IamJN

Books. Fields of green. Gentle sunshine. Full moon. Starry nights. Comfortable company. Hot baths. Sunflowers. Turquoise bays. Walks.

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Run Log

2008:
Saucony PAssion Run 10KM
Great Eastern Women 10KM
SAFRA Singapore Bay Run 10KM
New Balance REAL Run 15KM

2009:
Saucony PAssion Run 15KM
adidas Sundown Marathon 10KM
SAFRA Army Half Marathon 21KM

2010:
Mizuno Mt. Faber 10KM

2011:
Nike Goddess 5KM
New Balance Sundown Marathon 42KM
adidas King of The Road 16.8KM
SAFRA Army Half Marathon 21KM

2012:
SAFRA AVventura

Links

Art Sans Rulez:
Chocolarts
Avant Gart

Sites & Sounds:
浜崎あゆみオフィシャルサイト
ayu's Youtube Channel
Divine Ayu
FAIL Blog
FAIL Blog Wins
FMyLife

Coast to Coast:
0.5 Bizarre
RVNPs3'o7
RVNPs2'o8
RVCS
NUS X-Country

Cai Tong
Charlene
Charmaine
Chi Ling
Christopher
Eileen
Faraliza
Gary
Hai Wei
Hester
Joshua
Jun Yi
Kaylene
Kheng Chuan
Li Xin
Li Ting
Merwyn
Michelle
Roxanne
Sharman
Tze Hui
Wei Kai
Wei Sheng
Wilson
Winnie
Yan Peng
Yee Jin
Ying Ting
Yujun
Zheng Yang
Zhi Yi

Thoughts

23rd December 2009
Reinvent yourself
a kilometre at a time.

24th December 2009
Handphone socks are the new Cool.

25th December 2009
My dress code reads:
Order from Chaos

28th December 2009
Before learning to sing,
one must learn to listen.

7th March 2010
There is only so thin a line between being distrustful and being possessive

12th March 2010
We're special in a different way
and similar in a special way

15th April 2010
Love offers sanctuary,
not immunity

5th May 2010
Examinations are taken en masse
But we're each of us fighting our own, lone battles

16th June 2010
A small wardrobe leaves room for creativity

8th Oct 2010
Falling down is fine. Not getting back up isn't.

19th Jan 2011
The virtual realms which our dreams sculpt are so real, they leave us in wonder at how powerful the subconscious mind could be

30th Jan 2011
You know it's a good book, when the emotions you experience overcome mental weariness, and you find yourself reading into the wee hours of morn!

15th Mar 2011
Don't just have something to look forward to. Have somebody.

23rd Aug 2011
You can lose your arguments,
but never lose your faith!

21st Sep 2011
Mind over mind, then mind over matter

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You're the gin inside my tonic / Tuesday, August 02, 2011

I like reading the stuff that people that I like write. Makes me feel closer to them and strengthens their presence. Makes me feel like they are sharing their thoughts with me on a one-to-one basis.

There are people around who interest me, whom I'd truly desire to befriend on a deeper and more personal level. But they're mostly stuck in the midst of a group of friends or simply flowing in harmony with the current. I think Facebook is great for satiating that interest, but the extent to which the friendship can progress is limited to checking out each other's pictures and posts and forming soft-focus impressions.

Oh well anyway I did try to break out of my self-imposed cocoon of shyness today and spoke to this Australian girl who took the Japanese placement test with the rest of us. Haha she said that she's a huge fan of AKB48 and I replied that in my Japanese 3 paper (she did Japanese 2) they were mentioned =.=. Thought it'd be weird to speak to her in front of everyone else, but hey she was alone and just seeing that an Australian is learning Japanese is undeniably cool, don't you think so? Anyway she has the nicest eyes haha.

By the way, I had my Japanese placement test followed by an oral test today. Mugged the night away yesterday in the RC. The test was kinda tough, because it required quite a bit of speed-reading. It was all a jumbled mess initially, but my condition improved as I ploughed through the characters, many of which were absolutely foreign to me. There was even an essay section at the end =.= I managed to squeeze out some moderately sensible sentences, though. I think my speed-reading wasn't too bad on the whole. Not sure how I did for the written test..

The oral test was downright horrific for me. I kept stuttering and saying "chotto" and my vocab was limited to the most terrifying degree. It was a nightmare. The questions were broad and easy to answer, but the Japanese words didn't come to me! I couldn't THINK in Japanese and my lack of practice in communication secured my downfall. I had been asked twice about the textbook that I consulted for my study of the language, but all I could tell them was that it was from a bookstore somewhere. Self-study what what you expect! Even if I'd told them that I'd studied from the "Ultimate Japanese" guidebook, how would they even know what that is! Sigh why does it seem like self-studying is looked upon in a trivial manner...

Okay shall not talk about the incident anymore. Results will be out on Thursday and I'll then be able to bid for my last module of this semester. I'm aiming to complete my exposure modules this semester -English language, Japanese studies, philosophy and psychology. Add Japanese 2 or 3 and that will make 5 for Semester 1.

Going for cross-country interval training now! Be back soon.

Back! Training was tougher than I'd expected. I would never have the guts to craft such training sessions for myself. We did a warm-up routine around the field, followed by 10x 2min intervals at 5km pace with 1min of rest in between. My core cramped up halfway and I really had to push myself. Afterwards we did strengthening exercises, which nearly murdered my thighs. My first x-country training session ended with 2 rounds of recovery run around the field. So much for a first session! Hahaha. Oh and the seniors are friendly =D I hope more freshpeople join us next week! I feel pretty great now despite the challenging first session and am extremely tempted to grab a cup of Starbucks at its biggest outlet in Singapore. Yes, it's in UTown! Just a 5 minutes' walk away.

Sticky and smelly now and sitting at the bus-stop waiting for the rest of Antares to join me for rag. Time and again I wonder how Koh is doing. I just hope he isn't lost =.=

Alright ciao ciao!

JN
9:04 PM