I recently invested in a new cell phone after my old cell phone kept hanging on me. The Sony Ericsson K800i to be precise. In the process of choosing, I was asked by the various salesmen at the phone shops what I needed, and it came down to - latest gadget, 3G, good camera. So I traded the useability of the Nokia for the stability of the Sony Ericsson. So far, a week has passed and I am pretty ok with the phone still.
Today, I stumbled upon this in yahoo's front page - tech toys which women would like for this holiday's shopping gifts... http://tech.yahoo.com/hw/gift-ideas-for-girls-gone-wired/198120
The list is terrible! It seems to imply that anything in red and simple technology is good enough for girls!!! How discriminating!!!
So, remember to please not assume if you are buying gifts for holidays, the modern woman is more savvy than you think!
Sunday, November 19, 2006
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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Lance Armstrong sub-3 marathon debut
Lance Armstrong, marathon debut of sub-3. So motivating!!!! Can you imagine the last 1 km how he must've pushed to finish sub-3 with 24 seconds to spare? And imagine the pace - I am once again motivated to push for my debut next year.
See attached reproduced from Yahoo.
By ROB GLOSTER, AP Sports Writer Sun Nov 5, 9:29 PM ET
NEW YORK - About an hour after the men's and women's champions had crossed the finish line, the crowd really started to buzz at the New York City Marathon.
Lance Armstrong was coming.
The seven-time Tour de France champion made an impressive marathon debut Sunday, accomplishing his goal of finishing in less than 3 hours and thrilling fans who seemed much more enthused at seeing Armstrong than watching a Brazilian man and a Latvian woman win titles earlier on a crisp autumn afternoon.
Armstrong's time was 2 hours, 59 minutes and 36 seconds. His shirt soaked in sweat, he virtually walked the last couple of steps to the finish line. He shuffled into a post-race news conference, his right shin heavily taped.
"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," he said. "(My shins) started to hurt in the second half, especially the right one. I could barely walk up here, because the calves are completely knotted up."
He called the race "the hardest physical thing I have ever done" — even more grueling than his worst days on the Tour.
"I never felt a point where I hit the wall, it was really a gradual progression of fatigue and soreness."
The 35-year-old Armstrong appeared relaxed for the first half of the race, smiling at fans and talking with the small group of runners that surrounded him for much of the marathon. His muscular legs and chest were in stark contrast to the ultra-thin elite runners far ahead of him.
He was paced for most of the race by former marathon champions Alberto Salazar and
Joan Benoit Samuelson and middle-distance running great Hicham El Guerrouj, and said he got a lot of support from fans packed along the course.
But his body seemed to tighten and showed signs of pain and fatigue in the final few miles. He started to fall off the pace required to break 3 hours before a final push allowed him to meet his personal goal.
"Before the race that was my goal, I wanted to break 3 hours. But if you told me with 3 miles to go, `You're going to do 3:05,' I wouldn't have cared," he said. "Honestly, at the end I was so tired, I couldn't care. Now I'm glad I did."
Will he be back?
"Now's not the time to ask that question. The answer now is no, I'll never be back. But I reserve the right to change my mind," he said. "I don't know how these guys do it."
See attached reproduced from Yahoo.
By ROB GLOSTER, AP Sports Writer Sun Nov 5, 9:29 PM ET
NEW YORK - About an hour after the men's and women's champions had crossed the finish line, the crowd really started to buzz at the New York City Marathon.
Lance Armstrong was coming.
The seven-time Tour de France champion made an impressive marathon debut Sunday, accomplishing his goal of finishing in less than 3 hours and thrilling fans who seemed much more enthused at seeing Armstrong than watching a Brazilian man and a Latvian woman win titles earlier on a crisp autumn afternoon.
Armstrong's time was 2 hours, 59 minutes and 36 seconds. His shirt soaked in sweat, he virtually walked the last couple of steps to the finish line. He shuffled into a post-race news conference, his right shin heavily taped.
"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier," he said. "(My shins) started to hurt in the second half, especially the right one. I could barely walk up here, because the calves are completely knotted up."
He called the race "the hardest physical thing I have ever done" — even more grueling than his worst days on the Tour.
"I never felt a point where I hit the wall, it was really a gradual progression of fatigue and soreness."
The 35-year-old Armstrong appeared relaxed for the first half of the race, smiling at fans and talking with the small group of runners that surrounded him for much of the marathon. His muscular legs and chest were in stark contrast to the ultra-thin elite runners far ahead of him.
He was paced for most of the race by former marathon champions Alberto Salazar and
Joan Benoit Samuelson and middle-distance running great Hicham El Guerrouj, and said he got a lot of support from fans packed along the course.
But his body seemed to tighten and showed signs of pain and fatigue in the final few miles. He started to fall off the pace required to break 3 hours before a final push allowed him to meet his personal goal.
"Before the race that was my goal, I wanted to break 3 hours. But if you told me with 3 miles to go, `You're going to do 3:05,' I wouldn't have cared," he said. "Honestly, at the end I was so tired, I couldn't care. Now I'm glad I did."
Will he be back?
"Now's not the time to ask that question. The answer now is no, I'll never be back. But I reserve the right to change my mind," he said. "I don't know how these guys do it."
Subang Jaya 10km Run
Photos lifted from KC - most dedicated photographer (taking photos even when he's sick - I know he is when he drives 500m to the stadium :-) and comes just before the start of the race!!)
It was very amusing to read KC's caption to the photo (look closely!)... I wanted to laugh so hard when I saw it as I am a very imaginative person, I could imagine the next photo I am either doing a somersault slipping on the dry twig, the dry twig jumps up and snaps my face, I fall over backwards, it flies backward and hits the oncoming crowd... well so many possible scenarios similar to the animation joke flying around the internet on the head-butt from Zidane in the world-cup finals. Excellent photography and light humor!
I was pretty impressed with the Subang Jaya 10km run. It was well organised, had a proper "atmosphere", got the sponsors and the media all hyped up. The morning started well as I found a reasonable parking nearby by following the BMW in front of me who parked next to me and was participating in the run too. Well, nowadays runners are all rich people...
The stadium also proved to enable the runners a proper ground for warm-ups. Well, my co-runners decided to save energy (as first time runners), so they were looking at me as though I was lunatic when I jogged once around the field, in two separate intervals to keep the warm-up going.
At the flag off everyone was whispering about the handsome MB whose youthful looks had gotten the media attention a few weeks back. We all praised how "leng-chai" he had become! At the shot of the gun, for the first time, I actually chatted with Azlan for about 100m - he was actually asking me a serious question! Then I decided it was his strategy to distract me as we bet on who could finish first (him being disadvantaged from the fasting), so I ran off without fully answering haha...
The water stations or lack of any at all totally distracted me from the 4km+ onwards. Normally I pace for water stations as a motivator, but to discover the motivator was gone really required me to do some internal meditating haha (in my heart, I amused myself with the thought of the girl who started off pacing with me who was clutching a gel pack and how she would encounter the difficulty to swallow like me during KLIM half marathon! well after being shamefully refocussed on people's misery, I managed to refocus on the butt in front of me again).
The finishing was so deceiving, but I have been deceived before (KLIM!). The u-turn was at the end of the road!!! So you would be seeing the MPSJ building, running past it, way past it, going downhill, way way past, then turn back...! What a teaser..
I loved stadium finishes. It is motivating to be running the ring around the track as though you were coming in for a real competition. Although this one was a bit messy (yeah, the silly A/B finishing was on the grass, I heard someone got injured rushing for the finishing), the atmostphere and track was still motivating for me. At about 50 m from the entrance to the half of the track before the finish, I actually sped up when I saw KC taking photos, this also turned out to be a good time to push the momentum for the finishing. For such a lazy attempt, position 62 is not too bad lah.
Definitely an easy and good run. See you next year!
Photo - running pals and met a guy with the same number as TKM.
Positive Karma
There has been a series of unfortunate events recently which led me to listen so attentively to a friend's passionate recount of how positive karma works.
According to her, karma is generated from each person and every time there is an accident it is because there is a collision or explosion of negative karma effects.
Recently I have been getting a lot of migraines, I am not sure if it is something I am harboring or a passing thing. I hope it is the latter. Also, there has been a series of unfortunate compounding events both at work and for those around me. So, for tonight, I will make a wish before I go to sleep, that we will all wake up, and generate positive karma and should we get together we will conquer what we need to together with our positive energy.
Wouldn't that be nice.
According to her, karma is generated from each person and every time there is an accident it is because there is a collision or explosion of negative karma effects.
Recently I have been getting a lot of migraines, I am not sure if it is something I am harboring or a passing thing. I hope it is the latter. Also, there has been a series of unfortunate compounding events both at work and for those around me. So, for tonight, I will make a wish before I go to sleep, that we will all wake up, and generate positive karma and should we get together we will conquer what we need to together with our positive energy.
Wouldn't that be nice.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Happy Belated Birthday
Happy Belated Birthday! Yup I shutdown more often this year, but not as bad as last year (when I got deepavali as birthday company, it was total system downtime)
My birthday this year passed in a haze.
... a few early sms (not sure if you forgot the date, but thank you)
... a phone call at 12 midnite (I had to remind you but your timing is better than many other occasions)
... a few sms which I forgot to say, thank you (my phone is buggy and sometimes cannot respond sms smoothly)
... a lunch which was hard to eat (one of those occasions I thought I was losing my job)
... a walk to the wrong carpark in a daze (because I got off earlier? at 615pm)
... a chance meeting and a missed meeting somewhere lost in the other carpark
... not having enough money to pay for carpark
... dazed but drove to Vintry
... could only managed to call a handful of ol pals
... beautiful fresh flowers and a lovely small piece of cake from lovely girlfrens (you know we all hate to eat fattening cake)
... a smile, a few glass clinks and some photos
... lots of porky food
... intoxicating red wine
... thanks for a bottle on the house
... hangover when i got home
... can't remember a few phone calls I returned half asleep
... slept before 12 midnite !!!!
01.11... happy birthday, many firsts always.
My birthday this year passed in a haze.
... a few early sms (not sure if you forgot the date, but thank you)
... a phone call at 12 midnite (I had to remind you but your timing is better than many other occasions)
... a few sms which I forgot to say, thank you (my phone is buggy and sometimes cannot respond sms smoothly)
... a lunch which was hard to eat (one of those occasions I thought I was losing my job)
... a walk to the wrong carpark in a daze (because I got off earlier? at 615pm)
... a chance meeting and a missed meeting somewhere lost in the other carpark
... not having enough money to pay for carpark
... dazed but drove to Vintry
... could only managed to call a handful of ol pals
... beautiful fresh flowers and a lovely small piece of cake from lovely girlfrens (you know we all hate to eat fattening cake)
... a smile, a few glass clinks and some photos
... lots of porky food
... intoxicating red wine
... thanks for a bottle on the house
... hangover when i got home
... can't remember a few phone calls I returned half asleep
... slept before 12 midnite !!!!
01.11... happy birthday, many firsts always.
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