Limited Edition MacDonalds Coca Cola Glass 31 August, 2008
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There it is! A complete set of 5! :D
Remember that Dear1 had to eat a whole day of MacDonalds a few weeks back? Well, it all paid off now. Okay… I might be a little bit outdated. Actually, the collection was completed several weeks back, right before the start of the Beijing 2008 Olympics I recall. But! Writing a late review may not be a bad thing after all, becos Dear1 and Dear2 had plenty of chances to use the cups and to realize its pros and cons.
We first decided to start collecting this glasses becos they were a very good deal. A MacDonalds Extra Value with Upsize will get us 1 of these glasses free, no top up required. Couple this with the fact that Dear1 buy MacDonalds meals from NUS at a discounted student rate makes it a wonderful deal. Furthermore, these aren’t just any movie of the moment glasses, they were Olympic Coca Cola glasses, making them all the more collectable. We decided to collect 2 sets of these 5 glasses. 1 set for use and to entertain our guests with. And 1 set for collection and display, and possible to make a small profit by selling them off to some avid Coca Cola collector who missed this great collectors’ item. :D
At first glance, these glasses have a slender lower body which seemed to be rather unstable. But after much use, we realized that it is quite stable after all, good design on the part of the manufacturers. Also, these glasses are products of Luminarc which is decent brand name on its own. This definitely adds much consumer confidence. The next interesting and great design concept we noticed in these glasses is that they’re of 330ml capacity. Ring any bells? Yes, it’s the volume of a standard can of Coca Cola, and pretty much any other form of can drinks, including beer. So this meant that once you pop a can of drink, you can empty its entire contents into this glass and get rid of the empty can. There’s just a little extra volume in these glasses for ice, we’ve managed to add 3 standard ice cubes in without any spillage. We’ve also try drinking beer from these glasses and they looked great as beer glasses, tall, slender, sexy and contoured gold simmering through its body.
And now to the bad things about the glasses. First, becos they’re so tall and slender, there’s no way to stick your hand all the way in with wash its interior. For thorough washing, some form of washing stick is required. Also becos of its tall build, they don’t really fit in on the dish drying rack. The words and Olympic sport symbols on the body of the glass are actually concaved on the inside of the glass. These narrow trenches tend to trap drink fibres from soya bean drinks or fruit juices if not properly cleaned.
All in all, we’re very satisfied with our Coca Cola glasses, they are very presentable and excellent for entertaining guests, and they’re pretty well designed with some nice surprises being discovered along the way. Happy that we own the whole set. :D
-Dear1
New Wedding Quilt 24 August, 2008
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There are just so much information out there about weddings. And when information is so abundant and readily available, we start to wonder which is real and which is not. For instance, we’ve always heard about this term call 安床, but we dun really know what it is exactly or what are the customs to follow. Hearsay hearsay.
After consulting our parents, we realized that they are self proclaimed ‘modern’ chinese and some of these traditions need to be strictly adhered to, for the sake of convenience. It seems that the modern thinking about customary marriages prioritizes convenience for everyone and the happiness of the wedding couple.
With this, we will not be buying any bedside lamps, we will not visiting our house on the actual day so that a happily married senior relative will set our bed, etc. However, we still feel that having a new set of bedsheets for our wedding is an auspicious thing to do. And so we set out to source for a new set of bedware. The problem is, the full set, or just partially?
Let’s do a short recap, we have a king size bed, with 2 head pillows, 2 hug pillows, 1 bolster and 1 quilt. Incidently, nearly all our bedlinen so far was bought from Aussino, with the exception of 1 bedsheet from Hallmark bought from Robinson’s. To date, we have 2 complete sets of bedlinen.
So on National Day, we decided to go out for walk, and so happens to stroll into our favourite stall, Aussino at Westmall, haha… And there happens to be a one day only National Day sale, 43% off selected items! :D We initially wanted to buy this set of quilt cover with a cute cartoonish wedding couple on it. But Dear1 wasn’t very keen on the idea. Sure, several months ago when this quilt set first came out, it was very novel and very desirable, but it was expensive. However, in recent month, Dear1 had seen more and more ppl having the same set of quilt cover. Not wanting to be yet-another-couple to own that quilt cover set, we decided to give it a miss despite the 43% discount.
Eventually, we chose this quilt cover set, a sweet pink selling for $99.90 on a usual day but at 43% discount this time, so it’s $56.943 now. Here’s what it looked like.
340 threadcount, not bad. And remembering how much our last Aussino quilt cover cost, at a bargain price too! This quilt cover will be kept and only to start using from our wedding day. We decided to cut down on our expenses so we’ll only be buying a new quilt cover and not the entire bedsheet set. After all, quilt cover is the one on the outside and hence the one that will be visible all the time.
That’s not the end of our shopping trip. We browsed around Aussino and managed to spot pillows selling at 43% off too. Haha… We already have 5 pillows and bolsters on the bed and with us 2 adults, it was already quite crowded. But Dear1 liked pillows. Gee… With some persuasion, Dear1 managed to convince Dear2 to buy 2 more pillows for our crowded king size bed. :D They are called 7-hole fibre pillows and we bought the medium softness ones at a usual price of $22.90, now $13.053, not a bad deal ya. But now we have a really crowded but comfy bed with 7 pillows and bolster and 2 adults. Haha…
We seem to be spending a lot on our bedroom and in particular our bed. But I think it is all worth it. Why? Becos we spend nearly a third of our lives on the bed so it is worth spending money on. Besides sleeping, we also play DS, listen to music, read books, play cards, chit chat on the bed, just to name a few, so that’s really a large part of our lives. So there’s no point buying expensive beds but to top it off with cheapo bedsheets or quilts. And that’s why we spend quite a bit on quality bed, quilt, covers, pillows and bolsters, to enhance the quality of our sleep.
Alright, new quilt cover, checked! Onwards with our wedding preparations!
-Dear1
Pursuit of Happyness 23 August, 2008
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Dear1 and Dear2 rented this movie from Ezyvideo that day. It had a Most Popular tag on, so even though Dear1 and Dear2 had not known about this movie before, decided to rent it anyway.
The story started with this chap, Chris. Chris is a salesman, and sales had been poor for a while. Typical American family struggling to meet ends meet with Here In There Out kind of lifestyle, and when there’s None In, Chris started to feel the strain. He chanced upon a guy, Jay who looked so happy. Chris asked Jay, “What do you do and how do you do it?” Jay replied, “I’m a stockbroker.” Then and there, you thought that the pursuit of happiness will logically led to a pursuit of money.
The story unfolds, and Chris had to meet with increasing pressure. With no income as an intern in the stockbroking firm, Chris had to cope with selling all his products from his sales job in order to have money for everything. Comes a point in time when wife is tired of this kind of lifestyle and walks out of the family, and Chris and son plunges into even more financial hardships. Heart wrenching.
Thru’out the internship period, incidences when Chris and son are out and poor are a daily scene. Every cent is precious, and to have a roof over your head is a comfort. Finally comes the day for announcement if Chris is gonna get that official position as a broker. With teary eyes, Chris accepted the offer of a permanent broker, and you half expected that the story will continue to unfold Chris’ future prosperity and fortune in this line at a time in 1981. But whoa! The story concluded with Chris thinking aloud about this pursuit of happiness, not of the riches therafter, but of the journey that he had came through. The hardships, the pain, the struggles, it was not these that led to his happiness, but the overcoming of them were the happiness itself. Profound, immensely profound, that’s what Dear2 thinks, if this was the intent of the scripwriter. Cheerios!
There are many lessons portrayed in this story as well. Like how Chris did not manage to close a successful big deal, but took the opportunity to network with the CEO’s friends, and in turn closed 31 smaller deals. And like how Chris was chiding sonny of why he shouldn’t spend time on basketball, just because daddy cannot play well, but after that realised this limiting thought and in turn encouraged sonny not to ever let anyone tell you what you cannot do. Chris’ determination in everything that he do, from turning up at an interview right out from police detention and in dried paint, and still being truthful and jovial about his ordeal, to his determination to do his work in 6 hours when others can afford to use 9. The favourite will still have to be how we all always think that having money is the happiness itself, but have we ever thought of the overcoming of all our daily challenges that can be a form of happiness itself?
Life can never be smooth. There are bound to be ups and downs along the way, and many more that will be beyond our control. It is the strength in ourselves that determines who and what we are, so even a small obstacle can be your opportunity to pursue and achieve happiness.
- Dear2
Amazing Hong Kong 10 August, 2008
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Haha, Dear2 suddenly has this inspiration to write about our recent Hong Kong trip experience.
Dear1 had to go to Hong Kong recently for a conference. That was the day after the Sundown Marathon. Dear1 took Jetstar to Hong Kong on Monday morning, and Dear2 joined him in Hong Kong on Friday evening.
Let’s start with Dear2 arriving in Hong Kong Airport. Earlier, Dear1 and Dear2 have agreed to meet at the Gate at the Hong Kong airport. Alas, when Dear2 reached the airport, Dear1 was nowhere to be seen. Cannot be, cos Dear1’s colleagues were departing on the earlier Jetstar fight back to SG, so Dear1 must be somewhere in the airport. Dear2 tried to call Dear1 on his HK pre paid card number, but couldn’t get thru. So Dear2 decided to walk around and think of a plan. As Dear2 was walking around, she realised that hey, there’s a second arrival hall on the other side. Bingo! It wasn’t hard to find Dear1 there ernestly waiting to receive Dear2. The message here is, there may be multiple arrival halls, so please, exit from the one at your belt! (Dear2 has never checked in baggage on her own, so never knew where to collect the baggage. :p)
We stayed at the Prudential Hotel at Jordon, which was a very wise choice as, even during a 黑色风暴 signal which Dear2 encountered during the first morning in HK, we could still take a train to other places without going out in the open at all. And not to mention that we walked upwards from Jordon to Mong Kok and downwards to Tsim Sha Tsui during clear days, multiple times a day. Heehee.
Dear1 and Dear2 walked up and down Mong Kok several times in that 4 days we were there. Ate countless strings of curry fishballs (Dear2’s favourites), 1 fried intestines (I never want to eat that again), egg tarts from KFC, 2 juices for HK25 etc. 女人街 was a no-no shopping for us, as it seemed like a place meant for the ang mos. There were many little shopping malls dotting the streets of 洗衣街 and xi yang cai jie, and you will only know that that’s a shopping centre after you stumble in (the entrance of the malls look no different from a 1-shop only outlet). Dear2 bought some items from the Esprit factory outlet, and immediately fell in love with Esprit clothes. I want to go to Hong Kong again!!! Haha.
As tourists, the Peak and Ocean Park are not to be missed. We took a ferry across the sea to Hong Kong Island, and than a bus to the Ocean Park. It was during the trip that Dear2 appreciated that Hong Kong is really mountainess and sea-ly. No wonder useable land in Hong Kong is so scarce. The cable car ride to Ocean Peek was breath-taking (literally – Dear2 wass scared stiff. Dear1, don’t move!). And Ocean Park itself was very hilly (and of course, the rides were exciting). But hey, what’s with the tourists here? We didn’t think that Hong Kong will be such a popular place for the Chinese?
After a quick bite of stir fried cuttlefish before we left the Park (oh, you wouldn’t want to eat that again too), we took the same bus back to Central. We didn’t know what bus to take to the Peak Tram, only knowing that it’s pretty near to the Ferry Terminal, so Dear1 and Dear2 hiked to the Peak Tram Station. Along the way, we passed by the Bank of China building (which you see often on CNA ads) – hey, that’s the Bank of China building!?).
The Peak Tram Station was surprisingly crowded at the ticketing counters. Luckily Dear1 did his research earlier, and we went to the express queue to purchase our combo tickets (Tram + Wax Museam + Viewing Gallery). The Tram uphill was amazing – it was packed with people upwards and downwards, and at some sectiond incling at 45 degrees. Hold onto the handles!! And don’t look at the 20 storey buildings which seemed so low, now all below your feet!
The Peak Mall turned out to be overly modernised. Dear2 wanted to climb to the spot on the Peak, where in Hong Kong shows, the actors always hang around at. We took a hike uphill, but it got too deserted for lone travellers to be exploring, hence decided to head back down again. It was only later that Dear2 concluded that that spot was actually somwhere downhill and not up. Oh, what a wasted hike.
The ride back to the bottom of the Peak was equally exhilarating. Dear1 wanted to explore riding on the tram, so we hitched one, and took 2 stops to Lan Kwai Fong. Oh ya, the tram, ferry, bus, MRT and even Krispy Creme accept payment from the Octopus Card. A convenient must-have for travellers like us. We had roast goose at an expensive Chinese resturant outside Lan Kwai Fong, after which we strolled one round of the famed street. The street is pretty much a handout place for the foreigners and their frens, and surprisingly short as you’d imagned from those shown in Hong Kong films.
Egg tarts from Wong Tai Sin, beef noodles of Jordon (where the uncle insisted that we add the beef stew to our noodles for better taste), steamed egg, (not so nice – probably becos of high expectations) dim sum, multiple breakfast/ tea sets comprising of pasta + tea + bread or maggi mee with luncheon meat + bun + coffee or sandwich with eggs and beans + coffee + polo bun, yummy original glazed Krispy Creme, and not forgetting the local street-eat curry balls, Dear1 and Dear2 were screaming not to return to Singapore when we had to pack our bags eventually.
Hong Kong is pretty much like home for Singaporeans like us. We will want to go back again, but that will have to be some other time liao. I want to buy more Esprit!!!
- Dear2
Expensive Stuff – Gems 10 August, 2008
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It’s 1.5 months away to our wedding, and Dear1 and Dear2 are slowly getting ready the things that we need to get done for the Big Day.
Yesterday, Dear1 and Dear2 collected the altered bangle that Dear2 Mum got for Dear2. Finally, the jewellery set is complete. Since beginning of the year, Dear1’s parents have been hinting that Dear2 should go and select the 四点金 that she wants from local stores, and the parents will go to JB to purchase it since MYR is more cost effective than SGD. That didn’t sound like a good idea to Dear2 at all, cos Dear2 firmly believes that the 四点金 should be a ‘gift’ from the parents-in-laws, and not ‘a gift that I want’. Ding dong ding dong for half a year, now comes just 2 months to the wedding. Time is really running out now, so the final conclusion that Dear2 gave is that ‘anything that the parents buy/ give will do’.
2 weeks later, Dear2 received a cute tortoise pendant from Dear1’s parents. OMG. Dear2 was speechless upon receiving this. Up till today, Dear2 still cannot comprehend the meaning to this gift. Am I thinking too much, or I should really view it as a harmless gesture? I really dun want to dwell on this further.
As the last straw, and Dear2 decided to just buy the jewellery on her own. Dear1 and Dear2 selected a necklace and a ring to go with the bangle which Dear2 Mum has bought for her earlier. To cut down on cost, Dear2 decided to get the normal gems from Citigems instead of the classier gems of the stores (believe me, the Celestials and Destinees really are more brilliant and sparkling). And believe me, the price difference between Lee Hwa and Citigems are really substantial – Go for Lee Hwa if you want pretty stones but be prepared to spend a lot more; go for Citigems if you just want a big normal looking diamond at affordable prices. Btw, in case you dunno, these 2 stores are sister companies.
Oh, I should mention about some info that I acquired from this shopping experience.
1) Dear2 Mum traded in some of her gold (yellow gold) to net off the price of the (white) gold bangle. The old yellow gold were sold at 25% (or was it 20%?) less of the current gold price. So considering that Mum’s gold were bought a long long time ago, and that gold prices are high in these days, it was really an appreciated asset to have and keep. Take note that there’s different prices for better gold and poorer gold ( can’t remember the exact terms used), and that the identity of the gold item have to be emborsed on the item itself, otherwise the shop will not be able to identify the grade, and hence take in this piece. Mum wanted to trade on this 1 section of a bracelet that was cut off from a longer chain, but becos the ‘identity’ is not printed on this separate section, this becomes worthless. :(
2) White gold does have a value (like yellow gold), except that this value will not appreciate (if ever) with time. For example, if the yellow gold was bought at $10/g @ 20 years, ago, and the price has went up to $20/g today, you earn the appreciation (less off the depreciation value and remember, the ‘identity’ has to be there). But for white gold, the resale value 20 years later will be based on the original purchase price, which has to be verified via the ‘Certificate’ or Invoice. So, the point to remember is, KEEP YOUR WHITE GOLD RECEIPT! AT least there’s still a resale value if you ever wants to sell it.
That’s all for today. Dear2 shall continue to admire her bangle. Thanks Mum and Bro for the gift.
- Dear2
Food is not about taste, but who you are eating with 5 August, 2008
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In Chinese, it can be translated as 吃是对人不对事。
This is a philosophical thought that Dear1 and Dear2 had discussed about and both of us agree on.
Simply put, let us first make an assumption on the quality of the food item that we’re talking about. If we rate the quality of the food in subject on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is inedible and 10 is heavenly, then a score of 5 would mean that the food is passable. So for the sake of this discussion, let’s limit ourselves to food that have at least a rating of 5 and above. This assumption is important becos if the food is clearly unpleasant, then it doesn’t really matter who you are eating with.
Now, the point here is that if the food is passable, then the perceived taste of the food is directly related to the person who is eating with you. Take for example, you are eating a very normal rating 5 hokkien mee with the girl you like, say 3 months into courtship. In this case, the rating 5 hokkien mee will be perceived as rating 9 and it will taste great. This is becos our mood and appetite is affected or enhanced by the fact that you are happy and in the company of someone you like. Subsequently, you will also most likely want to return to this particular hawker stall to eat his hokkien mee becos you remember it as a rating 9 food and you would want to bring your girlfriend back to this place to eat it again.
Think of it another way. If you were to eat this hokkien mee alone on a normal day lunch, you would probably think that its just a normal rating 5 hokkien mee. Alternatively, if your hi-bye colleague at work were to dabao (means take-away food) the same hokkien mee for you while you are working hard in the office, it’ll still taste like a rating 5. However, if your girlfriend buys the hokkien and delivers it to your office, its perceived taste will be upgraded to 9.
Let’s take a look at the other extreme. You have an outing with your most hated boss at work. The both of you goes to an expensive $500 restaurant that serves heavenly rating 9.9 hokkien mee fried with Alaskan crabs and deep pacific lobsters. But becos your eating partner is your boss, someone whom you dislike, no matter what delicacies are served to you, it’s just going to taste a normal rating 5 to 6 if not worse. You will probably have no appetite and would want to get over with the dinner as soon as possible. Most likely, you will never want to come to this restaurant again and definitely will not bring your girlfriend there.
Maybe I talk too much today. I think the idea that I’m trying to illustrate here is something that is 只可意会不可言传。Something that is better off appreciated than explained. So I’ll leave whoever is reading this to sit on it for a while. 吃是对人不对事。
-Dear1
A day of MacDonalds 4 August, 2008
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I can’t believe I ate Mac the whole day today. My first time ever.
This morning, on our way to the airport, we decided to have a Mac breakfast before we set off, so we went to a nearby outlet and bought 2 sets of $2 breakfast that consists of a Sausage McMuffin and a cup of tea. Usually, I would drink 1 cup of tea and another cup of milk-tea-coffee-mix to take advantage of the free flow refill of hot coffee and tea, but today I just wasn’t in the mood.
For lunch, I had an upsized Big Mac meal at NUS for $5.40 becos I wanted to collect the Olympic Limited Edition Coca Cola Glass that came with any upsized meals without any cash top up. Actually, a new cup design will be released every Thursday and there are 5 designs to collect. This design was out last Thurs. But last Thurs I had dinner with friends and couldn’t eat Mac. On Friday, surprisingly, the Mac outlet at NUS ran out of stock. I was home over the weekends and today Monday was the next time that I’m back in school. Great! The cups are back in stock and I had a meal for lunch to collect 1 cup.
The thing is, we’re actually collecting 2 cups of each design, 1 for use and 1 for keeps. Our practise was to eat a Mac Extra Value Meal each every Thurs so that we can collect 2 cups of each design. But becos this week Dear2 have to go overseas, I have to eat 2 meals on my own to complete the collection. And see how quickly the stocks ran out last Fri, I was rather worried and decided that I should have Mac for dinner as well, and that’s why I did. I had a Mc Spicy Meal @ $5.50 for dinner. Yum yum. And I was able to collect my 2nd “basketball” cup to complete this week’s collection.
It was then that I realized I had Mac for all 3 meals today. That’s a total of $12.90 spent in Mac today. For that, I had 1 Sausage McMuffin, 1 Big Mac, 1 McSpicy, 2 large fries, 2 medium coke, 1 tea, 4 curry sauces and 2 limited edition cups. Not bad, but no more Mac for me… until Thurs. The last cup. :P
-Dear1
Sundown Marathon in infinite time 2 August, 2008
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Haha… Simply put, we’re didn’t finish.
Now coming to think of it, Sundown Marathon was 2 months ago. Over these 2 months, I’ve been thinking about what to write since we were unable to complete the race. Let’s see…
We arrived early at Changi Point, by MRT then transfer to bus. We didn’t want to buy the organizer’s bus tickets becos it’s cheaper to just use our EZ link cards. Before the race started, we walked around the event area and found that there was no “7 hours” marathoners section in the starting line queue! We thought “Wow, everyone here is elite, no 7 hour runners… :(“, so we lined up at the 4 hours mark.
The race started along Changi Beach and later along coastal road around the airport, a route that I was very familiar with from my army days. It was a boring stretch of road with nothing to see. Somewhere along this road, I started to feel unwell. For whatever reasons, my stomach was rumbling and I was breathing quite heavily and it was hardly 7km. I knew that my condition wasn’t going to be good and it’s probably going to be a tough night run. On the other hand, Dear2 was energtic as ever like she always is on actual run days. Over the next few km, I had to slow down quite a bit and we began to fall to the rear pack. I think this might had affect Dear2’s tempo and pretty soon, she was feeling unwell too.
When we hit the main East Coast area, the scenery improved alot. We start to see more people, more non runners, more chalet party, more lovebirds, etc. We took the chance to try out our new secret weapon, Powergel. Haha… Yes, we have never taken a powergel before. Why? Becos we’ve never received them as free gifts or goodies before and last year’s StanChart marathon ran out of powergels before we reached their station. -_- This time, we bought some at the runner pack collection day to feel for ourselves the impact of taking a powergel. I think we ate a Tangerine flavour and a Coffee flavour one. I thought the taste and texture was pretty disgusting, Dear2 thought so too. But the effects were good, we felt re-energized shortly after taking the gels. :D
At somewhere near the first U-turn point, Dear2 was feeling increasingly unwell and so we decided to call it quits and stop the marathon there. Better protect ones health than risk irreparable injury. Dear2 was feeling very gassy and some chest pains from the accumulated gas pressing against her diaphragm? Lungs? We’re still not exactly sure, just chest pains. So we stopped at one of the drink stations and enquired about how we can get back to the finishing point so that we can collect our baggage. The first thing that happened was that the helpers overreacted and called for medics to the scene. Most likely this was becos the previous few running events in the recent past had a few fatals incidents.
After the medic arrive and ascertain that the problem wasn’t *that* serious, we were told to take a good rest at the drink station. But then, there was another unsolved problem: how were we getting back to Changi Point from East Coast Park? Apparently, our problem wasn’t serious enough to activate the medical vehicle to drive us back. And there wasn’t any other event vehicle prowling the race route. The only vehicle that we could possibly hitch a hike on was the volunteer bus which was to arrive in about 4 hours time! No way we were going to laze around and wait for 4 hours and it’ll be awkward sharing a bus with volunteers and equipments. Our decision? To continue walking at a brisk pace and maybe catch a cab back once we move into the housing areas.
Now, our great escape turned out to be a rather difficult one. At every fork road every corner, there was a race volunteer stationed there, making it very difficult to escape without getting noticed. Moreoever, we didn’t want to let other fellow runners see our escape so that we won’t waver their determination. Finally, we managed to sneak out somewhere near Kembangan and hail a cab back to Changi Point. Upon arriving, Dear2 waited in the cab while I went to collect our baggage so that we can pay the cab fare.
The race time was around 5hr now and a large crowd of marathon runners were arriving at the finishing point. The scene was slightly chaotic and I sneakily joined the finishers’ queue and collected a finisher tshirt for remembrance. Hehe… Although we didn’t complete the race but we did pay the entry fee, so in some sense we did pay for the finisher tshirt and I didn’t want it to go to waste. Whether to wear it or not is another story.
After this, we made our way to the nearby Changi Point Hawker Centre and had an early early breakfast. After breakfast, we decided to set off for home, only to realize that it had started raining. I’m sure many of the runners would know about the rain that started around 6am that morning. Luckily, the organizer bus had started their service to and fro Pasir Ris MRT station. We paid a premium bus fare as we didn’t purchase the bus ticket earlier and took the shuttle bus to Pasir Ris. Along the way, we watched as we passed the many runners who are still running their marathons and being drenched in the sudden downpour. Our early withdrawing from the race may turn out to be a blessing in disguise as we managed to avoid running in the rain.
We reached home, took a bath and went to bed. By lunch time, our bodies had pretty much recovered and Dear2 was also feeling alright. We were happy that we were healthy and uninjured and will be ready for more races to come in the future. We definitely needed more training to better prepare ourselves for our future runs and the important lessons we learnt from this race is that whatever happens, we must always support each other and always protect each other. There will always be more races to participate in.
-Dear1
