Collin Ng's Blog

Year 2008 has been one tumultuous year, the world over and I hope to end the year with this hilarious video clip for all. May 2009 bring prosperity, happiness and longevity to all.

The Standard Chartered Marathon 2008 is the event I have been working hard for the entire year and I am pleased to have achieved the 55 minutes target I have set for the 10km. I did one better by slicing more than 8 minutes from last year's result, achieving 53 mins 34 seconds and my target for 2009 is 42km now. Daunting but I am confident I can achieve it under 6 hours.

This is a 2-minute video clip of me in last year's Standard Chartered Run where I clocked 1 hr 1 min 49 seconds in my first 10 km race. The first part of the video has glimpses of some Singapore's attractions & the 42km winner from Kenya and the humble side of me is shown on the last part (please strain your eyes in picking me up from the crowd, not that difficult I believe).

This year Standard Chartered run is my second, did my first last year. I clocked 1 hour 1 min plus in my first 10 km, which to me, was already a pleasant surprise. I did not expect to clock just slightly over 1 hour in that run because I did not do much serious outdoor running prior, mostly on the treadmills and at most 15 mins each time. My dainty CEO was game enough to attempt 21 km for this year after completing her 10 km last year, asked me to partake with her in that category but I felt I should work to better my own time clocked in 2007 run instead. A goal I had set for myself this year. Still, she earned my admiration for upping her distance while rest of my colleagues who did last year's 10km run incuding me chose to maintain status quo for 2008 run. The large part of 2008 was mainly indoor training at the gym for me, 15 mins on treadmills (no more, no less) followed by free weight to tone up muscles and the sequence was repeated over 2 or 3 times in a week. Quite fra

In order to get out from the doldrums he had created for himself in Singapore, he therefore agreed to plead guilty for insulting our judiciary and also publicly announced that he will delete all the postings on his blogs. Had he not done so, he would have to spend more jail time here and he could ill afford to so, given his badly battered financial situation. And by the way, I read from his blog he is now seeking for donations from public to keep him afloat (no diff to a street beggar, albeit an able-bodied & educated one). Upon arriving home in the U.S., he immediately announced that he will not delete his postings on his blog and vowed to fight the cause of all Singaporeans from the outside. This is not a joke, an ex Singaporean of dubious background and had failed to win a seat as opposition on many occasions still harbours dream to be our M.P. one day. Ours is only a red dot, he will earn immense recognition if he fights for the people in his second home in the Congress, that i