Present 10.45 p.m

Woke up this morning feeling a bit sick, with some body aches to go. True enough, 1/2 hour later, I started sneezing non-stop and proceeded to wrap ‘wan-ton skins’ till mid evening.  God, I can still feel my abs in pain whenever I bend forward. I came across this line from Grey’s Anatomy recently. “Our bodies are often slaves to our impulses”, for which I can’t agree more. Sometimes, we tend to push our bodies to beyond its limit just for the sake of satisfaction.

Approximately 30 hours ago

Due to some inexplicable reasons, I decided to go to the gym near my office for ahem.. a workout.  A few of my colleagues were planning to attend the Aikido class that evening and spontaneously, I decided to tag along although I didn’t bring the necessary gym clothes. We arrived at the gym around 6 pm amid the heavy downpour that had been greeting us almost without fail every evening. I was already half drenched due to my dash to the carpark across my office to grab my gym bag. With wet jeans, slippers and umbrella in tow, I looked more like waiting to board a bus in Puduraya than getting set to go gyming at KLCC. J DMT and SY had their minds set for the Aikido while me and Piggy Bank(PB) opted for treadmill instead.  During the session, our eyes were more fixed to the TV which were showing clips of Take That songs.. Ahh nostalgia came back to haunt us as we sang along (quietly) to songs like Back For Good and Relight The Fire, with me not sweating much the entire 30 min. Occasionally, we glanced  and laughed at DMT and SY who were somewhat doing some rolling on the ground routine for the Aikido thingy.

Next, we went for cycling which was a real cruncher. My objective was to do 30 min, but well into 15 my legs started to feel tired and wobbly. However, as the Take That show was still on, forced myself to complete it. After that, proceeded to walk around the looking for the abs equipment. Truthfully, I’m quite obsessed with having toned abs. Dunno why. Used to do 30 sit-ups every night just to achieve this, which obviously I didn’t, if you see my body now. Forced myself to do 20 times (10 seems a bit too little and no effect to me). A bit torturing I would say, but left me satisfied JMy last stop of the evening was the sauna where I met up with the three goons. I’m not really fond of activities that require me to be half-nakedly clad in towel. I remembered once I was supposed to go into this hot spring thingy on my Korea trip. The only problem for me was that we were given a very small piece of towel, which could only cover your boobs OR your bottom. Apparently it’s the culture there to go into the pool with your baby clothes. An absolute NO NO for me.  

Back to the sauna, PB was probably sound asleep when I entered. How she does that really baffles me. It’s freaking hot in there. And SY made it worse by pouring more water into the charcoal like barbeque thingy! Noticed something on the wall being overturned constantly and initially thought that it was a broken thermometer. Turned out to be a sand clock that dictates every 15 min you’re in there. Sigh, I am so not cool about this. As usual, was laughed at by the 3 goons while I blamed it on my eyesight or the lack of it. Proceeded to make stupid and lame jokes thereafter rather than sit and sweat quietly. Finished up about 8.45 p.m and walked back to office with SY and PB. My stomach was growling loudly for food and the rows of barbequed chicken wings waving at me from Rums Jungle didn’t exactly help. Managed to grab a cup of cold Ribena at office pantry while SY had a mixture of fruit juice and milk. Yuck! She is really weird.  Final stop of the night was the ‘tai chow’ restaurant nearby my house where I ordered char kuay teow with deer meat. Hmm, yummy.  There goes all the calories that I had burnt earlier…