Has it really been a month?

I've been super busy.. finally getting a breather and I hope for some good news in the weeks to come.
Smashing Pumpkins is coming to Singapore 7th August for Singfest (3-day event)..
I've been waiting to see SP for like 10 yrs already and finally that dream is within reach..
Just that the tickets cost SGD175!!!!!!!!!!!! crazy laa.. if the whole concert diorang je takpe gak...
Its too expensive.. its crazy... hmm but then again.. I've never been sane when it comes to concerts..
Dammit.. this is the definitely the getting old effect.. haha
But considering SP has 40 more songs to release over the next 2 years..
There will be another better time and opportunity to watch them..

So, last Sunday I ran in the KL Marathon 10km women category.. for the second time..
first time was last year lah
Managed to shave 16 minutes off last year's time.. from 99 minutes to 83 minutes.. okay lah i guess.
I didnt set a target this year.. 
My rank is 861.. out of I dunno how many..
Below is a pic of me taken by the official photographers.. ni kat finishing line nih.. penat gila dah weyy
yes2 i wore pink so what laa......

Its sad to know that one unfortunate 25 year old male died.. he was running in the 10km category..
Aku copy paste the story below..

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http://www.facebook.com/#!/note.php?note_id=441962310357&id=722972758

A Tragic Incident at Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010 
Sunday at 13:55

P/s : I would like to apologies and thanks fellow FB users to message me about the ambulance that came... I apologies that i have mistaken that the ambulance was from St. John...

i got a message from someone that investigation was done and it was a Red Cresent ambulance... If you want to confirm, please get confirmation from HKL :)

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I would like to share a tragic incident that happened at Standard Chartered KL Marathon today…
When i was running my final 2 km on the 10km… as i was running along the road in front of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, i saw a guy was sitting on the road side then soon enough he collapsed…

this incident attracted my attention as a guy(a training doctor, named Irkhan) that was trying to help him was shouting for medic..
as i was a trained EFR, i ran over to see what is happening.. (it was around 1 hour into the race for 10km runners)

i got to know that the guy (named Lim) has collapsed and was having seizure.. we tried to place him in recovery position… he was breathing very heavily and shortly and he was also biting his teeth very very hard… i was afraid that he will hurt himself (with either biting his own tongue or he closed up his airway).. so i tried to open up his jaw and tried to communicate wif him to have him relax and breath easily.. he then slowed down his breathing and taking deeper breath…

another lady (Pei Kheng) came to help and constantly monitor on his pulse… and Dr. xxxxx (was another participant in the run) came over to help…

Then suddenly, his pulse was gone… then we lied him flat and started on CPR procedures… we constantly check on his pulse to check whether his pulse has come back.. we did chest compression and also mouth-to-mouth breathing to Lim…
as we were doing the CPR procedures, we did not sight medic anywhere.. and we tried to shout as loud as possible for medic…

After awhile into the CPR procedures, "lady A" said that she could feel his pulse but was very weak.. then we stopped the CPR procedures to see whether he regain consciousness or not…
After i stopped the chest compression on Lim, i started shouting for medic services again with the hope that a medic services is nearby and heard us.. but unfortunately not… we only sighted 3 DBKL Officers(with big motorcycles) just stood by the road side and just stare… the did not come over to help or to check out what happened… (it was around 10 minutes that Lim collapse and had seizure)…

after a moment, Lim loose his pulse again.. we started CPR procedures again.. we still did not sight an ambulance or any EMS(Emergency Medical Services) around… after approximately 30 compression, Lim regained his pulse but was very very weak.. and yet.. there was still no ambulance or EMS sighted… and DBKL officers still stood there and did not came over to help… so I informed a passer by to run to the officers to tell them to call for an EMS soonest possible...

after we performed CPR procedures on Lim for the the third time, finally a St. John (sorry for the mistake, the latest info i got.. the ambulance was NOT from St. John) ambulance came after around 15 - 20 minutes after Lim collapsed…

we let the EMS officers to take over the CPR and First Aid… Dr. xxxxx asked whether do they have the AED(Automated External Defibrillator)… one of the person from the EMS said that they do not have it.. then I asked whether do they have a face mask with pump.. they also did not have it there… THEY PRACTICALLY HAVE NOTHING IN THE AMBULANCE!!!!!!!! -.-"

EMS took him and speed their way to HKL…

we were later informed that the Response time for EMS is 3 minutes but it took them almost 20 minutes to arrive… and later.. as I was reading through the Runners Guide that was provided in our running kit…
There is a statement (at page 15) that states that "Medical Assistance - Medical Aid is available every 4km and at the Finish Area. Due to runner's physical condition, Medical Officials are authorized to stop runners and remove their timing chip"…

every 4KM MY ROYAL ASS.. I did not see any first aider, ambulance or any sort of medical officials along my 10km route… and if 4km was true.. it definitely will not take them SO LONG to arrive...

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I got a call from Dr. xxxxx a moment ago.. he went to HKL to check out the condition of Lim and he informed me that Lim have passed away on his arrival to the hospital… T__T

Lim is only into his 20's and was running the 10KM distance…

P/s: please share this note to as many people as possible.. we will hope to create awareness on the inefficiency of EMS, DBKL officers and organiser of standard chartered KL Marathon 2010...

we also want to create an awareness that this kind of inefficiency have caused a life of a young man...
we will hope that the marathon organisers will take responsibility and make EMS a top priority in their planning

I know what I want

In a span of 2 weeks, I've more or less decided what I want to do for the rest of my life (sort of).
Plans are in motion, but will it become a reality is another matter (give it a year).
After all, I can only plan, and hope to God that my wishes (dreams?) come true.
The ideas have been playing in my head for a while, turns out all I needed was a trigger to execute it.
Blame it on procrastination and laziness.
My life has been stagnant for quite some time now, and I've enjoyed it very much, too much maybe? lol.
But its high time that I move on.
Its not the right time to be too complacent just yet.
Its liberating really, to finally come to this point.
Wish me luck.