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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

.: Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2012 :.

Last weekend, for the first time in my entire twenty-somthingth years, I took part in a marathon – Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2012 (twitter #scklm). Well, it’s not exactly a marathon per say, coz I just completed *shy to admit* 5km Fun Run, but it was, nonetheless an achievement for me (and perhaps a beginning of something?).


It all happened when The Husband’s colleague decided to do something healthy and challenged each other to sign up for the run. Yes, they do have an epiphany almost once every month about doing something healthy – like fruit diet, exercise, etc, but never really stick to it (should have guessed that history will repeat itself). One did signed up for a 10km Leisure Run, but The Husband thought that he should not be too ambitious and opt for the 5km instead. He asked me if I’d like to join, and at the spur of the moment, without giving much thought, I agreed. And he signed up for me as well. It was days after that I heard from The Husband that most of his colleagues chickened out, leaving him and the other colleague alone to complete the race. What’s even more insulting (in a joking manner) is that they are taking bets on whether The Husband could complete the race. One was even more daring to place a wager that The Husband wouldn’t even turn up!

Well, weeks before the race, I told my husband that we should at least train by jogging around the park nearby our place one of the weekends; at least just to get our stamina up and running, but weekends after weekends, we procrastinated with an excuse of something else more important to do, and before we know it, the marathon week was here.


I was getting a lil cold feet, coz the last time I put a pair of walking shoes on was exactly 2 years ago. Prior to my wedding, I was more physically active (again, this is all relative to my position as at today) as I frequent the gym almost three times a week, but that was all but a distant memory. I wasn’t exactly sure how far 5km was, but now that I recall back, I remember jogging on the treadmill for the same distant under an hour, so it couldn’t be too bad, could it? Well, then again, that WAS two years ago, and that WAS when I was more fit (well, as compared to now that is) and that WAS when I weight much lesser. Could my nimbly legs carry my obese body all the way, I wonder, doubting myself, once again.

I woke up to the sound of the alarm, and my body already wanted to give up then. Yes, I probably think that the biggest hurdle in this whole race is waking up. I salute those who woke up hours ago, probably at the time I went to sleep (2am) to prepare for the Full Marathon at 4am. But The Husband pushed me out of bed, and there I was dragging my feet, dressed up, still in zombie-mode as he drove all the way to Asia Jaya station stop so that we can take the LRT to Masjid Jamek.

Fast forward, the race for the 5km Fun Run started sharp at 8am. And I was taking my own sweet time, strolling for the most part of this race, and jogging every few minutes until my legs/lungs could not take it. It was not too bad as I wasn’t exactly the slowest, and then again, there isn’t really much space to sprint given that there’s a crowd of approximately 1,300 people sharing a narrow two lane road.


But while walking/strolling, whatever you wanna call it, it’s pretty entertaining to observe other fellow runners don in their “costume” running for whatever cause they believe it. Without saying much, I saw some in full yellow outfit (Bersih), a couple of Anti-Lynas, one don in a cow costume (Sharizat) and others. I also saw this little girl, about say 5 or 6 of age, weeping & crying out loud, complaining that she was tired about 3km into the race. Her mom was encouraging her, and other well meaning runners also pacify the little girl by giving words of encouragement. But the poor girl was still sobbing and crying. I tried to encourage her myself, and contrary to what I have thought, her mom said that this is the third time her daughter took part. Perhaps it’s the weather & lack of sleep that got her cranky this time round. I manage to bump into this mother-daughter team again, and it’s encouraging to know that she completed the race, in spite of all the (literally) tears.

One of the things I’ve learned too at this race is the power of encouragement & cheer. Saito College did a nice banner that says “Though time don’t last, but tough people do”. For the more humorous ones “You should not be reading this, you should be running”, “Naked cheerleaders 1km ahead”, “Tired legs are sexy”. It really encouraging I must say, truly underestimated the power of encouragement. Reminds me of a quote from the bible “Encourage one another, and built each other up”.


We manage to reach home, have a bath & was out and ready to crash baby Zac’s full moon luncheon! :)

Am now actually slightly motivated to join the Adidas King of The Road 10km run somewhere in Sept. Should I?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

.: Penguins With Superpowers :.

If I had the chance to be an animal with superpower, I would probably wanna be a penguin.


Why a penguin?

Firstly, because anything in a suit is awesome. Says my legend-wait-for-it-dary life guru Barney Awesome Stinson!


Secondly, I can be as cute and cuddly and fluffy as little Erik (Happy Feet 2), and that would be one of my inherent superpowers. Going all adorable that everybody goes awwwww and let their guards down when around me. Nobody would know that behind this adorable fluff is one penguin with a conniving scheme.


Of course, adorableness won’t get me far if I don’t have the brains, so I would like to have intelligence of the mastermind behind Penguins of Madagascar (Madagascar I, II & III) – Skipper. With that level of intelligences (my unassuming superpower), I will be able to lead a team, device tactics and prepare myself for any sort of situation. Jeng jeng jeng!

The Penguins of Madagascar Characters

Now with these two deadly combo, how can I not take over the world? *muahahahahah* *rubs hands together gleefully!*


Note : Thanks to Nuffnang, I am in the running to win some super cool Spiderman merchandise (click here)!

Monday, June 11, 2012

.: UEFA Euro 2012 :.

UEFA Euro 2012 fever! (tweet #EURO2012)

Well, I am not exactly a crazy football fanatic, but I do love to watch a good game & root for my favorite teams. Needless to say, throughout the years, I have been supporting these two teams – Germany & Italy (for both EuroCup & WorldCup)

On Saturday night/Sunday morning – I caught Group B’s match – Holland vs Denmark at midnight & Germany vs Portugal at 2.45am.

On Sunday night/Monday morning – I caught Group C’s Spain vs Italy (which is one of the better game thus far)

I am also very keen to watch tonight’s match of France vs England, and tho I don’t particularly support any team, I do favor France. Hopefully it will be worth staying up for.




DATE
GROUP
MATCH
TIME
Sat
June 09
Group A
Poland vs Greece
00:00 AM
Sat
June 09
Group A
Russia vs Czech Republic
02:45 AM
Sun
June 10
Group B
Holland vs Denmark
00:00 AM
Sun
June 10
Group B
Germany vs Portugal
02:45 AM
Mon
June 11
Group C
Spain vs Italy
00:00 AM
Mon
June 11
Group C
Ireland vs Croatia
02:45 AM
Tue
June 12
Group D
France vs England
00:00 AM
Tue
June 12
Group D
Ukraine vs Sweden
02:45 AM
Wed
June 13
Group A
Greece vs Czech Republic
00:00 AM
Wed
June 13
Group A
Poland vs Russia
02:45 AM
Thu
June 14
Group B
Denmark vs Portugal
00:00 AM
Thu
June 14
Group B
Holland vs Germany
02:45 AM
Fri
June 15
Group C
Italy vs Croatia
00:00 AM
Fri
June 15
Group C
Spain vs Ireland
02:45 AM
Sat
June 16
Group D
Ukraine vs France
00:00 AM
Sat
June 16
Group D
Sweden vs England
02:45 AM
Sun
June 17
Group A
Czech Republic vs Poland
00:00 AM
Sun
June 17
Group A
Greece vs Russia
02:45 AM
Mon
June 18
Group B
Denmark vs Germany
00:00 AM
Mon
June 18
Group B
Portugal vs Holland
02:45 AM
Tue
June 19
Group C
Croatia vs Spain
00:00 AM
Tue
June 19
Group C
Italy vs Ireland
02:45 AM
Wed
June 20
Group D
England vs Ukraine
00:00 AM
Wed
June 20
Group D
Sweden vs France
02:45 AM

Friday, June 8, 2012

.: Madagascar 3 in 3D :.

Madagascar 3 in 3D, much thanks to Capital FM for the four premiere passes to catch this movie at Midavalley’s GSC on Tuesday.

It was one of my favourite movies of the year. It may not have the best cinematography or storylines but it’s definitely compensated with the vibrant & colourful characters, full of the circus-spirit that makes you feel like you're watching a circus (for real!) and pretty decent soundtracks.


The characters are pretty hilarious (as they were in the first two movies) especially of Martin the Zebra (Eddy Murphy) and the cute little penguins; Skipper (Tom McGrath), Private (Christopher Knight), Rico (John DiMiggio) & Kowalski (Chris Miller). But of course, nothing beats the annoyingly-love-to-hate King Julien (psstt, he fell in love with the most unlikeliest of characters!)


The antagonist, Captain Chantel DuBois character was also highly entertaining. Her accents and antics keeps the young ones & old ones laughing out loud.


They always say that the sequels of movies are rarely as entertaining as the first ones (e.g. Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, etc), but this time round, Madagascar 3 proves that third time’s a charm.

*hums circus tune in head (since Wed)* *polka dot polka dot polka dot afro! move it move it!*


p/s : Worthy of a mentioned is this cute poster by cheechingy.com while I was searching for some pics.

Cute, much? You can check out more of her other cute designs from her blog here.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

.: Prometheus :.

Am I the only one who thinks that this movie is just meh?

Plenty of reviews & feedbacks from blogs, twitter & Facebook claiming it's awesomeness & epicness, unfortunately, The Husband & I don't share the same sentiments with the majority.



What do you think?
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