A Box Of Memories: Jogging A Ton Across The Country

Friday, February 13, 2009

Jogging A Ton Across The Country

I was sleepy. Oh so very sleepy. I had to wake up at 5:30 today, because being an Interactor, my sister had to be at the Lake Gardens by 6:30am. The Wesley Methodist Cross Country Run.

Haha! This wasn't this year's cross country. It's too early to go 2009 Cross Country picture hunting, so I found this instead. I needed some pictures, don't blame me. It's last year's picture.

Upon reaching the Gardens, I saw Wen Shen and Qalif there, among the small group of people already gathered in the tents. We stood there, around the boxes of Black Fury(which Ashwin claims are his anger hormones compressed into liquid form), talking about last year's run until the event began.

My Jogacloth. Li Yang was just saying how nice it would be to have a C3PO cloth, when Dylan walked up with his P03. Threepio.

They gave us the marathon-styled cloth to pin on our shirts as identification, and then the speeches began. Nothing to say about the speeches, because the only things worth talking about which happened during school speeches are these, which I think I'd have talked about before:

1. Matthews speaking during assembly, when suddenly, her fake teeth fell out. 2. When the Form 1 guy fainted, and Matthews went: "OOoooOOOoooOOOooooH!" It was hilarious! I'll certainly remember that one for many years to come.

Oh, I also had ALOT of fun playing around with Mrs. Moey Yoke Lai's AEIOU of leadership speech during the joined installation of Prefects and Librarians. As I recall: A stands for Attitude, E stands for Excellence, I stands for Integrity, O stands for Optimism, and U, predictably, stands for...

YOOOOUU! Den, den, den. Soulja(Solja? Forgive me for not paying attention to the annoying song's name) Boy oh whammy HO! And so on and so forth.

Anyways, back to the running. After the speeches, the emcees started the morning exercise. It was weird. We The King's Check Yes Juliet started playing, and they made us do stretches to the beat. And everytime it reached the chorus(RUN, BABY RUN!), Yen June(emcee) would shout RUN! and we would start jogging on the spot.

Finally, they sent us to gather at the starting line. I ran to the front of the crowd, so as to have a head start. I brought Ashwin along with me, that I could drink Black Fury along the way.

Grace: One, Two, Three, GO!

We didn't need to be told twice. We ran, many sprinted, as far as we could. Ashwin ran out of stamina quickly, so I left Ashwin behind after the first 10 minutes or so. I didn't see any sign of Jeremy, Dylan, Justin, or any of my little band of friends. I tried to keep pace with Jia Wen, Qalif and Gareth. I didn't see that many people ahead. That was a good sign.

So at approximately 8:45 am, after 11km/7km/14km(due to the many different answers I got from the different sources, I'm not sure how long it was) of torturous running, I stumbled to the finish line.

They couldn't tell me my placing, as they only jotted down the 1st-4th places, but I know I wasn't too bad.

For one thing, I beat Tzer Chyuan, possibly. I say this because I did not see him amongst the crowd when I finished, so that's not neccesarily true(and it's pretty hard to believe). I like to think it is, though. But anyway, that was only possible because the station masters sent him sprinting off in the wrong direction. Same thing happened to Jia Wen, who was running alongside me most off the time, until when we were near the end he left me behind, and went down the wrong path. Tough luck, you guys.

Anyways, I got some sort of a consolation prize,

What the...?

And accidentally took home a souvenir.

Mmm. That's goood Black Fury.

Jun Shern out.

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Three wishes

Three men stranded on a tropical island came upon a lamp buried in the sand. They rubbed the lamp and a genie appeared in a puff of smoke.

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He is no longer president, sir.

One sunny day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President George W. Bush."

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The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer President and doesn't reside here." The man thanked him and again walked away . . .

The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President George W. Bush."

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Tragedy

Bill Clinton is visiting a school. In one class, he asks the students if anyone can give him an example of a "tragedy." One little boy stands up and offers that, "If my best friend who lives next door is playing in the street when a car came by and killed him, that would be a tragedy."

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Intelligence levels

While visiting England, George Bush is invited to tea with the Queen. He asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to surround herself with intelligent people.

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Bush watches as the Queen phones Tony Blair and says, "Mr. Prime Minister, please answer this question: your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or sister. Who is it?"

Tony Blair responds, "It's me, ma'am."

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Helms hems and haws and finally asks, "Can I think about it and get back to you?"

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Racism

One day, a black man walked into a bar and asked for a beer. The barman, who was a white, said rudely to him:

" I don't serve coloured people here, sorry. "

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