4 more days to Sundown Marathon....wished had trained more. Am so screwed now. The pain from last weekend's run still lingers and with a busy week, unable to get in some runs this week.
Wish me luck though.
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Star Trek: Into Darkness. Movie did not disappoint, plot was unexpected yet lively. Action and suspense throughout. Cast was the same as the previous movie and there's bits of humour as well.
Definitely recommend for those sci-fi geeks, worth to watch.
Home Team Real Run
Participated in the Home Team RealRun this morning at Sentosa, 10km run with killer slopes and tough sandy trails. Was a good run and scenic route although very challenging.
The organisation of the race however was crappy,the baggage handling especially sucks big time. Total chaos when retrieving baggage:
- baggage was late.
- slow in retrieving.
- no guidance as to queues.
- total chaos.
- baggage lorries blocking road
- baggage collection point was chosen at a chokepoint, causing lots of human jams.
A shame that it's a home team event yet total chaos and disorganisation. This run event might be the second I will boycott in future.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
New hobby
So...my new hobby is scuba diving. Am now an Advance Open Water Diver...but my buoyancy and air consumption still got a long way to go.
Sharing some photos of last month's diving in Tulamben, Bali. With my dive buddy and girlfriend, Winnie ;)
We dived with turturdive
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Running with new shoes
Tried the new Newton shoes for a short run. Works well like my other Newton, comfortable and bouncy. Forefoot running at it's best, can't go wrong with Newtons.
2 more weeks to Sundown Marathon, itchy me running full marathon....now having doubts if able to complete *gulps*
Anyway.....another running event which I just signed up yesterday, The North Face 100 run in Oct, 25km category. Trail running all the way. More challenges, more excitement.
Next weekend onwards, will be the start of 3 confirmed consecutive weekend running/cycling events, with another 4th weekend probable to participate.
Let the pain begin!
Friday, May 17, 2013
Newton running shoes
Sundown marathon is in 2 weeks. So while collecting the race pack earlier at the Singapore Expo, somehow got myself a new pair of Newton running shoes. Owned a pair previously, the Newton 'Sir Isaac' series thus got the same series but different colour this time. Let's hope the new shoes will last me throughout the marathon, with lots and lots of luck.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Night at the Museum 2
New movie continuation from the first movie. Nice plot, jokes, scenes and effects. Very refreshing. 4/5 ratings.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
More movies
Star Trek4/5 stars. Great movie, great plot, great action. But I'm just not a Star Trek fan so not too excited about this movie, hehe.
3/5 stars. Very draggy, make me fall asleep.
252 Signal Of Life3/5 stars. Too draggy, dramatic and so unrealistic. Not up to expectation.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Shinjuku Incident
Shinjuku Incident
Jackie Chan's weakest but strongest movie also. Weak coz it's not the usual Jackie movie where he knows martial arts, managing to subdue his opponents easily, adding some comedy as well to the movie. Strongest coz he manage to potray a simple street guy in this movie. Totally refreshing. 4/5 ratings.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Movie reviews
Watched the following movies recently.
Fast and Furious 4
Action-packed, starring the first original stars. While the plot was good, the car scenes were lacking. The ending however slightly disappointing personally. But still a must watch for the babes and cars. Ratings 3.5 /5.
Knowing
Great performance by Nicholas Cage as usual. Beginning of the movie was great, mid-movie kind of laggy but still keeps the viewers guessing. Ending was out of this world (and I really mean it). Read up on your Adam and Eve story and you will understand the ending better. Ratings 4/5.
Fast and Furious 4
Action-packed, starring the first original stars. While the plot was good, the car scenes were lacking. The ending however slightly disappointing personally. But still a must watch for the babes and cars. Ratings 3.5 /5.
Knowing
Great performance by Nicholas Cage as usual. Beginning of the movie was great, mid-movie kind of laggy but still keeps the viewers guessing. Ending was out of this world (and I really mean it). Read up on your Adam and Eve story and you will understand the ending better. Ratings 4/5.
'I will find you. And I will kill you'
Fantastic of the lot. Superb performance by Liam Neeson. For those spy-thriller lovers, this movie is a must watch. This movie is NOT unreallistic as other James Bond movies. It's mostly a clean action-packed bare-hands fighting scene. Only lose out slightly to the Jason Bourne series. Ratings 4.5/5.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Recent spendings of mine
Creative T20 speaker system. Was S$199nett, on offer at S$99.00nett.
Tatonka daypack 'Trillian'. Cost S$109.00nett.
Tatonka daypack 'Trillian'. Cost S$109.00nett.
Sniper
Dear all
Watched the movie 'Sniper' before my midnight shift last night. Seriously, have never ever really came out from watching a movie feeling so negative about a movie. The movie SUCKS BIG TIME. So unrealistic and illogical.
Firstly, the movie quality was very bad, like it's a low-budget movie. Some scenes were also unrealistic. For example;
1) Raining heavily, policeman on patrol BUT without any raincoat(????). They were drenched wet in the movie, what was the director thinking.
2) The snipers training to shoot bare-bodied. Not that I'm jealous of their bodies, BUT which special operations force trains like that. Snipers are supposed to blend into their environment, using foliage and cover to conceal themselves. Without any top clothes on, how to blend in.
3) A scene whereby their fellow comrade had fallen. Flag was at half-mast and a salute was given in honour BUT without their peak-caps. In military or police tradition, a salute can only be given when their caps are worn.
4) Lone sniper against a whole assault team. Assault team charging in an open field towards the sniper. The sniper picked off the assault team easily one by one. In reality, which commander would send an assault team charging in an open field against a sniper (so called top-sniper in the movie).
5) The team of good snipers assaulting into a warehouse to search for the bad snipers. Fair enough. However, the snipers were carrying sniper rifles instead of assault rifles. Snipers shoot with long rifles at long distances. Snipers pick their targets from far and provide cover for the assault team. A sniper rifle is also much heavier and more delicate than an assault rifle. An assault/forced entry into a building is done by the assault team and not by snipers. Where's the logic by the director with the snipers doing the assault.
Overall, this is the worst movie ever I watched in a movie hall and I felt cheated parting with the money to watch it. The movie plot was not bad. So much hype about Edison Chen for this movie but really nothing special. Out of 5, only deserve half a star.
The negative lists could go on but will only make the movie worse.
Helmi
Watched the movie 'Sniper' before my midnight shift last night. Seriously, have never ever really came out from watching a movie feeling so negative about a movie. The movie SUCKS BIG TIME. So unrealistic and illogical.
Firstly, the movie quality was very bad, like it's a low-budget movie. Some scenes were also unrealistic. For example;
1) Raining heavily, policeman on patrol BUT without any raincoat(????). They were drenched wet in the movie, what was the director thinking.
2) The snipers training to shoot bare-bodied. Not that I'm jealous of their bodies, BUT which special operations force trains like that. Snipers are supposed to blend into their environment, using foliage and cover to conceal themselves. Without any top clothes on, how to blend in.
3) A scene whereby their fellow comrade had fallen. Flag was at half-mast and a salute was given in honour BUT without their peak-caps. In military or police tradition, a salute can only be given when their caps are worn.
4) Lone sniper against a whole assault team. Assault team charging in an open field towards the sniper. The sniper picked off the assault team easily one by one. In reality, which commander would send an assault team charging in an open field against a sniper (so called top-sniper in the movie).
5) The team of good snipers assaulting into a warehouse to search for the bad snipers. Fair enough. However, the snipers were carrying sniper rifles instead of assault rifles. Snipers shoot with long rifles at long distances. Snipers pick their targets from far and provide cover for the assault team. A sniper rifle is also much heavier and more delicate than an assault rifle. An assault/forced entry into a building is done by the assault team and not by snipers. Where's the logic by the director with the snipers doing the assault.
Overall, this is the worst movie ever I watched in a movie hall and I felt cheated parting with the money to watch it. The movie plot was not bad. So much hype about Edison Chen for this movie but really nothing special. Out of 5, only deserve half a star.
The negative lists could go on but will only make the movie worse.
Helmi
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Subaru rocks
OK
Here I was travelling home from work at about 0200hrs on my bike riding at about 100km/h on the middle lane of a 3 lane expressway when I spotted a pair of headlights on my right side mirror. Less than a second later, that 'pair of headlights' rocketed past me. And I really mean it's like a rocket, I was really damn surprised. In my more than 10 years of riding, no other vehicles had overtaken me at such speed. BUT in that second that the car rocketed past me, I could only make out the Subaru words on its rear, guess must have been a WRX.
Woohoo.
Helmi
Here I was travelling home from work at about 0200hrs on my bike riding at about 100km/h on the middle lane of a 3 lane expressway when I spotted a pair of headlights on my right side mirror. Less than a second later, that 'pair of headlights' rocketed past me. And I really mean it's like a rocket, I was really damn surprised. In my more than 10 years of riding, no other vehicles had overtaken me at such speed. BUT in that second that the car rocketed past me, I could only make out the Subaru words on its rear, guess must have been a WRX.
Woohoo.
Helmi
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
14th April 2009
Dear all
Can't think of any other title for this post. Was busy at work earlier, with 2 VIP events. One of them with 14 Ambassadors. As expected, the usual 2 suspects caused mayhem, like always.
Newbies arrived at work finally, boosting up the team strength. Hope they will last long. The current team will not last much longer with 2 existing staff leaving soon. Anyway, my direct boss is on leave these few days but surprisingly, the top bosses have not find fault with us yet.
Hope I didn't speak too soon.
Helmi
Can't think of any other title for this post. Was busy at work earlier, with 2 VIP events. One of them with 14 Ambassadors. As expected, the usual 2 suspects caused mayhem, like always.
Newbies arrived at work finally, boosting up the team strength. Hope they will last long. The current team will not last much longer with 2 existing staff leaving soon. Anyway, my direct boss is on leave these few days but surprisingly, the top bosses have not find fault with us yet.
Hope I didn't speak too soon.
Helmi
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Random visit
Dear all
Haven't been back regularly here updating. Been busy these past weeks or months and will be more busy to come. Mixed feelings experienced as well when I'm away.
Anyway, good news is will be going to Ho Chi Minh for pre-wedding shoot in July, Yippee. Can't wait.
Hope to be back here regularly as well. Till then, take care all.
Helmi
Haven't been back regularly here updating. Been busy these past weeks or months and will be more busy to come. Mixed feelings experienced as well when I'm away.
Anyway, good news is will be going to Ho Chi Minh for pre-wedding shoot in July, Yippee. Can't wait.
Hope to be back here regularly as well. Till then, take care all.
Helmi
Friday, April 10, 2009
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