dannie choong

Chester, Soon Chung and Carrie jumping for joy upon seeing the steep hill climb in front of them !
Carrie and me, running - the best way to spend time with your wife !

The life and love we create, is the life and love we'll live

hmmm… time seems to move pretty fast since after Chinese New Year (CNY). In a blink, we are already almost in the middle of March. February was a short month due to the CNY long holiday, and thus that explain why I couldn’t find enough time to update my blog !

In February, we've travelled to Hong Kong and Bangkok to do a full marathon and a half marathon respectively. March was a non-travel month for us and we'll be doing two short local run plus a half marathon, then come April, it will be outstation run almost every week again starting with 2XU run in Singapore, then Brunei half marathon and a week later Bali full marathon. Pocket going to get hurt real deep !!! :)

and now, I want to create a new Facebook account and the name will be Nobody so when I see some stupid crap people post, I can Like it. And it will say Nobody Likes This : )

hmmm, think I seriously need to cut down my time on this, otherwise Carrie might probably throw a book to my face one day !!!

anyway, I was kind of "perplex" when I learned that the great warrior name Hang Tuah which I studied during my school days was just a fiction figure !!! ??? hello..., i spend hours reading that blady thick History book, and memorising it so that I can pass my History exam, and now you're telling me that Hang Tuah don't exist ? and he's just part of the Malay's stories of myths and legends !!!???

didn't I did read somewhere before that a group of historians whom were appointed by the goverment found the grave of Hang Tuah ? going deeper, they took DNA from said grave and found that Hang Tuah is actually a Chinese guy (probably goes by the name Hei Tu Yar ?). and that famous weapon that Hang Tuah used - "Kris Taming Sari", till date is still with our Sultan of Perak, so how can Hang Tuah don't exist ?... and please don't tell me later that Kris Taming Sari is also actually a weapon originated from China used by some Shaolin monk yeah !!!

to me, history is a beautiful subject and should not be tainted by myth and fiction...

despite there's two more weeks to go, we're already getting excited over it already now. you, yes, the one reading my blog now, will i be seeing you there ??? weather are expected to be cold on said date thus don't forget to get yourself a pair of disposal gloves and disposal rain coat. you can get a reasonable good one at Daiso, the $5 ringgit shop...

this will be my 3rd time running said event. first time was in year 2010, which is also the first year the organiser gave out finishing medal to all full marathoners' finisher. yeap, all previous year they only gave participants a souvenir memento. local Hongkie find the weather for said year hot though for me it was just nice...

second time was last year 2011 where i ran with Carrie and she got her PB. this year, she will challenge herself to do a sub-5. hopefully i'm ready and fit enough to run along side with her all the way to achieve it. we also manage to register to run under PolyU running group where a additional Nike t-shirt will be given to us and some goodies at the end, weeezzzz :)

comparison on the flight plus lodging cost (for 2 pax), last year trip was 5 days 4 night via AisAsiaGo and it cost us RM$3026. this year, we cut down 1 day to 4 days 3 nights and booked it via MasHoliday, cost us this time RM$2602. a good deal if you ask me coz we're flying via MAS, and the main reason we're cutting the 1 day is so that we don't have to apply for leave from work. depart on Sat 4 Feb and return on Tue 7 Feb. Both 6 Feb (Mon) and 7 Feb (Tue) is a public holiday. this way we can save our annual leave for other overseas run :)

being Chinese have no advantage on the age compare to others, as we Chinese have 2 birthday per year. one is your actual date of birth according to the current Gregorian calendar, and the other is our Chinese lunar calendar. so if you are not Chinese and you are born in the same year as me, chances are my age are double of yours... whatever, comes this coming CNY, I'm glad no one will ask me how old am I anymore coz' I'm married !!! weeeezzz :) in our Chinese culture, if you're already started working and still not married, rest assure you'll be quiz by your relatives on your age and why are you still not attached (for non-stop), and it can be pretty irritating !!! well, the table have change now as I'll be the one quizzing my non-married relatives this time. the setback is, i'm now expected to give away money to these single buggers in the form of ang pow which again by Chinese custom a requirement. damm !!!!!, now i realise why i was "force" to get married the soonest possible...