I came, I saw, I ran

I went to Singapore for a business convention with a colleague. It was my second time on the island. We stayed at NSS hotel, which is a budget hotel nearby Raffles Hospital. The hotel was quite old, and it even had a manual lift. A person is needed to pull the lever, sort of like an on and off handle to operate it.

On the day of the event, which was at The Legends, Fort Canning, we took a walk rather than using the MRT. It was a way to savour the life and sights of Singapore. But my colleague swear he won't walk again next time, because by the time he got to the hotel, he was drenched in sweat.

The next day, I took a run around the city. Singapore is trying to make the whole city as a garden concept, and they really did made it such. Though there's concrete everywhere, sidewalks are well planted with trees, and shrubs.

There's a few other runners too, who I suppose are training hard for Singapore Marathon 2007.
I didn't actually planned where to run. So I followed a shirtless dude with HRM for awhile.

Another thing is, you can get shoes quite cheaply here. I got a pair of Adidas (not the adizero of course...), for only SGD 39.90. There's also New Balance shoes selling for 19 SGD...dirt cheap.

Good luck for those running this week in SG marathon...It'll be fun.


Start of the run..


At Pearl Park




I am still following this guy...




Merlion park...

Running along the river





The trouble of running is stopping for traffic lights....


Running down Esplanade Drive...almost no cars on a saturday morning..





The Durian...


Quite a small park...

Back to Fullerton hotel again...


Self pic War memorial park.


Adidas ad of 2 singaporean runners...