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it's only about 8 weeks to my next race - the singapore marathon - in december and my sprained ankle is taking its time to heal, too slowly i would say. i've haven't been out running since last saturday and i'm getting more and more frustrated daily. i really hope i can run this weekend.

my 2 weeks break is also coming to an end as i start work this coming monday. problem is, the excitement has not kicked in. have i gotten too lazy?

feeling like an idiot

i’m starting to hate air asia.

i’ll be attending a good friend’s wedding in bangkok come december and being the always-plan-ahead, never-leave-it-to-the-last-minute, responsible person that i am, i booked my tickets all the way back in june. i gave myself a pat on the back and crossed out yet another item on my to-do-list.

now, i feel like whacking myself on the head for booking my tickets so early in advance.

when it comes to traveling with air asia, i should know better than to plan anything ahead of time. by booking my ticket to bangkok 6 months in advance, that is the biggest mistake I’ve ever done in all my years of traveling. i mean, i’m a backpacker… and i’m good at getting the best deals... anyways...

with the countless promotions that air asia has, you never know when you’d get a rip off. due to my current unemployed status, i have all the time in the world and i went into the air asia website to just ‘have a look’ at their year end specials.

since i’ll be traveling during the christmas week, i was pretty sure that i have gotten the best deal because it being a super peak season, i booked my ticket in june, hence, i should be able to enjoy the best deal, right? WRONG!

if i were to book my tickets now, i would have saved RM200!!!! i have been ripped off!!! i cound have used that extra RM200 and got my friend a bigger Tiffany & Co wedding frame!!

arrrgghhh!! i don’t know if i should be pissed at myself for always insisting that i plan my holidays in advance, or i should be pissed with air asia!!

this is the life

life is blissful at the moment.

i have the luxury of waking up when half the country is either in school or at work. hopefully all the sleep i am enjoying now will help reduce the dark eye bag that i have. there is no bad traffic to get on my nerves because i'm only out on the road during 'off peak' hours. the gym somehow has grown in size over night and it is now a haven because the choices are aplenty. it's like, when i step inside, there's no queue at the changing room. i could have just stood in front of the rows of treadmill and choose if i wanna watch MTV, or Discovery, or ESPN, or CNN, or Channel V while i run. if i'm in the mood to do my strength training, i have various fitball to choose from... should i use the blue fitball or the yellow fitball this time around? hmmmm... decisions, decisions, decisions!

then again, nothing lasts forever, and i am aware that this blissful life will soon come to an end. in fact, it will come to an end in about 10 days time. come that time, i'm expecting a 360 degree change in my lifestyle.

but i will look at the bright side things, as i always have... and look forward to the change.

28

i've been trying to avoid the full responsibility of being an adult for the longest time, but this year, as i turn 28, i'm feeling the full impact of it. i mean, i knew i was an adult when i started paying taxes. then it was when i bought a 2nd insurance policy. then it was when my housing loan was approved. then it was getting a new car. with all these financial commitment... you just can't help but feel the real impact of adulthood! the only consolation is that by reckoning with myself that it can't be all that bad.

by turning 28... i also realise that i seem to be getting less and less friends. i'm just not as outgoing as before i suppose. or i'm just more picky nowadays with whom i befriend with. sometimes when i go into my friendster page, i can't help but notice that it is actually quite pathetic because i have less than 40 friends in there! then again, life is not based on how many friends you supposedly have in friendster rite?

by turning 28, i realise a lot of things... trivial things like i've been driving for the past 10 years, or that i've lived in the same house for the past 23 years, or that i've not met up with my cousin for at least 10 years and not visited her once. or that i've been working for the past 5 years and i'm slowly paving my way to go places.

turning 28 is interesting. i can't wait until i reach the big 3-0!

out of action again

barely one week from stepping into the gym, i'm down and out of action again due to some fever and flu virus. it's so frustrating because i was really keen to start my new resistance band weight training program.

oh well... hopefully i can go back to the gym by this weekend.

and i've also registered for my next run. it would be the singapore half marathon in december. i would need to start training soon and this time, i'm hoping to improve my core muscles so that my back can support by legs when i run.

going mental

lately, i've been bored out of my mind at work. my day at work goes like this :

... switch on computer
... check office emails (getting less and less)
... go online and read the daily headlines
... go online and see who is available for chats online (usually not many people)
... go online and surf the net on hollywood gossips, travel destinations, race dates, fitness journals
... be the office receptionist sometimes by answering phones and trasfering calls
... go for lunch
... browse through magazines
... yay! 6pm, i either go home or head to the gym

top management! please spare me this agony and let me go!