2009 completed races.

Summary of all completed races in 2009.

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon - FOC
Dec 6, 21.1km - 2:26:12
Position : 2767/9795

Swissôtel Vertical Marathon 2009 - $38
Nov 22, 1336 steps - 15:05
Position : 93/169

New Balance Real Run 2009 - $35
Nov 8, 15km - 01:38:27
Position : 1077/2373

Salomon X - Trail Run 2009 - $34.20
Oct 18, 10km - 01:06:16
Position : 336/618

Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2009 - $25
Sept 6, 10km - 55:57
Position : 294/1347

Run NUS 2009 - $18
Aug 30, 12km - 1:12:10

Singapore Bay Run and Army Half Marathon 2009 - $30
Aug 16, 21.1km - 2:35:42.30
Position : 6484/10438

Tri Factor Run 2009 - $28.90
Aug 2, 10km - 1:00:37
Position : 39/69

POSB Run for Kids '09 - $30
July 12, 8km - 47:02

Mizuno Mount Faber Run 2009 - $35
June 14, 10km - 1:04:41.11
Position : 568/1335

Saucony 100Plus Passion Run - $29
May 24, 15km - 1:38:00.95
Position : 520/927 (882 completed only)

Suburban Run 2009 - $22.10
Mar 15, 10km - 1:03:03.6
Position : 434/1085 (866 completed only)

Newton Active Run 2009 - $18
Mar 1, 10km - 1:00:08.67
Position : 498/865

Sgrunners Banana Relay Run 2009 - $25
Jan 17, 3.5km x 2 - DNS (Did Not Start - sick)

Run on 30 Dec - run to esplanade

Time taken : 59 mins 04 secs
Distance : 9.66 km
Avg Speed : 9.8 km/h, 6min 06sec per km.

Soo, Yee Tat, Chun How, Eddie, Yuen See, Stanley, Seong Yin and me turn out today for the last Comcentre Run of the year. Ran with Eddie and came back up the steep slope with give a max heart rate of 194.

Run on 27 Dec - run to punggol mrt

Time taken : 1 hr 11 mins 15 secs
Distance : 11.02 km
Avg Speed : 9.3 km/h, 6min 27sec per km.

Damn, suffer a fall on my way back from punggol. Luckily, landed my 2 palms on the grass patch.

Hoot Hoot! 1.5TB Seagate External harddisk.

Ask Kim Seng to help me buy the above so that he can copy the movie collection over.
He bought from Challenger on Christmas Eve for $179.
Started copying and finally told me "operation copy" done on Sunday morning. So i drove to his house to collect in the afternoon.

Random photos of Isaac in front of McDonalds.

Run on 25 Dec - run to punggol and end at kopitiam square.

Time taken : 1 hr 02 mins 34 secs
Distance : 10.02 km
Avg Speed : 9.6 km/h, 6min 14sec per km.

Ran to punggol and end at kopitiam square. The new wet market that is opened 2 days ago. Try to buy 100+, but they are not selling it.

Christmas eve party.

Christmas present given by my colleague Tom.

Saw this wrapped present at my desk when i reach office.

Rest of the present given to other colleague by Tom.



My actual present.

Run on 23 Dec - run to esplanade

Time taken : 1 hr 03 mins 48 secs
Distance : 9.52 km
Avg Speed : 9.0 km/h, 6min 42sec per km.

Soo, Yee Tat, Chun How, Manoj, Eddie, Yuen See, Stanley, Rama, Brandon (debut) and me turn out today. Brandon is doing his debut 5km run with Stanley. Completed with a respectable 41min. Well done. Hope to see him as a regular Wednesday runner.

New PC OS installed.

Proceed to install the software for the new PC.
So far, the following are installed.

1) Windows 7 Home premium.
2) Antivir anti virus software.
3) ATI 9.12 Driver.
4) Home and Student Office 2007.
5) Did Windows update. 7 critical to install.

Managed to activate 1 and 4 using phone activation.

Windows 7 and Home and Student Office 2007.

Finally, after 2 weeks of delay. I gotten my hands on Windows 7 and Home and Student Office 2007. They will be installed on my new PC.

Ask my colleague to ask his friend to buy from Malaysia. Much cheaper than getting it in Singapore.

Petrol pump receipts 2. - to be updated

Total damage till now is $6611.93.
Total distance travelled is 34912km.
Which give a distance of 5.28km for every $1.

From the pfuel palm program.
Amount per day ............ 8.04
Avg dist per tank ......... 375km
Avg days between fills .... 8.7
Max dist. per tank ........ 437km
Total distance ............ 34912km
Total cost ................ $6611.93

$1.653/L
$70.340/Tank
$0.19/km
11.327L/100km

Run on 20 Dec - MR northern trail.

Time taken : 1 hr 25 mins 11 secs
Distance : 11.61 km
Avg Speed : 8.2 km/h, 7min 20sec per km.

Punggol runners group decide to do 1 or 2 rounds of the MR northern trail as orientation for those runners doing MR ultra marathon this saturday.
I decide to join them for 1 round as it was more than 20 years the last time i ran in MR during school days.

My polar footpod is getting way off now as i believe that 1 loop should be about 10.5km.

I need to find time to get it calibrated.

Run on 18 Dec - sengkang east side.

Time taken : 38 mins 34 secs
Distance : 6.03 km
Avg Speed : 9.4 km/h, 6min 23sec per km.

12 days of break after my SCSM half marathon. Did a short 5-6km run to warm up my engine.

New PC assembled part 2.

Continue from previous post.

PSU label.

PSU installed.


Front of gfx card.

Rear of gfx card.


gfx card installed.

Inside of the casing now.

2x2GB RAM.


RAM installed.

All items installed.

New PC assembled part 1.

Finally installed my new PC. Everything installed except for the OS. Managed to power up and see the MSI CD 53 screen. So far so good.

Casing unboxed.













Motherboard installed.

Rear of casing.

CPU unboxed.



CPU installed.

CPU installed with fan.

LG DVD writer.

HDD cage.

Harddisk installed in cage.

HDD cage installed in casing.

Seasonic PSU shown with fan.