The Infinite World

Every human has certain fixed set of behaviour that is built-in from birth, such as seeing, breathing, eating, moving and learning. Other than the basic see, breath and eat, we need to learn the rest of the acquired part of human characteristics. A baby is basically neither good or bad in nature as they do not know anything, they are like a blank sheet of paper or a empty hard disk.  What they become as they grow, is all learn from what they see, hear and read, and learn to decipher all these inputs into their brain. Human beings need to learn how to educate the child from the time of birth, but this is a difficult thing to do,  but only for the more educated adults. The normal adult will not know much about how to teach and in still the correct set of social and intellectual behaviour for a child. I think the basic thing to remember is to not behave in a bad way in the presence of very young children, as they cannot tell what is right or wrong and they initiall...

I think the only way for human to get better at Space exploration is to practise more. We need to get our launch technology right and reliable and build space craft that have some endurance and track them accordingly. We need to launch more space craft and practise docking with each other, with more common standard and make them more manoeuvrable. Travelling to the moon should be a everyday affair and of course the moon base should be built as soon as possible. Like someone who said before, we need to get as many people into space and stay indefinite period of time, in order for human to survive as a technologically advanced race. First, I think we need to learn to behave like a logical adult and more co-operation effort to get our space exploration going. Less war and more money will be available for such explorations. Be less self centred and greedy as well, but this will require a great deal of discipline from the typical human beings.  

I am wondering how many Singapore citizens are above 100 years old as of today, 25 August 2015 ? But, data will definitely not be accurate, as back in 1915, official record keeping did not exist! Human always had and still has problem keeping our data accurate !

Did a short run of 3.2km or 8 laps of 400m at the stadium in the evening, clocked 15min 19.349sec. Initial plan was to try to maintain 2min per lap for as many laps as possible, but gave up the attempt after 8 laps. Not in the right state of mind to do a focus run, will try another day.

Today, I was on another mission to complete a 2 hours run again. I started slow as usual, and completed the 1st km in 6:39, but I started late at about 6:40pm so that the weather is cooler. As the run carry on, my pace increases to about just below 6 minutes per km. The late start did make the run a lot easier, you get into rhythm without having to have the heat slowing you down. Although it's cooler, the temperature of about 30 degree Celsius still caused the body temperature to go up as you run faster. I just hang on to a sub 6 minutes pace till the last portion of the run. My pace drop to 6:20 plus for a uphill portion and eventually slow further to 6:40 plus towards the end. Completed the 19.53 km run in 2hours 21seconds, without any water intake. 

Went out for a early evening run at 5.10pm, the weather was very hot and I could feel my body temperature raising rapidly. Started very slow at just below 7 min per km pace, and slowly settled down to a 6:10 to 6:20 min per km pace. Tried my best to stay at a consistent pace of around 6:15 per km, as my aim was to run for 2 hours. Although the weather was really hot, I found that by running at a consistent pace, I used up my energy more efficiently and did not feel tired so quickly. I ran without water intake throughout the whole duration of the run. A good run today as I finished the run feeling strong although I could feel my body temperature getting a little too high. Finished the 19.28 km in 2 hours 6 seconds, averaging 6min14sec per km pace.

The recent leaked documents seems to imply wide spread doping in athletics at world class level. The question everyone will be asking now, " So who is not doping ? ". It is bad for athletics, anyone who run fast will be suspected of doping at the coming World Championship in Beijing. Maybe in the future, all athletes should be made to eat natural food and plain drinking water, or eat food and drink stuff available in the public rather than special diet which they prepare on their own, which might contain special ingredients. This is the problem of science coming into the athletes' training and diet.

I am wondering has any country tried construction activities like building a spacecraft in space before ? The ISS is more like Lego rather than real construction. Human will need to master such feats before we can venture further into space. Building a huge spaceship and lunching it from earth will be a huge task with our current level of technology. We need to start learning how to build more complicated stuff in space and maybe produce material in space as well. Our current spaceship is like child play when compared to those in science friction movies. We have a lot of work to do before we even reach the level whereby we can travel to the moon and back regularly. If we can get to the moon regularly, then perhaps we can build a moon base and use it as a staging station for further exploration and also to test the robustness of our spaceships. This will need a combined efforts from the various nations to get some significance progress in a short time. 

SG Citizens, before you throw anything on the ground, before you leave the table after your meal at the food centre, try to clean up, or when you take a bus, do not put your feet up on the seat opposite you. If every individual do their part on keeping the environment clean, SG will be a really clean country and not a cleaned country. Teach your children the same principle as well, let them grow up with a good grounding on keeping the environment clean. Most people in SG just do not care once they get out of their house. You should not litter and keep the surrounding environment clean. I am quite sure majority of the people do not litter at home and will clean up after they eat at home. Do the same when you are out in the public as well. Everything about SG is first class in most peoples' eyes, especially foreigners. But we local know the fact that it's only the physical environment, we still have a long way in terms of developing the individual. 

Reached the stadium at 5:58am this morning, initial plan was to start running at 5:30am and run for 2 hours. Anyway, started to run and it was cooling in the early morning. The problem is that I always mis-judge the pace when I run when the sky is dark, my first lap was 2min40sec, way too slow. It took me a while to slowly warm up, in fact, the first 4 laps(400m each) were all completed over 2min30sec each. It was just difficult to run fast early in the morning, ran the 5th to 8th lap all around 2min29sec per lap. Ran the 9th lap in 2min28sec and the 10th lap in 2min25sec. My plan to run 50 laps of 2min24sec each vanished. The next 10laps was completed between 2min20sec to 2min27sec. I wanted to run in an environment where I can ignore if there was any rough uneven ground that I might trip over or looking out for vehicular traffics or concern of hard surface which might cause injury. This is why I choose to run in a stadium sometimes. The next 10 laps were ran a little faster as the s...

Just completed a 3km run at the stadium, 7.5 laps of 400m each. Clocked a time of 13min56.132sec. I have no actual plan in mind before the run as it was already quite late when I reached the stadium at 7.30 am. The 1st lap was completed in 1min57.270sec, followed by 1min55.189sec, 1min55.205, 1min53.907, 1min52.846, 1min51.649, 1min45.000sec and the last 200m in 45.066sec. Almost every lap was ran a little faster than previous lap except the 3rd lap which was slower than the 2nd lap. My personal best for the 3000m is 13min1.5sec achieved more than 20 years ago,  I will need more training to run a faster time.

I registered for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 6 Dec 2015, Sunday. Last year, I clocked a personal best of 4 hours 47 minutes 26 seconds for the 42.195km. This year I am setting a target of 4 hours 30 minutes, which will translate to a average time of 6 minutes 23.93 seconds per km covered. Its not a fast time but it will take some consistent training starting now, the main aim will be to make sure the body can take the constant pounding over the 4 and a half hours.

I managed to run 51min4.109sec for the 10km or 25 laps run at the stadium on 10 July 2015, Friday. It's almost a minute faster than what I did on 8 July 2015, but I believe I can still go faster. Just need to learn to push my body a little more with each run, the mind is in fact much stronger than the body.

I ran another 10km or 25 laps of 400m each, at the stadium on 8 July 2015, Wednesday morning. I did managed to reach the stadium a little earlier and started the run at 7:06 am but as usual without much of any warm up exercises. I managed to average 2min5.83sec for the first 24laps and ran 1min41sec for the last lap for a final time of 52min1.866sec. It was about 14 seconds faster than my last 10km run on 3 July 2015 Friday. I considered this a good run as I had been away for 4 days on a short holiday and had not run during this short period of time. I actually find that my body can take the beating and I could have done at least maybe 51min30sec, but during the run my mind keep thinking its a difficult task. This constant thinking probably held me back from running a faster time.

Started my run at the stadium at 7.09am Singapore Time. Initially my plan was to run close to 2min per 400m lap and try to achieve a new PB for 10km or 25laps(pb 50min21sec). Usually, I do not do any stretching or warm up, except the short run from my house to the stadium, about 400 m or so. So today, as usual I found the early laps were difficult, extremely slow moving, averaging about 2min6sec per lap. Unfortunately, it did not get any easier or faster with lap, I kept averaging about 2min7sec lap. Around 7.40am, the sun was up and the temperature started rising, I just kept the laps going. I only start to speed up at the 23rd lap, 2min3sec, 24th lap 1min59sec and last lap 1min39sec. The final timing 52min15sec. Well, with every run, I learnt something, I am comfortable going around 2min7sec for 20 laps. So maybe next run, I can start 15min earlier and do better warm up and try to average 2min5sec for the first 20laps and try again for the PB.

Achieved a new PB of 27min9.635sec on 29 Jun 2015 for the 5.6km run at the stadium. People might wonder why I run such odd distance ? Well, its because I used to take part in the Annual JP Morgan Run here in Singapore and train for the run at the stadium. This is a run that take place every year in several cities the company operate in, including London, New York and a few others. My PB for this JP Morgan Run on the road is 25min23sec in 2008.

New Horizons, a Nasa space probe launched 19 Jan 2006, will be flying by Pluto on 14 July 2015. The main purpose of the mission is to study Pluto, Charon and the Kuiper Belt, plus some other minor missions. Hope Scientists learn more once new data and images are obtained from the probe.

There was another rocket launch failure just hours ago in the United States, it was supposed to be a resupply mission to the ISS and also carrying some experiments aboard. After 57 odd years of launching space missions, human still, cannot get the technical issues and technology right ! Unless, these so called experts can get the basic right, we can forget about travelling further from the earths' neighbourhood !

Covered 10.17km from Yio Chu Kang/Lentor Ave junction to Yishun Ave 1/Orchid Country club, in 58min8sec, on Saturday . I always find it so much harder to run along walkways beside roads, as here in Singapore, other than running in parks or at the standard stadium, you have to run on walkways along the road. These walkways are made of concrete and its not very conducive for running, its often use by cyclists or people with electric bicycle. These people normally assume runners will give way and they never both to stop at all. I can never achieve good time when I run on such walkways or routes.

Did a 5.6km run or 14 laps at the stadium today, in 27min39.390sec. Initial plan was to run as many laps at 2min per lap for 25laps and set a personal best. But than on the 13 laps,  I got stitches and would not be able to last for another 12 laps. So I just try my best to compete the 14lap as fast as possible to finish the run. All 14 laps were either 2min or faster, except for lap 10 at 2:02. I am running better than I ever did previously, my legs felt good and I can probably go even faster.