AFK

I'll be away for one or two days. Wish me luck that I don't trip and then fall into the Straits of Malacca.

The Seventh Pursuit of 3:30am

Woke up at 6am. Reawaken at 8am. Got out of bed at 8:30am. Started running at 9am.

Run run run, huff puff huff puff huff puff. Change route once in a while to keep things interesting, to keep my motivation to run up.

12.5km mark: Sense of elation achieved*

14.5km mark: Hunger strikes.

15km mark: Lalalalalala Imma go eat early lunch!

*The sense of elation is said to be achieved when one is able to get his physical engine to achieve optimal performance. It is believed that one no longer feels fatigue, instead feels like he/she is able to continue the activity forever. It's like "God Mode". Damn nice, but does not last long enough.

Some mini mini thingies:

1. There is an uncle who will come scrape up the cow dung every morning at 7:30am. He sits on his bike, extends his dung scraper and goes from dung to dung, clearing the road. Talk about morning exercise...

2. Milk tastes especially sweet when your body is low in energy and fluids. It tastes as sweet as honey.

3. It took me 7km to achieve the "sense of elation" in the past, but 12.5km in my current state. I think i'm devolving.

The Fifth Pursuit of 3:30am

"What happened to the 3rd and 4th?" you might ask. Well... Let's just say that they weren't very productive pursuits.

Woke up today at 6:00am, only to fall back into bed till 6:30am. The air was chilly and my bed was warm, so my survival instincts kicked in and I lied there till 6:40am. By the time I got ready and out of the house, it was 6:50am.

I walked out of my gate and started to run towards my usual running route, only to find the blistering cold morning air caressing my bed-warm skin. (Another excuse not to run)

I started running at at last I'm warmed up enough to not feel the cold anymore. Yayness!

However, at about the 8km mark, cars started invading my route as if they want to run together with me. The unfortunate thing is that they eat gasoline, and the release this stinkin stench from their arse... (Another excuse not to run)

Those cars and cyclists are either early birds or late goers, cos they kept going to school, it's like the traffic is never ending. (Another excuse not to run)

In the end, instead of a 15km run, I ran 12.1km in a miserable 1hour 03minutes timing. I'm back to square one like in my first race, the KRI run...

More training is needed.

Evening? hmn... excuses excuses excuses...

The Second Pursuit of 3:30am

To sum the second attempt up... it was a total FAILURE.

Went for Haji Ghany and slept at 12:11am.

Done for. GG. Bye Bye.

The First Pursuit of 3:30am

In view of the upcoming Penang Bridge Marathon which i signed up for the halfer, I will try to change my bioclock.

After a good (woke up 3 times during the process) sleep, I woke up at 4:07am. After deciding that I need to run, I went to prepare (pee and change).

4:35am
The morning is young and I went to the usual route. There was this weird dog which stared at me, got me kinda scared. Should I run? Or should I wait for him to come at me, then i'll give him a good kick to the forehead? Basically the dog is quite stupid and is afraid of confrontation so he left me alone. I ran.

~Time flies~

5:30am
Achieved my target for today and decided to call it a day (sun not yet out you call this day ah...). My motivation for finishing was a good roti, limau ais and teh ais. I guess it worked. Bad timing though, need improvements.

5:35am
I decided to turn to the shortcut to reach newtown. Looked up into the sky, I realised that it was overcast with stars (pls pardon my improper use of descriptive words).

On my way to newtown, which took me quite an effort to avoid the puddles of water, I heard this weird noise. I thought it was another fellow human (girls, never walk around at night. got scary pervy uncle one...). I became cautious and started to activate my 360degrees vision. After a distance I realised that it was the cows making a "uwoh" sound. Morning exercise I guess...

[Time unknown]
Makan. Realised that I should not have called for susu lembu, they put sugar one... siao...

6:11am
After packing a second bag of limau ais, I departed and left for where I came from. I saw the "mountainline" and realised that dawn was coming. Dawn from PJ :P

In case you don't know what is a mountainline, think shoreline and horizon.

6:47am
Sun was trying to make a stand, wanted to watch it rise. Too impatient. Went back to take my shower. Sun came out, the earth was brimming with sarcasm, laughing at me for missing the sunrise. RARW! I don't care!! Wahahahahhaha!!



So till tomo, the pursuit shall be put on hold.

Obviously rite... can only do it once a day (night) ma...

Mere Nature

Everyone is posting depressing stuff on their statuses, msn nicks, blogs etc... so i'll try not to. I was reading, and came across this phrase.

~Don't fight with mother nature, it fights back.~

My take in this is to... "Live with it"

Really one. I know it sounds depressing and hopeless but it is just the opposite! By living with nature, living in harmony with it, we save cost and save our lives! Imagine a flat land that is allowed to be flooded, to a small extent, that would be better than to experience a tsunami rite?

In the same light, we should never bathe! Cos by not bathing, we are constantly exposing ourselves to germs and viruses, immunising ourselves!

~Stop bathing, and stay healthy!~

Reading

Been doing loads of that during these few days. Times mag, Fortune mag. Can't blame me for reading yea? The issues are piling up and this is the only time that I have to finish them.

Read about the Kennedys cos Ted died some time ago, and my old Times mag (been months since I touched my mags you see...) wrote quite a few articles about the family. Its either the authors who has a wonderful command of English that allows them to write with so much power, or its the lives of the Kennedys that has really been reflected on paper. People just don't normally write like that, even though the people of old wrote with even more thought of their choice of words.

What came to mind after reading was the few words, "unfulfilled ambition" and "destiny fulfilled".

Many things can happen, long years can pass just for one person to rise up just the way He wants it.

A good answer indeed

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060802160134AAWgovn

Check this out!

It is a wonderful answer given to a stupid question :P

And don't ask me how I stumbled upon this site... hmn... heehee

R.I.P.

No, i'm not going to post anything about the two consecutive incidents where 3 person each from events passed away. God be with their family, amen.

This "rest in peace" phrase thingy is annoying me. I wonder, how can anyone rest in peace when the only thing that happens when the body rests forever is for the soul to go to heaven or to hell?

If he goes to heaven, God bless him, he is in the eternal home. However if he goes to hell, never ending fire burns and worms that never die will eat his flesh.

Rest in peace you say... What's done is done.

I believe wishing for peace upon the family members have a better effect.

Seriously overtime man...

Tired. Planned to wake up at 9am, but 12noon felt like a much better number.

Anyway, I just received the pictures for the backpacking trip. So... here goes.























ah.......... i hate uploading photos to blogger. especially when you wanna upload quite a number. first is the hassle of arranging them, cos i dun get the order in which it uploads. secondly is the problem that the photos always pop up at the top, and you'll have to cut and paste it to where you want it. well... it didn't work just now... so i'm just gonna post 1 photo here. the rest shall go to phasebuk.