The Insignificance and Vulnerability of Simplicity

Friday, September 26

Prelude

High on drugs..
The insignificant yellow pill
So small yet dominantly potent.
Cleansed my will power, purged my sensibility..
I slept without sleeping
I dreamt without consciousness
Kept drifting along the borders of falling into and out of sleep.
Perhaps I thought I was asleep, perhaps naught at all.
I just wanna squeeze the reality out at that point in time..
Officially authorized to be physically away from work, but not mentally indeed.

Goddamnit..
I cant really let go can I?

I shouldn’t reply that email in this blurry state..
Made me feel even agitated and detest work..
Was utterly disappointed with her outright refusal to take claims.
Emails supposed to provide directional solutions
Not to deny responsibilities..
Nor to make motherhood statements to remind people of your superiority.
That’s just so pompous and stupid.
And I’m not supposed to touch work.

Ripped of my strength and stamina
I thought of the tracks, thought of the sweat, all to the drain now?

No I shalt not allow that..
Then I continued to drift back to semi slumber..

Slumber,

A luxury so delicately bestowed upon

Recharged,

But not refreshed..

*****

My second run after recovery..
A session with spinning spells..
Still feeling the heavy daze..

Saw a terrier in the distance, on a loose leash sitting by the side of the road.

The owner was gazing into the distance, distracted.

Muscles stiffed, I braced myself.

The dog suddenly lunged at me and I bounced up instinctively and then continued to run.
Behind me,
I sensed the owner’s distress, struggling to get a grip on her dog, apologizing profusely.

I paced myself again.

*****

The past few days since recovery, the car motion sickness got worse.
Squeezed my eyes close, was actually enjoying the morning’s train ride..

Tried to sleep but without avail..

Sparsely commuted train rides are always inspirational to me..

Aye why, I knew naught.

I thought a 35 minutes wink shall compensate my lack of sleep the previous night..

Yet chunks and bulks of thoughts seep into me..

I wished I had a notebook to capture down those spontaneous quotes

Cos most of the time by the time I got to my lappie, half of these forgotten..

I gave up running for the bus that morning,

cos I knew I wont make it.
It was a Friday, and I refused to make it a hectic one.
I saw the first train zoom past
And actually enjoyed that.
How many times in rush hour can we afford to allow time wasted like that.
That morning, I did it anyway..
Perhaps it was self solace in mockery.

Perhaps I should do it again.

Perhaps for this.

A satisfying gratification..

*****

irony @

9:44 AM

Tuesday, September 16

Guessed we took part in too many races the 2nd half of this year..
Felt the fatigue sink in..
But we dragged ourselves out of bed anyway..

We were given red lanterns to walk us through the route..
Imagine running with lanterns, which I did..
At an efforted attempt not to crush the red ball of light.
-.-
They lighted up the spot lights in the tunnel, aint very sure if they were supposed to be the status quo when KPE is fully functional..

They were pretty cool though..
At the beginning, we were quite amused by the lights at the seemingly ending portion of the tunnel..
Imagine back to the future..
There shalt be light at the end of darkness..
Spent the first 2km walking I think,

Toying with the night mode of my cammie, attempting to take futuristic shots..
Bleahz..

The tunnel run was sort of stuffy and dusty..

Though the ventilators were fully switched on, it wasnt much of an ideal place to run in.

Moreover, there didnt seem to have any water points for the 5 km run..

We caught a glimpse of a familar face..

And then a familar morning voice..

Glenn Ong =)

Again,

Off to Hans for brunch..

With a camera, a mirror, a defunct red lantern

And a goodie bag that produced the weirdest freebies..

Plus two clowns that spelt insanity..

These are what you get..

*Click on picture*

*****

irony @

5:38 PM

Monday, September 15

Gratz on your piece of paper..

Heee..

The night at Ritz Carlton..

The Motar Board and the Robe,

Albeit hot and restrictive, never redundant.

Great tools for photo shots..

It reminds me..

我们都毕业了!

Our fields are different, our routes are different, our strengths are different..

Yet

We have been childhood besties since Primary One..

We understood each other at a distance..

We have never failed to be there for each other..

*Hearts*

To be continued..

irony @

11:22 AM

Tuesday, September 9

Updatesupdatesupdates

Received a sms just the day before..
It was really a spontaneous one =)

Not often are we able to make it on a last minute weekday meetup.

Again we talked about travelling, talked about work, talked about teaching, talked about our fellow JC Mates, bitched about discrimination against married female interviewees..

The latter a scary one..

Just that news of our fellow JCians being hitched and having babies getting more common as the clock ticked our age away..

We once used to either run for the last train or share a cab..

Now 7 people 3 cars..

We are indeed growing into seasoned and liable adults..

*****

Dinner @ Ichiban Sushi on Friday..

The food is good less the severely contaminated curry rice which dear ordered..

I was surprised that he would ominously feedback to the cashier that the rice was hard and dry..

So much so later at midnight he puked and had diarrhoea which lasted into the next day..

*****

The next day had us awaken to collection again..

This time round the first KPE Run..

Running in a tunnelled expressway..

New stuff..

Suntec collection this time..

And surprisingly, no queue.

The Suntec fountain that greeted me seemed to suck back time..

It flowed upwards ^^

We took brunch

An overestimation of our stomachs..

And Suki's lack of appetite made it worse..

All these ended up in the plastic container that spelled "Takeaway"

Popping into Diva as our ermm last stop,

I saw white roses being inculcated into a black bangle

That's it..

Mine

Suki had to shooed me to the cashier to prevent more stuff to be tagged with "Mine"..

But due to QC reasons, we found ourselves back at the shelves only to have Suki being seduced by another wristlet..

LOL

Mutual seduction =D

*****

Apparently we will justify that this is the result of testing my new cammie under different lightings..
Veterans will say this is cam whoring.
Bleahz..

Perhaps we were besties of almost 20 yrs..
Or perhaps I'm too intuitive..
Hee
I knew something was up at brunch and even more when you mentioned 186..
So unlike you cos your happy go lucky persona gone for that day..
Well well..
I just have to say this is an adapting and passing phase,
If you had already made your decision, everything will graudally be fine =D

*****

irony @

4:40 PM

Tuesday, September 2

This red
Is the part two of the Nike feat.

11000 people.
We had to queue to be flagged off..
Thank goodness the clouds held their water bags..

The weather just a nice one =)

The wave of neon RED blew us away..

Very seldom that we manage to motivate ourselves on individual running sessions..

With this swarm of bright red, nothing is impossible..

Even for a very first attempt on the 10km feat.

The atmosphere there

Overwhelming and speechless astonishment..period.

There were actually some hiccups during the race..

Bottlenecks forced us to walk just shortly affter we managed to pace our runs..

Momentum dead,

Even jogging on the spot risked burning our energy faster than we could imagine.

Actually felt an increasing sourness in both calves everytime we tried to take off again after that halt.

On and off we were like cars trying to overtake the hoggers on a different lane..

And each time we did that, we shall risk bumping into another oncoming..

But this is the love and hate factor of mass runs isnt it?

At the last kilometer,

I felt as if I was pulling a trishaw full of ang mohs..

My tired legs refused to take bigger steps..

But I completed my first 10km, with pride of course..

Heee..

Always room for improvements..

If there is anything to describe human rights,

this is it at this point in time.

Must say Nike has indeed done the human race (pun intended) proud..

A very witty marketing campaign that is socially meaningful..

Seems like almost everyone in the race had on some new Nike apparels as inspired by this race..

Suki and I are no exceptions =p

Will I do 10 km runs again?

Definitely..

Just Do It.

*****

irony @

2:06 PM

Monday, September 1

Been buzzing like a bee recently..
Queues and queuing
Gadgets research
Itinerary planning
Then daily runs and more mass runs..
Time whizzed past just like that..

This
Is the part one of the Nike queuing feat.
An hour of attempting to locate the correct collection place..
Plus an ultimate 3 hours waiting time crushes all hopes of shopping..
Surviving on a Swiss roll as breakfast, my head and stomach commanded me to find food or thy shalt face a fainting stint.
Unlike others who had their Ipods, MP3, PSP, Nitendo..
We only had Suki's camera.
Hence making something out of nothing..

After all that anticipation of the red tee and osteoporosis-proned spine and feet,
We slumped into the coffee club that was around the corner..
The ambience was artistically appetizing..
And the ingenious orange can never fail to whip up the taste buds..

*****

The following week had me waiting in keen anticipation for Comex..
The more research I did, the more disorientated I became.
ISO, macro distances, optical zoom distances, wide angle functions

o,0
And very ironically or the first time, I chose functions over designs..
It's a brand been wanting to try after Olympus and Fuji..
A first time buyer at such IT shows too..
I went straight to the Nikon counter the minute I stepped foot at the 4th Level.
Clinched the deal within half an hour..
Loads and loads of freebies..

Teehee..

*****

irony @

5:16 PM