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Leg injuries and infections!

I fell and hurt my shin about a year ago. It happened when I was climbing those stairs on my way to work and somehow I kicked the steps and hit my right shin on the edge of those pebbled staircase. It hurt so bad at that time that I couldn't even straightened my leg. Tears was threatening to roll down my face, but when I saw my colleagues, I sucked all my tears back in and forced myself to continue walking to my office (which luckily wasn't very far) This is how it looks like when I reached my cubicle. Doesn't look too bad right? Just look like I scrapped it. I used Detol antiseptic cream and just moved on with my day. The worst is not here yet!!!! This was at the height of my injury! Looks so scary isn't it? The wounds was infected! I thought that it was a simple scrape! By chance, I was feeling really unwell a few days after I fell down and went to the doctor. The doctor took my temperature and told me that I was having a fever and he took a look at my l...

My first Half Marathon!

Never in my life had I ever thought that I would complete a Half Marathon. I remember a few years back when a colleague was talking about his experiences for Half and Full marathon, I was so impressed. Who would have thought that I would have completed a Half marathon? hahaha.  Prior to the race, I was extremely nervous as I did not really train for this HM (half marathon), plus I had walked for a whole 2 days in Singapore prior to the race. Imagine that sore feet plus over eating (cant help it, too much good hawker food in Singapore) Sibeh nervous face! You really have to plan properly on how to get to the race location. I have slight idea on how to get there. Taxi! However, I did not know that there were rehearsal for Singapore's national day going on too. So the taxi route did not go down too well as there were many roads that were blocked! After some discussions with the taxi uncle, he dropped me off at Bugis MRT, which was the most direct and fastest rou...