15th Run: The Music Run 2015

 

Signs of Getting Older?

Few things that happened or things that I do differently which makes me aware that I’m getting older.

1. You know you’re getting older when everytime you register anything through online and when it comes to the year of birth tab, you have to scroll down/up more than you used to. I could still remember that it used to take roughly half of scroll to find my year but now, I think it takes almost two complete rotation on that damn mouse wheel to find it.

2. When I was little, I already developed a liking to coffee but it has to be with creamer or condensed milk. I dislike the taste of black coffee because of the bitterness and the only time that I can accept it is if I can dunk cream crackers into the coffee. But now, I don’t mind drinking black coffee because it’s the only drink that’s powerful enough to keep me awake for few hours. Maybe that’s why in most western movies, the characters also take their coffee black, for that maximum raw power.

3. When you start to compare your childhood with the kids now. Everytime when my friends and I hang out in a cafe and I saw kids around, I would sometimes wonder what did they do to deserve to digest RM20+ pasta. Is it their birthday? Nope, doesn’t seem that way. Are they straight A’s student, and it’s a reward for scoring pretty well in their test? Maybe. Maybe it could be just their ordinary and typical day, no big deal in eating in such places. But it was a big deal to me during my childhood. For a kid to be able to eat a RM20+ meal on his own, he gotta earn it. He gotta earn it hard.

4. I went for hiking with a guy I met in church and while on the way to the hiking place, we were talking about the number of people that are able to turn up. The conversation between us is something like this.

Guy A: Today we don’t have a lot of people joining for the hike. But last Tuesday, a lot of people turn up for the hike. Very big group.

Me: Well, that’s a good thing right? Bigger group hard to control.

Guy A: It’s not about hard to control, because they will form their own smaller groups. Besides, most of them are youngster, so you won’t be able to mix well with them. Generation gap.

Me: **violently spits out imaginary black coffee.**

Me: ………..

Me: Haha, when you said “you”, you mean you right? Not me right? Haha…. Right?……

Of course I didn’t really say that out loud, because that’s not what old people will do. =I

 

14th Run: Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2015

Sadly, it got cancelled because of the terrible haze and this is the first time that I received the medal without having to run at all.

And it feels weird. Feels weird to receive something that you didn’t do anything to earn it.

Previously, everytime I received a medal after crossing the finishing line, I feel a bond to the medal because I know the effort that is put into to receive it. It’s a token of recognition for hardwork and I’m proud to have it. But this time, the feeling is definitely not there. The medal is beautiful with its detailed artwork, but it feels foreign to me. I couldn’t relate much with it.

The Music Run is just a week ahead, and I hope that it won’t get cancel for the same reason.

*Doing the rain dance now*

 

Eat More, Eat More

Some people might get offended and hate me for saying this, but….

I HAVE to gain more weight!

There, I said it.

In one month alone, I already got 2 comments from people that I’m “slim”. The first time was when I went up to collect my gift (yoga mat) and the MC said something like, “Oh, we got a slim lucky winner”. The second time happened when I was buying jeans for myself. I asked the lady whether can I try the jeans with the size of 28, and the lady replied, “Of course you need to try that, you’re so slim”.

I find it hard to take that as a compliment. I always wanted to look fit, not to look slim, which to me is a totally two different thing. As I was trying out that jeans in the changing room, I looked at myself in the mirror and I saw an ikan bilis. Okay, it’s time to put on a little bit more weight.

Of course when I said I want to gain weight, doesn’t mean that I’ll eat uncontrollably until I become the “Before” in the weight loss advertisement. The plan is to eat more protein-packed food (eggs, more eggs) and more meat, for at least a month. Nothing too hardcore, just want to be out from that “slim” category.