This weekend past was the Gold Coast marathon which is arguable Australia's biggest road race and brings in a good number of Japanese runners. Indeed, a Japanese runner won it in (I think) 2:23.
I didn't run the marathon, but did manage the 10 km run - the same distance as last week and an almost identical time! I ran 0.16 s faster which is an accuracy of 1 in a 100 million (if I was trying to do the same time, of course)! The first half was very crowded which was good because I wasn't able to go out hard and blow up (my usual running strategy). Rather, I had a well paced run 'till half way and then came home strongly (well strongly for an old bloke).
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The NUS Chemistry website lists you as one of their visiting Profs. When are you starting the attachement?
That's efficient of them. I start on Tuesday week (17 July). I'm fortunate to be assigned a Kent Vale apartment, but unfortunately, it is on the top floor and I am afraid of heights! I'll try it and see. Perhaps I'll be cured (I think this form of therapy is called 'flooding')
5th floor! That's nothing. I've never lived in an apartment lower than the 10th floor :P
Higher is better in Singapore - less mozzies...
BTW: Ginza plaza is currently undergoing a major overhaul. You'll need to find somewhere else to do your groceries.
It's the 12th floor! Last time I was assigned an apartment on the 11th floor and stayed one night before requesting a move. I can only pray it doesn't have a balcony. Ginza did need a makeover, but I wonder if it will help. There was a permanent smell of durian!
Well, if it helps, try imagining this: I regularly dry my laundry by hanging everything over the metal barriers on my living room balcony. There is nowhere for me to stick bamboo poles out of my flat for drying laundry now. But when we were living in an HDB flat, I used to stick bamboo poles full of wet clothes out of the window to dry (we stayed on the 10th floor)everyday. The bamboo poles were 2 meters long and I put stuff like wet quilt covers on them to dry. I have never lost a single bamboo pole.
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