2 More Days to the Run!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

2 More Days to the Run!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!! (Hmmmm...I seem to be doing a lot oh 'Ahhhhhhh's' lately...hahaha...I don't even know why I put myself through all this unnecessary stress, and mind you, it's a self added on stress....so unnecessary I tell you...hahaha...and yet I can't help it...I'm competitive what! And competitive people just can't help it.....kan??? kan??? :P) BUT there is good news for me!!! Our netball tournament schedule is out and we are only playing on Saturday!!! THANK GOD!!!

I only realise how desperately I wanted the netball tournament to be a one day event when I woke up at 3am this morning to go to the toilet. My whole body was exhausted after I did my 10.4km run yesterday evening. You must be wondering why so alang-alang 10.4km...well apparently one round of taman bulatan equals to 800 meters...meaning that by doing 13 rounds (and almost dying I might say) I ran 10.4km.

And at 3am in the morning I was wondering to myself, how on earth am I going to continue playing netball after the 10km run on that Sunday morning. Was so relief when I found out that it has change to a one day event. Phew!!! God sure did answer my prayer once again!!! Thank you Lord!!!

Well, after yesterdays jog, at least now I know I'm able to complete the run without stopping...I'm just hoping that I'll be able to do it below the 1 hour mark. Yesterday I timed myself and I did 10.4km in 1 hour. Meaning that after doing some calculations....I should be able to do 10km in 57minutes. Well, lets see how it goes....as long as I finish it below 1 hour I'll be happy :D.

The sad part to this whole jogging and netballing (if there is such a word) is that my tapak of my asics shoes looks like its going to come off!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! So not the right timing!!! Well, I could be over exaggerating here as its just a small part of the tapak that doesn't stick to the shoe....but who knows right??? What if during the run my tapak come out!!! That will be a serious nightmare lah!!! I better go buy super glue later and stick that small part that is not sticking to the tapak. And that super glue better be super!!!!

Oklah...that's it from me!!! My next blog will be about my run and my netball tournament!!! Can't wait for the run to be over.....hopefully my hubby will come along to take some pictures :D. Btw, tapak means sole of the shoes...:) I sometimes get carried away mixing Malay with English ;)

Ta for now!!!

I'm in DENIAL!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

AHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I'm in DENIAL!!!!!

Sighhhh.....I like to think I'm not competitive when it comes to running or jogging or whatever you call it. I like to think that the runs I join are just for fun and for the name of charity. But I also like to think that I'm one of the fittest ladies in Miri which therefore overrides the first two sentences that I've written.

Do you get what I mean??? Am I making sense??? Well, what I'm trying to say is that, even though I like to think I'm not competitive, I AM!!! When it comes to the amount of stamina I have, I seriously don't like to lose.....unfortunately...physically, me and my stamina don't really go hand in hand. Sigh....so what next??? Well, I'm going to convince myself that this Sunday's Run for Charity will be a run that I will be running for fun!!! I'll just have to repeat this to myself....

"Jacq! You are running for the sake of charity, run at your own pace!!! If you don't win it's ok!!! SERIOUSLY ITS OK!!!!"

Probably need to repeat it like a 10,000 times for it to sink in....sigh...but then again I'll be in denial pulak!!!

Hahahaha....oh well nothing is perfect...never really was the fastest runner around and I'm sure I'll have loads of competitors who would be aiming for the money too. AND I'm POSITIVE this people are in denial just as I am....hahahaha....they are probably saying, 'It's no big deal if I lose..." but when they actually lose, they'll probably be upset and would probably be wondering why in the hell did they wake up so early in the morning for a run and get nothing out of it.....hahaha....that would be exactly how I would be feeling if I didn't win anything at all....:P Well, I am being honest :P

I was talking to my sister yesterday about the run and she said 'If it's God's will that we win, then we will, if not we just run for fun lah..." If that's the case, maybe I should start praying more and jogging less....hahaha...:P Well, I think my sister is in denial as well....knowing her she is way more competitive than me...hoh Jess??? ;) You always were!!! Just like DAD! So you can stop being in denial already...hahaha :P

So the conclusion is that, I'll just keep my pace and not stop running and hope for the best. I hope it won't be so hot and I hope my MP3 player does not die on me. But honestly speaking I'm not hoping to win the first place....I just want to win something....hahaha...8th placing pun jadi...at least got RM100...I think...haha...better than nothing kan???

Oklah....being upset now doesn't really help anyway, since its still like 4 days away...hahaha....don't even know why I'm stressing about it now....I have to blame it on some of my colleagues who are running too.....they sure are competitive and super fit and have so much stamina....adalah I jealous juga.......and though they say or think that they are running for the fun of it, I'm sure they are in it to win too :P

I wish I could be one of those ladies who seriously just do it for fun...where they jog and walk and chit chat with their friend all the way to the finish line...so nice kan??? :P

Well, that's life!!! And that's it from me.....TA for now!!!

We WON the first Netball Tournament!!! TWO MORE TO GO!!! :P

WE WON!!!! WOOHOOO!!!! Hahahaha.....its so unbelievable and I'm still in shock that we won :P It's been over 2 years since we formed this team with some people leaving and some new comers coming in. And throughout those years we have never been champions....never ever!!! So it came as a shock to me when we won!!! (All photographs in here are courtesy of FARAH!!! The beautiful lady with the big smile in dark blue shirt below...thanks babe!!!! What will we all do without you!!! We will probably be photoless!!! ;))

That's us!!!

It was a super close match and the Brunei Shell team were one hell of a competitor!!! My salute goes to them!!! When we first played with them we tied 13 - 13!!! We were leading very closely in the first 2 quarter but the last 2 quarter they kick ass!!! :P

That's the score when we first tied with Brunei Shell Team...

Then by some miracle, we made it to the Finals!!! It could be our new name as 'KRP Lutongs' (Lutong is a kind monkey, and that is where Lutong (which is in Miri) got its name from) or it could be our Blue bibs that we wore :P. We call it our lucky bibs!!! Hahaha...never knew we were all so superstitious....hahaha....am thinking that the reason why we won is because we put our whole heart and soul into the Final game!!! Don't you think Ladies??? Not even sure if you girls are reading this. But anyway, I think we all did a good job. The Final game was with the Brunei Shell Team again and we won by a mere 2 points!!! Again we were leading the first 2 quarters but kinda fell back on the 3rd Quarter and somehow manage to pull through on the 4th quarter :D. We won by 15 - 13. Well, another reason why we could have won is because we had supporters....thank God for them...:D.

That's the score when we won!!!

Our lucky Blue 'Bibs'...don't ask me why there is a red one in this picture....hahaha...so kesian and so alone...:P

Oh well, enough of me babbling on about this particular netball tournament. We still have two more tournaments to go and one 10km run ahead of me which will be this Sunday...and after last Saturdays tournament my bum hurts (not so bad now) and my ankle seem to be giving me some trouble. I'll have to take good care of it this week and hope I will somehow manage to win some money from the run so I can buy myself a pair of shoes....hehe...girls can never have enough of shoes.....hmmmm....actually ah....I don't have that many shoes le.....I have like one working shoes, one sports shoes, one snickers, two clogs.....and yup...that's it....compared to many other ladies out there....I'm short on shoes...sniff sniff.....so fingers cross on the run!!! Plus, my car needs to be fixed too with its terrible dent in the front....sigh...don't ask how it happen...sigh....now come to think about it, if I don't win enough money, I'll only be able to fix the car and not get shoes....Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Oh well, and life goes on :D. Oh yah and before I forget, here are some pictures during the game....

Me passing the ball from the center....probably to the GA (Syl)....I'm hoping I'm passing it right cause I can't seem to see anyone else in this picture....:P

That's our beautiful Enn the GS shooting....phheeewwiiitttt...nampak perut mem!!! :P And our beautiful Sylvia the GA looking on....

Hahaha....in normal circumstance with my face like that, I wouldn't put it up in my blog...but this is one weird picture where everybody seem to have missed the ball and I'm running like mad too grab it....:P The yellow C is from the Brunei Team...a very pretty lady I must say and so full of energy....

That's super jumping lady AKA Spiderwoman AKA GD AKA Jan Nie!!! "I believe I can fly!!! I believe I can touch the sky!!!" Then on the right we have Martina our super defence GK, guarding the GS!!! Good on you Mar!!!

Another Flyer!!! Our WA Andrea!!!

Me trying to fly...but not very effective...

Not a very interesting pose to be in...but was probably fouled cause I happily bang into her :P Sorry lady :) And Martina our super defence GK looking on....

I think I can get it...I think I can!!!! Hahaha...not sure whether I did...this just proves I'm not a very good jumper neither am I a flyer :P Syl is probably saying "Jacq, you can do it!!! GET THE BALL!!!" hahaha...:P

And finally everybody who joined in the tournament and made it a success!!! We have the Immigration team in RED, we have the Prison staff in WHITE, We have the PBC Crocs in BLUE sleevless, we have one Gustolads in Black Tudung, we have the Brunei Shell Team in BLCK, and us KRP Lutongs in PURPLE.... Thank you all for making it a success!!!

Oklah...that's it from me.....and wish me all the best!!!

TA for now!!! Hugs and kisses till tomorrow!!!!

Trying to Cope with the WORLD!!!

Yesterday I only manage to do an 8km run and I was already feeling very exhausted. I think I'm over working myself with exercise. Well what else can I do??? I have the netball tournament and our practice is on Tuesday and Thursday, then I have the 10km race coming up and the end of the month and I really need to build stamina. Sigh...we seriously don't have enough days in a week.

My week goes something like this:

Monday: Jog - 5km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 10km which I couldn't yesterday :(
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Jog 10km
Sunday: Day Off

For the Saturday and Sunday Off, it will only be for this week. If you've been following my blog, you'll know that next weekend onwards (for 3 consecutive weeks) it will be pack with netball. So I think next week I need to reschedule my whole week so that I have some rest days. If I continue doing what I'm doing, I'll probably get some kind of leg injury. Sigh...fingers cross that that doesn't happen. So maybe my schedule should be something like this:

13th -19th July
Monday: Jog 10km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 12km
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

20th - 26th July
Monday: Jog 12km
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Jog 12km
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Run at 6am then Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

27th July - 02nd August
Monday: Day Off
Tuesday: Netball
Wednesday: Day Off
Thursday: Netball
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Netball Tournament
Sunday: Netball Tournament

The last weekend will be the most relaxing one.

And lately I've been eating a lot cause I seem to be hungry all the time. My body is probably telling me to slow down...don't you think? In the days I exercise, I'm usually drench wet with sweat....and after I take a shower, I'm still sweating that I need to change my baju again....like yesterday, I changed my baju twice!!!

Will probably be pretty FIT when it is all over. But for now, I'm sniffling....that's not a good sign and its raining outside. Can't get sick now...not a good time to be sick. Sigh....need to consume more Vitamin C!!! Plus I have cravings to eat Nasi lelapan...hahaha....dunno why :P

I guess that's it from me!!! Ta for now!!! Oh wait! I just found out that our netball practice is off today!!! WOOHOO!!! At least I can have my day off today and try for a longer jog tomorrow. See you guys!!! Off to our new team welcoming drinking session ;) TA again!!!

NETBALL CRAZE HERE I COME!!! WOOHOO!!!

I think this was taken last year when I still had my long hair. Can't even recall when was the last time I had long hair. Due to my genetic background, I'm a very short person (this would definitely be an understatement if I was born in the Western world, if I was born there, I would be considered very very the short lah!!! BOOHOOO!!!) the only position I can play would be Center and WA...boohoo again!!! But nevertheless, I love being in the Center position or being WA, it fits me pretty well I must say :D

I just found out today that we are going to have 3 netball tournaments for 3 weekends in a row!!! WOOHOO!!! It's like a netball craze!!! hahaha....sure by the end of the last game our team will all kaput and super FIT and probably not want to play netball for a couple of months....:P TIRING BAH!!! I think for those of you who are not from Miri or never have been here before, would probably say "Wah! this people in Miri sure got nothing else better to do" :P but I could be wrong :P

The tournament dates goes something like this:

KRP Pre-Merdeka Netball Tournament

18th - 19th July 2009

KSK Tournament

26th - 27th July 2009

Nameless Tournament (we just got the invite, so no name yet :))

01st - 02nd August 2009

And its usually two full days!!! That is if we are good lah :P From my point of view, I think we are quite ok eh. I mean from the very first time we were together until now, we have improve a lot!!! You should have seen us the first time!!! Half the time we were laughing in the game, cause half the time we were losing the ball and the ball keeps rolling away from us!!! At that point of time I was beginning to think that the ball had a mind of its own!!! :P. But now, we have much better control of the ball :)

Anyway, the worst part to this is that for the KSK tournament, I have my 10km run at 6am on the 2nd day of the game!!! AIYOYOYOYO!!! I'm just hoping I'll be able to build up enough energy and stamina to be able to keep up with both the 10km and the tournament. Well its probably not as bad as it seems since we have back-up players as well....so I could probably skip the first game of that morning :D. Plus, did I mention my sister is doing the 10km run as well??? I think I did in one of my email. I really can't wait for the run. It would be nice to run with my sister after so long....won't be surprise if I get left behind :P.

Oklah...that's it from me....Ta for now!!! NETBALL CRAZE HERE I COME!!! WOOHOO!!!

This was during the Highlanders Games Carnival this year (June)....look at all the pretty girls ;)

P/S. You probably have no idea how much I love this game. My life priority goes something like this, GOD first, FAMILY second & NETBALL!!! ;)

Heartbroken on Sunday :(

That Sunday morning I woke up to my 3.5 year old daughter kissing me on my cheek and saying 'I love you mummy'. That was like 7am in the morning. It was a beautiful way to wake up to, but I was still tired and wanted to sleep. So I told my daughter I love her too and told her that mummy still wanted to sleep. So she decided she would do some colouring with my MIL. In the process of colouring she came to me and kiss me again and told me that she wanted me to colour in her book after I woke up. I said 'ok!' and close my eyes again.

Then at 9am I decided that its time to wake up, so I got up and went straight to the toilet. She forgot that she wanted me to colour and so did I. So after showering and in the process of getting ready to go to church, she came into the room and said to me or more like scream at me. The conversation went like this:

Daughter: 'MOMMY!!!! YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!' (Diuk in Kelabit is Bath)

Me: Sorry dear, but mummy already mandi, let mummy get ready first to go to church then I will colour with you

Daughter (Screaming and crying): NO!!! YOU HAVE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!

Me: But I already mandi, there is nothing I can do already...

Daughter(Crying hysterically and screaming at the same time saying): NO!!! YOU HAVE TO COLOUR FIRST BEFORE YOU DIUK!!!

Me (Shouting): WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!!! IF YOU CONTINUE LIKE THIS, MOMMY LEAVE YOU AT HOME AH!!!!

Daughter (Crying and shouting): YOU SAID YOU WILL COLOUR FIRST!!!!

Me: AIYO!!!! SORRY LAH!!!! I COLOUR LATER!!! LET MUMMY GET READY FIRST!!!

Daughter: I WANT YOU TO COLOUR FIRST!!!

Me: SERA!!! YOU STOP THAT AH!!! MUMMY BEAT YOU AFTERWARDS AH!!!!

Daughter: I WANT YOU TO COLOUR FIRST BAHHHH!!!

So I surrendered and was super annoyed, so I went out to colour that paper that she wanted me to colour. While doing that I didn't even say a word to her. After I finished I went back into the room to get ready again. Of course my daughter came in as well with me. And the conversation continues:

Daughter: Mummy I want you to colour the other picture also...

Me (being very irritated with her): WAIT BAH!!! AFTERWARDS WE ALL WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO CHURCH BECAUSE OF YOU!!!

Daughter obviously started crying...

ME (getting more irritated by that time): STOP IT SERA!!!

Daughter (Crying): Mummy I kiss you this morning bah and say I love you, why you Bu'uh-bu'uh me... (Bu-uh in Kelabit means scold)

Wah! At that moment I felt like I was the most terrible mom in the history of moms!!! I immediately put down what I was doing and carried her and gave her a big hug and said I was sorry. My heart broke into tiny pieces!!! It was so heartbreaking!!! I couldn't believe I could have been so mean to her. I apologies to her and told her that I was in a bad mood that morning, and you know what she said:

Daughter: It's ok mummy, you bad mood...

And we both hug and said 'I love YOUs' and she gave me the hugest of smiles....and I gave her many many kisses...

Sigh....I sure as hell will never forget that day....the day my heart broke into small pieces...but with her smile and ok she glued it all back again....

The worst part to it was "It was a Sunday, a day where I shouldn't even have gotten angry with her' I had to ask God for his forgiveness for losing my temper that morning. But (yes, I'm trying to justify myself a little bit here :P) sometimes kids can be so unreasonable with their demands. Don't you think so???

Well, for one thing I'm sure of is that I can't live without her. She's my little angel and on that day, she made me realise that sometimes all you need is more patience and love. Both of which I'm struggling to have more of.

That's it from me aka the terrible mom :( ....ta!

Mir Star Cineplex, AIYO!!! PARTY tonight, WOOHOO!!! PTI, AIYO!!!

My feedback on the movie, well, it was pretty good!!! Would definitely watch it a second time :D. If you don't follow my blog and have no clue what movie I'm talking about, look at my previous blog. Oh yah, and THANKS FOR DROPPING BY!!!! Really appreciate it!!! ;)

My feedback on the Star Cineplex in Miri, AIYO!!!! Hahaha...that's overstating it lah. Its not that bad....only problem was that during the movie, there are some parts where the sound system was just horrible!!! You couldn't really hear them talking, they were more like mumbling!!! You know how when people get drunk and they can't talk properly....like that LAH! And there are some parts when the sound just disappeared. I know that I should have watched it the first few days when it first came out so that everything would be close to perfect.

But still!!! That's not a good excuse for us who goes a week after and pay the same amount RM10 and get worse quality!!! Shouldn't they have more than one movie roll??? Takkan they play the same one over and over again. It's no wonder some movie rolls burn up!!! At least charge us RM8 kah..so we won't complain so much!!! True or not??? And you know how much they charge for kids!!! RM8!!! and my daughter it only 3.5 years old!!! Cannot charge RM5 kah??? Well, I guess they want to make profit...can't really blame them either!!! If only we had another Cineplex in Miri, then there will probably be some kind of price competition. Like AirAsia and MAS lah....always have price competition!!! Kan bagus if that happens to our Cineplex as well. Then Star Cineplex would pay more attention to the quality of their Cineplex and give the kids a cheaper price!!!

Anyway, despite all that, I'm going to go catch 'Ice Age 3'...Woohoo!!! Hahaha, I know you must be thinking, 'What lah this girl, never learn!!!'....hahaha....in this case...'yups!!! I never learn one!!!' Plus the fact that I'm very forgiving one!!! :P Hehehe...and its fun bah....despite all the downside to the star cineplex :P I'm just hoping I get luckier this time around and the movie roll will be close to perfect!!! Fingers cross again!!!

And if you are the owner of the Star Cineplex and you are reading my blog by some miracle, could you please fix chair H7. Its slowing falling down...thanks!!!

Talking about chairs falling down in the Cineplex...there was a time when me and my friend went to watch a movie (which I can't recall) and we were given the new Cineplex on top (compared to the ones below, it was definitely new!). We were excited lah!!! Cause it was the first time we were going up there. I was impress with the layout and all and I told my friend about it. We both agreed.

So in we when to find our seats. I sat first and let my friend in to sit next to me. And as she sat, she disappeared with a THUD!!! And I couldn't help it but start laughing, cause her seat just fell apart!!! Of course in the process of laughing, I somehow manage to say "Aiyo! kesian you!!!" The good thing to it all was, she was laughing too!!! And she didn't get hurt :D Of course we immediately call the workers there and told them we are taking the other seats. The workers there couldn't believe it too!!! Thank goodness it wasn't full house on that day!!! So much for expecting the new part of the Cineplex to be better than the old one!!! Moral of the story...never judge a book by its covers :P.

Anyway, tonight I'm going out to P-A-R-T-Y!!! It's my friend's birthday and I haven't been out for ages so I think I'm going to have a blast!!! Skali see, boring skali me and wishing I was in bed pulak! I think when that happens, that will be the day I will officially declare that I'm OLD!!! AHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh TIDAK!!!! I'm FOREVER YOUNG!!! Geeezzz...now I have this song in my head, "Forever Young, I want to be forever young....."

Ohhhhh...I almost forgot that I have a Parents-Teachers-Interview (PTI) tomorrow at 9.10am!!! I hope the teacher says nice things about my daughter....:P. Well, that's the least of my worries for now, I'm more worried that I won't be able to wake up!!! Better set my phone alarm now just in case...wait ah....ok done!!! I put it at 8.30am....ohhh....let me check whether I got the am and the pm right...if not tonight at 8.30pm I'll be hearing my alarm go off and wondering what that alarm is for...knowing me, I can be very the Short Term Memory....ok, I go check first...matilah me if salah....wait again ah....ok...got it right...it's at 8.30am :D. Enough time for me to jump out of bed, get ready, and take panadol if my head is pounding due to hang over!!! Ada nanti instead of going to my daughters school, I drive all the way to work....Kuang Kuang Kuang!!! Hahaha....:P

Ok...I'm talking nonsense now.....will stop! :P

So for those who are going clubbing tonight...happy partying!!! And happy weekend to everyone else!!!

Ta!!!

Transformers! Here we Come!!!

Balqiz! sorry I stole your blog style format...this was funny so I had to add it into my blog...sorry yah...jangan marah!

Tonight I'm going to bring my daughter to watch transformers (I've heard good reviews about it..hopefully its as good as what everyone says it to be :))....she has yet to go into a Cineplex so this will be a very first experience :D. I can't wait to see her reaction!!! I have a feeling she will probably say something like this "Wah! So big!".

I actually wanted to bring her watch "Ice Age 3" since it is out already and I told her about it, but she said to me that she wants to watch 'Transformers" instead....so what to do...listen only lah to the queen of the house :P. Well, I also want to see...so its a win-win situation...WOOHOO!!! Hopefully she likes it and don't decide that she wants to leave the cineplex half way through. I probably will be very upset with her....haha...fingers cross!!!

Note that I have a very strange daughter...she prefers to watch Transformers, Ultraman (she has two of this toys at home and she even got me to buy her dinasours cause she said ultraman didn't have anybody to fight with :P...so pelik my daughter, she even knows whch one is Ultraman Cosmos and which one is Ultraman Gaia :O) and stuff like that rather than girly girly ones....THANKS GOODNESS she likes pink and we manage to persuade her to buy a barbie doll school bag instead of the Ben 10 one that she first wanted!!! :)

Besides that, I'm hoping that there wouldn't be many people today going to the cineplex....so I can have a choice of seats to chose from. I'm just hoping that the movie roll (not sure what you call that) doesn't burn or something like that....I heard it has happen many times already. I'm also hoping that they have solve the mouse issues too!!!

How I wish Miri had another Cineplex to go to. That way at least there is competition and both cineplex would at least try to keep their standards up!!! It is so sad that we are only stuck with one cineplex. So if there is any RICH PPL reading this, please lah....open one more cineplex in Miri....can or not??? Plllleeeaaaaaaaassssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... (doubt that will work, and doubt that rich ppl would take the time to read blogs...sigh).

If only I had a passport, I would probably go down to brunei to watch it, since I've heard Brunei Cineplex is so many times better....true kah??? Anybody been there before???

Anyway, I'm not expecting too much from our cineplex in Miri and mind you I'm pretty accommodating. So, if you see my blog tomorrow and I'm complaining about our Cineplex...that means it is really super duperly crap!!! I hope I won't complain. Don't want my daughter's first experience to be a crappy one.

Ta for now!!! Transformers, here we come!!!