oh.. with regards to the previous post... Priority goes higher for fitness than learning to cook lah.. reason being gotta be fit and healthy before can do anything else mah... plus i dun really own a kitchen which i could have easy access to and could play ard with lah...

now that I've completed my NUS Btech studies, i should have more free time on my side so I'm thinking how should i spend these free time(of cos besides spending time with my family)..

I was thinking of taking up some fitness class.. was looking at either boxing or MMA but its not gonna be cheap and actually, i can personally maintain a certain standard of fitness by sticking to a certain routine which actually I've already been doing for a while.. This consist of 3 x 10km weekly runs with gym/rope skipping in the afternoon during lunch time.. oh.. and this is pretty easy on the wallet cos running and office gyming are practically free. haha.. Gotta plan my budget really really well due to Naomi's pre sch and enrichment lessons fee. :)

Another idea which i would like to try out is to pick up cooking/baking.. As much as I would love to try baking, the key ingredient of baking are butter and sugar and i thought it isn't very healthy if i run on one end and eat buttery/sugary stuff on the other end. As for cooking, I'm quite a fan of cooking shows(more of reality cooking series actually) and I'm thinking whether I should try to check out some online recipe and kick off a bit of cooking first. :) see how it goes lah..

Life is short... so shld just try or do whatever you feel like doing...

Merry Christmas Folks!

I am done with NUS, finally.

And finally the results for my last sem in NUS was released this morning, Christmas eve... Well.. NUS wasn't very sensitive when it comes to result releasing dates ya. Anyway my grades for this sem was pretty lousy considering that I've spent tons of time revising and I din fare well for my FYP as well... Pretty surprised and I did tot of msging my superior to ask him what went wrong.. Anyway I still feel very happy and blessed that I've cleared all my modules and is gonna graduate with a 3rd class honour.. 3.5 years in the making... 3.5 years of quality time that I could have spent with my family.. Finally everything's coming to a close... I've made good frds in this course and of coz, there are frds that isn't as sincere.. As for knowledge which I picked up in this course, I don't think I could apply for my workforce but I guess this is the standard journey in getting a paper qualification to signify that you've went thru the uni path. Office gonna restructure early next yr and I'm keen to see what's in store for me.. No matter what, gonna face it head on and do my best.

Merry Christmas, people! And good nite.

ladybird ladybird

Its been a couple of times where Naomi wanted to wear the labybird outfit which my bro bought but we refused to let her wear cos its kinda 'funny' looking esp wearing that walking ard in the mall.. so when we had a gathering at our uncle's place and again Naomi wanted to wear that, we tot ok, why not, since we are just gonna be in a house.. haha.. Actually Naomi look pretty cute with the outfit but she refused to put on the head gear which was the hood which looks even cuter! haha..

almost brought a very very good deal for a 2nd hand brompton but the seller sold it even tho I've made an appt to view it... But thinking back, I'm glad that I din view it else I would have definitely bought it.. and actually do i need it??? Still pondering... Its just a good to have... Not a must have. :) Save money!

and so I signed up for 2XU 10km run, OCBC cycle 39km Challenge & NTU bike rally of 138/188km.. And all these 3 events happen to be held in March 2014. Now now... I just wanna try my best to maintain a discipline to have regular training.. Tried waking up early this morning for a run but ended up snoozing till its time to work.. Prob I'll resume my nite run first..

count count count

Random post on Wifey teaching Naomi to count using some colour beads.

Good Nite world!

ride to sunrise

Took part in my 1st ever Ride to Sunrise event yesterday.. It was a 79km nite ride and it starts at ecp and ends at Jalan Besar. The weather was pretty good in the afternoon till it started to rain heavily from 4pm onwards.. Luckily the heavy downpour turns into slight drizzle at around 7pm and we were able to meet up at Buangkok and ride to Ecp together. the ride to ecp was super scary as the pavement was super wet and my rear wheel skidded at least 3 times... Really had to be super careful and ride super slow.
Anyway the event started rolling at 10pm and we reached our first rest point at changi village at around 11+... Pretty crazy to have an hour break before ride resume... Next check point was punggol park and again, the duration of the rest was 1 hr.. I was thinking, at this rate, we are gonna reach the finishing earliest by 7am and I am gonna be a zombie the next day. Thus I chose to break away at the yishun route and reached home by 430am. And after 3 hrs of Zzz, I heard a little gal shouting, Papa wake up go church!!!!!

Attended cell grp last evening.. its was a great little christmas gathering with songs, games & food. Even though we din hit full strength(dunno whether we ever did), but the feel of the gathering was great. Oh, and we even brought Naomi along so that she could play with Xiaoxi's gal.. Its real cute seeing them holding hands walking ard the house..

In terms of fitness level, its really been a roller coaster ride for me in 2013.. I've been unfit... and suddenly fit after going into insane but super enjoyable exercise routine and now in dec, I'm in the unfit mode again.. Its quite bad ass that I din really get to enjoy my school-free days after my exams and i gotta fall ill... battling a bad cough that doesn't go away... and prob trying to prevent my asthma from making a grand return in the process... Feeling really sucks and I guess only I know how sucky it feels... Taking part in a ride to sunrise cycling event this sat...still gonna attend and complete the event cos I heard that its a super super relax pace ride.. so I'm not gonna exert myself.. shall just chill and go slow with the flow...
Telling myself that I'll use Dec to let my body recover and prob just do short short jogs/cycling routine along the way...

Thinking back.. I never fall sick once when I'm engaged in my 3 x weekly run routine.

pretty in black with a touch of pink!

up close and personal

Was holding my 5DII when Naomi charges up to me...  that explains for all these close up shots.. haha.. And naomi also had some quick thrill when i guided her to see thru the viewfinder and snap a shot of me...
Simple but priceless fun with my gal. :)

ok.. i photoshopped away the mole... thinking whether to really get it removed. haha..

sleeping beauty

The good thing abt clearing leave is that I can get to see this every afternoon...
Pray that I'll always maintain a loving and close relationship with naomi. :)

o.l.d. s.c.h.o.o.l

Naomi & her wind up toys collection. I recalled that the windup robot was the 1st ever toy that i bought for Naomi at some random flea mart at the railway station. Even thou these doesn't cost much, its real nice to see Naomi having real fun playing them.

papa, mall(small) camera...

kk

2 visits in a week to KK for Naomi = 2 sessions of screaming even when no injection was used.

I was asking Naomi whether its ok for us to bring her to the doc for a checkup.. and she said ok followed with a condition "dun wan lie doc bed". Naomi was perfectly fine with going to doc till the last injection where somehow the doc dun seems to do a very good job and frightened her a bit.. afterwhich she have a fear for docs.... which is a nitemare for us... anyway we are still waiting for the report.. fingers cross that eveything is fine and that she doesn't need any followup...

waiting patiently for her turn...

not lucky 7 for naomi

if only she is still so cheerful upon seeing the doc..

on the shuttle bus to bugis after seeing the doc

lunch at Champion Ramen

weather was too hot for any outdoor pics

playing with her bubble gun!

she loves bikes!

nice christmas decor at the new robinson at Orchard

cheeky cheeky

simply love the decor!

black out

And so what I did on the day after my last paper was to jog 4.4km in the morning, followed by blood donation after lunch and lotsa carrying of Naomi.. and i black out...
yes, blackout indeed... it was a damn bloody health scare for me... For a moment, i really thought that I'm gonna die.. we were waiting for the feeder bus service home when i felt rather breathless... I tot i could fight thru it till my vision suddenly almost black out... imagine cross photo processing + x10 of noise and you would know how's my vision like... It came pretty suddenly and I could not even walk straight... Wifey had to guide me to a seat in the interchange to rest... feeling was sucky... Told wifey to go get me some sugary stuff asap... A off duty nurse happens to witness this and came over to talk to me, giving me tissues to wipe my cold sweat.. imagine perspiring thru my dri fit tee.... and she advised us to get an ambulance cos i look super pale and my lips turned white... I insisted that i should be fine after resting... quickly had the milo that Wifey bought and my vision slowly came back after close to 10 mins... This 10 mins freak me out....

While i am very very pissed and disappointed that just 2 weeks ago, i could easily do 30km jog a week... yet now i'm not in the very best of shape/fitness and probably i'll need to really SLOW down my routine but i have no choice... i dun wanna die so early... and most importantly I have a beautiful wife and a cute daughter that i wanna grow old with...

worst run ever... ran 4.4km and walked back home.... the legs can take it but not the mind... Mind over body = fail... Kinda expecting that i can't complete my 10km routine today after a 20 days break but din expect it to be so jia lat... but stamina can always be built up again... time to watch my diet and continue running!

Just finished my last paper for this semester.. I'm sure that I'm gonna pass this paper but I may have difficulties passing the 1st paper that I had on the 25th Nov.. So i'm not gonna do any celebration till I get my results on the 24th Dec 10am... not very sure why NUS chose to release the results on Christmas Eve.. hmm... Anyway I'm trying to go back to my jogging routine from tmr morning onwards pending good weather and spend real quality time with the family. :)

great waking up to this sight every morning!

1 year wiser!

Happy Birthday to my Wifey & mother in law. Even though I've been in sch since 7am, I'm still glad that I could take some time away to get a cake to celebrate with them before Zzz. Quick post before i go for my revision again.

The paper on Monday was a real disaster... Tot that I had prepared pretty ok going into the exam hall but super devastated when I did the paper.. Crossing my fingers that everyone find it tough as well and the prof moderates the scoring..

In the mist of preparing for my final paper and this had gotta be the toughest formula sheet that I'm preparing in my NUS days.. Just done up part 1 and I still have part 2 to go... Not forgetting abt the 6 tutorials as well...

And it's worse that today is 28th Nov... Normally I would be out shopping for Wifey's present but yet I am stuck doing my formula and can't celebrate with wifey tmr... And also super guilty that I can't accompany Naomi to KK for today's appt... Damn.

1217am and I'm still at my new place preparing for my paper tmr... Hopefully the exams will be kind to me... Gonna start revising for the final paper after tmr's paper and I think that will be much worse considering that we can't catch what our prof was teaching the entire sem! Positive thing is that lab weightage carries 40% and I believe I did pretty alrite for the labs.

p.l.a.y

Naomi's 2nd Birthday with family/relatives

1st time to reach home before midnight for this week and so I just dig and upload the photos from Naomi's Birthday celebration with the relatives. As usual, I'm the photographer with the 17mm lens to take random shots(just like Naomi's 1st BD). :)  Photos galore!

frame within a frame. :)

and again~

Jonathan

Jonathan's signature smile and I really like Naomi's cheeky smile here!

With Wifey and in law.

One for the album :)

Beloved Wifey with Naomi!

looking so sweet here. :)

The bike for OCBC cycle next yr. :)

yummy!

Naomi's Godma, Godpa + God mei mei

Bz papa

can see the happiness on her face!

a game of ping pong after clearing the table!

God Mei Mei

and i dunno whats with this pose!

i likey family photo!

oh... and did i mention this is just part 1 of 3 of Naomi's birthday celebration? :)

haha... not spoiling her silly but we just make it a yearly habit to gather with family/frds at the same time.

Cheers!