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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A We-Party / Monday, December 26, 2011

23 Dec 2011

Read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo until 5:30AM. Being a bookworm is nothing short of cool, if you ask me. I'd wanted to finish it before the weekend, so that the movie will enhance my reading experience and not divulge anything I didn't already know from the book. Reading past midnight had an empowering touch to it; it was my take on teenage rebellion and I could read until as late into the night as I pleased.

24 Dec 2011

Spent a nice Christmas eve with Koh and a couple we've known for some time. First it was couple-couple pool where the victories were determined by the more skilled halves of each whole, then it was chit-chatting while the halves battled it out. Next up was L4D2 campaigning at a LAN shop, where we fired, chainsawed and charged our way through zombie hell holes, while screaming at the same time to lend it further semblance of an adrenaline-charged massacre. It was my first time playing in a LAN shop and whoa I had fun.

Returned home and did some work for a social enterprise project meeting next week. Then read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo till the end and slept at 5:00AM.

25 Dec 2011

No cookies for guessing who I'd spent my Christmas with -someone who has kept my heart safe year after year. I received two pleasant presents from him this year -the first a G-masking of my phone with the Crowned Dragon symbol (I love it to quarks my goodness), making me feel like a superstar with my own merchandise; the second a key chain with my name in crystal lettering on a strap.

My eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets when I saw the G-mask. We had exchanged phones two days ago and I hadn't suspected anything because we had done this before several times and I thought he just needed Temple Run to accompany him during the MRT ride home. When I got my phone back on Christmas eve, the on/off button and the volume button felt mysteriously sunken. I did take the phone out of the cover to check, but luck had it that I didn't turn it over to discover the makeover that had gone on behind.

I guess anything bearing the Crowned Dragon symbol would earn my unquestionable affection. This symbol has come a long way. From drafts on foolscap paper, a bitmap version of the chosen model was created. It was fitted to a 96x96 pixels square for MSN display picture use, inverted in colour to represent a counterpart relationship and used in my blogskins numerous times. It has a diverse breed of offsprings -glittery cardboard decoration, basketball board with twine net, picture within a key chain and even a hand-drawn version by my other half on a Beijing Olympics box. Now there's a G-mask version of it!

Gift number two came completely out of the blue and somehow brought tears to my eyes, which I readily wiped upon the tip of the Empire State building on his shirt. Thank you for the gifts, I like them a lot.

We had an enjoyable time wandering around Vivocity. We visited the pet shop and cast our judgment that the staff didn't groom the dogs properly as their hair was growing all over their faces and their tails were like frayed ends of nylon ropes. We saw our first bichon frise too, but it seemed unkempt and we suspected that it was ill from the redness around its eyes.

We walked around my favourite sky garden and I had no praise for the Christmas tree of 2011 naked in its greenness with no adornments whatsoever.

We discovered that Page One would be closing down on the 19th February 2012 and were devastated. According to The Straits Times, "Its publishing arm remains unaffected and the company will continue to operate its stores in China, Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan - an irony, given the 28-year-old business is a home-grown one."

Page One is where you could almost always find the book that you were looking for and where different versions of a title were available to cater to different customers. For instance, you could buy a plain-text copy of Jane Eyre with $5, or you could buy one furnished with an eye-catching cover and quality paper and even with a reading guide for $25. Book rebel me says yes to the former, by the way. I wish someone could save Page One from its impending doom.

We took our time browsing the racks of Toys 'R' Us. Tamiya cars, Pokemon figurines, the new generation beyblades, delightful portable Barbie doll houses, Lego blocks et cetera. Then we bought a deck of Monopoly Deal cards.

We then dropped by Candy Empire for Belgian chocolates and headed home for a Christmas party of our own.

JN
12:13 AM