Okay, before anyone jumps to any conclusions, let me explain. No, it wasn't romantic as the book and movie is. Mine was rather mundane of one. The sole reason I'm blogging on this was due to the fact that I attended the Taylor's University College of Sri Hartamas's Jog For Hope. It's this charity event organised by PAWS, 1Taylor’s Community Project and the Tree Huggers. It was 6 km but although it really is a walk in the park (no pun intended) for me to complete, I had the most subtle stroke of bad luck to have my ankle sprained days after I registered for the event. Sure it's been 6 weeks already, but my ankle still isn't 100% recovered. Hence, the "walk to remember".
Fortunately, I was accompanied by Sun, Kien Beng and Joyce. Kai Sheng, Qizhan, Hazim and Derek, being the athletes for the day, just took off. I also met my cousin there, though I didn't realise it until she greeted me first. There were also a lot of familiar faces in the form of my ex-seniors.
And so our "race among peers" began. Initially, it was me and the girls as everyone else just bombed forward. Then as time passed by, the crowd was reduced to Joyce and I. It's not that I was so pathetic that I was reduced to walking to the finish line; it's just that Joyce has this funny sock that keeps slipping into her shoe almost every 5 minutes (I didn't mention that she is totally unfit, just saying). I didn't want to leave her behind, so I accompanied her. Besides, I couldn't possibly catch up with the rest of the pack. So, we had an entire hour to ourselves walking under the kind sun, chatting about random stuff. I guess it was quite relieving, you know, to listen and have someone listen to your stories occasionally.
In the end, we both received a standing ovation for being the top ten... from the back. Despite the emcees cheering for us to make that "final sprint" to apparent victory, I couldn't care less as I slowly strolled to the building. Anyway, the post-run goodie bags were awesome. They gave us a can of Sarsi, 2 granola bars (Peanut Butter!!), shower scrub, facial wash, a certificate of completion and .................... 14 days trial at Celebrity Fitness for FREE! That was the bomb. So me and the girls are gonna try to use that pass to go for dance classes. Why dancing for me?? Cos I'm on a weight-gaining regime until my ankle decides to stop holding me back. Then, the guys were given free sports deodorant and Kai Sheng was slick enough to smuggle 5 cans of them out. In the end, most of us got double goodie bags by handing in both our running numbers, as one tag entitles us to one bag. It was RM15 well spent on so many stuff. Too bad no one brought a camera along...
Then later that evening, my family went out to watch Inception. It was THE most mind-blowing movie EVER!! This certainly is Christopher Nolan at his best. Christopher who?? The director of "The Dark Knight", silly. It was very complicating at first, grasping the entire idea of "Extractors" specialised in infiltrating people's minds to steal their secrets. The plot was another major hair-pulling issue. I think I can spend the entire day typing the plot out and STILL not concluding it. For a 2 and a half-hour movie, it seems way longer than that. And at the end, the audience is left with the choice of 2 alternate endings: whether the main character Cobb, played brilliantly by Leonardo DiCaprio, has returned to reality, or is his mind in limbo, stuck in an endless loop. It was superb. After the show, my family spent the entire dinner at Ninja Joe (which serves the awesomest, perhaps the only pork burgers around) debating on the ending. Yet after much trifling, we still couldn't come to a unanimous decision... Yes, it was THAT good. To all out there, watch it. You won't regret it, unless you didn't take a nap before watching it, then your poor fatigue-driven brain may not be able to grasp the plot. Yes, it's that complex as well...
So... is this an inception as well?? You tell me.
Fortunately, I was accompanied by Sun, Kien Beng and Joyce. Kai Sheng, Qizhan, Hazim and Derek, being the athletes for the day, just took off. I also met my cousin there, though I didn't realise it until she greeted me first. There were also a lot of familiar faces in the form of my ex-seniors.
And so our "race among peers" began. Initially, it was me and the girls as everyone else just bombed forward. Then as time passed by, the crowd was reduced to Joyce and I. It's not that I was so pathetic that I was reduced to walking to the finish line; it's just that Joyce has this funny sock that keeps slipping into her shoe almost every 5 minutes (I didn't mention that she is totally unfit, just saying). I didn't want to leave her behind, so I accompanied her. Besides, I couldn't possibly catch up with the rest of the pack. So, we had an entire hour to ourselves walking under the kind sun, chatting about random stuff. I guess it was quite relieving, you know, to listen and have someone listen to your stories occasionally.
In the end, we both received a standing ovation for being the top ten... from the back. Despite the emcees cheering for us to make that "final sprint" to apparent victory, I couldn't care less as I slowly strolled to the building. Anyway, the post-run goodie bags were awesome. They gave us a can of Sarsi, 2 granola bars (Peanut Butter!!), shower scrub, facial wash, a certificate of completion and .................... 14 days trial at Celebrity Fitness for FREE! That was the bomb. So me and the girls are gonna try to use that pass to go for dance classes. Why dancing for me?? Cos I'm on a weight-gaining regime until my ankle decides to stop holding me back. Then, the guys were given free sports deodorant and Kai Sheng was slick enough to smuggle 5 cans of them out. In the end, most of us got double goodie bags by handing in both our running numbers, as one tag entitles us to one bag. It was RM15 well spent on so many stuff. Too bad no one brought a camera along...
Then later that evening, my family went out to watch Inception. It was THE most mind-blowing movie EVER!! This certainly is Christopher Nolan at his best. Christopher who?? The director of "The Dark Knight", silly. It was very complicating at first, grasping the entire idea of "Extractors" specialised in infiltrating people's minds to steal their secrets. The plot was another major hair-pulling issue. I think I can spend the entire day typing the plot out and STILL not concluding it. For a 2 and a half-hour movie, it seems way longer than that. And at the end, the audience is left with the choice of 2 alternate endings: whether the main character Cobb, played brilliantly by Leonardo DiCaprio, has returned to reality, or is his mind in limbo, stuck in an endless loop. It was superb. After the show, my family spent the entire dinner at Ninja Joe (which serves the awesomest, perhaps the only pork burgers around) debating on the ending. Yet after much trifling, we still couldn't come to a unanimous decision... Yes, it was THAT good. To all out there, watch it. You won't regret it, unless you didn't take a nap before watching it, then your poor fatigue-driven brain may not be able to grasp the plot. Yes, it's that complex as well...
So... is this an inception as well?? You tell me.
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