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Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 00:26 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Four Kilometres and a Wedding

Set off for the Citi-Milkrun the day before, and for the first time in a long, long while saw a pet bunny. Hooray! This particular specimen was vaguely disinterested in moving, though, even with its roughly four year-old owner shaking its leash. Disapproved!

Arrived at Tiong Bahru MRT, and while walking to the starting point (Zouk carpark) heard the famous RK House No Pork mp3 in its entirety for the first time (yah i slow). The place was pretty packed, mostly with school kids who had been conscripted in, by the looks of it. Thanks to the crowd control measures which saw the human tide redirected to bend back on itself, we endured quite a bit of standing about and shuffling our feet before even making it to the start line, and eventually I crossed it at 13:45 after the beginning of the Community Run.

The crowd didn't disperse for some time even after that, with most opting to walk, and I ended up walking for a few hundred metres, managing some sporadic sprinting whenever the opportunity presented itself. I had almost forgotten how good it feels at the end of a long run. Passed a luckless kid, maybe seven, being exhorted by his coach-dad to "open up his stride", which didn't seem much fun to him. Encountered a guy encouraging the runners with "two hundred metres only" rather earlier than expected, though, and crossed the finish in a time of 32:00 exactly.

That gives 18:15 for a 4km route, which comes out to an 11:24 timing for 2.4km. Which, given the circumstances, I highly doubt was the case. Tried to ask around to see if anyone else took their times for comparism's sake, but no one did. So either my watch was slow, the route isn't really 4km long, or I took a wrong turning somewhere.


Milking the number for all it's worth

Came pretty close to 2nd prize in the lucky draw that followed - it went to tag number 5053, I had 5050 (sound familiar?), and the rest of us had tags ranging from the five thousand and forties to 5051.

Scooted off home to change for my cousin's wedding at the Orchard Hotel. Quite a grand affair, complete with a personalized animation describing their courtship. Haha. Reminds me of when I helped in one of those for an Army event (not about courtship, obviously). Video footage of the groom and his best men having to do stuff like push-ups and pole dances to be allowed entry into the bride's home was also shown :P

The food wasn't half bad either.



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