Jogging Encounters
Thursday, June 30, 2005
I continued my jogging regime last night.. decided I didn't want to jog very far because I got a bruise on my knee (yes if you read last post I got my bruise from the maluating fall at Outram MRT station). So I decided to take the road relay route from my place.. to hall.. out through UCC.. then back home along FS..
Guess who I met along the way?
If you guessed some old man in a pickup again.. go and die.
But the old man part is correct. I saw Jeffry Thambunanto... along the Heng Mui Keng Terrace road leading into hall. He just finished his FYP (time 2230hrs) and was going home.. Kinda freaky coz he called out my name while standing in the shadows.. took me a while to figure out where he was.. Stood there.. talked to him for quite a long while.. (Francis drove past).. before continuing with my run again...
FYP sounds like a scary thing.. and that Chem Eng has to do not one.. not two but THREE FYPs sound ridiculously crazy. Oh well.. life in this Fac is already sucky so I guess FYP is just the tip of the iceberg...
So I continued my ran.. up the central libaray route.. down towards UCC.. out towards FS.. and along Pasir Panjang Road back home.. where I saw a fellow jogger cutting in front of my path. It was close to 11 already and to have someone jogging at around this time is quite rare.. esp during school holidays.. esp along Pasir Panjang Road.. So I caught up with him and jogged behind him.
I expected him to turn into Heng Mui Keng Terrace into NUS (coz I thought he was a hostelite or something) but he didn't.. he continued on.. along the direction towards my home... strange.. I closed in on him but didn't overtake him.. hoping to figure out who he was...
And he turned out to be my neighbour.. my from the same Primary School.. a hi-bye friend whom I know stays around the area but never really talked to.
So we chatted on the way home.. I told him I was jogging to lose weight.. and he said..
"Oh yah if you are into the losing weight thing, I can give you some advice. I myself lost 15 kg."
Wow. Impressive. I wonder what I'd look like if I lost 15 kg haha..
"2 years ago I was 75. Now I'm about 60."
Haha.. ok that was a demoraliser.. 2 years to lose 15 kg.. thats like abotu 500g every month.. though it doesn't really work that way.. but yeah.. mayeb to be realistic I should just aim to drop 1 kg by the end school starts haha..
Anyway.. the point is.. I got myself a running partner. Every Mon, Weds, Fri. =)
Well.. anyway.. another bastard has succeeded in his quest. Seems like the Bastard Phenomena has not died off yet.
And yes, he's from HwaChong. Feel so happy for him.
Signed off at
3:09 pm
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