and just like a fool
there's no way i can stop stop stop my desire
that song has been irritating me since this morning when i heard it on my run! i adore the song itself, but gosh-- i cannot get over the grammar. i'm craving for you? is that grammatically sound?
how ridiculous. inconsequentials like these pop up at the strangest of times-- today largely during the passion run. oh yes guess what i SURVIVED. i was deathly afraid that i'd crash and burn or have to walk the whole thing, which shouldn't be that terrifying but i'm an irrational beast at the best of times. besides i was right to be paranoid, only for all the wrong reasons as it turned out.
timeline:
12.00am: alarm set for 5.00am
5.00am: alarm rings madly and very loudly. is hit and shuts up. eyes close for a second.
eyes open in alarm. i feel too well-rested for it to still be 5am. timecheck:
6.41am.
DAMN SMART.
but my mum is awesome she got me to ecp before 7. hurhur. the wonders of living in the east. [ok my phone is about 10 mins fast la. but still].
anyway it started late-- when i got there i saw krystal who hadn't deposited her bag yet and then we had to find tracy and in the end we really started quite late. but the run was uber fun :):) I'VE MISSED RUNNING SO MUCH. i think it's the adrenaline of the race that makes me fall in love with it all over again :D apart from the losers who blast "my humps" on speakers (and the dude wasn't actually fast. POSEUR) or idiots who decide the middle of the road is exactly the perfect place for a little romantic tete-a-tete/ discussion on the philosophy of life/ workplace gossip about irritating bosses, never mind the fact that there are about 11000 people running around them or that they are actually participating yeah.
OH my gosh i rmb what must have been the funniest part of the run: about 8 minutes in i started hunting for a big branch to whack the guys beside me because this was the topic of their conversation, quote "if you want to sue in tort you must make out the elements of negligence--" unquote. you can bet i got out of there pretty damn fast after choking and trying not to commit culpable homicide.
v nice scenery v good playlist, last-minutely-assembled as it was. but we kept thinking 10.4km not 10km and so i think we all took it quite easy (except for tracy!!) and started sprinting too late or ran too slowly, although i think krystal sped up around the 9km mark. i was rather irritated with myself because i definitely could have been faster for the last 1km; messed up the end point and was still damn afraid of burning out. as a matter of principle and sheer bloodymindedness however i HATE to be overtaken in the last 500m. i don't-- or rather, can't-- give a damn if you pass me early on, because that probably means you're freaking fast anyway, but cut me in the last hundred metres and i will make you EAT MY DUST. subject to the disclaimer that i can, of course; i did anyway today so i was doubly happy. vindictive, what can i say, but woots for calf muscles even though my sister claims they look like tumours. AND IT FELT SO GOOD.
about 10 minutes after that i saw a girl with this slogan on her nike tee: "i like men chasing me". hell, yeah. girlpower! :D
tracy was wonderfully fast she came in less than 5 minutes after krystal's bf kelvin (who is also wh's friend!). krystal came in about 4 mins after me-- not sure about collen, but she came in quite soon also.
V EXCITED for shape run and adidas sundown! will cheer louder for the latter because i really think the cheering helps to speed the runners along. hmms. thinking of going for a nike breakfast run after that but i have a sneaking suspicion we will be late/wrung out.
AHHH must train for shape. i believe believe believe that i can do a sub-1-hour! *breathes in for luck*
collen left after that; krystal, kelvin, alaric, tracy and i walked to macs for breakfast. sights and sounds and amusements along the way included an abandoned earbud, quips about not being lame since we'd just run 10km! (if you don't get that, congratulations. you're really not lame), short sinks, cable skiers, lustworthy bikes, and of course krystal's umbrella and her new inventions for it that would be a boon to
wanted to go over to wh's house since it was so close, but the BUM was still asleep. the "shy" bum. *tries not to choke*
and i have found another sweet couple to add to my list heh. tracy and i both think K&K are v v sweet HEEE yes we were voyeuring. kelvin offered to get staff discount for tracy and me if we wanted to buy shoes and also OMG he knows my full name k. cos it's on some nike list i was totally stunned when he asked me "are you *name and surname*? you're *insert full name* right?"
ooh and krystal has a very cute way of eating big breakfast she's damn neat and carefully and evenly applies maple syrup on stuff and then spreads other condiments etc and then puts it all together. and she dips hash browns in maple syrup too. AND tracy is like me because she's also always torn between egg mcmuffin and hotcakes haha. but strangely while i found the GO! drink v sweet she thought it was tasteless. AND my bag had a free muesli bar while hers did not (?!), PLUS we both lamented the crap bag. no way was it worth 80bucks i mean hello? ah the trivia you learn everyday.
a lot of trivia, actually. i learnt a new word today-- sort of-- or a new usage at least, for the word "fling". apparently it can be used to describe relationships you sort of enter where you're more or less officially together but not quite technically really attached. maybe you get the gradations, maybe you don't, but heh i think it's useful. fling fling! also learnt that apaprently no one uses "i don't have a clue"-- everyone just says "i don't know". really??? got laughed at. humphs.
so tempted to buy slippers at parkway today but then realised that it's only one point five more weeks before ni returns. then i can get my overpriced ugly black things from her. thereafter walked tracy to her bus stop; she's the nice one lor haha offered to go with me to alvin de castro's class and messaged me and everything on the way home; PLUS she sacrified half of her all too precious weekends to come out and run with us at ecp when she stays in serangoon.
unintentionally movie marathoned after tuition and girls' night out with my mum and sister; SPOILERS AHEAD, although they're really in bullet point and shouldn't make much sense. skip them anyway if you want to play safe-- for CJ7, hostel 2 and one missed call. my questions are:
i) does anyone watching cj7 not find the resurrection scene horrendously creepy in a monkey's paw kind of way?
ii) and when cj7 and friends come running back does no one-- NO ONE, AT ALL-- realise that hi it's an alien invasion??! just cos they're cute and furry....! would you have ignored the nazis if they all dressed as care bears (oh wait. okay, carebears are creepy too).
iii) after watching hostel 2 i don't want to go on exchange anymore unless my name is beth and i am uber cool and i can buy the whole of slovakia with my own personal funds.
iv) i swear something is wrong with my sister and i, cos when beth snapped after stewart called her a bitch and went snickety-snick we both burst out laughing. and by the time the dog started chewing we were rolling about on the floor, literally.
v) you can all feel safe about calling me now cos i don't ever want to have one missed call on my phone ever again. yeeechhh.
vi) okay you know what forget it. GOODBYE TO CELLPHONES.
vii) by the end of the movie: i just wasted like 2 hours of my life. sheeesh.
gosh where did the weekend go. :(
quote of the day: tuition kid had to fill in a comprehension cloze where the word was provided, only scrambled into meaningless letters. faced with "o/s/r/e/s" to decode and fill in the blank with, she wrote this:
because valentine's day is about love, people also give sores to their loved ones.
truer word was never spoken.