The Infinite World

Just finished a 11.5km run this morning in 1 hour 15min28sec. Started the run late at 8.50am, luckily the weather was not too hot. Trying hard to up my mileage now, 4 months to the SCB marathon on 4 Dec 2016!

Yes, Spacex achieved its 7th launch of 2016 today, just 45min past midnight on 18 July 2016. And a successful landing of its first stage on land.  I think SpaceX equalised its most launches in a year, so the next launch will be a record breaking feat! 

We have seen this concept in friction story, cartoon, movie, is this our ultimate end ? I think earth should move towards a single entity, too much resources are wasted to fight and dominate each other. The amount of money wasted on weapon could have been used to feed the entire earth population. Even in the commercial space such as ,IT and financial services, the precaution taken by companies against fraudsters, hackers, is a heavy burden that is unnecessary. Greed and authority are 2 big bad traits of human, they are always fighting over such matters! Maybe it will take another thousand years of fighting to learn from their mistakes. Just like in the movies, "human is a primitive race, they will take time to learn"!

I covered a distance of 19.35km this morning in 2hr4min40.9sec. It was a struggle for me, I have not run such a long distance for quite awhile.

The Singapore Marathon 2016 is 5 months away, I am targeting to complete in less than 4 hours. Will need to start training for it this month, have to cover up to 35km comfortably in less than 3hr 15min 2 weeks before the actual run. It is probably not extremely difficult to those who has done it before, but anyone capable of doing it has to be reasonably fit physically. 

Fang Jianyong finished the Goldcoast marathon 2016 in 2 hours 34min 32sec, 34th place overall. 

Yuki Kawauchi finished 2nd at the Gold Coast Marathon 2016 this morning 3 July 2016, he was just 1 second behind winner Kenneth Mungara, the 42 year old runner from Kenya. This is Kawauchi best time in an overseas marathon and his first sub 2:10 since Dec 2014. Anyone reading this, should note that this man is a amateur holding a full time job and not a professional runner. 

Canadian Ed Whitlock set a world age group record in the 85-89 category for the half marathon on 24 April 2016, at the Waterloo, Milton Ontario. He covered the 21.1 km in 1 hour 50min 47sec, more than 9 minutes faster than the old record. He is still the only over 70 years old person on earth to run a sub 3 hours marathon as of today!

Yes, Space X successfully completed the company sixth launch of the year on the 15 June 2016. 2 satellites were deployed to GTO orbit, but the landing of the first stage boaster was a failure. There will be a break of one month before the next launch in mid July 2016. I think the next launch will be a milestone for Space X, the 7th launch of the year and the most ever in a year. If the next launch goes well, I think this will be a break through year for the company, at least a dozen launches for the full year! Looking forward to the maiden launch of the Falcon Heavy later in the year.

Just finished a 7.03km in 40min45sec according to my Garmin 620 watch, averaging 5min48sec per km. Been struggling with my runs lately, not getting in enough mileage. Need to be more relaxed during runs and rebuild my overall fitness by doing exercise that strengthen the core muscles. Must start to do longer runs to prepare for the annual Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. I am aiming for a 4hr30min which will be a new personal best. I did 4hr59min27sec in Dec 2015.

Human population is growing at a rate that is too fast, they will run out of resources feeding the population. The increase is taking place in countries that are the least develop and it will only slow down their development. They need to educate the population and manage their population growth. This is a real problem in all the least develop and developing countries, but how many of these countries are really taking action to improve their citizens life, are not obvious. Those with a big population and high population growth rate, continue their rapid population growth. They will face more social and resource issue as they face the reality of having to feed and provide jobs to these extra mouths. 

Space X successfully completed its 5th launch of 2016 about 1 hour 10min ago and at the same time recovered its 4th stage one rocket or its 3rd recovery at sea on the drone ship. It main mission completed with the deployment of the Thaicom 8 communication to geostationary orbit.

Those checking on the public at large need governing as well, they are the one no body dare to check!   Those at the top need to adhere to strict guide and open scrutinisation to remain relevant to serving the public governance. It's always a challenge to not contradict the aim to remain neutral and righteous in their action. Human nature is just too weak to resist all the temptation that constantly surround them.

Running a 4 hour marathon is my goal for the December 2016 Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon! I need to cut 47min 26sec from my previous best set in Dec 2014. It's quite a big margin and I need to run about 1 min 7 sec faster per km over the entire 42.195km. It's not a extremely fast time but my overall body fitness will need to be improved to take the pounding better during the race. 

The world is always facing virus attack every few years due to their bad hygiene issue. Developing countries need to educate their people basic hygiene to avoid such recurrence in the future. They will need to provide adequate basic modern toilet facilities and drinking water to its people. They need to really do more to control their population growth and educate its people. 

Space X Falcon 9 launched on 6 May 2016, for the fourth time this year. It launched a communication satellite for Japan into geostationary orbit and also successfully landed the first stage on the drone ship "Of course I still love you" in the dark in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the third landing of the first stage and the 2nd time on a drone ship. Eventually Space X is going to reuse the recovered first stage to launch a subsequent mission, founder of Space X Elon Musk hope to cut the launch cost drastically in the future. Musk ultimate aim is to colonise Mars.

Human has a habit of doing things according to a schedule and everyone come together at the same time causing problems such as traffic jam, congestion, long queues, stampede and others. When you look at all these problems, what strike you as obvious? 

Why the human world seems to be troubled constantly? Who is responsible for creating all these pain for humans? The Answer is human, for all non natural occurring disaster. The origin is always our "mind", the most powerful and almost out of the body part of the human. It is the mind that direct you to do what you do, so it's important for human to take control of the mind! Human instinct is to provide for themselves to survive, they do what it takes to survive. They are selfish and do not care even after realising the harm they are causing to others. Actions will be taken when it threaten their well being. Human need to learn to understand and work to build a relationship with each other, among countries , to dispel hostility among them. It take up so much of their resources and time, just trying to fight each other. 

Can human transmit signal or message using our brain wave ？Is this the way to communicate with the unknown and beyond ? Many people would sincerely want to believe that human can go beyond what they can do. There are so many small little things they do that do not make sense. Human need to think unselfishly, beyond personal gain and needs, to achieve greater things. It is very difficult for human to think and act unselfishly, they tend  to want all things to themselves. They have the capacity but not the preserverance to actually do a lot of good acts for the good of all. Human will need to train their their children to think and put a framework around education in school to incorporate Thinking class into the cirriculum. They need to guide their mind and try their best to prevent it from picking up the bad thinking. The mind is all powerful but barely reach even their minimum capacity for most people. 

SpaceX succeeded in its attempt to land on a drone ship, Of Course I Still Love you in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission carried a Dragon spacecraft on a resupply mission to the ISS and also a experimental inflatable module built by Bigelow Aerospace. The landing of the First stage is the 1st after 4 failed attempt, this is unprecedented as its technically difficult to land on a platform just slightly larger than a basketball court. The next Space X lannch is in mid April, if it launch before April 21, it would have set a new shortest turnaround record for the company.