my friend, you know how this all ends

this morning I randomly opened my special memories treasure chest. amongst the many precious things, I found an envelope from Peixian- it contained a letter from her dated 6 years back, my flying cert from the yfc, and a brochure from the rsaf. so I had a look through it.

I am currently nursing a far-fetched dream of flying f14s and whatnot, cept that I would probably not even make it past the medical exams this time round. but if I am ever gonna pursue this flying dream, I don’t have very much time left to make up my mind or even try for it. it really does take a lot to fly and get your wings. so you can imagine that I have much respect for military pilots. and well, commercial pilots too of course.

my friend and I have been spending our days in the office drawing up retirement plans for a farmhouse (which she would design, visual comm girl) that functions on green energy with vast land for cornfields and a runway. assuming of course, that I would own one of those classic biplanes and a license by then :D

I guess the next best thing for now would be to leave this longing for the sky to my fantasies. and thus, I shall leave you with this-

When once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Ps. big Wiley run tomorrow. I hope to run 60 flat or less… :S

the great hammy scare!

last night I was playing with lolly and speaking to her in Jap (cus I have this thing about training my hamsters to become bilingual. lol) when she suddenly froze and did not move a muscle for at least 5 minutes. I thought she died in my hands cus she just went stiff!! if not for her heartbeat still going I’d have suffered a heart attack myself. I wonder what was wrong with her. but I carried and stroked her and then put her back in her cage to let her rest. so after awhile she started sniffing around, but without moving, and a few minutes later she started moving again. phew. please don’t die on me, lolly.

and yesterday was a good run day. managed to shave 4 minutes off my previous timing..but probably cus I got lucky with the traffic lights too. hm. have yet to open ceremony on my new wave riders though. shall do so on monday!!

and. I received molahlei’s progress report today :) :) and lerato’s and khagen’s a couple of days ago. meze’s should be on the way. happy to say that they are all doing well – could be better, but I’m satisfied! should I visit khagen in nov?? the tentative date clashes with f1 abu dhabi!! >:( means I’d have to wait 4 months for the next season. but… which is more important? …

oh, I’m in love with the song “you can have me” by sidewalk prophets. and I loveee wbgl. it reminds me of last summer :) happy weekend!

city2surf

one year ago I ran the city2surf! :)

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-stops-for-great-race-20100807-11pch.html

I miss sydney. sigh. anyway in the spirit of mass runs… I have begun ‘training’ for my company ruun. its gonna be hard! every run is sucha huge mental struggle for me. goodness knows how many thousand fleeting thoughts fly through my mind with every stride I take.

but!! anyway. I bought new running shoes! :) it should hopefully motivate me enough to train for winning! mizuno racers.. but they’re less like racers and more like trainers these days..so much more cushioning than the wave xxx I had like.. 8 years ago? so yeap. set me back by quite abit though but as my colleague said… saves me grief in the long run! in the LONG RUN. in every sense of the word yeah.

I LOVE LONG WEEKENDS!!!!!! every weekend should be a long weekend hee hee. alrightey. I shall leave you with a picture of my awesome new shoe.