Time has flown since I last updated this blog - needless to say lately I haven't felt the need to pour my heart out onto paper like last year - which I guess is just a way of saying that I'm doing better than ever...well emotionally at least.
Work has been terrible lately with all my points of interaction at
the client company retrenched or restructured - I have no idea what the
future of my project entails but I guess the smart money is a Plan B. I'm going to miss all the people whom I
have worked with for so long; also because they're really the first real
colleague that I've ever had till this point. AA committed suicide
about 3 weeks ago when he received news of his retrenchment. I didn't
always liked him - he was irritating, stubborn and refused to ever make a
decision. I was also angry with him for leaving behind his family and a
mentally handicapped son of 14 without his father. In many ways it's his
strange sense of integrity that annoys the living crap out of me; and I
respect him deeply for that. Rest in peace my friend. I will miss you.
Truthfully.
The San Francisco Marathon training has progressed really well - managed to finish over 40km last week without doing any real damage to my knees and ankles. But regardless I tooked this week off and let myself go - in terms of training and eating and drinking (for the first time in a long time) and it feels good. But on Monday I will be back to running 45km+ a week for the next 3 weeks. I now feel at least 80% confident that I will finsih that marathon, I suspect once I finish the 45km/week and a long 32km run I will be 100% confident. A big improvement considering that 3 months ago the injury almost made my lose all hope.
The itinerary has been organised - 10 days in San Fran, 4 days in Yoshemite, 4 days in Las Vegas and Grand Canyon. Booked tickets to the San Francisco Symphony for the "Pixar Concert" along with TC. Was very keen on catching a Celine Dion show and maybe Penn and Teller in Las Vegas - but still haven't booked/brought the tickets. Also haven't booked the hotel room in Vegas yet - but super excited to book a really nice room for the last night with jacuzzi and other luxuries in order to experience "Sin City" to the fullest.
I can honestly say that I haven't felt so excited or giddy as a kid in recollectable memory. South America was a mixture of fear and excitement since there was so much unknown - but this trip is almost just pure excitement and expectation...which scares me a bit because it might just become a big flop.
But what scares me the most is who I will be going with. I'm trying to remember how the topic of finishing a marathon (part of my bucket list) turned into me physically going to a marathon all the way in San Fran. How it went from being each others mental support turned into this ridiculously long and SUPER AWESOME holiday that we planned every small detail together?
I only wish that she didn't move permenantly back to Taiwan the same time I met her.
