Jurong Lake 5KM Fun Run!

Early in the morning, my whole family woke up for one thing, our one goal this day, THE JURONG LAKE RUN!! Even though I wasn't so hyped up about it, because I do not like running much, I do not have much choice in this matter as my father had signed our whole family up for the run long ago. My 2 younger brothers were enthusiastic about it, even if I'm not, and so, I decided not to pour cold water on them.

We took a ride from a very nice Ah Huat Uncle, friend of my father, and a gruelling ride it is indeed, from Hougang all the way to Lakeside!! My brothers and I unfortunately suffer from some car sickness, and did not feel as well while we were travelling. It seems like donkey's years while we were writhing about within the van itself, and finally, IT STOPPED!! We reached out for sweet, sweet Mother Gaia, and that's it!! SAVED!! No more is the churning of our insides, and after a few moments of being back in touch with Gaia, we're back and ready for the run!!

The entire place was filled with thousands of competitors, from all over Singapore, with every last one of them itching to start running! The emcee was quite interesting,and after he introduced Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam,  and that the Minister himself is going to run with us all, we were all instructed to do this-- 

1) Put your palms together!

2) Move your palms to the left!

3) Now move it to the right!

4) To the left once more!

5) And yet again, to the right!

6) Now to the centre of your face!

7) Move it up!

8) Move it down!

9) Up again!

10) Down again!!

11) Now, open up your palms, let it face each other at a 45 degrees angle!

12) Finally, raise it higher!!

And when the music started, it all made sense!! It was Shakira's Waka Waka!! And finally, it started!! However, my mum was nowhere to be seen, and we had only to start running without her. Things were going well for the first 2KM, but that was when my youngest brother couldn't take it any longer. After all, he's only 11 this year. Bad is, I wanted to try compete with my second brother, but he took off the minute the race started, and I could never leave my youngest brother alone!! My mum was nowhere to be seen, and even if my parents have said that we can just leave our youngest brother alone and go run, I just couldn't do that. I'M NEVER GOING TO LEAVE ANYONE BEHIND!!

And so, that's it. Instead of running/jogging the entire 5KM, it was just jog/walk the rest of the 3KM. I didn't feel good because after all, it took me the effort to get hyped up for my brothers!! Sure, we got free 100 Plus and stuffs, and the goal was just to exercise once in a while, but as sure as the sun's gonna show it's face on Gaia each day, I'm going to plan my things well, and still be able to not leave people behind when I can help it!!

That's it for this post then, thought it was posted late, but I conveyed what I wanted to, what that was suppressed within me while I was busy!! I'm off to bed now, and tomorrow morning, 9am, it's Mac-Donalds!! With my best friend Michelle and a hot and toasting (I hope....) Sausage McMuffin!!!