Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The Run

how often do you observe your surrounding when you run?well. haha.. not many people do that. i finally went for a run this evening... after a long week of BREAK. goodness. my body was like 30 years old. ehlo? mind you. I'm still in my early twenties.. this shows one thing. Exercising got to maintain its consistency.

Ahhh. Do you know I just love the smell of the trees? I was practically enjoying this relaxing feeling I felt just now when running along the 199 route. Well, of course.. minus away the pollutants of the vehicles along the way. Well, some might think goodness, how can decomposed leaves smell nice? Hahaha.. Well well well... I dunno, maybe I just like certain smells. It's just ME.

Today's run brought back snap shots of memories... Haha.. Strange isn't it? Perhaps its the timing. I started running around 1840. Today's lesson ended early..well. Not very early, but early enough that I won't be running in night darkness. I basically ended my 40 mins of running by 1920... already it was dark when I completed my run.

I was recalling back to my visit to Hope Foster Home in Beijing, a non-profit, Christian organisation that nurtures abandoned children with born defects back to health. I could still remember every child that I had played with.. especially the little girl whom I had carried and I got carried away. Haha. God is certainly very gracious. I'm very glad that I had made the right decision to help out. At the end of it, its not the painful separation that someone might feel that its too cruel?!?! - I'll never agree to such an absurd statement. But the fact that one had made a significant difference to that particular child. It is certainly more blissful to give than to receive. And being able to make time for it to help out personally, wouldn't it be better for the children there? What they need is not just pampers, milk powder, and toys.. They need love, care and personal touch.

I'm glad I could be there for them. After all, GIP was my choice and its certainly made my trip to Beijing even more meaningful apart from my travels and the food there!

As I continued my run from the 199 route, linking towards the 179 route to School of Biological Sciences, I realised one thing. In the past, I had always yearned to have a running partner, to motivate me in running. Hahaha... now I realised I had been motivating myself to exercise for the past 9 months! It has been so successful until I realised today that hey, I can exercise alone man! Gone were the days when I need an exercising partner. Well, I believe if I can do it in Beijing, I can do it in Singapore. Its afterall, my homeland. hur hur.. Sounding a bit patriotic uh? =P

Hmmm. But come to think of it, when I'm running, I'm never alone. God always on off made me do self reflection. Hahaha... well so many freaking sad experiences, Orange feels immuned.

Let's look at it this way, at the end of the day, even IF you are exercising alone, WHO CARES? The fact that you benefited from it, THIS RULES.

Anyways. Exercising.. The onus is always on self. No one will care for how you look and feel. Ultimately, if you want to feel good about yourself, start from exercising. It makes your heart pumps blood to all parts of the body.. makes you sweat, removing unwanted toxin. Its certainly cheaper than smoking and you get to slim down too.

With a bowl of fresh fish slices soup at the end and adequate hydration after exercise, it is the feeling of I FEEL GOOD that MATTERS.

oh. for xuan, if you happened to SEE this entry, I would like to let you know that the 'oh SO tasty pear' that you simply fell head over heels with, its sold OUTSIDE NTU too. Hahaha.. its korean pears. Just in case you don't believe but you got $3 in cash to splurge on fruits, just take 179 to the interchange. At the alighting platform, you can see many aunties 'leh long' fruits, YES. The pears can be BOUGHT there. Its selling $3 for 4. I had taken the plunge and bought it to CONFIRM my instinct. Hahaha.. now I got 3 kinds of favourite fruits in my fridge now. Hur hur..

Alrights.. Orange will always be Orange.. even though Lemons are good, Orange still prefer Oranges to Lemons. ;)