Adagio is waiting...

「等待」，是成長過程中的一種養份，一種動力。「等待」，讓我們的生命既難忘又精采，不論我們曾為了「等待」是喜是悲是憂是樂。 人生的每一刻不是都在「等待」中豐富、偉大了起來，也因而讓人充滿希望，或讓人失望落淚卻又產生更大的勇氣與力量嗎？
Source: 小紅人的等待

Right after BOF, I immersed myself into Get Karl! Oh Soo Jung (칼잡이 오수정). A right mix of comedy, to make me happy. Funnily, even in such a comedy, it still got me thinking lots.

One of the most significant is the meaning of Happy Ending. She said that happy ending means the end of the happiness. Thus one should not wish for happy ending but for happy start. No wonder why I always doubted the so called happily ever after ending.

Shattered cup may not be able to hold water, but it can be used for other stuff. Maybe.. but it is shattered.. But life isn't perfect.. so there are bound to be cuts and broken pieces...

Then I took a break until I heard Charmaine singing 往事只能回味.


I ended watching the whole series, because I simply love musical. And because only through music can I fully immersed myself into temperaments. In fact, I wish I can be a musician, to be addicted to music. At least, a musician can vent his moods through this outlet.

That was something I learnt while watching Green Forest, My Home. Owen's musician cranky behaviour, his addiction to music, and his knight protection once again invoked my tears. I was trying to watch TVB's Man In Charge, but after 3 episodes I switched to Green Forest, My Home after reading the first line of its first episode synopsis. "每個人心中都不應該有牆壁。" Walled-up. I guess it is never good to be walled up.

Seriously when Owen says "爱情被拒绝,不是世界末日,真正的世界末日是不再渴望爱情", I don't know to agree or disagree with him. Sometimes seeing him call Sofie Adagio, really felt like kettle calling the pot black. But sometimes, 只要相信就會看見幸福綠光。It takes people like Sor Lan and Ga Eul to patiently wait for the guy. Not sure how many can do it especially when most people carry false beliefs of love. (invoked by Slice of Life article).

The conversation on mistakes is also an interesting highlight.
做錯了一件事,為了彌補而又再做錯一件,這才叫良心不安,難道你想再錯過等你的人或者事嗎?
但是為了還沒有發生的事情,而忽略了已經發生的事,我一樣會良心不安.
Should one not do anything to refrain from making more mistakes? Or should one be courageous to try to make amends. Hmm

Sigh, I have lots to say. But maybe I'm also Adagio, thus the moment to write my thoughts is lost. I can only say, seeing Owen reminds me of Jihoon once again. I wonder though if liking a sentimental guy who is willing to be the soulmate, the knight even though the princess will never like him back is a good thing or bad thing. Because seeing how fixated the knight is what attracted you to the knight. But if the knight ever decided to change his love interest, then you will lose the reason of attraction. In other words, you may like a knight but you probably can never be with the knight I guess.



One of my long time best friends finally re-surfaced recently, but she brought me news of a failed relationship. But sometimes, when being fixated does not help, the only next best thing you can do is to let go right? Sometimes, when faraway concern starts to fade and guardian angel task starts to become tiresome, one should not insist right? Compared to last year, this time my attitude is lackluster.. yet I'm still unable to wipe out that last image.. so I can only make a wish from faraway and hope for happiness...


Source: Youtube

P/s: I know why TW & KR shows can make me go ga-ga easily unlike HK series.. maybe I should try to avoid such shows...
Lastly, CL you lied.. I can't like Ethan either haha..

Website marketing

Visitors are an essential must if you host a site. After all a writer must have readers, a business must have customers, an idol must have fans.

So how do one get visitors? Through Search engines. Search engine has always been an interesting topic especially after how Google actually became famous for its search engine algorithm. However, till today, the way search engine works is still less optimized than how our brain searches for information. Thus it has always been an interest in the AI world to make search engine emulate how our human brain searches for information.

Of course the other angle is to adopt the search engine marketing strategy and tweak your sites to increase the visibility and hit list of the search engines.

This is called search engine optimisation (SEO). It is a process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines by editing the content and HTML coding to increase the relevance of specific keywords and removing any obstructions to the search engine indexes. There are also sites that do search engine optimizers (SEO). They are the experts who dispense professional advises on the best methods to adopt to get your site ranked in the search engine.

So what are some of the search engine marketing methods used?
- Choice of keywords: Use simple english words e.g. "heart" instead of "cardiac"
- Title, description of meta tags

But note, do not use keywords that are irrelevant to your webpage. This is called spamdexing or black hat SEO. If found out by the search engine, you may become black-listed.

Sundown Marathon

It is a 42.195km Marathon route which features four uniquely named sections:
1) String of Lights (22km) – This runs along Nicoll Drive, behind the Changi Airport runway and down towards East Coast Park
2) Heartland Twist (7km) – This features 3 overhead bridges linking East Coast Park with Bedok Town Park and Bedok
3) Waterfront Trail (6km) – This goes around the reservoir towards Pasir Ris
4) Home Run (7km) – This last stretch is where runners will face a 300m uphill battle before reaching the finishing line.

Interesting route? To tell you the truth, I did not read up about the route while I was practising. Thus on the day itself, I was quite surprised when I learnt of the route. Because my 2nd last practice run, I had tried Bedok Reservoir.. and my last practice, I tried Pasir Ris to Changi. The only problem was these 2 practice runs, my body had not went through 26km then. Thus the 2 practice runs were easily accomplished (actually not true, the Changi run I had to give up the last 1 km to the Changi market because I needed to rush back on time for guests that day).

So on the day itself, I continued to feel nervous. Cut my toenails to prevent inflicting any self-injury. Tried sleeping but couldn't really sleep. And the questions on whether I can finish, do I have the mindset, am I determined enough haunt me repeatedly. Probably why I blocked all the naysayer beforehand so that they will not add on to my anxiety. Personally I know a full marathon is tough, and to accomplish one without training isn't a good idea. But I felt that training is only required if you want a good time. I, on the other hand, may have wanted to complete by 5.5 hours but it wasn't a must.

Anyway the first half of the marathon was bearable. I guess it was only around the 26km that I truly start to feel deflated and started walking all the way from Kembangan MRT to Bedok Reservoir. But the walking did not stop, at the sandy track, even though it reminded me of the real run, I refused to jog because I felt it would take extra effort on my part.

I guess I was happier though when I caught my hometown in sight. And by the time I saw this sign

I was trying to trick my mind that I am doing my regular jogging in the morning (esp since I had reached it around 5am) and am trying to jog down to find my sunrise.

The only problem is I know this last leg well to know that I got a long D to cover... and by the time I hit the path to Changi, I'm back to the walking stage. The only times I tried to jog is when there is a slope down. Actually I told my friend I want to walk all the way back. But you know when someone tells you, you have 1 km left, somehow you really wish to end the agony faster. So I had to slow jog all the way back.. to obtained the following results:

Rank: 275/738
Bib No: 5954
Gun Time: 6:16:14.05
0-10km: 1:12:02.12
10km-20km: 1:35:50.95
20km-30km: 1:25:33.52
30km-42km: 2:02:47.46

Would I ever repeat this agony again? While at Bedok Reservoir, my friend had said if I ever want to do 84, please do not find him. Of which I replied if I ever suggested anything from 42 onwards, you should just kill me.

Yah, I think my limit is 26 only. One should know her limit at times too, because even if you force it, you will end up getting hurt right? I don't know... lately I got too much stuff that I am unable to figure out... Argh...