Damm Suay!

Injured my knee again while playing basketball. Loss count the no. of times I injured myself leow. I can tell this round it is quite serious as I could hear my knee popping in & out a few times. Freaking painful & disgusting! Out for at least a month. Damm TL & suay. Think it is abt time I consider retiring & trade my basketball shoes for a chess board leow. Dun even know whether I will make it for the Army Half Marathon leow.

What Arnold Schwarzenneger Would Look Like If He Were A Dog

I can't help it. I just had to include this in our blog. Sibeh tok gong leh! I already thought my babi's newly emerging 6-pack already quite tok gong. Until I saw this musclebound chunk of doggy. Take a look at this kow. Don't believe what your eyes are seeing? Well, believe it. Cuz it's certainly not photoshopped. People mistake her for a pitbull with a pinhead, but Wendy the whippet is just one rare breed. This dog is aka Arnold Schwarzenegger, dog version. Wendy is 27kg pure rippling mass of muscle. Forget the much-reverred 6-pack sia. Wendy has a 24-pack. Try topping that! The muscles around her neck are so thick they look like a lion's ruff. Lean she may not be, but mean she certainly looks...but hey, she can be my watchdog anyday.

Sunday Morning 6am

Suppose to go for the Mizuno 10km run NOW but it is still raining heavily so I guess the run is off leow. Meeting CT & Yongjin at 7am just to collect goody bag cuz got running T. Bery cheap skate rite! Haha. Yesterday we had our 1st full boat training. A total of 11 pax turn up for the row and ZY double up as our coach cum cox. Although ZY is only semi pro but I have to say she is quite good. We oso did a race with the Standchart Team and we lose only by a tiny, winy, little bit. Not bad cuz we only trained 2 times mah. It was great fun & looking forward to the next training already.

Lackie: A Pictorial

"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

"I neber take. I really neber take. Neh, see?"

Lackie showing what a huge fan she is of Ah Pek. She is so blown away. Literally.

Lackie giving her best rubber ducky impression. Actually she'd just sneezed onto my camera here. The unhygienic little cow.


Lackie playing peek-a-boo during the car ride to the zoo.

"I think. Therefore I am."
Yessh, Lackie, you've got us all convinced.

Lackie morphing into a piglet right before our very eyes.

Lackie trying her darndest to burst into tears, but obviously her usual Oscar-winning performance is a little sub-par here.


Here is when Satan just slipped into Lackie's chubby little body and hell's fury is about to be unleashed upon all of mankind.


"Ah Um, can I take a break from smiling puhleeaze? My face is so frozen liao."

Ah Pek: "Cmon Lackie. Say cheese!"
Lackie: "Nabeh, you so sart, you say yourself lor."

Ah Pek: "Smile, Lackie, smile!"
Lackie: "KNNCCB. Lim peh boh mood lah!"


"Cootchie cootchie coo. Smile, Ah Um, smile."


"Yaaaay! Bravo! I always knew that if I acted like a heinous little cow, Ah Pek would jump to my defence and there's absolutely nothing Ah Um can do about it."


Lackie mustering The Big Kiss.

Lackie demonstrating the fine art of being a lady, doing what she does best. Diggity digg!

"Har? What did you say, Ah Um? Did you just tell me to behave? Tia boh ah!"

Lackie looking mighty pleased with herself for accomplishing her usual feat of annoying the crap out of us.

Our 1st Training

We finally managed to train for the 1st time after many rds of NATO (No Action Talk Only)! A total of 8 rowers turn up and we have a smashing time. There were some minor hiccups in the beginning but it all turned out to be alright. Looking forward to the next training!

Lackie Chan

Let me introduce you to Lackie Chan (a deliberate mispronounciation of Jackie). Actually this little tyke's name is Jermaine Gan. Lackie got the nickname (that stuck like glue) because she used to wear that 80s Jackie Chan hairstyle when she was younger. She is more or less a permanent staple in our household, contributing to the noise and merriment factor. Without her around, home would be a silent graveyard.

Lackie is my brother-in-law's kid, and let me tell you, don't let this clownish countenance fool you one bit. This little seow ji has a mind of her own and a matching temper to boot. Little Lackie just blew out 2 candles on her birthday cake, and got 2 birthday slaps from this auntie (whom she calls Ah Um).

You see, Lackie loves to be slapped. And she's damn good at making a whole Oscar-winning performance of not loving it. But she can't fool me. Nope, not Ah Um. I chase her around the house brandishing my open palm. She bashes on my door and then throws her little hands to her chubby cheeks when I open up. How can she not love being slapped when she laughs so hysterically everytime my palm connects with her cheek?

Her idea of patting you to sleep is to repeatedly beat the shit out of you. She's the only tot I know who shrieks, "Put me up!" when she really means, "Put me down." She gets into fist fights with classmates half her size, and won't hesitate to use her plump little fists make her displeasure known. One thing for dead certain, little Lackie is no pushover. If anything, she will be The Bully.

Lackie is an orh-bit queen, a trash-talking rubbish-eater, a hardcore Ah Lian in the making. She has no morals to speak of, just really really xian shi. Dangle food in her face and she'll follow you. Feed her and she'll love you. Do it often enough and she'll forsake her parents for you. Bring her out gai gai, and she'll adopt you as her parents.

Purple is Lackie's favorite color. She loves Barney because he's purple. Her favorite drink is Ribena, which is purple. She has this Baby Polo Ralph a shade of pinkish-purple that would look bizarre on other babies, but looks absolutely amazing on her.

Everybody loves Lackie. Lackie, the stand-up comedienne. Lackie, the stubborn mule. Lackie, the crazy clown. Lackie, the cheeky monkey. Lackie, the tantrum-thrower. Lackie, the independent self-entertainer. Lackie, the energizer bunny. Lackie, the very verbose social butterfly. Lackie the little triad gangstress. Lackie, the sar kar queen. She sure wears many faces for a toddler, but we love em all because it is Lackie.

The Gan household should have a common family tee with Lackie's grinning face printed on it, accompanied by the words EVERYBODY LOVES LACKIE. She has her own devoted fan club, and yes, she actually answers to her nic Lackie.

My 1st 10 km run

Did my 1st 10km competitive run yesterday. Quite fun and managed to finish in just under 1 hr. Not great but not too bad either. Looking forward to the next run which should be the Mizuno Run at Bedok Reservoir on 22 July. 2 funny incidents happened yesterday. The 1st was my friend aka The Pig & I were supposed to be 2nd wave runners but we simply boh chup and ran with my other friend, CT, when the 1st wave flag off. We could hear all the road marshalls shouting at us as we run past them but we just continued running. Haha. The 2nd incident was CT LS along the way & had to use toilet bowl water to wash his hands cuz there was no toilet paper around. Haha.