The Infinite World

Why is the SGX promoting high frequency trading ?  They distort the market, entering and leaving the market at high speed and great volume, taking advantage of the small/big movement in stock prices.  These traders trade with no fundamental, they are just out to make a quick profit. This is not good for genuine small investor and the public and should not be allow to prevail. Why would a market regulator promote such form of trading ? Do not make sense at all to most people. 

Had to run in the gym again today, 27 Oct, 2013, Sunday, due to the rain. Managed to complete 11.4km in 1hour. Can feel the extra weight due to fats around the abdominal area, have to work hard to get rid of it. 

Run at the gym today due to rain, covered 8.4 km in 45min30sec. Had too much to eat at the buffet lunch at 4pm, felt so heavy during the run. Hope to cover at least 20 km tomorrow morning, otherwise my preparation for the Standard Chartered marathon will be wasted. Must keep up the long run, so that I am at least physically prepared for the 42.195 km on the 1 Dec 2013.

At the speed that earthlings are going, it will not be soon as in the next decade or so ! So much energy is expended everytime a rocket is launched to get a maximum of 7 people into space. We need to be able to fly to at least to near earth orbit at ease or anytime we want to. The amount of time needed to get ready to launch is incredible and yet we have such ambitious goal. (like going to mars) Our launch technology is too primitive and  money is not spent getting there. Till the day we are able to launch at will or every other day, it will be a dream for the rest !

This year has been good for Singapore athletics, more national records broken than the last few years. Though we are not as good as the rest of the ASEAN Powerhouse, hopefully our athletes continue to work hard, achieve good results and close the gap. Long Distance Running has been extremely popular these last few years, hopefully our timing continue to catchup with the Sea countries. Hope to see Dr Mok and Ashley do well at the Sea Games and next year as well. Mok potentially can crack the 2hr26min anytime I believe and Ashley can break the 2hr30min next year as well. Mok Yin Rong is running well, we should be seeing more good timing from her in the near future.

I have been thinking of a device that can work like a GPS but without the need for any satellite signal. We will need the landmark, roads and the distance between places. I think it can be done, but need a program to load data and the logic for it to work. 

I think the Space power should start practising flying around the various space stations. The Iss is so near to Earth, should put it out to maybe a couple of thousand km away. Put a few up there and fly around the different stations and the moon. This will probably speed up the space travel technology, no need to set big goal big budget and eventually going nowhere. The money spent on defence by all the big countries should be able to pay for a few stations. But too bad, human kind are so afraid that if they let their guards down, fellow human will take the opportunity to conquer them. 

Although I did not achieve any PB for this run, I learn a important lesson. Going into this run, I had minimum training, working long hours during weekdays. In the previous 2 weeks, I eat only chicken sandwiches for lunch and avoided most oily fried stuff. But during my 13 of Oct run, both my legs suffered from cramp after 20 km. I attributed this to eating too clean, low in salt content in my diet. So for the Newton run, I just eat normally without being too conscious about food. I did not have any problem with my legs all the way during the run. One other thing I did right was to pace myself well, sticking to a 6:30 per km or 3.5 hrs pace. Due to my low mileage, my body is not able to substain pace of say 6:15 per km or faster for long run of more than 20km. Will try to complete another 32 km run this weekend. I managed a even split of about 1hr 5min for 30km during the Newton run, which I am quite surprise as well. I guess just have to be persistent and try to run on even at slow p...

Took park in the Newton 32km run at East Coast park this morning. I was in the 2nd wave of runners, started at about 5.40am. I tried very hard to pace myself properly, stick to a 6min28sec pace.Luckily ,  for me, there was no cramp today, managed to finish with a time of 3hr29min49sec.

There are definitely room for reducing spending, especially in the reallocation of human resources to more productive area. One good example would be the support services around important people, do they really need to be served by so many? They are no different from Royal Family if you think about it ! The government is paying for all these even though they do not have a single cents in their pocket.   If they continue to do it their way and keep borrowing, how to repay 17 trillion dollar? Think about it, if they have a solution, the debt would have would have came down a couple of years back? Anyway, this will repeat itself again, till a workable solution is found, but it's going to get more difficult as the numbers climb.

The plan was to run 25 km at 6min pace, but my lack of mileage spoiled the plan. Felt ok for the 1st 13km but I could feel the toll that my body was taking. Asked my running mate to carry on at his pace, I started to slow quite a bit. By the time I passed the food centre at ECP, I slow to a walk. Completed 20.5 km. After passing the washroom after Mac, started to run slowly but then after only about 200m, both my tigh cramped up. I have no choice but to walk and stretched. Walked till the last 3 km, started running, this time it was worst, developed cramp in both tight again and worst then the last one. This was it, I could not run anymore, I was not perspiring anymore, so have to be careful, too dehydrated. It was a demoralising run, but then my mileage is just too low. Wonder how I would fair for this Sunday Newton Run, 32km......I guess just run easy and not to over stretch my legs !

Have not run for about 2 weeks, just completed a 16km run in 1hr35min12sec. Started at about 4.52pm, the sky was kind of cloudy, no glaring sun, allowing for a early evening run. Was feeling ok at about 6min pace, it was kind of very even pace throughout, never deviating away too far from 6 min pace. Easy run today, nothing fast in between the Km either. Was workout after a long break.