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Back for an update about my very eventful Sunday. :-)


Day started off really early - at 3am, to catch the shuttle bus to my race! This very sweet brother of mine woke up and walked me to the MRT station to ensure my safety. Also, he prepared an appropriate and delicious pre-race breakfast for me! :-)

The bus ride to the venue was so awesome. Just plugged in and played 'Glorious Days' and 'God is able' on repeat. My heart felt so much at peace during the journey there. Had so much to pen down and be thankful of at that moment. Was such a good start to the day. It was also a very smooth ride and we arrived at the venue shortly!


Wewwwww here at the venue! This is my earliest race thus far - flag off at 6am +. Thought I'd be half dead for the race but surprisingly I wasn't. One thing about this race though, the starting point was so far away from the baggage point. It was about 2km or so? I sweated so much even before the race started.


A pre-race shot! So many people for this race as shown in the pictures. It's the most crowded race I've been to thus far. I actually prefer when there's lesser participants, because that'd mean there'll be more space to run. There were some very narrow paths and we had to overtake by the grass patch at many times.


Conquered the 10km.. in the heavy downpour lol. Really didn't expect the rain at all. I thought the drizzle would stop after a short while. Actually it did stop, but it started again at the 4km mark, and by the time we reached the 6km mark, the heavy downpour came. I've never ran in such a heavy downpour before (like why'd I lol) so I was really worried when faced with such a circumstance. My vision was blurred, from the rainwater that went into my eyes, and I couldn't see the path in front of me at all. Tried hard to continue while drying my eyes with my wet shirt lol.. which helped. The rain also posed another obstacle to me - my breathing. As for me, I only breathe through my nose when I run. Don't ask me why but it has proven to be the best way for me to not get breathless very quickly. It's very important for me to breathe consistently (lol I sound so nerdy) during my runs if not I'll burn out. But.. with the rain, the rainwater just kept going into my nose while I tried to catch my breath and I had difficulty breathing during the run. I really didn't know how I was going to complete the remaining 4km with such a situation. But yeah, eventually I did. All thanks to His grace. Kept praying during the race, for determination, strength and willpower to complete the whole run. He granted me with all of the above and I managed to complete the whole race properly. Really just so thankful!! :-)


All the drenched participants.


One thing really weird about this race is that I didn't even feel that drained out as compared to the other two I joined previously. I'm really surprised myself too when I felt that I could just keep going on, and especially when I saw the finishing point! It also didn't felt like I ran 10km because everything ended so fast.


Decided to leave Stadium for somewhere else to take our pictures! It was just flooded with the drenched participants at the malls there. We were still drenched when we left lol.


My soaked-with-rainwater shoes and my customized bib and the medal!

Went to Starbucks to grab breakfast after that!


It was such a good choice because it was so quiet there and we had a very satisfactory meal! :-)


Us after our failed attempt to dry ourselves with our well-deserved breakfast. :*

Rushed off to church after that and I was so glad that I could make it heh! :-)

The soup was so goooooooooood. The noodles too! The prawn tasted very normal (but probably because the taste went into the soup) though. It was a really good meal!!! :-)


Check out the queue. The service was quite fast though so we didn't wait for that long too.

Finally back after 2 weeks for an update. Been quite busy (with idek what) so couldn't find the time for an proper update! Time just flies so fast. On a even more shocking note, we're in June already! Did 7 months of my holiday just pass like that?! Shall do a post to reflect and sum up the things I've done during the holidays soon.

As for now, I shall update about the things I've been doing other than working (sobz).

Went to witness Songen's baptism too!! Was really so happy and excited for her when she told me about her decision to do so. It holds a very important meaning for us Christians so I was really honored when she invited us to witness it!. Can't wait for my own turn too but I shall follow His guidance and see when would be the best time to! :-)



The last time we met before this was like a month ago so it was a really good catch-up with them. :-)


Also, Marissa is finally back!!! Met up to try this famous patbingsu at Bukit Timah and of course to catch up. :-)


And finally, the event I've been looking forward to!


Had such a wonderful time praising God and learning from this special service led by the Bueno family! Really look up to their daughter who is only 16 years old. She really lives by what she preaches (it's very evident although I only met her twice) which made the whole message so impactful! Thank God for blessing us with the Bueno family for the HOF service!!! :-)


Had so much fun that night as well! We had to dress to the theme,'El Salvador' and for our trinity, we decided to make our own costumes from scratch! Kudos to the two leaders who spent so much time on it! It turned out really beautifully as shown in the picture.

After which, there was also a food competition! All the food was really so delicious and to the theme! Even the Bueno family was impressed at the effort.









As a trinity, we won 2nd runner up for all three categories - for the skit, the dressing and the food! Won ourselves so many vouchers for Cremier. Really super thankful to the ones who put in so much effort for this event and also to everyone else who came! It was a really wonderful time spent in the house of God with all of them! Learnt so much and had so much fun together. Looking forward to more of such opportunities to draw closer to Him and His people! :-)