Running for the children

Four months ago I made a goal to myself to start being healthier because we all know that doing sports makes you feel good n' happier right? I apparently blogged about this on July 1st and made a pact to myself to try run at least 5km without dying. And now..with a mix of Nike & Adidas branding motivation I have finished my first ever 10km race!! Without exceeding the maximum time frame as I originally thought I would take. hehe But you know what I thought was most amazing? The runners from HKBSA! Wow..v. impressive and they were running really fast too. Must say that the unicef race was super well organized and this year there were 8,500 participants (I forgot how much they raised). Jolly fun although I was a bundle of nerves beforehand and I didn't get a good night's sleep on saturday. I think this whole experience would be complete if I saw Mickey and Minnie cheering me on at the finish lines..where were they? :(

The special bus services departed from aberdeen at 5.45am. O__o Arrived at 6.15 and overheard one guy on the bus say 'whoa, in the dark it looks like a concentration camp.' True but NOT cool.

Finished the race! And me in my enormous medium t-shirt. HK girls are tiny so I thought it would be safe to go for this size. Oops.

Just a big hugs to my super supportive running buddy yves for believing in me! haha I sound lame but its so true. I wanted to stop so many times during the run but I told myself that all our hard work during practice would go to waste if I stopped so...I didn't! hehe I'm not a fast runner and it's hard to train up one's speed but I must say that my endurance has improved significantly over the past 2 months. YAY!! We did it! :D
The photographer did not catch anything remotely related to Disneyland in the background.. *chuckles Oh but do you see the ppl still running in the background? Some were from the 10km and some were from the half marathon. I don't think we did too badly right? Will wait for the official results and see.

'There is no finish line.' :D

6 more days left!

Okay I'm getting nervous again...My dad helped pick up my runner's pack today because I was spent the early part of my day catching up on my much needed sleep after doing the 20km ORBIS-BUPA Moonwalker. Zzz

My 2nd time doing it and we took off from the Shatin Sports Ground at 11:15-ish and finished at 4:00AM in Tai Mei Tuk. *WootWoot. If everyone wasn't so tired it would've been nice to sit by the reservoir and watch the sun come up. I don't think I've had the opportunity to purposely sit there and do that before. A great walk and good sense of accomplishment because we kept overtaking ppl but we didn't see people overtake us. =) This year's route was sooo much easier because it was all flat and spacious. Last year it was such a pain trying to navigate around the hoards of people along the dangerously narrow sidewalks near Sai Kung. Although the scenery was abit boring, I did have alot of fun going with my two coworkers. Very thankful that they 'bei mean ngo' to show up because I was worried that they'd call me and say that they didn't want to go anymore (they told me that they considered it after dreading the walk the whole day :P ) Glad that they got to try this at least once in their lifetime and they were also pleasantly surprised to see such a rowdy pegs hum and cheer them on at 3am in the morning. The cheerleader persona inside of me ;) haha

Look at all the stuff that the volunteers passed out. Good times..Okay going to pass out like NOW.

I did it!! :D

BOO YEAAAH!! Done in 66 minutes =D On a happiness rating I'm definitely rocking a 10 or 11 teehee. This is the first time I've ever done 10km without stopping! *high five. Although I'm not sure how accurate my sports band is, I could be doing under or over 10km but we followed the road marks and I'm certain the stopwatch isn't lying. I find that having fast paced songs really affect my mood. This particular song was like oh yeah makes me wanna dance and got me really pumped up! hahaha From now until my big day I can only fit in 3 more runs so I got to make each one count. YOSH..



What a great way to start my week. :)

The other day I was talking to my close friend about what we want to do before we die. Here's what I have in mind and these are the places or things I want do do before I'm 27-28:
1. Visit Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Backpacking style!
2. Ride a motorcycle down Vietnam.
3. Go to India, take the train somewhere and eat curry everyday until I'm sick of it :P
4. Travel to Maldives & Bali - resort style!
5. Go bungee jumping or....sky dive?!? But that is only if someone will do it with me. =D Macau Sky Tower anyone?
6. Or maybe just to make things simpler, can someone just hook me up with Anthony Bourdain so that I can work for him? hehe

And speaking of traveling I'm going to 杭州 next Thursday! It's just a really short trip with my colleagues but I've heard that its a really pretty city and HZ's West Lake is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage sites. =) Another picturesque place I really want to visit in China is Guilin although my relatives told me it's really polluted and poorly preserved like all the commonly visited places in China.

"Be born in Suzhou, live in Hangzhou, eat in Guangzhou, die in Liuzhou." (生在苏州, 活在杭州, 吃在广州, 死在柳州)

http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5329/

I don't feel like working when the weather outside is this gorgeous. Sigh I just want to be a beach bum and relax somewhere sipping lemonade.


It's almost mid november and I'm still wearing t-shirts and shorts out. Err??! Well I'm definitely not complaining because I'm loving every moment of it. It's been a busy past few days with my mom back and all the family gatherings involved. Went biking with her on Monday during my day off which was great because of the nice breeze & warm sunshine. Even though we only went from Tai Wai to the end of Tai Po industrial park and back, I think I already pushed her too far. +__+ She said she's never ridden this far before in her life - only up to the current Science Park by Chinese University? *oops my bad for making her go so far but she didn't complain so I thought she was fine. Her legs started getting super wobbly and she was having trouble walking afterwards. haha I love her..she's so hilarious & goofy. I still can't get round the fact that when I walk into my room my blanket and pj's are so nicely folded. =)

Past weekend in a blur:
C's admission at the High Court on Saturday morning. We got there at approx 9.30am and it was already sooo crowded but luckily she was no. 12 so people start retreating and we managed to get much closer near the end. Congratulations and I bet her momma is super proud. Although this is the first time for me, I expect to start seeing more n' more n' more friends in that tiny room soon! :) I look forward to it and hope I can see everyone on their special day.
Looking spiffy in our skirts and bowling shoes R's birthday bowl at E-max. Loved his mrs. field's chocolate chip cake and his new Beatles rockband game hehe I've never gone bowling before in HK and apparently this place is open 24/7? We had four private lanes reserved in which we then broke down into 2 teams for our lil friendly competition. We lost hands down and the above 5 team mates offered to do double the push ups for us 5 lazy girls. I had a reasonable excuse but xie xie nong :P

20 more days left!! Now that I've been jogging for a month now, I must say that I've been a good girl and still have been going at it maybe 3 times each week. Unfortunately whenever I jog by myself I can never seem to do lengthy runs :( Nevertheless some things that I've learned so far: 1) Peggy should NOT wear glasses whilst running bc it'll hurt like a biatch and also start sliding from the sweat 2) Peggy should always wear lip balm beforehand especially when its windy out 3) Peggy gets stitches quite easily so if she's hungry she must eat something really light, 4) Peggy runs much much better in the evenings rather than in the mornings, 5) Peggy should not wear white when it looks muggy with a chance of showers, 6) Peggy always experiences a mental shut down wall at around 3km so she must repeat in her brain 'pain is temporary, quitting is forever'!! *rarrr, okay now I'm super motivated for my next run.

My sleepy tuesday zzz

So darn sleepy today at work. I blame it on the weather. Now that its cooled down considerably I finally didn't need to turn on my air cond so I left my windows open. Bad move because at 6.30am, I swear I heard a kid laughing and playing outside. It's like what on earth...??!! It sounds cute but not when you're trying to catch some much needed zzz.. uugh. I looked at my clock and thought to myself who in the right mind lets their kids play outside so darn early?! Couldn't keep my eyes open today. Perfect cure? Coffeee.. You know Christmas is just around the corner when Starbucks has their gingerbread or toffee nut latte promotions. Mm.. And no these aren't all mine. lol

Was feeling bored whilst waiting for the taxi en route to light drinks so I started playing with my camera. hehe I saw the yellow lights on the middle of the mountain and I just knew it had to be bowen road where I do my weekly runs. Like my drawings? hehe