you are out of air.

3) He suggests doing your last check-out dive right away — since your flight doesn’t leave for another 2 hours.

2) His new dive computer is a Palm Pilot.

1) You ask him what he thinks about nitrox and he says, “Aaah, all that wrestling crap is fake”!

I just got my DIVE GEAR yesterday!!!!

WHOO HOO!!!!

Feel like a kid again… Does it happen to you when as a kid you get a new toy and you just can’t wait to try it out!! Well… haha! The little boy inside got the better of me… so here’s me testing out my new gear! HAHAHA!! ….At home…

My New Mask and Snorkels!!!

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Putting it through the rigours of testing!!!!!

Looks like it works just fine!!!

Haha!! I’m BORED! Gotta go dive!…… SOON!!!!

Bet you din know of such things…

1) The medical term for a sneeze is “sternutation”

2) Particles exiting the nasal passages have been clocked at more than 150 km/hour.

3) Our noses produce an estimated one to two pints of mucus a day. (WOW!)

4) The material spread by sneezing can travel 2-3 metres.

so please folks… as the title of my blog says…. Cover your mouth when you sneeze.. heh heh..