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It is here again. Honestly, this is the only event that gets me excited as an alumnus of YJC.

Tickets are priced at $10/-. They can be bought at the event itself or from any existing YJCians, students and teachers alike. If you see any YJCians on the street, stop them and ask for a ticket or two.

The event will be held on the 27th Feb 2010, 9am – 5pm. It is a Saturday, exactly a month away. Cross the date out for this funfair! There is no excuses such as you have to work or it is for family only. If your family day on Saturdays, CVD makes a great event for your kids to come. There are events targeting children and teenagers. If you are lazy to wake up from a long week at work, that’s what the 5pm end-time is for. If you stay in the east side of Singapore, that is what the 5pm is for too.

This is for a good cause. Proceeds from this year’s CVD will go to Singapore Disability Sports Council. In addition, to reflect Singapore as the host city for the inaugural Youth Olympics Games, CVD ’s theme is “Fiesta de Olympic Agones” (Fiesta of Olympic Games). So do expect a day filled with games and fun!

Enough said, do visit the College’s CVD page on school website or make a reminder or two at Facebook or in your calendar!

Poster Credit: Yishun Junior College

What do you do when you have too much time after ORD and you keep spending time with the same group of guys?

You roleplay a SWAT team.

Once again, who has lobang? My entire unit of ORD personnels are looking…

SINGAPORE: Elite athletes at this year's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon will be paid their appearance fees, travel expenses and performance bonuses immediately after Sunday's race.

Why does Singapore have to pay foreign athletes to participate in our local events? No doubt, for local events to survive, we do need foreign participants. However, is there a need to pay them? Can’t the Sports Councils or equivalent authorities in these athletes’ countries fund their expenses instead? The logic is simple, no matter which events these athletes participate, the countries’ names will be used invariably. The athletes are representing their nations.

In a separate news article on Yahoo! News, it is reported that the number of runners participating in the Marathon has grown from the initial 6,000 to the current 50,000. This is an achievement for the organisers bearing in mind that it is relatively a young marathon event comparing to the establish London Marathon. Did the heavyweights in the marathon scene help the growth in the numbers? In my opinion, I feel that they did help to attract local runners, who were inspired by them or knew their reputations, to the race in the initial years. However, after the initial stage, more and more runners run in the race probably due the increased awareness of individual health matters and peer influence.

I ran in the Army Half Marathon this year. The driving motivations behind my participation is to experience what is to run in a crowd and enjoyment. Indeed, I did enjoy the course. In it, age and background do not matter. Runners talk to each other even though they are strangers. They lent each other support and encouragement. And I doubt the majority of these runners did know the names of the elite runners.

So is it still worthwhile to pay the expenses of the foreign runners? I suggest scrapping this system and use the money to cultivate the local scene. Run more running clinics. Groom selected local runners for international runs. If the organisers insist on having the elite runners to participate, get the organisers to increase the prize monies.

Note: I am not running the Standchart Marathon this year due to an overloaded calendar that prevents me from devoting time to train sufficiently. Next year then! Good luck to the runners for tomorrow’s run!

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If Edward and all the vamps cant tahan (take it) when Bella got a LITTLE paper cut……..

What happens if she’s having her period?!?! Isn’t that like blood overload or something? -.-

via @Airpork

Discuss here. It is a private profile, sorry. Can discuss on this post instead. ROFL.

I did the 21km run in 3 hours 17 minutes and 29 seconds. It doesn’t sound fantastic. But I completed it. I hit the wall at the 14th kilometer. After trying several times to run again, my legs threatened to cramp. No amount of Salonpas, isotonic drinks or even bananas helped. Oh well, I just got to blame myself for just running 6km routes for the already sparse training sessions. Oh, I lost the race chip. The following table is the timings I took while running. The markers are the signboards on the lamp posts that marked the distance.

• At about 6km, around the expressway, there are a lot of guys running into the bushes. They went into there to relief themselves.
• At about 8km, around the entry into East Coast Park, the guys from SCE put up an excellent water point. Not only it is clean, but it is also efficient.
• At the 12km point, I bumped into Nathaniel, a JC schoolmate. I ended up walking along with him, resulting in lost time. Well, it is a rest time too anyway.
• At the 14km mark, there was this Caucasian guy who would run alongside with several runners and cheering on the rest. It is unique in Singapore. He did it unconditionally. Only if there is such culture here, we would not have any problems being not motivated. The organising committee had to go to the extent of getting performers to play to us, to support and motivate us along the route.
• At the 20km point, I noticed that there is a guy limping beside me. Chatted with him. Apparently, he had cramps at his knees before and intended to complete it for an off by his superiors. Cheap thrill. OK, OK. It is a good motivator for some units. We encouraged each other and we managed to hit our respective timings.

I was bashed by the run. So tired that I decided to take a cab back home. I am tired still.