3rd Prize in 21km Race Category ^=^

It took MooMoo by surprise when she received an email saying that she won the 3rd prize for the 21km race category with her official nett timing of 02:50:35s.  MooMoo's company had sponsored staff to do the Great Eastern Women Run and decided to give out prizes for Top 5 for each category, which is the 10km and 21km respectively.  

MooMoo guess she is just lucky as not many staff have signed up for the 21km category and they have ruled out the Corporate category from the Individual category.  The 1st prize runner in Corporate category has a timing of less than 2 hours, while the Individual category timing is about 02:17:00s.

Well, MooMoo is happy she got free shopping vouchers of S$100.  Yippee!!! ^=^

* Everyday may not be a Good day BUT there is something Good in everyday.... Be thankful with all the little things in our Life so that we may not overlook at all the important things in our Life.... Every little things make a difference.  Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Part of Growing Up

MooMoo happened to stumble upon this quote while browsing online and finds it pretty interesting.... something that fits into recent happenings.  :p

* It's been 3 months.... 21.11.2012...

These few days, MooMoo have been coming home earlier to rest... hoping to recover from her 'ahem' and 'dripping' as soon as possible.... :p

2012 Great Eastern Women Run 21km Race Results

MooMoo really a bit regret signing up 2 races back to back, one on a Saturday evening and another on early Sunday morning.  It was really challenging especially when she just recover and she sleeps like a giraffe.  The Great Eastern Women run actually started at 5:30am and the shuttle bus pick up is at 03:45am.  MooMoo woke up around 03:00am to get ready.

The Great Eastern Women Run for 21km category is the very 1st time for this year.  Therefore, MooMoo thought she would just join the fun and do the race.  Anyway, it is not that bad after all.  MooMoo quite enjoyed the run, except that it was quite challenging to complete the race towards the end.  The route was good with very nice scenery and due to starting really early, MooMoo  managed to escape Mr. Sunshine.

On Sunday, the whole place is like a sea of women in RED.  This year, the crowd seems to be less, maybe due to the same race date with Passion Run for the sunrise category.  Ms. Mo and Uncle Lim were doing the Passion Run for the sunrise category.

MooMoo managed to snap a nice shot on the way back to the finishing line, which is about 5-6km to go.  Towards the last stretch of the race, MooMoo was basically walking her way back.  When MooMoo saw everyone walking, she just felt so demotivated to run and joined them walking too.  Hahaha!  Uncle Lim scolded MooMoo and said MooMoo should be continuing to run to motivate the rest to run. =.=!!  Suddenly, MooMoo thought of the scenarios at work.  :p

MooMoo was so glad that she managed to complete her race with a timing better than expected.  MooMoo targetted to finish the race within 3 hours but she managed to finish slightly earlier than that.  If MooMoo were to push herself a little harder, she could have beat her own PB.  Anyway, MooMoo is still happy for the completion of the race.  Hooray!!!

This year, the race was organised really well.  There were no congestions and everything seems to be in order.  There were more than enough toilets, water points and activities for the participants, as well as their friends and family members.  All of the runners were given free food after the run.  There were yummy Ice creams, hotdogs, muffins and lots of fruits.

Only 1 thing that needs improvement.  There were super long queue at the photo taking booth.  MooMoo still prefer they do it like last year, where there are photographers going around taking pictures for everyone.  Anyway, this year MooMoo didn't stop by the photo booth as she was lazy to wait and felt super tired after the race.  She went home and zZz the whole afternoon.  She even skipped her usual stretching at Balance class.

MooMoo is happily rewarded with her 21km medal.  This is MooMoo's 4th half marathon and MooMoo's personal best timing were her 3rd half marathon with the timing 02:38:11s.  It makes a difference when you train and you do not train.  Hahaha! :p  MooMoo would like to work towards a timing of 02:30:00s for her half marathon.  Ganbatte!!! ^=^

Great Eastern Women Run

Date: 11/11/2012

Distance: 21km

Timing: 02:50:35s

Venue: The Float@Marina

* MooMoo's body is already boycotting MooMoo's action... system seems to be shutting down on MooMoo... time to zZz...  hope she gets well soon this weekend... Nite NitezZz....

2012 Singapore Passion Run 9km Race Results

This year, MooMoo did the 9km evening sunset run for Passion Run.  It was just last Saturday (10th November 2012), which is just 1 day before Great Eastern Women Run.

MooMoo have not been running and training for quite awhile but lucky she still goes to gym once awhile to workout in her favourite STEP class.  It was quite a nice evening run, despite MooMoo just recovering from her sorethroat and flu.

The whole East Coast Park was flooded with bright orange people.  Haha!  MooMoo's friend, Kitty Cat accompanied her to this evening race.  Actually MooMoo signed up this race quite sometime ago and she wanted to join the race just for the puzzle certificate.  :p

Anyway, MooMoo is rewarded with a nice, customised medal for women and 9km.  It is a paperweight this year, instead of a medal.

MooMoo just checked her race results online.  It is not that bad after all, since not much training.  MooMoo's target of doing 10km in 60 mins is still a long way to go.  Hahahaha.  

Passion Run

Date: 10/11/2012

Distance: 9km

Timing: 01:08:56s

Venue: ECP

* MooMoo prefers Sunset runs than Sunrise runs.... away from Mr. Sunshine.... ^=^

Confront your FEARS

So easy to say,
So difficult to do.
But until you face your fears,
you're always looking back.
You're a diminished version of yourself.
Do it by degrees,
do it with the help of others,
but stare down your fears,
Watch yourself grow as the fears shrink.

"I'm never afraid of what I know." --- Anna Sewell

- From the "BE HAPPY" book -

* MooMoo had a GREAT workout today doing 2 special STEP classes for Deepavali holidays.  ^=^  It was Duo Step and Multi Step.  Her aching legs felt better today.  Not a good idea to do 9km on Sat evening and 21km on Sun morning, back to back, without any training. :p  

Forgive and Forget

MooMoo did something out of the norm today.  It is really something that MooMoo also could not imagine that she did that.  Anyway, it had been 2 years+ and after much thinking, MooMoo decided to just sort things out and move on.  At one time, MooMoo thought she can just forget about it, ignore it and just move on but she is wrong, as it does still bother her sometimes.

It is always not easy to forgive and forget.  Sometimes we says that we forgive and forget but deep inside we still hold a grudge and it still makes us unhappy when it pops up in our mind.  When one actually decides to forgive and forget, there is no point to further find faults with each other and decide who is right and who is wrong.  It is no longer important. 

MooMoo felt a relief after talking things through and it was not that bad after all.  It was better than what MooMoo expected.  Thank God for the courage and everything! ^=^

Guess sometimes throughout life, certain things, events and people comes into our lives and teaches us different things, as well as provide us different experiences, which will make us grow.  Sometimes we learn things the hard way.  Anyway, everyday is a learning experience, till the day we have our last breathe.  Maybe up till then, we still continue to learn in another world.  Haha!   

* It is always easier to be a BAD guy than to be a GOOD one... not easy to be a forgiving person... but never give up to walk in GOD's way... in order to take the easy way out... some nice quotes to ponder on... ^=^

“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” 
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. 
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. 
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.” 
― Mother Teresa

MooMoo 1st Skechers

MooMoo's favourite Nike is in coma now.  She haven't go revive it at the cobbler.  This is MooMoo's new shoes for now.  It's a gift from MooMoo's dad.

Well, MooMoo didn't buy this shoes because of her favourite Sammi Cheng.  Hahaha!  She bought it after reading about it on the Shape magazine and the colours look good.

This particular shoes is very light and it encourages mid foot strike, avoiding the heel strike, which is supposingly good for running as it help saves energy.  Not sure how true is that as MooMoo find that it does not have much support.  Maybe it's because MooMoo is not used to lightweight shoes without much cushioning.  It really felt like barefooted.

So far MooMoo had been gym-ing with it.... ran 9km and 21km with it.  So far so good but MooMoo thinks that she needs another good pair for gym, especially for her favourite STEP class.  Hahaha.

* MooMoo wonder how many shoes can one woman have?!?  Think majority of them have lots of heels and pumps but MooMoo have more sport shoes... kekeke... :p

Nail Spa for MooMoo

MooMoo went a manicure and pedicure with "Minnie Mouse" to pamper herself.  Guess she went a bit too early that the manicure could not last till the wedding dinner she had to attend 1 week later.  Hahaha!  In the end, MooMoo had to do the manicure herself once more before the wedding dinner.

It's nice to do it once awhile but not too often as it is not cheap.  MooMoo love to do all these painting of nails but not on herself.  She prefers to do it for others.  MooMoo used to paint Piggy's nails but too bad she is so far away now.  Cutie Pie likes all these mani and pedi too.  Everytime she sees MooMoo's painted nails, she would say,"Kuku, I want colours."  Hahaha!

The painted toe nails looks like yummy candies.  The colours on the toe nails lasted longer than the ones on the finger nails.  It is still there after coming to a month.

The nail saloon have all types of design.  Some are so cute!  They even have bunny design as well as the cow design.  Maybe MooMoo should do the cow designs on all her 10 fingers.  LOL!

* Every now and then, we should take some time to pamper ourselves.  It can be anything and it can be something free as well.  Sometimes, pampering yourself can just merely means taking some time off to relax yourself away from all those stressful stuff.  It works wonder.  Go ahead and take some time to pamper yourself! ^=^

MooMoo's Birthday ^=^ 1710

A belated post on MooMoo's birthday.  This year MooMoo had a great birthday spent with family and good friends.  Just that this year, missing one usual belated wish from my dear brother.  Anyway, I'm sure he's up there in heaven wishing me well.

This year, MooMoo's parents and Cutie Pie were in Lion City to celebrate MooMoo's birthday.  MooMoo were showered with lots of well wishes, great gifts and companies.

Thanks to everyone for all the warm wishes, gifts from near and afar and the time spent with MooMoo. MooMoo's most expensive gift would be from her parents, which is an iPad.  It had been a be-early birthday present which MooMoo got it about 6 months before her birthday.  Haha.

MooMoo even got it engraved with a quote behind. "Live every moment, Laugh everyday, Love beyond words."

MooMoo didn't take picture of all the gifts that she received but here's some of it.  Noticed that this year, MooMoo got lots of GREEN stuff, instead of her usual favourite Purple.  Well, not that bad... something for a change.  MooMoo like every single gift as it all comes with good thoughts. ^=^

Here's gift from down under, from Piggy and Tapir.  Hmm... Li'l Miss Naughty?!?  But MooMoo is a good girl wor... Haha!  Just realised this year MooMoo got a lot of motivational books.  Guess it's a year that MooMoo need to constantly motivate herself to keep things going.  Well, no doubt MooMoo loves reading all those inspirational and motivational books.  MooMoo recall this saying, "Motivation is like taking a shower daily", which she finds it quite true.  :p

MooMoo even got some prayer books as gifts from her cell group AP-Accountable Partner, which she has yet to use them.  Oops...guilty as charge... really gotta work harder on her prayer life.  At least, she is working towards it, with progress though a bit slow.  Ganbatte!!!  ^=^

* A page from the "BE HAPPY" book...

FOLLOW YOUR HEART

First, know your heart.

It knows things your mind cannot understand.

Listen to it.

Listen above the crowd.

Be open to it.

Let it guide you on the big decisions.

Be true to it.