New Year's Eve

Exactly three years ago, back in 2003, Peiwen, Cheeling, Ah Peng, Serene and I did an insane thing to ring in the new year.

We called it the New Year's Eve Run. Sounds simple enough. We met at Siglap for dinner first, then everyone came by my place to deposit their stuff before we started our run. The initial plan was to run down East Coast Park to watch the ships shoot their flares at midnight. But we decided in the end to go further and so we ended up running from home to Bedok and all the way to Changi. Yup, Nasi Lemak Changi.

Yah what was i thinking right? Running with a bunch of the fastest and best runners in the team. The Changi area was gruelling, coz it's just stretches and stretches of never-ending road. At that section, I went into the "What the hell am i doing here?!" mode. They knew that when i get into that mode, i grow very quiet. So they kept telling me, reaching already, reaching already. I knew better than to believe them. After goodness knows how long, we reached Changi and sat down to pig out on Nasi Lemak and other rich goodness we could find there.

After supper, we headed to hail a cab to fetch us back... We weren't crazy enough to run back after stuffing ourselves full. I remember walking out of the food centre, it was then I gave Serene, the incoming captain for the new calender year my word that I would stay in the team the next semester.

And so i signed myself up for another 6 months of aches and pains.