Stubborn and limping...

suz, YA, pat and I went for the training run (Passion Run) yesterday morning at East Coast. I woke up real early at 5am and met pat at AMK mrt station for a lift and picked up suz and YA at her block. Not many people turn up for the training. suz and I took the 8km route but I failed to finish the entire distance as my knees started to hurt halfway through and we walked the rest of the way. By the time we reached the starting point, my right knee was hurting like crazy. As we left for breakfast, I also felt another pain in my upper right calf. Think I have pulled a muscle. Arrggh....It was pretty bad when I got home as I was limping and bearing the pain.

Rested the whole afternoon and then made my way to town to meet my girlfriends to celebrate xl's birthday. Slowly limped my way to PS to buy her birthday cake and joined them at mind cafe for games.

Mind Cafe is a great place to hang out with all the board games available. However, its very noisy there with everyone shouting and talking loudly amidst the excitement of the game. I had difficulty hearing the staff explaining the rules of a particular game whenever we needed assistance as I was sitting at the far end of the table. I needed the others to explain the procedure to me again before I could understand how to play the game. I think for a large group like us, a round or square table would be better for everyone to listen to each other. Unfortunately, that outlet don't have a lot of such tables as the tables are mostly rectangular. We sang xl a birthday song with her cake and left about 11 plus. While she sent sh and kt home, sley, lic and I took ting's car to seletar dam. After xl came over, we stayed there for a while and chatted. I was sorry to hear that sley's cousin passed on recently. He was young like us and happened really suddenly. So she asked what would we do if we know we only have three days to live? We got interrupted after sley asked that question. I pondered for a while and could only tell myself to do whatever I can to make myself happy. But should it be at the expense of others? For example, getting a lower-paid job where you are happy but it means providing lesser for your family. Dilemma... We went on to talk about other things and realising its 4 May (an hour plus after midnight), we sang another birthday song for her at random turns. I hope xl's birthday wish will come true. I have the same birthday wish as hers and it has yet to come true.

Woke up this morning still feeling the pain in my right calf but it was not as painful as yesterday and feeling that I have not worked out enough for the week, I decided to go for bodycomabt anyway. But I took it easy during the session as I couldn't kick very hard or lift my right leg too high. It was still painful when I left the gym, thinking it has been a bad idea to come at all. Headed to City Hall to meet 3sa, yx and Ljun for lunch. Kind of a birthday lunch meetup for 3sa as her birthday was on 1 May. Happy belated birthday 3sa! We went to Shojuku, located at basement one of Raffles City Shopping Centre. Its marche, japanese-style. I had the curry katsu rice and it was yummy. The pork cutlet was crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. We didn't get to try everything. There are some things that are similar to marche like potato rossti with sausages, crepes and waffles with ice cream. But majority are Japanese dishes. Nice...will try again. :) After the meal, we went to yx's office as she needed to finish some work. I like the spaciousness of the work place and their pantry is fantastic. Reminds you of the interior decor of billy bomber restaurant with its retro-like red cushion seats and table, counter tops and bar stools. Really cool! I wish I have an office like that.....I didn't stay very long as my leg was hurting. Limped my way to the mrt station, accompanied by Ljun and 3sa.

New week and new decision?

4 May 2008 8:47pm