10 km Sheares Bridge Run

My thighs. My gluts. My big toes.

They hurt. :(

We were also drenched from a sudden downpour of rain halfway through the run this morning! But it was quite fun lah!

Quite an achievement for me considering I haven't trained one bit for it! *heh.heh*

Next event in line: The Standard Chartered Run (siao on already!)

*Note to self - Must start exercising regularly. Must buy hip looking shorts. (no more looking like a primary school kid!)

Our first major fallout...2 weeks ago.

A manic depressive week.

Myriad of emotions with outbursts of anger, crying & laughing (mainly from moi).

I packed my luggage. I left. And I returned (the very next day :P).

Rules are set and the boundaries (of our marriage) redrawn.

All is well now...(and our mundane life resumes with a bit of spice *ahem*) :)

Mother Nature is not pleased!

The wind around my area is so strong that I've always feared my windows may shatter to a million pieces one day...
Well, that didn't happen but this poor tree suffered the brunt of nature's fury yesterday...

Not good.

The Lake House

Convinced hubby to go watch it with me at Plaza Singapura last night. Have not watched Il Mare previously so I went in with no expectations. Overall, it was ok...one of those feel good movies you will forget very quickly. Hubby was of course going on and on about how illogical the movie was...*heh.heh*

Gone to a better place...

A patient whom I've been treating for months in the intensive care has finally passed on today. I know it was not what she had intended. She had a strong will to live even though the odds were against her. She continued to cling on the hope that she might return home one day to be with her family...but I guess her body would not allow her to fight any longer.
It may sound insensitive but I am actually happy for her.
In medicine, sometimes it's not just about saving lives - we need to look at QOL, the insurmountable costs of sustaining someone on a ventilator for the rest of his/her life...and then there's the issue of carer stress - how could we expect the family to provide the 24 hr care that she required?
There would be no happy ending to her returning home.
Sometimes we just have got to be realistic and let go...

I Want.

We're going to Turkey!

Hubby has a conference in Istanbul this September and I'll be tagging along! *yippee!* I've been made to plan the itinerary since I'm on leave this week. Managed to find a useful travel planner online, along with lonely planet, to help me with the planning. This being my second time there (first time for hubby), I'll definitely try to squeeze in a turkish bath (freaked out the last time when I realised the masseur was a huge naked woman! Scary...) and watch a whirling dervishes ceremony if possible (we chose to watch belly dancing instead years back). Can't wait! My much much needed break! My Master's thesis should be completed by then, I hope! *Keeping fingers crossed* :D

Friday dinner at Wasabi Tei

A cosy little Japanese eatery tucked away on the 5th floor of Far East Plaza. Big servings with affordable prices ($23 for two of us). One major drawback - an extremely short tempered boss! He snaps if you don't respond fast enough or if you take too long to order. Would have loved to take a pic of the food and place but I was afraid to get scolded. *haha!* Ok, maybe not so cosy but I would certainly return for the food again.:)