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I’ve just signed up for the Standard Chartered Half Marathon. Yes, just the half marathon only.

After running the Sundown Night Marathon, I felt that my body is not ready for full marathon yet. I started walking half of the time after the half marathon mark. Though I did complete the race, I felt that my body was just not “ready”.

I’ve given myself another challenge this year, that’s to run two “half marathon” without walking, other than slowing down to drink. The two races in the pipeline are: Army Half Marathon (AHM) on 24-Aug and Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) on 7-Dec.

I took 2 hrs 50+mins to complete the half marathon in 2006. My targets for this year are 2 hrs 45mins for the AHM and 2 hrs 30mins for the SCM.

For those who’ve upgraded to Firefox 3, you’re probably sharing my agony of this crapy piece of work. The browser acts like a zombie for several minutes once it’s started, and the program crashes at least several times each day.

Luckily, I’ve found and upgraded the latest 3.0.1 release candidate which was released on 9-Jul. Test result is pretty satisfactory so far. Check it out at this mozilla ftp site.

Here’s the quick link to US English Windows Installer.

Good luck, and have fun!

This morning, on my way to work, I was driving along BKE towards Woodlands direction at 90km/h at the centre lane, and keeping my speed as stable as possible to maximize fuel economy. A blue malaysian registered bus started to appear in my rear view mirror and started to tail-gate me.

After about 30-seconds or so, the driver gave up on my persistence to keep within the speed limit and over-took my car on the right lane, and to my surprise, I saw another two buses doing the same. I’m pretty sure they were traveling at at least 110km/h in order to over-take me and drove off sop fast. Thought the speed limit for buses are 70km/h? Are foreign registered buses different from Singapore registered buses?

Managed to remember the 2nd & 3rd buses’ car plates: WFB1135 & JDG2264. Time was around 7.25am today.

Hope some Traffic Police folks would read this blog and start patrolling along this stretch of the road more often to ensure the safety of other road users.