Nike We Run 10K 2012

On Saturday, 13 October 2012, I took part in my very first organized run, by Nike.  My day started like so: Shi Yee was kind enough to drop me off at campus at 9am for me to board the bus to Kajang. Then, I took the ktm all the way to Kepong, and I went to Audrey’s house. Chilled there for a while until Pearlyn came and then we went to have lunch together at Pak Hailam. 

At this point I was going to talk about why the lemon in my iced lemon tea wouldn't float up with the ice on top of it, but I was sadly interrupted. Audrey said she was waiting for me to do that when she saw me looking at the lemon, and that got me thinking, "Do I really explain stuff like these for no apparent reason?"

Anyway, Audrey's dad treated us to lunch, and then we went back to their house to prepare to go to the run. Beng Guan and Hong Chien arrived sometime later, followed by Carmen after that. With all the cast ready, Audrey's father drove us to our destination.

We reached Jalan Ampang (the starting point) and met up with Sunnie there. We took some photos and prepared to run. The run started slightly late, due to the slight rain I think. But we started anyway. I WAS PUMPED!

The run started out very slowly, mainly because there were a ton of people in front of me and we were sort of like sardines in a can. I told the gang, "See ya'll at the finish line" like a boss and started zig-zagging my way through the crowd. I sprinted for about 1km or so, and then slowed down to a run for the next km and finally started the steady jog when the crowd thinned out a little.

The run itself was pretty fun. I high-fived a lot of people. The dancers encouraging us, the first aid teams, the officials, and even other runners. Hahaha. On the way past the 6th km, I saw Sunnie on the other side of the road (it was like an oval of sorts,).

The final stretch was the best part. People were actually cheering for us, saying like, "A little more!" or "Last km!" and some of the pedestrians were even clapping as we ran past the finishing line. My time, I remembered, was 1:07,  eg one hour and seven minutes, but I can't remember the seconds and milliseconds. I managed to get a finisher tee, although I suspect almost everybody who completed the run got it.

When I finished the run, at the gathering spot, there was hardly anybody there.

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After the run we ate dinner in KLCC, at Ben's. My dinner was about RM 40... lol.. I ate 3 servings of salad and one mushroom chicken pie. One, because I ordered a salad dish which came on a big plate. Two, because my mushroom pie came with salad and I wasn't aware of it. Three, because Audrey didn't wanna eat her salad so I took it.

After that, we tried to find a way to exit suria KLCC, because by that time most of the doors were locked. Anyway, we found our way out and Audrey's father picked us up. He dropped Carmen back home first, and then dropped Pearlyn, Sunnie and I at Sunnie's place.

Sunnie's dad was waiting for us when we reached back, because it was pretty late already at the time, (about 12am). We slept pretty early for the night.

Surprisingly, I managed to sleep about 10 hours in her place, because usually I don't sleep so long in other people's houses. But I managed to sleep pretty comfortably there, although I had a really small blanket. It was a nice and homey place, in short.

The next morning, I woke up  at 10:30am, and had a simple conversation in Chinese/Malay with her grandmother/aunty. We went for breakfast; I had pork noodles with egg. It was pretty good. Then, we went for BADMINTON! Yes, you heard right, we went for badminton. After running 10K the day before. Hahaha. Well, badminton was fun; I hadn't played in a while. But most of us were tired out before our 2 hours were up.

After that we went for lunch with Jun Seong, at a place called WDS. Lots of food stalls there. The food was pretty good too. I had claypot chicken rice.

We reached back Sunnie's place at about 3:30pm, roughly. And we decided to help her wash her car.

We were done by about 4pm, and then we just chilled around in her living room. Haha.

Around 5:45, Sunnie sent me to Kepong's KTM station; I reached there around 6 and surprisingly the KTM was really good. It was comfortable, efficient, and all-around satisfying.

Por Yin picked me up at Kajang (no more waiting for uni bus, YEAH!) and we had lunch around there. I took quite a lot of food and it only cost me RM 4.80. I think it was pretty worth it.

After that, I reached back home and had to wash my clothes and scrub my shoes. Oh man, my shoes. My poor pegassi, covered in mud. But they look as good as new now, after I cleaned them. :)

And that ends my very enjoyable weekend escapade.


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Sometimes I look at people and I have some thoughts about them, like, this person is nice, or I think I can get along pretty well with this person, or I think I can picture myself walking with this person, and so on. And well, I don't know what to conclude from that aspect of mine. Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad. But it's not really accurate; sometimes I become friends with people I never thought I would be, and vice versa-- sometimes I just can't be more than just acquaintances with people I thought I could be good friends with.