Sunday Fun Outing

11 June 2006 - Great Sunday!!!

I had a really AWESOME time today! Really so much fun!
:)

5am - Woke up and while washing up, a thought came to my mind. "Why am I taking the trouble to travel all the way to BG at this hour, for a 3km run ?? and none of my kakis like nemo, teelee, junie, roentgen would be there??". (junie can't run while the rest wanted to do an LSD at MR) Decided to just do my own ninja run around the neighbourhood instead. SMS Tiwazz to tell him i'm not turning up and went back to sleep.

6:18am - Nemo woke me up from my deep slumber with a call. "KJ, are you on your way to BG?" They have decided to switch to the BG run as it was raining and the conditions wouldn't be ideal for running at MR. I woke up immediately to get ready and wait for teelee to come pick me up. Picked up nemo next while roentgen picked up ronnie and andy. We finally reached at 710am and by then a crowd of sgrunners have gathered at the shelter while waiting out the light drizzle. We had a new member (tintin) who drove in in a red bmw and parked beside teelee's van and eagerly introduced himself to me and nemo who were standing beside the van waiting for teelee to wear his shoes. We went to meet up the rest and chit chat. The vitamin girls (Rue, Bambi, Golden Retriever and karen) started to tell us about exercise, effects of overexercising (osteoporosis, aging and build up of free radicals) and about anti-oxidants (Vitamins A, C, E and K). It was a simple and short talk and we all listened intently while karen gave the talk. A total of 21 runners + 4 vitamin gers were at the run and they were teelee, nemo, roentgen, ronnie, andy, cheow12, hedgehog, bee, kelly, sotong, tekko, mrs tekko, imd, imd's gf, renoh, cfred, evelynwee, tiwazz, realrunner (who joined us halfway) & tintin.

We listening intently to karen telling us about exercise and anti-oxidants.
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We finally pushed off at 7:30am. As it was drizzling the run was really enjoyable and cooling. I stayed behind to run at a very slow pace and I had roentgen and cfred reminding me that I have pushed past 4 km and to stop. But i was feeling so good running with the group I decided to carry on with part 2 of the run when the group ran out of BG. Some of us fooling around in front of the camera haha

There were several slopes and I had to slow down to walk. Andy was really really nice to accompany me to jog slowly or to walk and roentgen was really concerned too, reminding me to go slow, to call them if i slowed down and to keep asking Andy to take good care of me. I felt sooo blessed to have such wonderful friends! And Andy, foresaking his run to run at my pace! He was sharing with me about his family and I felt so much more respect for him. That despite all the difficulties, he was able to maintain such a positive outlook. I really feel that my problems are nothing compared to his, and that sometimes I'm just making myself feel unhappy. Why do I subject myself to such misery unwittingly ? I ought to learn from Andy. There are so many things I realised I can learn from the people in sgrunners. One day I shall write down all the qualities I observed in the sgrunners. Yes, I shall.
Andy is also very friendly, saying hello and good morning to every joggers that he meet along the way. Isn't that nice ?
There were way too many slopes so I ended up walking so as not to hurt my shin, and we were chatting away happily when i received an sms from roentgen warning me about the threatening slopes ahead and to walk up the slopes. I reassured him i'm walking. Isn't he nice ? Constantly checking on his sista and ensuring I'm alright. Tks lokun! :)

renoh, nemo and cfred - our three sgrunners hunks showing off their chi running ? :P





shwee mei mei evelynwee

funny Sotong, he sure knows how to liven up the mood! :)






We finally returned while everyone has returned and was cooling down. I played with tintin's 2 kids (Celestine and Ryan) and they are just soooooo adorable and well-behaved! We then chit chat and cooled down before heading to the shower. While walking to the shower room, i saw renoh topless walking back in the opposite direction! I immediately grabbed him to take a picture, and cfred (who was topless too) and teelee for a group picture. I had cfred on my right and renoh on my left, and I felt sooooo happy having 3 hunks taking a pic with me! hahahhaa, they made my day man! Am I lucky or am I lucky ?? Its not everyday u get 2 topless 6/8P hunks (renoh and cfred) and one v cool hunk (teelee) taking picture with me leh. I should have this picture developed and put inside my wallet! haha


After the shower, we proceeded to the prata place where the few of us (nemo, roentgen and me
especially) didn't want to fill up on sinful food. So we ordered drinks and chit chat with the rest who were having their sinful prata breakfast. i was chatting with cheow12 about his working trip to China (Suzhou, beijing and shanghai) for a month. We finally left the place at 11+pm and the few of us going to to the movies + SV headed to Marine Parade for our real brunch. I had my healthy Yong Tau Fu while teelee bought us zhui guay. Nemo bought us one yummilicious plate of chai tou guay and sv bought us fruits. It was really yummy and we had lots of fun eating and chatting away. teelee then brought us to buy $1 bubble tea and I treated the guys to the tea. It was cheap and good and we were happily slurping and munching into our respective teas and pearls. roentgen hasn't visited Parkway Parade in 2 decades so we decided to go there take a walk while sipping our tea and also to kill time.

We finally left the place at 2:30pm and headed to GWC. We collected our tix and headed to Coffee bean for drinks while waiting for junie to turn up.The movies turned out to be quite disappointing in my opinion although roentgen and nemo enjoyed it tremendously. I'm glad they enjoyed the movies. We were hungry by then and we headed to Geylang no signboard for dinner. cfred decided to head home and abandoned us at the restaurant. It was however a really great dinner with sambal kangkong, chilli crab, white pepper crab, cereal prawn, doufu and pork ribs. The food was excellent and we only paid $25 per pax. It was a steal in our opinion as we all had a good time with good food.

We finally left the dinner and teelee kindly sent us home.

A really great run and great day with the great company of friends! I really thank the group for making today such a wonderful and fun day for me! Thanks! Without you all, I would just be rotting at home and feeling miserable and sad for my painful existence in this world. haha. :)