The Voice Within...

THE VOICE WITHIN
--- by Christina Aguilera

Young girl, don't cry
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall
Young girl, it's all right
Your tears will dry, you'll soon be free to fly

When you're safe inside your room you tend to dream 
Of a place where nothing's harder than it seems
No one ever wants or bothers to explain
Of the heartache life can bring and what it means

When there's no one else
Look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend
Just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength
That will guide your way
If you will learn to begin 
To trust the voice within

Young girl, don't hide
You'll never change if you just run away
Young girl, just hold tight
And soon you're gonna see your brighter day

Now in a world where innocence is quickly claimed
It's so hard to stand your ground when you're so afraid
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
When you're lost outside look inside to your soul

When there's no one else
Look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend
Just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength
That will guide your way
If you will learn to begin 
To trust the voice within

Yeah...
Life is a journey 
It can take you anywhere you choose to go
As long as you're learning
You'll find all you'll ever need to know

You'll make it
You'll make it
Just don't go forsaking yourself
No one can stop you
You know that I'm talking to you

When there's no one else
Look inside yourself
Like your oldest friend
Just trust the voice within
Then you'll find the strength
That will guide your way
If you will learn to begin 
To trust the voice within

Young girl don't cry
I'll be right here when your world starts to fall




* Just trust the voice within, Then you'll find the strength... Sometimes, when you quietens down your mind, you may even hear angels whispering to you...you can do more than what you think you could do...

Barnyard Friends Photoshoot-Outing

Last Saturday (26th May 2012), MooMoo had a FUN outing with Barnyard Gang and friends.  

Prior to that, MooMoo had design a shirt for the Barnyard Gang so that we could have a photoshoot in it before Piggy goes off to her Nougat City and reunite with her pet, Tapir.  Mrs. Chicky and MooMoo went hunting for the shirts and thank to Mrs. Chicky the shirt printing were possible.  Mrs. Chicky had helped source the printer around her office and managed to get a good quote on the shirt printing.  Thanks a lot, Mrs. Chicky!!! Muahhhhhh. : *

The actual design is with colours but the printing ended up in only white colour as the full colours would be very expensive as we only print a small quantity.  Each colour is a mould and will be quoted differently.  Therefore, ended up with black shirts and white designs.  Chicky Pie and Cutie Pie have one of these Ts as well, but it is in Red colour.  Haha.

This is how the "FRONT" of the T-shirt looks like

This is how the "BACK" of the T-shirt looks like

MooMoo bought this voucher from GroupOn for a 90 mins outdoor photoshoot.  It was the 1st time MooMoo took up this offer and it turned out quite well.  Everyone had fun posing and taking pictures at Fort Canning.  The photographers were very friendly and the shots looked great.  Looking forward to receiving the soft copies in CD through mail.  ^=^

When MooMoo and gang reached Fort Canning that morning, it started to drizzle.  Luckily, thank GOD, it stopped after awhile and we could continue the photoshoot, else it would be without Piggy.  Lucky Piggy (^@^)!!!

This is a photograph taken with our printed "Barnyard Friends" T-shirts.

MooMoo had written a short little note to go with it....

"One, two, three, four, five,

Live, Laugh, Love, That's Life!

Six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

When will we meet again?"

* It has been a great friendship built over the years when Barnyard Gang stayed together in Lion City.... and it grew to Barnyard and Friends... LOL... Well, may our Friendship at HEART continues to grow even with the distance growing... as distance cannot matter.... ^=^

Piggy's Full Day Celebration

Initially, MooMoo and Barnyard gang wanted to have a short weekend getaway farewell for Piggy but due to unforeseen circumstances, we ended up dropping the idea and have a full day celebration at Lion City instead.  

We had 3 sessions; starting with a morning brunch of Dim Sum, a KTV session and ended with her Birthday celebration dinner with Japanese food.  It was such a coincidence that it was Mother's Day on that day and everywhere were damn crowded.  

Here's some pictures of the food that day, 13th May 2012.  The Dim Sum were nice but the Japanese food ain't that great.  Anyway, MooMoo is sure that there's not much food to be missed at Lion City compare to her Ipoh food.  LOL! Piggy is sure enjoying her last 3 days in KL right now, digging on all her favourite food. =p

* MooMoo was suppose to watch MIB with Piggy before she left but just didn't have the time... but managed to catch 'The Avengers' with her though... She watched it a couple of times... her love for the super heroes... haha... can fight with her snake sista, Ms. Mo for the green HULK... :p

Draw-Somers Macam-Macam Patterns

MooMoo have been wanting to post this quite some time ago but didn't really have the time.  These few days while waiting in boredom, MooMoo managed to put some pictures together to blog it up.  MooMoo have slowed down in playing "Draw Something" lately.... but she still love the game, though some of her kakis have also slowed down and some even went MIA.  Haha!

You can see all types of different "Draw-Somers" patterns when you play the game.  It really can be pretty entertaining sometimes.  Hahaha!  First of all, MooMoo's got a group of friends who love to "WRITE SOMETHING" instead of "DRAW SOMETHING".  They basically test your memory and knowledge by doing a lot of writing.  Some friends can start writing things like, "Ms. A's favourite actor...", "Mr. B's favourite food..." or some quotes and phrases as clues.  LOL!

Then, there's another group who do not really like to use colours when they draw and sometimes you just need to crack your head to guess the drawings.  Hahaha.  No offense to those who see your drawings pinned up here.  It's just some random examples.  Check out the red arrow... the answer is actually "PASS" as the arrow points to the "Pass" button in the screen.  Creative huh?!?  Haha!  Sometimes, you can guess better when you know the other party as you know how that person draws or you can actually read the person's mind.  MooMoo's brother is one of the "WRITE-SOMERS".  ^=^

Then, there are those who love to use COLOURS.  MooMoo loves to use the colours too, as it would make the picture looks more interesting.  MooMoo thinks that it's kinda a way to release stress as well.  You can draw with lots of colours and looking at the colourful pictures just makes you happy. 

Some are just very creative and can draw interesting pictures.  Check out the Eiffel Tower in Paris.  Ain't it lovely?  The raccoon is cute too.  Piggy and Tapir can draw very good "TinTin".  Like owner like pet.  Hehe.  MooMoo always have problem guessing country flags as her general knowledge on flags are very poor.  After playing this game, it does improve a little.  At least, some education through all the fun.  Haha!

Lastly, there are a number of "Draw-Somers" who likes to draw "XXX" drawings.... especially Piggy's good online game friend.  Don't get it wrong... the last picture at the bottom right is not by him.  That picture was by a friend's friend.  Anyway, Piggy said he drew more hamsap stuff for her coz don't dare to draw too much for MooMoo.  Faint.  MooMoo took a long time to guess the 1st picture on the top left.  The answer was "STALLONE" and he saw the wrong word... he saw "STALLION".  =p

Well, MooMoo have LOTS of FUN with all these different types of "DRAW-SOMERS" kakis.  If all were the same, things would just be boring.  It's great that each one of us are different and we just complement each other.

* Back to work tomorrow.... after a long, long break... MooMoo just didn't feel like going back to office... Mountains of work waiting for her... and she gotta unpack her stuff at her new workstation... =p

Just Say It

JUST SAY IT
--- by Sleepthief (ft. Kyoko Baertsoen)

Just say that you love me
Alone and silent face to face
Just say that you need me
Those words that swallow this empty space

(Prechorus)

Silence finds distance
And the distance will see us falter
Violent condition
Of a heart that always shames love

(Chorus)

Just say it's over, all we've become
Just say it's time to lessen the sum
To tear down the bridge and build a divide
Erase all the memories drawn inside

Just say now you've touched me
Say all that I'm feeling won't come undone
Just say in this darkness
That you'll be here when the morning comes

(Repeat Prechorus)

(Repeat Chorus)

You say that you love me
But those words are empty just like me heart
You say that you need me
But your words just lead us to fall apart

(Repeat Prechorus)

(Repeat Chorus)

* Beautiful song... Suddenly, MooMoo thought of this cute quote that she found online, "Say what you mean and mean what you say, but don't be mean when you say it." --- Unknown

Big Ear Hole - Tai Ee Lung (Canton) a.k.a. Ah Long

MooMoo always thought that the "Tai Ee Lung" (read in Cantonese), in direct translation is Big Ear Hole, a.k.a. Ah Long are all in drama and will never encounter them.  The other day when MooMoo reached home and took off her shoes, she noticed a red folded card under her shoe rack.  When she opened up the card, she was shocked to see the vulgar, threatening message in there saying that if don't pay up, will burn down the house.

MooMoo quickly informed her landlady about it and her landlady helped to report to police.  Apparently, the guy that the "Ah Long" was looking for was the previous owner of the HDB flat.

My colleagues were even laughing at the note saying that, how come the "Ah Long" print and cut so nicely, as well as paste it nicely like a greeting card.  It does not look like a threatening note.  The funny thing is that it is stated that you can only call them between 6-9pm.

The police in Lion City is pretty efficient.  After a couple of days reporting, 2 casual wear policemen appeared at MooMoo's doorsteps.  They gave MooMoo the contact stickers, to call them if there's any suspicious people around the neighbourhood.  They even informed the surrounding neighbours to look out for suspicious people and call them if required.

Well,  MooMoo really could not be bothered with all these at this time.  Anyway, MooMoo is sure that they will not be successful in burning down the house as her neighbours are always at home.  If they were to burn down MooMoo's house, her neighbours will definitely be affected.

* Time to zZz... super tired.... @.@

Sundown Marathon 2012 Results

Date: 27th May 2012 (Sunday)
Distance: 42km
Time: 7 hours : 33 mins : 36 secs

The timing at 32km was about 5 hours.  OMG! MooMoo actually took about 2 hours 30 mins for the last 10km.  Hahaha!  Anyway, MooMoo will treat it as an experience of how running a full marathon feels like.  She will definitely need to do proper training and condition herself properly before doing better in her next full marathon.  GANBATTE!!! ^=^

* MooMoo still need to work on her target of Sub 1 hour for her 10km race.  =p

Say Buh-Bye to old office...

MooMoo's last day at her old office was last Thursday.  She finished packing up all her 4.5 years ++ stuff in 2 boxes.  One of the boxes is stuffed with softies.  MooMoo's colleague thought it some kids's stuff.  LOL!  Well,  MooMoo collected all the toys from office's Christmas celebration's exchange of gifts and some left behind by those colleagues who left the company.

This week onwards, it would be new beginning at new office.  MooMoo have not step into the new building before and never been to that area.  Hope she can find her way this coming Wednesday.  Luckily, MooMoo is on leave on Monday and Tuesday.  She cannot imagine walking up the slope on a Monday morning after her Full Marathon today.  Haha!

Box No. 1

Things that goes into Box No. 2

My empty workstation after the packing

* MooMoo need to start working on her coming trip preparation.... her 1st 'Bertapa' trip... LOL!  Suddenly, time seems to pass so quickly... and there's LOTS to do... Argghh... zen zen zen... calm down and work on a 'To Do' list... =p

GOD's Daily Message

Funny... MooMoo got this message from the 'GOD's Daily Message' email through Facebook.

May 28, 2012

Today, God's message for you is to pace yourself.  Life should not be like a marathon that we rush to finish.  It is a journey, a pilgrimage of sorts and the finish line will never be reached.  Consider life to be more like a relay race.  As we pass through this life and on to the next, it is like passing a baton or torch to the next generation.  We will then go to our final rest knowing that we participated grandly and that our contribution to the world was worthy.

* May the LORD bless that everything will goes smoothly and successfully later this afternoon... 

MooMoo's 1st Rainstorm Full Marathon

MooMoo survived her 1st Full Marathon, despite the heavy rainstorm and injured knees.  What an experience...  MooMoo didn't manage to hit her target goal of 6 hours 30 mins but ended up with 7 hours 30mins++.  Anyway, she's glad she managed to complete the race.  Thanks a lot to her running buddy who ran and walked with her all the way to the finishing line.

MooMoo went to the running site really early around 11:15pm and the flagging off time is at 12:30am.  The starting point is just right outside the Nicoll Highway Circle Line MRT.  You will be amazed how kiasu people are... as there are already a lot of people at the starting point waiting to run.

The Half Marathon and the Full Marathon runners were all running together at the same timing.  MooMoo felt that this round the way it is managed ain't that great.  Well, this year they solve the issue of the transportation and the crowds being real late as they changed the location from Changi to City centre.  But, putting the 2 categories together, they didn't manage the crowd very well.  When you reach certain drinks station, they can't even give out the drinks on time and some ended up no more drinks and some station went chaotic.  

For the 1st half of the run, it went pretty well till MooMoo felt sharp pain in her right knees.  MooMoo's stamina is in place as she didn't felt it in her body but her knees just kinda give way.  = (

MooMoo was pacing slowly in order to complete her race.  She took 45 mins to complete her 1st 5km and 85 mins for her 1st 10km.  By the time, she reached 15km it was about 2 hours.  She took about 3 hours to complete 21km and by that time, her knees were hurting badly.

She managed to take a picture halfway running across the bridge towards Marina Barrage.  It's her 1st time going to the Marina Barrage area.  The racing route was quite nice.

At the beginning of the race, the weather was so humid that MooMoo's sweat doubled up.  She never sweat so much in the morning hot sun.  Around 18km, it started to drizzle and the weather is pretty cooling after that.  What everyone didn't expected was that towards 21km onwards, the rain got heavier.  Everyone got drenched and there are quite a number who went for shelter, hoping to continue after the rain stop but it never stop till towards 38km onwards.

MooMoo and her running buddy continued to run and walk in the rainstorm as MooMoo knew that if she stopped, she would get too comfortable and may end up giving up.  MooMoo basically walked all the way for the 2nd half of the race as her knees really cannot take it anymore.  It is not doing any better walking in the soaked wet shoes.

At 21km, when the rain got heavier and her knees began to pain more, it really made her wanna cry thinking of her brother.  When you think that the rain is gonna stop, it got heavier and when you think that the pain is gonna stop, it got worse.  MooMoo's pain may be temporary but her brother's pain is constantly coming back to haunt him.

Sometimes, it's really hard to console her brother to hang on and endure the pain.  When we have pain ourselves, we are already complaining like mad.  Imagine 10 times of period cramp.  So when MooMoo think of her brother, her pain is nothing and she knows she just have to walk all the way towards the finishing line.  She also thought of the quote by Confucius, "It doesn't matter how slowly you go, so long you do not stop."  The last 10km was a painful 10km walk.  It was really endurance.  

It is lucky that Ms. Mo is sleeping at home instead of running the race.  She would definitely rather have the super hot sun than the rainstorm.  Ms. Mo asked if MooMoo prefer rain or hot sun?!?  Well, MooMoo don't mind the rain provided her knees are well and it really helps if her shoes are waterproof.  Hahaha!  Anyway, we can't choose the weather like how we can't choose our lives, we just need to choose how we live it as some things just can't be changed.

MooMoo's happy that she managed to finish the race within the cut off time.  The cut off time was 8 hours.  MooMoo really salute her friend running for 9 hours 30 mins previously without training.

This is her 1st hard earned Full Marathon medal.  The back of the medal stated "I beat sunrise" but MooMoo never beat the sunrise.  LOL!  Anyway, MooMoo's glad she made it!!! ^=^

This is the after effects of the run.  Bad abrasion on both MooMoo's arms.  It's really damn painful especially when during bath.  = ((  And her poor feet after soaking in the wet shoes for 4-5 hours.... looked like old woman's feet.  Haha!

Here's Salonpas and Banana Boat's Aloe Vera gel coming to rescue.  Haha!  Felt much better after spraying Salonpas and applying the Aloe Vera gel.

* So sad can't go to my favourite STEP class tomorrow.... Will have to wait till next Mon.... = (  Will need to go for a good stretch at Balance class this week....

Family Day

MooMoo's office had 'Eating with Family' day on Friday but she was on leave.  Wasted....  = (  Come to think of it, even if MooMoo is able to go home early at 5pm, she also can't eat with the whole family. = p

Well, I believe that families can stick together whether they eat together or not, if they want to stick together.  It's a matter of choice, commitment and love, or MooMoo could say sometimes beyond love.

* Long time no blog... just catching up a bit on my backlogs... suddenly, MooMoo thought of what her friend said to her, "Rainbow in your heart".... will try to bring the "RAINBOW" everywhere MooMoo go... but sometimes it's not easy... well, Rainbow only comes after rain and storm... 

Adidas Sundown Marathon 2012 Race Pack

MooMoo's very 1st Full Marathon and it's just 24 hours away.  The race will start 30 mins past midnight, which is 27th May 2012 (Sunday), starting at Nicoll Highway.

Wish MooMoo LOTS and LOTS of luck as she didn't really have enough training and rest before her race.  Everything just seems to happen at the wrong time or the same time.  This round her target is to complete the race in one piece.  She will leave her initial target of completing the race in 6:30 for the next round.  Haha!

MooMoo hope she don't fall asleep halfway during the race.  =p

Just pray for 3 things:

1. Good weather

2. Knee is good

3. Aunty come after race

GANBATTE!!! Mind over body... since body is not ready... Kekeke....

* Lately, MooMoo's body must be real confused with the sudden change of exercise routine... dunno why don't exercise the whole week also can be more tired than exercise the whole week... faint...

There's a Place for Us...

THERE'S A PLACE FOR US
--- by Carrie Underwood

There's a place out there for us
More than just a prayer or anything you've ever dreamed of.
So when you feel like giving up
Cause you don't fit in down here
Fear is crashing in, close your eyes and take my hand yeah.

We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It's written in the stars that shine above
A world where you and I belong
Where faith and love will keep us strong
Exactly who we are is just enough
There's a place for us, there's a place for us.

When the water meets the sky
Where your heart is free and hope comes back to life
When these broken hands are whole again
We'll find what we've been waiting for
We were made for so much more

We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It's written in the stars that shine above
A world where you and I belong
Where faith and love will keep us strong
Exactly who we are is just enough
There's a place for us, there's a place for us

So hold on, hold on
There's a place for us

We can be the kings and queens of anything if we believe.
It's written in the stars that shine above
A world where you and I belong
Where faith and love will keep us strong
Exactly who we are is just enough
Exactly who we are is just enough
There's a place for us

* Lately, time like passes so quickly... without MooMoo realizing it... everything is coming to an end this month... and all the changes coming in at the same time... some for better and some for worse... no matter what, MooMoo either get happiness or experiences through all the changes... gosh... and MooMoo is so  gonna miss Piggy so much when she is off to her Nougat city.... = (

"Never regret a day in your life.
1. Good days give you happiness;
2. Bad days give you experiences;
3. Both are essential to life.
Keep going...."

BE STRONG

BE STRONG
--- by Delta Goodrem

Are you swimming upstream in oceans of blue? 
Do you feel like your sinking? 
Are you sick of the rain after all you've been through? 
Well I know what you're thinking 
When you can't take it 
You can make it 
Sometime soon I know you'll see 

'cause when your in you're darkest hour 
And all of the light just fades away 
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of gray 
Well hang on and be strong 

Where taking each step one day at a time 
You can't loose your spirit 
Let live and let live forget and forgive 
It's all how you see it 
And just remember keep it together 
Don't you know you're never alone 

'cause when you're in your darkest hour 
And all of the light just fades away 
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of gray 
Well hang on, and be strong 

No you're not defeated 
And soon you'll be smiling once again 
Then you won't have to feel it 
Let it go with the wind 
Time passes us by 
And know that you're aloud to cry 

'cause when you're in your darkest hour 
And all of the light just fades away 
When you're like a single flower whose colours have turned to shades of gray 
Well hang on and be strong




* Sometimes being STRONG is the only option... You just can't lose your spirit... else, you will just lose it all... even before you begin your battle...


"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." --- George Seaton