Foundue for Two

SOoo glad her dear dear bring her to eat foundue in Vivo City...

Love it.... mack mack...

The end product. Wahahaha.....

Internet Petition

Today the gal received the following email from a friend title “The least we can do.......”

She did a search on Internet and found some information from:
1) http://www.joewein.de/sw/hoax-saps-child-protection-unit.htm
2) http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

What the website state about Internet petition is true… there is so little each of us can do and this really did upset the gal…

Some time it is sad that we heard of stories that we wanted to help, but we knew that it is beyond our ability in reality. It is even worst if it is a hoax or scam.

Open Water Swim Tips

The gal haven’t been preparing for her mini triathlon that is coming in 3 days time. This is the first time she is taking part in a triathlon.
Worried? Excited?

Today she finally spends some time to read up on the open water swimming stuff from the following website: http://www.hulaman.com/triathlon/open_wtr.html

Points that she picked up:

1) Get comfortable

2) Maintain composure

3) Navigation
Try lifting your head up and looking at the end of your lane. Lift your head at different times during your stroke and see what feels most comfortable. Looking up slows you down and tires you out. If you can stay on course, you will be much better off looking up every 20 strokes as opposed to every 6 strokes.

Don't look for too long. If you don't spot your marker (buoy) quickly, take another stroke and look again then. Or you may have only gotten a glimpse of the buoy before you had to put your face back in the water. But this should help you spot it more quickly the next time you look. In choppy or rough water, you may be in the trough of a wave in one stroke, making a buoy impossible to see. But two strokes later, you may be on the crest and able to see for hundreds of yards

Follow others, if you are swimming with others. Use your imagination. There are lots of things around that can help you stay in a straight line without looking up too often.

Don't make big adjustments to your position. If you find yourself quite a ways to the side of the course, change your direction to slowly move back.

4) Racing with others

Recommend the outside of the course over the inside of the course because of turns. At turns, everybody bunches up as close to the buoy as they can. If you are on the inside, you must work your way into that group in order to swim around the buoy (rules generally frown upon swimming to the inside of the turn buoy). If you are on the outside, you can remain just to the outside as everybody else fights to get within touching distance of the buoy.

5) Race start (find space)
Don't start in the middle of the front. Start in the the back, where nobody else will really want your space in the water. The only trouble is that as people get tired after the initial sprint, you will have to navigate through them

Another option is to start near one side or the other. You can always just swim a little further to the outside to get away from the elbows, yet there aren't as many people to swim through after they tire from their sprint. If you want to mix it up with the other swimmers, then be prepared to do a little fighting to maintain your space. A bigger, more forceful kick is one method of getting a little more room. The splash acts as discouragement for those around you

Another trick that is not too obnoxious is simply to make your pull a little wider and hold your forearm close to vertical. This allows you to use your forearm to keep other swimmers a slight distance to your side

6) Wave/Breaker/Swell/Current

Wave
Distinguish between waves (or swells), breakers, and chop. Waves travel in one direction and make you go up and down. Breakers are what result when waves reach shallow water. Breakers crash over your head and try to grind you into the ground. Chop is the result of lots of little waves with no apparent direction to them

Waves generally move in the same direction, imagine what will happen if the waves are coming from your right and you can only breath to the right. Unless you happen to have a set of gills, you probably will not be too comfortable. This is one good reason to learn bilateral breathing.

Breaker
It is best to become comfortable with breaking waves before having to negotiate them in a race. Waves break because of interaction with the bottom. Bigger waves also affect water motion at a deeper depth, so they interact with the bottom and break further from shore.

So the trick is to get beyond the breakers as quickly as possible, swim around out there, and then get from the breakers back to shore again as quickly as possible. When getting past the breakers or back into shore, the biggest thing to remember is not to fight the water! It will win. Don't be afraid to let the water push you around a little - it is better to give a little than to break. There are lots of tricks that can help keep your body intact when getting past the breakers.

a) Go under/through the wave. I list this first because I think it is probably the most useful technique. Just before a wave breaks, you can dive under the wave or through the vertical wall of water and go through the wave. Once the turbulence subsides, the wave has passed and you can come to the surface again. Just remember to keep some air in your lungs in case you get to the surface just before another wave reaches you. If that happens, get a quick breath if you can, dive back under, hope you can get a real breath after this wave and try to stay calm and relaxed. It doesn't take much water to provide protection.

b) Go over the wave. If the wave is small, then you are probably still in shallow water and can jump over it. If the wave is not very small and is just beginning to break, then you can float up and over it.

c) Force yourself through the wave. This is useful only for waves that are too big to jump over but still too small to dive through or go under. The idea is to turn sideways and lean your shoulder or hip into the wave as it breaks. Turning sideways allows the wave to go around you instead of through you. By leaning into the wave, it is likely that it will stand you back up as it passes, but it shouldn't knock you over.

Swell
Once past the breakers, remember to move with the swells. It is quite possible to be standing in waist deep water one second and have water over your head the next. Don't fight it, when a swell goes by, allow yourself to float over it. It will push you toward shore a little bit, but you are past the breakers, so it won't push you all the way. And once it is past you and you are in shallow water again, you'll feel the water pushing you away from shore. Don't fight it, just move with it. It will move you back to the same place you were before the swell pushed you a little bit towards shore.

Although swimming past the breakers is relatively calm, very few people want to stay out there forever. This requires that you be able to get back to shore. This usually can be done much more quickly than getting out past the breakers in the first place since the breaking waves can help you in this case. The waves travel to shore much more quickly than you can swim, so in this situation, you want to become an intentional bodysurfer.

The basic idea of bodysurfing is simple - get into a streamlined position and let the wave push you. But that alone will not get you very far. On your bike, have you ever drafted a tandem on a downhill? If you start the descent with the tandem and accelerate with it, you can get up to some pretty incredible speeds. Yahoo! However, if you start the descent after the tandem, then you have no hope of ever catching it. If you start ahead of the tandem, by the time it passes you it will be going too fast for you to accelerate and catch its draft. Bodysurfing waves is similar.

Current
There really isn't any special technique for swimming with or against currents. It is just like swimming in calm water. But mentally, it can be very different. The result is that you naturally swim in an arc toward the finish, so it is best not to fight the current in this situation

This article is Copyright (c) 1995 by John F. Walker. It may be freely distributed in its entirety provided that this copyright notice is not removed. It may not be sold for profit nor incorporated in commercial documents without the author's written permission. This article is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

From: walker@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (John Walker)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.triathlon
Subject: Open Water Tips
Date: 18 Apr 1995 18:09:03 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.

Life Fairness

Life is never Fair.
We can only try to change certain things.
Be optimistic and accept it!

I need:
a break,
a rest,
a listening ear (that will not critise me)...

Life

Why must some lesson only be learn/remembered through the hard way
Why must one grow and mature only after the upset encounters
Why should we regret for things that didn't/did take place
Why do we feel upset cos we did not meet the others/self expectation

One must learn to accept to be happy
One must learn to take it easy to be happy
One must be able to be kind to others and self to be happy
One must be content with what they have to be happy

Life can be nothing and everything
Life is about oneself or everyone around you?
Is life for yourself or everyone around you?
So what is life all about?

Lonely Nite

Oops.. another lonely nite for the gal. Guess she must be quite use to it by now. Sometime she really dun know if she should be angry with her hubby or herself for chosing him.

She knew life will be like that, she need to be independent and learn to live on her own without much friends around. Since she chose this path on her own.

Not only is she mentally tired, but physically her leg muscles are really pain after y'day run. She did not improve, and in fact her stamina drop.

Sometime think of it, her hubby is always busy, but as and when he can he try to be with her, so she should learn to be content with that. Pat herself and cheer herself up.. {^o*}

A Story to Write

A few years ago a gal get to know a guy (N) and they were friend, after sometime they got together as couple. Guy (N) is a mature and career minded person, while the gal was career minded and naïve in a sense.

The gal is not sure if that is call ‘Love’ as she feels a bit lose in life at that stage. Guy (N) wanted to do well in his career, they just got together by chance and within a short period they broke off. Gal was upset cos she dun know what was the reason, she doesn’t understand guy (N). Both start and end of relationship was initiated by guy (N).

Reason given by guy (N) during that period was: - He wants to excel in his career, he feel that the timing was not right for him to be in relationship. He doesn’t want to hurt the gal in future when he will neglect her due to work. The gal feels that was not an excuse for breakup, but there is nothing she wanted to say, she just hopes that the guy will change within weeks. The truth is there was no news from guy (N) there after, and the gal has no courage to pursue further as she is loss and have no confident in relationship.

Years after that, the gal heard news of guy (N) via a friend; he is going to get marry. The gal was also in another relationship by then. Sometime she will still ask herself what had happened during that period. When her current boyfriend neglects her due to work, she wonders what guy (N) will think if he knew that the gal still lead the life that he doesn’t want to give her years ago. On the other hand the gal felt silly, cos guy (N) may have totally forgotten about her, all that he said to her might just be a white lie for the breakup.