footprints in the sand

I made a lot of footprints in the sand today. We had a big office family day at sentosa, and I basically participated in almost all the games, which was super tiring! But I suppose the sun, sand and sea is something different..... Now I sound like a Navy advertisement huh? Running in the sand is damn tiring lah, way worse than on grass or on land! And its different parts that get tired; really its the soles of your feet. That's a totally different kind of fatigue than I'm used to.... Some of the guys were pretty darn rough while playing captain's frisbee. There were huge guys tackling little ladies! I have a nice scratch on my arm to remember the occasion....

I live by the beach but I hardly play in the sand or the sea. The sea is quite polluted here in the east coast, with all that floatsam coming in from the open sea, so I would not ever go into the water. Its way too hot for suntanning too, and not to mention the beach isn't exactly very clean. But at least it feels kinda natural though the entire east coast park is man made reclaimed land. There were quite a lot of bikini babes at Palawan beach on sentosa, just lying in the sun and getting a tan, and on a weekday too! But somehow it seems real fake. The entire Palawan beach feels damn fake tho it's quite clean. I'm not sure what's wrong, maybe the enclosure of the bay, or maybe it's just too hazy today, but I'd rather lie on a patch of grass than on Palawan beach. Plus its hella hot too! In a few months I might be lying on the beaches every weekend somewhere where all everyone does is go to the beaches. And check this out, its work related too! But at the moment we don't know if its gonna happen or not, and the way things work around here I wouldn't be too optimistic, though we always dream of a better tomorrow don't we?

The haze is really getting to me. Dunno why the press releases PSI at 24 hour averages. somebody has got to wake up his idea and realises that its really really bad arnd evening time and okay in the morning, its not even close, so there should be no averages, just maximum value! When you get hit by a heat wave do you take the average temperature including the wee hours of dawn? Hell no!

I've decided to put up pictures and stuff related to things I like in my office cubicle cos its kinda drab and I realise that people do actually look haha! So I started with some postcards of picasso works, van gogh, and this guy who made a pencil sketch of NYC from the air. Of course I inevitably ended up putting some ski trail maps too! Seems kinda out of place but skiing is the love of my life so I can't really leave that out can I?

There is a possibility that if I get sent away for work it might be ski season. What if it extends partway during ski season and partway during spring where you can go to the beach? I've been thinking if I shld bring my skates or my skiing attire. It would be a problem bringing both cos that takes up too much space. If i send over, I might as well just get new stuff, since my ski clothing is from Ross anyway..... But what the heck, why am I even worrying bout what to bring? Don't even know if I'm going.....

Go Bears!!

UC Berkeley professor George F. Smoot was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics today (Tuesday, Oct. 3). Smoot, a professor of physics and an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), led a team that obtained the first images of the infant universe - findings that confirmed the predictions of the Big Bang theory.

Prof. Smoot is UC Berkeley's 20th faculty Nobel laureate; 24 Nobelists over the years have been Berkeley alumni, including today's co-recipient, John C. Mather of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and Andrew Z. Fire, who yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Time to wake up

Wake me up, when September ends.....