sports wkend

its been a physically draining wkend and i'm so glad that i survived it. almost every inch of my muscle is aching and the many blisters on my toes are adding to the pain. but... its all worth it!

the first bout of exercise started on friday at our team building session - rock climbing. i know rock climbing uses alot of muscles, i just didnt realise they use the muscles that we (or rather i) seldom use... hence, i'm aching at the weirdest places where i never used to ache. not v helpful for my frisbee games the next day. the day ended with the department practicing volleyball for our inter-company games on wednesday. haven't played vball for years and it really showed cos my arms were bruised! the pain continued till sunday... feels as if i have rheumatism... pictures on rock climbing to be uploaded shortly!

saturday and sunday was the singapore open 2008! teams from all over south-east asia came to join us. i think i remember seeing teams from philippines, vietnam, thailand, hongkong, japan, taiwan, malaysia, indonesia (?) and even australia! my team played a total of 6 games (only) and won 3. a little disappointing seeing that we didn't quite rise to the occasion and play to our potential... but oh well... we had lots of fun :)


shwu, ping & i


my teammates!

after the tournament i headed off to the 10k nike human race... more like 10k human queue... it was a poorly organised run... the routes were so narrow... most of the time it was just human jam... doesn't help that we're running through crowded places and people staring at you isn't fun.. i even had a pre-run before i started the run.. chose to cab down to esplanade cos i thought parking would be a killer.. turned out there was a massive traffic jam along the rocher exit along ecp... cab driver told me "xiao jie, think you get off here and run there faster... otherwise you'd be late for your run"... and so i did... got off the cab in the middle of the highway and ran to esplanade... what an adventure!


the human jam...


us, before the run...


us, after the run... please ignore the couple making out behind us...


met jaja after the run! she still looks fresh... 10k is NOTHING to her... i met ah hu too.. while running... she ran so fast she left me eating her dust!


and of cos, EJ & christina...

thank goodness jack & rai ended the night with great songs :)

now that my fantasy wkend is over... its time to get my ass back to work...