Today I went for a "run" with Sam. I basically woke up with a text from her saying that I'll be joining her for a run later in the afternoon. As she knows, I don't exercise at all, so she wasn't giving me much of a choice. I was kinda looking for an excuse to get out of my room so I went with it. It was quite nice. She promised me we won't need to run. Even though I would have, we ended up not running at all because the heavy rain from last night made the paths slippy. So we walked and talked and walked and talked and I could feel my lungs burning from exertion. Haha. I know right. Exertion. From walking. I really need to get out more. Haha. We walked down by the river (the song!!! Let's lay down our sorrows!! :P) and back, and then went up to Yong's place, chat with her there for a while. It was so funny because Sam said that we would go for the run if it didn't rain. And it didn't at first, but by the time we were at Yong's, it was drizzling quite a bit. I was quite cold in my exercise wear which did not include a jacket or a coat!! And when we left her house, it was safe to say it was pouring!! Oh gosh. I was freezing, numb! I stepped into the shower as soon as I got back and my upper limb muscles were not working!! Took a while for them to warm back up. But yea it was a fun day. :D Hmm come to think of it, I actually haven't posted many photos at all for a while. Here's one! Credits to Sam.
Anyway. I've finished another book! Yayyyy applause applause! I started The Gift by Cecelia Ahern quite a while ago. (Also, beware! Spoiler alert!!!) I read The Time of My Life not too long ago. It was quite a weird book because I couldn't quite grasp her writing style. I guess I was confused because I expected it to be a fiction set in the real world. But it was kinda magical also, like abnormal things happened too. It was kinda like it was set in the real world but with magical unexplainable things happening. The same went with The Gift. Kinda confusing. Because it all seems like it's set in the normal real world. But then things start happening and you're like, ok wait, what? So now I can see her writing style, though I must say it differs so much from the last book I read from her, which was the super old Where Rainbows End. But I really really love it. She kinda puts in the magical aspects, like how fairies or genies appear in movies and like grant the main character a second chance or something. Then everything ends well. You know that kind of thing? Quite wistful. This book was so good. The way it was written was so.. descriptive. I don't think I really liked it at first because it seemed long winded to me. But then the way she described some things were really quite beautiful.
Anyway. Good story. I realised that I hate these kind of story lines for movies. You know, when the character is so frustratingly ignorant about the things that are important in life, then throughout the movie, many "lessons" try and show him/her the right path or something, and he/she never sees it. UGH. It makes me want to pull my hair out. I don't know if it's because of the way the story line was laid out, or if it was because it was a book not a movie, but I didn't find myself getting annoyed like that. The story line was laid out so well. I love books that make me feel like the whole story was like a process of tying a bow, where at the final chapter, it's like the last step of the bow-tying, where you pull the opposite loops to tighten the knot: it's where every thing comes together and forms a beautiful bow!
I just really want to highlight the main point of the story which is a lesson that we all need to learn, and here it is:
"You think you've all the time in the world, but you haven't. None of us have. We're spending it with all the might and indifference of January sale shoppers. A week from now they'll be crowding the streets, swarming the shops, with open wallets, just throwing all their cash away."
"But you can earn more money, so who cares?"
"So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back".
That really struck me. The comparison between money and time. I really need to work on spending my time more wisely. I really do!
Anywho. Gonna sleep now. Gonna start a new book soon! Nights!
Sunday 01:53 6/4/14
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