I've updated my wedding blog over at thehappiestday.blogspot.com with photos and a little commentary. Check it out.
Singapore Marathon 2011: My play-by-play
4 Dec 2011: 5am. Singapore Marathon. The start of a grueling 42.2km walk/run/crawl/whathaveyou. I thought I’d take 4.5, maybe 5 hours, max. I ran a 6.5. I remember this like it was yesterday, though as I write this, it’s really today. Tells you something about the state of mind I’m currently in. ~~~~~ I thought... Continue Reading →
In a little over 12 hours I'll be about halfway through my 42.2km run in the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, after which it'd be another two hours of ignoring pain and the mental reciting of Kipling's If. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are... Continue Reading →
Advice For the Marathon
In a little over three days I'll be running 42.2km in what will be the second marathon I've ever run. The quote I would like to share with you comes from the poem "If", by Rudyard Kipling. Though one of my favourite poems, I hadn't read it in ages, and truth be told had forgotten... Continue Reading →
The World Vision Christmas Gift Catalogue 2012: Good; but paperless would be even better.
Lix and I recently received the hardcopy World Vision Christmas Gift Catalogue in our mailbox, the second since we started co-sponsoring a Zambian child a little over a year ago. Though we largely ignored it the first time, this time around we sat down and went through it together, donating far more than we'd anticipated;... Continue Reading →
On Finding Work We Love
I once saw a mattress ad that argued that choosing the right mattress was the most important life choice you’d have to make after choosing a spouse. The basic premise of that ad was that since you’d be spending a third of your life sleeping, splurging on a good mattress would be money well spent,... Continue Reading →
On Ignorance and Information Search
I’m not a person who takes not knowing lightly. If someone asks me a question and I’m unable to find the answer off the top of my head, chances are good that within the next few minutes, armed with a computer and a good internet connection, I’ll find the answer to that question. Of course... Continue Reading →
Efficiencies at the Watercooler
My bottle was half-filled with water, but since I'd pass by the watercooler while on my way to the washroom, I decided to fill it up. After filling my bottle to the brim, I took a few gulps and refilled the amount that I'd just gulped down. But for some reason or another, before I... Continue Reading →
I'm currently raising funds for World Vision, through which Lix and I are sponsoring a child called "Chippo" (a girl who loves drawing onions too much in our opinion). My fundraising is through GIVE.sg, and you can find my fundraising page here (please take a look, and donate :)), called "Run Forrest Run!", named after Forrest Gump, my favourite... Continue Reading →
On Catholicism, science, and being good. Amen.
I was just thinking back to the days when I'd I used to pray each night like the semi-devout catholic I was. Semi, because I wasn't so much into catholic traditions and beliefs, but more of a "being good is what I want to be and Catholicism just so happens to be the most accessible... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 