My SLIGHTLY belated birthday celebration

Lunch at Giardini's, Leederville

Birthday cake baked by darling...

Back: Jasmine, Michael; Middle from left: Eric, Brendan, Jer Sie, me, Jessie, Tasha; Front from left: Shirley, Marc, Li-Ann, Jer Kie, Renee...

Birthday prezzie... Amart All Sports gift voucher and neck tie from Frangi Collezioni....

Congratulatory prezzie for completing CA... see the COOL wordings engraved on it!

Thanks heaps, peeps! You all really made it special... really appreciate it...

LAP IT UP!!!

I CANNOT run on treadmills...

That pretty much summed how I did at the Foxtel Lap. I spent the first 1 minute restarting the machine several times and fumbling the buttons to find the right pace.

I got to know that one of my colleagues, Glen did 80 laps (8.0km) in that approximate 30 minute slot. Yeah, I was foolish to try to beat his record... went out too hard in the beginning... was clocking 18kph... then 16kph... then 15kph... and then kept at 14kph, which I thought would be just right to achieve my 70 lap goal anyway.

Running on treadmill is so boring... I don't know how you guys do it... our machine was positioned on the bottom far left (see picture below), so we're kinda blocked by a TV screen. Li-Ann had to come to the side to watch and cheer me (thanks, darling!)


I think I over-stride... Look, BOTH my feet are AIR-BORNE!


As I was the final runner for my team... my colleagues came down to cheer me on! Me being quite low-profile at my workplace... getting all this attention is quite nice actually...

Again, I fumbled at towards the end... the emcee said "That's it..." and started counting down "10... 9... 8... etc." Well... I misunderstood and pretty much stopped the machine when he said "That's it..." Couldn't get it to start back again after.

I clocked 6.891km in total in that 28-29 minutes or so. The marshals recorded it at 68 laps.

Our team whipped the others in Perth to come up tops with 1263 laps in total for 20 people. Although the top team in Sydney beat us by 12 laps. See results *here*.

I got to know that our partners also won the Chief Challenge... with both partners clocking 78 laps each... They're some REALLY fit bosses.

What did we win?

A medal each...


A Sports Fever gift voucher... hmm... 2XU compression leggings? What do you guys think of men in thights?


Some other stuff... including a pink Puma bag... which is going to Li-Ann.


I guess I shouldn't complain too much about my run... After all, the MAIN cause was for charity... and I had LOADS of fun!

A big thank you to all those who generously sponsored me!

Doing it for the kids...

No... I'm not singing on Australian Idol's Charity Event...

Believe me... my singing would be the LAST thing ever for kid's charity! Haven't those kids suffered enough?!?!

The Foxtel Lap... is a fundraiser for Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Corporate teams are represented by 20 people per team... and we each have to run as many 100m laps on the treadmill in 30 minutes.


Yup, team KPMG Cruisers... not sure who came up with the corny name... but it's quite catchy also! And the T-shirt is a bit flashy but it's dri-fit!

We are running this Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at Forrest Chase, Perth City. We are each allocated time slots... I'm running at 4.30pm. Not sure whether the treadmills would be indoor or under the sun....

Of course, any sponsorships are most welcomed! Click here and select my name from the scroll menu. You can choose to donate a nominated amount or per number of laps I'm expected to do. Amounts in AUD though...

Thank you!

Invincible... NOT!

Got my CA results for my final paper on Friday... passed... didn't get merit though... But this time I missed out by quite a lot... 6 marks... hehheh, maybe I was over confident lah...

But who cares? I'm a CA! (although I still have to wait until May next year when I fulfill my 3 years work experience before I qualify)

Jiun got ANOTHER merit AGAIN... that's FOUR in a row, man....

It was Renee's birthday treat for all of us at Seven Seas Restaurant, Mount Lawley. The food was EXCELLENT! Thanks, Renee!

Check out my seafood platter!


It's been a while since I've posted anything triathlon-related...

Well, Sunday's gym session was INDEED an experience.... first of all, it opened late. So I had to cut down one of my spinning sessions to make it in time for BodyPump.

Then, after my weights session after BodyPump, I tripped over the rower machines and cut my right shin against the rower bars.

The damage...


It hurt quite bad... and I decided to skip my extra spin session for the day.

It's all dried up now... my run this morning wasn't affected at all. In fact, I clocked my second fastest time ever! 36:07.05 for 8.5km (average 4:15 per km)...

Oink... oink...

You know you're getting old when you have crossed your Zodiac year TWICE... (in my case, it's the year of the pig)...

My birthday weekend was a BLAST... mainly spent with darling...

Friday... curi-curi watched fireworks at Perth Royal Show from the outside. Then, we had coffee and cake at Terrazza near our place.


Saturday... we watched Ratatouille at Grand Cinemas, Warwick. I found the movie fun... a bit fairy tale though... and rats are just so geli... whether they are real or animated...

We then went to Hillary's Boat Harbour for buffet lunch at Jetty's. The selection was a bit too Asian for me... I've always felt that Asian food is best eaten at home.


We wanted to try out the Nothern beaches (i.e. Trigg Beach, North Beach, Marmion etc.) but they all seem so rocky...


In the end, we went to Scarborough Beach, slightly nearer... The waves were REALLY strong. There were lots of surfers... we were only allowed to swim in designated areas.


Sunday... we had lunch at The Cross at Applecross. Ambience was good... food was unfortunately... average.


We then watched Hairspray at Hoyts Garden City. The singing and dancing was a bit over the top. John Travolta is so weird in drag. But entertaining nonetheless.

For the ceremonial cake blowing... since there were only 2 of us... Sara Lee's frozen cheesecake had to do...


Darling got me a bathrobe and a duck feather quilt... must be thinking that her skinny boyfriend was freezing throughout winter... hahhah...


And I received running socks from home... as I implicitly mentioned... hehheh.


THANK YOU ALL... for the well wishes, SMSes, e-mails, Facebook wall posts, Friendster comments...

Queen of a weekend...

It was a long weekend... we had Monday off as a public holiday... Queen of England's birthday...

Saturday arvo was Jessie's birthday treat at Sizzler's with the gang. We each ordered a main (I had the pork cutlet) and was given entry to the salad bar buffet. Ate until very full... the food was good, the company was EVEN BETTER! Thanks, Jessie!

Today, we went to Perth Royal Show. It is an annual event at Claremont Showgrounds... with carnival games, rides, showbag stalls, food fair, animal exhibitions... yeah pretty much EVERYTHING! A bit pricey. Entry was AUD22 and each game was about AUD5, the rides were AUD8 each... we didn't bother going on any rides... the ones at Genting are more chi kek.

But it was fun doing something with friends on a day off... Shirley had her hands full taking care of her cousin's kids...

Chocolate castle... can you count how many chocolate bear soldiers? Not from this distance, you cant...

Frozen chocolate bananas... somehow this picture looks a bit obscene... but they were delicious!

Eating lamb shank with Jer Kie and Jessie

Butt picture of me climbing the The Ladder

Another one with brother Eric Siah...

From left: Jer Kie, Eric, Myself, Renee...

Another group picture with Shirley, her cousin's kids and Benny

Got some macademia and cashew nuts for my nutty darling

Mid autumn ala Perth

Weather was too windy to play lanterns outside. So we played INSIDE my house.

This was actually taken with the lights TURNED OFF and the candles LIT UP. My camera phone no night mode lah...

The oriental supermarket was closed right before I got to it. So can't buy any mooncakes.

SINGLE mooncake SHARED by us... thanks to Eric Siah...

*Edit* more photos (and better ones too...) from Renee's camera...

Kid again...

With Natasha

With brother Eric Siah...

From left... myself, Eric, Tasha, Jessie, Brendan and Renee...