I've been a little scheming lying bitch coz in my last post I lamented about how running and jogging kills my pathetic heart. And how I would die if I ran.

But uh, as you can tell from this picture, I participated in a race. And it was my first ever race.

It was the Hong Bao Run organised by Mediacorp on Sunday... and guess how long the distance was?

FREAKIN 8 KILOMETRES. EIGHT. Eight. Whop my freakin ass EIGHT. The longest distance I ever ran was hello? 2.4km muthabuggaz! Called Napha test. And 2.4 was my dreaded enemy during Napha so here I am... signing up for this thing called Hong Bao Run, which was so widely advertised on TV for people to sign up. Huat my ass hell yeah!

SO WHY DID I SIGN UP when I knew it'd kill me.

Well, first thing's first, you'd know that I wouldn't pay for something that would cost me when all I could do was run during my OT OT. So, if you guessed it, yeah, it was free for staff members. TEEHEE. Original px: $68 WOOOOHOO!!!! I got it fo free. :') I ain't no payin for nothin when I can go runnin in a place called the park or just outside my L-O-N-G KAO. That one is everybody's grandfather's road man.

Another reason that made me sign up was how my colleague said she would walk the entire distance and only run the last 500 metres hahahahaha. She said must look good for the cameras for last part. So I was like HELL YEAH IM GONNA WALK WITH YOU. I can't run for shit.

And the last reason was, yeah, I do need some exercise. Anyway, if I need to stop, JUST WALK LAH. Confirm will walk. I already want to die when I run 2.4km. Run 8km simi sai, in your dreams.


But...
Guess freakin what ass holes.

I JOGGED THE ENTIRE 8KM AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT.

I still can't believe it actually.

While I was jogging, I was thinking, omg, what's happening to me. Why am I not panting like a sick old lady? Why? WHY???!?!?!!?!?!

Even Felicia Chin was walking like she couldn't care. (I secretly think all these Mediacorp celebs were forced to come down so they couldn't even be bothered to try... sigh.)

Ah, but I must say tho Kym Ng is a runner. That woman with the pink hair could fly man.


Anyway, back to my tear-jerk worthy moment of my life.

I was running and I was thinking and thinking. It truly was the best run I had ever done.

And I took only 1 hour 6 minutes to complete the race. Only? YES ONLY COZ I THOUGHT I'D TAKE 3 HOURS AT LEAST. And I was thinking the entire event would prolly wait for me as the last person to finish the race. Good Lord. So that timing was an achievement by a milestone in my pathetic Book of Records for running.

What made the run more enjoyable was that I had my colleague as my running buddy for the ENTIRE 1 hour :'D She and I kept with each other's pace and never left the other. I never thought running could be this way... I always thought running was a solo thing coz I always believed that someone would always run faster than you or you'd find someone (like me) a burden to run with and run milessss ahead. So I always thought running can never be a pair or team thing.

But guess what, another reason why I really enjoyed this race was because SO MANY PEOPLE would be running alongside you! You're running on the ROAD. They cordoned off the entire Nicoll Highway for us! I felt like a human vehicle. Ok not really but the feeling is pretty awesome when you run in a crowd. Though it was really quite smelly after like 1 or 2 km. You could smell all the bodily fluids oh sick. Mine's probably part of the concoction nyahahha.

Anyway, you must be thinking...

SO WHAT THE HELL SI HUI? What the hell happened to you?

I must admit, I never practised for this race. Not at all. Because I was told I had to run at least 60% of the distance to make it. 60% of 8km would be 4.8km. But I never did.

WHAT I DID DO WAS, run 2.4km outside my house the week before. But even so, I was panting like a mother*. Really. I was like, goodness, why do people enjoy torturing themselves like that what the hell. I'm never gonna make it.

Then I realised what it was... The race that I ran for. The Hong Bao Run. What was different about all the other stuff that I had ever run for, ah which is actually only Napha, was that I started real slow. I jogged. And I jogged for the entire distance. I never once sped up. Only the last 100m when I knew I was gonna finish the race. I sprinted to the finish line. But from start till end, I slow jogged like a grandma, but slow enough to overtake some lah not so jialat. Power Grandma. And also, I maintained a constant pace.

I'VE FOUND THE SECRET TO LONG DISTANCE JOGGING!!!!!! I HAVE I HAVE.

It applies to me lah. I dunno about you. If I trained longer, I'd prolly get better. But I don't really want to, coz I don't wanna hurt my knees. Seriously. It's bad for the knees. Don't wanna be on a wheelchair when I'm only 23 or something hahaha. But of coz, it's a good work out.

Ah.. I think.. I'm just lucky to have small boobs also. Coz when you run, man, those coconuts if you do have them big ones, well, they're gonna be HE-AVY. No sports bra will ever do hahahah.

After the race, on Monday, my legs were pretty sore. A good sore. Coz ya know your body is really stretcheddddd.

And best of all, when you finish a race, you just feel damn bloody good about yourself lah. That's just what everyone wants by the end of it HAHAHA. secretly.

For me, I remember telling myself the night before, "wahlau, if you manage to finish the race, DUDE, you can accomplish ANYTHING. I tell ya ANYTHING".

Indeed, I feel like I can achieve anything. Majulah Singapura bro.

It was something I never thought I'd ever be able to do, really. ALL my friends have done a race before. 10km at least (all those nabeh srjc people hahahaha). And me? nevah! Just thinking about how I signed up without thinking was really quite a feat for me already. Signed up after the deadline somemore hahaha and the friend who asked me to join didn't go for the event in the end -.-

I used to be sad thinking I'll never be able to run a race coz uh, I really hate running man. And I like to try everything before I die. So hell yeahhh

I hope this secret to long distance running lasts forever man. Not just one morning of running. Also, I was wondering if it's coz it was a race super early in the morning? Like 7am? The weather was cool and all? I dunno. We'll see.


And GUESS WHAT, ok I just saw this promo thing about "Singapore City Race", 23rd March.
5km and 15km. 15km is quite daunting. No actually very daunting... but I want to challenge myself eh. If I do 5km, I'm not really challenging myself. I'll see who wants to sign up as a team. If no one, then fate tells me running is outta my league so I can just stfu and go to sleep.

Or coz $48 is just too damn lame and expensive. Paying to exercise wow whee.

Anyway, I went for filming on Monday at Joo Chiat and I went to this SPECTACULAR Peranakan House. It's not just a House, it's actually a HOUSE. I don't make much sense do I? The fact that someone LIVES in there is amazing. Coz it literally looked like a museum/shophouse and it was just amazing. And too beautiful.






It's not even his house but he was such a good profile and was willing to go to his neighbour's house to present for us. A walking tour.
The entire mini-series is called "That's My Backyard" featuring neighbourhoods of Singapore. I'm excited to see upcoming productions and episodes especially since the first one is very promising and I've been on a number of shoots already. All very fascinating. So yes, do watch it. I know the producer for the Tiong Bahru episode and she's one of the best on our team so it's an episode you cannot miss! She's awesome and very nice.