Yesterday, was the school annual 2.4 km beach run. I woke up at 6:30am, had my breakfast, spent 15 minutes in the toilet sleeping and realised I was late after that.
I rushed to the bus stop with many bus services and took the first possible service which came, although I had to cover some distance to the MRT station upon alighting.
I soon alighted and ran towards the station, giving myself a good warm up. As I approached the station signboard, I realised the train was departing, and I ran even faster. I reached the escalator and took two steps a time up it, until which I was obstructed by a crowd of people leaning against the handles. I hoped I would not miss the train.
I reached the platform, and the train left. So then, I had to wait 10 minutes before the next train departed.
Finally, I reached Simei where ben's father took me there along with ben and ryan. I was a little late, but in the end we reached East Coast Park on time.
An hour and a half passed, and soon it was time for the Year two Boys to run. We disorganizedly queued up at the starting line and the sound of the deafening sports whistle increased my heart rate due to shock, making it a bad start for the run.
Anyway, I managed to pick up the pace. I was somewhere between running and jogging for the first 400metres, thereafter I slowed down a little. Then, my shoelaces came loose, but I held on. Finally, after some 200m, I could no longer take it and I stopped for 10 seconds just to tie my shoelaces.
I got tired and slowed down more, with many people starting to overtake me. I maintained my speed for the rest of the time and cmc soon overtook me but later waited for me. Thanks.
As we neared the end I heard people shouting cmc and my name loudly. The girls who were getting ready to run were cheering. So, I picked up speed once again, or it would have been very embarassing for me to jog so slowly as if I had no stamina. This gave me motivation.
In the distance, I saw the finish line. Estimating some 150m from it, I sprinted with more of long strides compared to pumping. I overtook 5-10 runners and ran past the signboard that says finish, and then I realised that the cones were still 100m away.
I was already tired out then and since I had already stopped, I found it hard to pick up the speed again. I jogged slowly at around 1m/s and crossed reached the real finish line after many people overtook me.
Ben: 33rd Place
Cmc: 34th Place
Me: 35th Place
What a nice series.
I got some water and jogged around slowly. and went to see which of the girls came in first.
After seeing some of them pass by, I saw Leon walk along the track with the girls and towards me.
Me: "Hello"
Leon: "Hi"
Me: "Which position did you get?"
Leon: "I haven't took my number card yet."
Me: "What?! You are gonna make the whole level re-run again coz the positions and timings are messed up now!"
Leon: "No, I haven't completed the run."
Me: "..."
Leon: "..."
Me: "!!!Hurry up what are you waiting for Go RUN!"
Leon: "Oh oh oh... ok.."
Later, Hurberg, Ben, Nar, Joelle and I were chatting when melvin approached. Almost all of the girls had finished running then.
Melvin: "Hi, do you know where I could submit my number card?"
*Silence*
Me: "Did you take a girl's card?"
Cmc: "I think he took number 43 of the girls."
Melvin: "No I DIDN'T Just Tell ME where to SUBmit my card!!!"
Impatience impatience...before he did anything else Bryan dragged him away to find a solution with melvin still shouting. It reminds me of times where in cartoons the bad guy gets arrested by the police and shouts that he will get revenge on those against him. :)
Next came the prize presentation and mascot competition. In my class, Gen got 4th for girls and Cheryl lin got 2nd. Congratulations!
Hot sun, aching rear, urge to pee. These were what I experienced for the next gruelling hour and a half watching prizes get presented and mascots going up on stage.
Finally, it was over. Ben, cmc and I rushed to the toilet along the track. Breaking the speed limit of 15 km/h, we finally reached the toilet.
Up next-our class outing to settlers cafe. Our original plans were to walk to kembangan MRT station and take a train there but then decided that the walk was too far, so we ended up taking 196 to commonwealth instead.
It was a one and a half hours journey, and pyq was complaining about the distance. We had lunch and then entered the cafe.
We played games like Cash and Guns(Very fun), some Jungle Snatching Game(Considerably exciting), Animal sound memorizing game (not too bad) and a monster picture snatching game (very chaotic).
Soon after, dillon left as he had something on and pyq too as he was getting more and more pissed. After pyq left, everyone was trying to imitate him being emotional. Joelle was a total failure-head on table quiet for one moment, laughing out loud the next.
Ben: "Hi"
Joelle: *stares*
Ben: *points at joelle* "Laugh."
Joelle: *Laughs hysterically*
Although I knew everyone was pretending, I thought joelle was being kind of pissed about something, despite her joyful nature and kept on laughing throughout the act. I thought her acting of being emo was incredible, at least that was after, I really thought she was really angry at first for unknown reasons with the stare she gave at people when they talked to her.
It turned out that she really was acting when I asked her later. No wonder she is in Drama club.
It was a great day. Unfortunately I had to leave early as I had piano lessons after that. Nonetheless, it was a great day(did i mention that already?)
ZF
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