Seriously Sarah

It’s already November. Either you’ve done your year’s resolutions of keeping fit or well, not.

If you haven’t, you could try getting a head start on next year’s resolutions on trying to be fit.

Or it’s at the point in time where you can pre-present yourself shoes for Christmas to go oooh, wow since you’ve gotten shoes like Nike Free 5.0 (I’ve seen these in stores and they seem really nice), you might as well go run.

Run before Christmas, run before the holidays so you can be ready to eat all the things?

I guess, it’s the easiest thing to do though, just run around if you don’t know how to carry weights or other exercises.

We’ve got a lot of marathons in Singapore. For a country that’s pretty small, everyone seems to be wanting to run all over it.

Speaking of marathons, I don’t know how I did it last year. I did one run a month for 2014 and this year I chose only the obstacle courses.

It wasn’t that many runs this year but enough for me to go “What was I thinking?” last year because besides the whole running thing (which, I admittedly walked a lot in between sprints), the starting time is always super early and in some middle part of Singapore or even in Sentosa.

How the heck did I do it?

Well, I’ve got a Spartan Run left coming up soon, I really have no idea how I’ll do that one since it seems so tough according to the ads online. WILL I MAKE IT?

Probably yes, I freaking paid for a spot in the run.

I won’t want to give up in the race or even go “Meh, I’ll just sleep. Sleep is nicer”.

It really is kind of a thrill when you complete it. Kind of like “YESSS, I DID IT”.

The medals are really nice too, you can keep it or hang it somewhere. Ok so.

Would you guys go sign up for runs if they were cheaptastic and you get a nice goodie bag and medal to go with it BUT if it started early like heck?

It’s hazy.

My take is that if you can see the air, wear a mask. Whatever, there will be people saying “No needlah” but whatever. That’s them. I’ll wear my mask, thank you very much because I can tell the difference with and without it.

Especially when I went for a shoot and oh my goodness. Yes. Whatever, maybe you’re good without it, cool. My asthmatic friends, just wear it okay?

A photo posted by Seriously Sarah (@sarahcoldheart) on Sep 29, 2015 at 3:34am PDT

I got my 3M V-flex mask from Guardian pharmacies but I did notice them being sold at Popular bookstores too.

A photo posted by Seriously Sarah (@sarahcoldheart) on Oct 4, 2015 at 6:06pm PDT

And this is an upgrade from Vogmask. We have an online store selling to Singapore.

Verdict? It’s comfier than the 3M one and way more stylish. Still, if you want to get an even more cooling one, try the double vent one, I guess since it’s cotton (I haven’t tried it but I’m guessing since if this one is ok, that one should be even better).

I still have the 3M with me but with the Vogmask, I’m sure I won’t accidentally tear it or anything of that sort. Let’s face it. Until Indonesia gets things sorted out, the haze is going to be here for quite a bit.

With all this haze though, it means most of our activities are limited indoors. But ungghhhh. I can stay indoors. On the computer all the time but eh, sometimes one needs to just go out and run around.

SO HERE’S A LIST of indoor activities you can do that does not involve being stuck at home (besides lurking in shopping malls):

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Do we really want to know the TL:DR story of my phone? I’ll let it be in another post because it was an adventure before I got my Oppo phone. In any case, the super short version is that I signed up with Singtel to get it.

ANYWAY, when signing up with them, I got subscribed into AMPed. I managed to disconnect all the ‘extras’ without any termination fees because I didn’t use them except for AMPed.

I do know that when I signed the contract that it was for a 1 month trial and that if I didn’t want it I had to called 1688 to cancel it.

BUT I MISSED THE ONE MONTH DEADLINE BECAUSE I was busy.

So sad.

21 May 2016 is when I can unsubscribe it.

EVERYONE PLEASE HELP REMIND ME TO UNSUBSCRIBE ON THAT DATE.

How do I know 21 May 2016? This is the storyyyyy…

If I cancel it now, I have termination fees that amount to more than what I have to pay for it monthly even if I’m not using it.

So since I can’t cancel it without giving them more money, I just signed in and changed my profile to that.

Someone teach me how to use my AMPed account and make it work for me.

I did call in twice and the staff do sound apologetic too like they know this is a thing that happens often, I’m sure.

Are there AMPed complains? AMPed Singtel complains?? It’s probably there somewhere.

REALLY TL;DR VERSION:

1. Teach me how to use AMPed because I can’t cancel it without incurring more charges.
2. I didn’t want to sign up for this but they gave it as a 1 month ‘trial’.
3. No, CASE won’t work cause they silly and you have to pay for admin fees or get it ‘free’ with membership fees so that’s just paying more moolah.
4. If you’re from Singtel and want to say ‘can I help you’, not really. I know you can’t. Unless you can just get rid of AMPed for me without further fees. My email’s in my contact anyway. If you actually can help since most of the staff don’t have that kind of authority to just cancel, right?

Anyway, anyone subscribing to Singtel, just make sure you have a calendar set to the various deadlines when you just signed up with them to disconnect all the stuff you don’t need for mobile.

WHO USES AMPED?!?!

Can I win things with AMPed? Legit question. If I win something that costs more than this 12 month subscription, I’ll be less pissed about it.

It’s still the holiday here and this post is much about nothing but over the weekend we had a bbq, twitter trended the bbq accidentally, went to a media preview of ICDS and much more!

But for now, let’s just relax before we get back into work and school again.

I have no idea what other people’s requirements for headphones are but mine are usually:

• Actual headphones so people know I’m wearing them and don’t disturb me.
• Awesome bass
• Looks good
• Value for money because like heck if I get headphones that are cheaptastic but aren’t good? It’s not worth it then.

These ones look super nice.

Anyway, sometimes don’t you wish that they come in super cheap so that you can buy a whole dozen of it and then pass it out in the trains/buses especially in the mornings? I MEAN COME ON. People, headphones are a thing. Heck, earphones too.

Use them!

Buy them if you can buy handphones or tablets or whatever. I don’t need to know or hear what you’re playing and it can get so loud when all I want to do is sleep in the bus/train if it’s super early.

Or just, please just keep it quiet. Sometimes I want to do a “BEHOLD, YOU WON THE PRIZE OF… HEADPHONES. Now, use them” if I was ever sponsored by some brand or something that would give it away.

A campaign like Silent Sally or something. We have Move in Martin and whoever else?

Turn your noise levels down if you’re playing a game or playing songs. No one wants to listen to your techno or whatever songs. If they did, you’d be a DJ on the radio already. Actually yeah, if you want to do that, go make your own channel online so people will choose to listen to it instead of not being able to stop it in public transport.

Would anyone actually do a campaign like that?

Why doesn’t anyone do a campaign like that anyway? Get to it brands, you can use this idea as some promo or something because everyone would love silence or at least unnecessary noise from gadgets when they could be quiet in the first place.

Well.

At least it’ll work on some. I don’t know how you would tell the elderly to stop doing it when they love playing their radios aloud in the bus…

But “youngins” should know to quit it anyway.

So yeah, do you guys who take public transport ever feel we should have some Silent Sally?