Great Eastern 10km Women Run

The Great Eastern Women 10km run is drawing nearer, so is my convocation which is this Saturday.

Has just collected my graduation gown last evening, so excited… the last and only time I remembered wearing a graduation gown taking photographs was after my kindergarten, which was almost 20 years ago. A pity I have thrown that away, otherwise will be able to do a comparison on how much I have grown. When I tried on the gown, I just felt a little weird and glad at the same time, to be able to wear the graduation gown. Never thought that I would have worn that in my life as I’m always telling myself that I will only study till diploma, since I hate studying and my results wasn’t great. But in today’s world, being a diploma graduate don’t bring you anywhere, at least a degree paper qualification is necessary, regardless of what you study or whether if it’s from a recognized university.

That’s the reason I decided to further my studies, for better prospect and better future. Without a boyfriend does helps a little for having more personal time and not being distracted from work and studies. Well, but part of it is my then manager. She encouraged everyone in the group (our little lunch kakis) to go study, to aim for promotion and better salary. And finally, here I am, wearing the graduation gown, posing for photographs, going up the stage, collecting my Bachelor. Woahhooo… But it’s real expensive as it cost $38 to bring one guest, just for hi-tea. It’s just too expensive, but oh well, it’s once (and only) in a lifetime, so I better bring my parents along for some pride and laughter.

Oh and I was talking about the Great Eastern (GE) run, am supposed to be excited over the all women’s run…. But the organizing is just so bad. We had the invitation to sign up for the run via email for us policy holder. But not only do we not receive frequent updates on the events, we are also not told via email about the collection dates which are last Friday and Saturday (12 & 13 October 07). I keep thinking that can’t be it, it just this Sunday and I am still not told of the collection of the race pack??? I went to the GE website to check yesterday and to my horror, the collection is over. The hotline personnel told me that an email and sms will be sent to us (those that they missed) by noon time for another collection date, but till now, I still have not receive any sms (have not check my email but this is so urgent as the deadline is so tight, should be informed through sms, shouldn’t they?). But I did email to the corporate communication team that they should not inconvenient us anymore, by ‘forcing’ into collecting on just one alternative date at such short deadline (the run is just this Sunday!!!) due to their overlook. And I was told also that a sms was just sent on Thursday (11 Oct) on the collection dates, which is just the next 2 days. I mean, what kind of organizing is that? Unfortunately, I had also asked my friend along, who is not a GE policy holder, this really shows the bad organizing by GE. Furthermore, this is the 2nd GE women run, so shouldn’t all these expected hiccups be avoided? Hopefully, I will get a satisfactory answer tonight when I checked my email. And I hope that on the race day itself, there will be no cock up…

I have joined the Standard Chartered Run in 2005 (I think 2005 is also their 2nd run), and everything is so well organized. They sent frequent updates on the event plan, outline and even advanced notice on the collection dates. During the race itself, the runners were well organized by the flag off time and etc. this will be my 1st and my last time signing up for the GE women run.

Went to a wedding dinner on Sunday with Dear, it’s his friends. I heard that the groom’s brother owe many people including Dear a lot of money and has run away. Expectedly, he did not turn up for the wedding. Anyway, met a group of his friends, where they used to hang out together, and all these friends, are one of his friend’s friend. I often laugh at him jokingly that he does not have many friends, all his friends are all that one friend’s friends.

Things have been great so far, except for his speeding and stopping at a fast speed during the weekend. Not sure about the girls issue though, I think he tries hard not to look at them……. well, time will tell.