Today, xt, mich and me went to run the half marathon in school tgt with the DSA people and 2 IPs. 53 rounds in all while a CD of inspirational songs played on repeat through the grand stand's speakers. It was quite fun.. uh at least at the front part, with juniors handing out ice-cold hundred plus and later at some point, bananas.. which made us look like monkeys when we eat and run at the same time. so.. lalala~ then at around the 10+ round, suddenly i noticed mich hobbling and xt asked her what's wrong. Turned out that her left foot's arthritis(?) tendon was hurting, perhaps due to the fact that she ran a half marathon just 2 days ago.
xt: michelle! stop at the end of this round!
mich: nvm lah, i'll stop at the 25th round.
When we finished the 25th round, mich being mich...
me: michelle! STOP!
mich: nvm lah, i can one! see? i can run without landing on my heels! (hobble hobble..)
xt tried to push her out of the group but mich pushed her way back. xt and i could only look at each other and sigh in resignation.. and mich the woman of iron will hobbled her way through the next 30+ rounds.
The weather was pretty kind to us initially but kept raining on and off. There was a time when the drinks station people rushed to pass umbrellas to us but after running one round, the rain stopped. Later when it rained more heavily, we ran around the LT-library-Bytz there, then went back to the track again when the rain stopped.
When we finished running and warm-down, mich said the most important sentence of the day:
"LET'S GO TO ISLAND CREAMERY!"Took a bus and alighted at the bus stop opposite Coro. We were happily chatting and talking. Suddenly...
xt: eh, i think you two forgot to tap your cards.
mich & me: (look at each other) AARRGGHH!!!!! (turn to look at xt) why didn't you tell us earlier?!
xt: er, i used coins mah.
sobs.. $1.80 for 2 stops... anyway, we asked jasmin to join us but she couldn't, so we went ahead without her.
At Island Creamery, mich ordered a scoop of Coconut Swirl while xt and i ordered a chocolate mudpie. While we were eating, natalie and huijun approached us awkwardly to borrow money to buy macs fillet-o-fish meal for mr yong, cos they didn't bring enough money with them. -_-"' After talking to them more, we found out that after debrief (we siam-ed off to island creamery just when they gathered for debrief), he continued to run
another marathon and hence cancelled celebrating his wife's birthday with her. We being normal females, were totally shocked at this.
mich: wah, tai4 guo4 fen4 le3...
xt: how could he? wedding anniversary and birthdays are the most important lah! He don't want celebrate his own birthday, fine. But his wife's leh? Once a year only lah..
me: i think he go home die le. If it were me, this would almost be grounds for divorce lah.
So much for the brief exclamation. We decided that one round of ice-cream was not shiok enough and so we shared 2 more scoops of ice-cream (teh tarik and soursop). The flavours were mild but very real. Don't really know how to describe.. our miserable attempts all end up very "
duh!".. something like this:
xt (after trying horlicks flavour): "tastes like horlicks."
Yup, you get the idea. :)
As we walked towards the bus stop on our way home, don't know how but xt and i started trying to teach mich how to scream. Damn hilarious. mich had a good time laughing at us two siao-cha-bors but she was rather embarrassed like a mum with 2 uncontrollable kids as passers-by carefully averted their gazes away from us :p
Screaming lesson, anyone? ;p
-shumin-
