Earlier this year, I decided to pick up on my running again, after having almost completely ignored my Nike+ for most of the later half of 2007…

I started running a few years ago (about 2005-ish?) as a mean to another end (my 2005 mid-February resolution to improve my state of well-being), and since then, it has pretty much been on & off (& on & off & on & off & …) since.

At the end of last year, I decided to make the new year resolution running-centered. So, I set a rather ambitious goal for this year and publicly declared to a few people that if I do not make the goal this year, I’m going to quit eating beef for the rest of my life!!! (Oh why did I do that….?)

After a very successful January, a sluggish February and a very lackluster March, a quarter of the year has come to an end, and I have hardly made 21% of the goal I set. )’:

It’s become obvious that if I don’t pick up my pace, I’m probably going to have to hold true to my words and quit those juicy steaks. >.<

So, be my witness and help support me through this goal. (; I’ll keep my progress posted here as a way to motivate myself.

PS. And no… this is NOT an April Fool’s joke… I *will* really quit eating beef if I don’t make it to goal…….! d :

I showed this youtube video clip to my little cousin and decided that instead of having to search through youtube everytime I want to find this video again, I’ll just post it here. :)

So, in preparation for tomorrow’s Sheng Meng (a separate one from the two I had gone to last weekend), I decided that I’ll need my white light-weight jacket to battle of the UV-rays from the sun that I’ll have to spend a lot of time under tomorrow. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to launder it since last week’s sweaty Sheng Meng episode, so I thought I’d quickly throw it into the washer at my brother’s condo where I’ll be spending the night.

Even more unfortunately, my brother just bought some blue t-shirts and so I was being nice and did the laundry for him as well. Yah, you can probably guess what happened next… I now have a new light blue jacket, and also a new light blue towel (which used to be an uglier shade of cream.)

I spent earth hour outside having dinner with my family (MK… yum…) So, technically, we did turn off the lights at home during the time… does that count?

My brother & I continued to experiment with his juice extractor again today, and I think we found a very good recipe that we both like!

So, for about a liter of this mix, here’s the recipe:

6 carrots
4-6 apples
2-3 celeries
1-2 limes

So, I guess a lot of people have a tendency to fudge around the figures in the stories that they tell, and I find it very funny when I hear the same stories twice with different numbers in it.

For example, right after my aunt took my cousins for a trip to Australia many years ago, she came back to tell us that the kids missed Thai food so much that they had to order Thai omelet (ไข่เจียว) that cost 400 Baht after the conversion. (Well, of course, having been in the US for 6 years, I was definitely not surprised by the price tag.)

A few months later, when she retold this story to other family members (with me in the vicinity), the price of that said omelet suddenly went up to 600B. So, I just couldn’t help commenting to her that with the Thai Baht’s value increasing (against USD) on a daily basis (during that time), Australian dollars must’ve been skyrocketing to account for this difference in just a few months!!!!

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Last night, I had the TV on in the background as I was browsing around the net, and it happened to be tuned to this certain cable TV channel which was covering a certain live event with a certain someone’s speech (which, by the way, I neither endorse nor agree with, but that’s not the point of the story I’m trying to tell.) Anyway, somewhere in the rhetoric speech, a figure of 500 million baht* came up.

But of course, when my grandma recounted this story to my mom the next morning, the figure somehow became 5,000 million baht. A 10 times increase overnight!

*laughs* That must’ve been some kind of crazy hyperinflation to make the value of 500MB equal 5,000MB overnight! d:

* But of course, in light of what we know about people’s tendency to exaggerate, I don’t even think that 500MB was really all there in the first place… d :

So, I just found out today (via pittaya.com) that right now I (as a DTAC customer) can now twit through SMS!

But of course, at 1B/twit, I don’t think I’ll be able to afford it! Right now my phone bill is already too high as it is! (I’ve been trying to cut down by using skype, but it’s still quite high (not astronomically high as it was at the peak… but still… Oh well, definitely well worth it though!)

It’s still great to have the option of sending SMS though. Maybe the next time I’m stuck in the middle of nowhere w/o EDGE/GPRS connection, I’ll still have something to keep me entertained.

I also hadn’t realized that there are now so many Thais out there on twitter (and in blogosphere in general).

Anyway, I came back home today to see a huge pile of books! Apparently, Mom decided to beat the weekend crowd at the Bangkok International Book Fair 2008 by going on a weekday instead…

… without me!!!!

>.<

Not that I’m expecting to be buying a lot of books this year (Heck, I still haven’t had the chance to finish the books I bought LAST TIME), but I still would love the chance to go browse around. Especially on a day out with my parents! I’ve been going to those almost every time I happen to be in Thailand at the time.

Speaking of books though, in the fashion inspired by Kate, I decided to construct my own 2008’s book list. (like her 2008 and 2007 ones.)

If you’ve noticed, I like to start multiple books simultaneously, and depending on my mood, I’ll read one or the others… sort of like Rory from the Gilmore Girls, I guess. (Although my reading preference is neither as broad or as deep as hers, I’m sure.)