Today's routine would have been no different from any other day if not for that minor incident at the gym. I arrived at the gym at approximately 1230h, after walking Sumo and the morning ritual. Upon arrival, I noticed a significant amount of activity unlike that of a usual weekday morning. The gym instructor looked extremely flustered and she hurried past me without the usual morning smile or greetings towards the large crowd gathered at the back of the gym, near where the weights were placed. Lifeguards from the pool were too seen bustling around with life support equipments slung across their waist as people were asked to leave the area. Apparently a young gentleman had suffered an epilepsy attack while on the bench press machine. The attack was a pretty violent one and one can get a gauge of the seriousness of the attack by just observing the freaked out looks imprinted on all the muscled gym users around him at that point in time. An area around the guy was cleared and a paramedic that was gymming too attended to him, along with the other instructors and the lifeguards from the pool. An ambulance was called and he was whisked away. It was a pretty interesting experience for me but a pretty scary one too for the one who is witnessing an epilepsy attack for the first time. After an hour an a half at the gym, I headed to the food-court near the supermarket to purchase lunch for my mom before heading home. That's the least I could do considering she did cook pasta for me. I spent the rest of the afternoon reading before heading to Tampines SAFRA for a short evening swim. I am trying to get back into my pre-operation exercise routine so as to better prepare myself for the upcoming races. No more late nights and lazing around anymore till the 70.3 in September is over. After the swim and a quick dinner, I drove to my alma mater to pick my sister up from a hard day's mugging. The later part of the evening was spent chatting online, sipping a nice strong cappuccino and watching the very first episode of Damages. (Great series by the way, wondering how I could have missed it...) That more or less sums up the 2nd day of June for me. Till the next entry then...
Hope the title was catchy... I got bored listing out the various days of the weeks as my blog entry titles and I hope the one above really caught your attention. :) Not that this entry will have any thing pertaining to the entry title above. The week has gone by pretty well for me, lest the little bumps here and there, everything else has been rather smooth sailing. Thursday marked the first of, hopefully, many more business trips to town. It is getting rather sterile and boring here in the east. I must say, stomping around town in my shirt and pants, hearing the clacking sound of my heels on the pavement as I jostle around with the afternoon crowd give me that "Important-cause-I-am-working-and-you're-not-plus-I-feel-like-I-am-a-go-getter-money-maker-blah-blah-blah" feeling. Hey... do forgive me... just trying to have a little fun while I am at it. Silly... but still fun. The festive season's just round the corner, lest than a week's time in fact and the CNY vibe is definitely showing at the work place. Smaller lunch crowds, more parking lots, shorter queues in the bathroom and a significantly lower temperature in the office signify the decreasing attendance at work. February the 5th and 6th will be when I put all the tools and skills I have learnt during my National Service Stint to good use. Fever with cough and cold? Stomach ache with nausea? Or perhaps migraine with dizziness... the possibilities are endless. :
I rented "Daywatch" with my mum last night. There are only two ways your viewing experience will turn out. You will either enjoy it for its intriguing storyline and rather refreshing cinematography, like me, or you could end up thoroughly lost and confused, like my mum. Having them cursing around in Russian certainly doesn't help too. :)
Anyway I downloaded a couple more songs by Nightwish... really good... the songs really in some dark-emo way feed the soul.... Love it... I know this is going to be very unlike me but here are the lyrics to one of the songs...
Stargazers (Oceanborn) - Nightwish "Dark Passion Play"
A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom
Child of dew-spangled cobweb
Mother to the moon
Constellations beholders of the 3rd vagrant
Theater for the play of lifeTragedienne of heavens
Watching the eyes of the night
Sailing the virgin oceans
A planet ride for the Mother and Child
Floating upon the quiet hydrogen lakes
In this ambrosial merry-go-round they will gaze
Ephemereal life touched by a billion-year show
Separating the poet from the woe
Tragedienne of heavens...
Oracle of the Delphian Domine
Witness of Adam's frailty
Seer of the master prophecy
The stellar world her betrothed
Wanderers in cosmic caravan
Universal bond - The Starborn
A son in the search for the truth
Following the pages of Almagest
Discovering the origin of dreams
Stargazers ride through the ancient realms
Tragedienne of heavens...
Now... If you're going to ask me whether I know exactly what the heck the lyrics mean... Save it.. I don't either... I am not going to be all smarty-pants and tell yar what I think it means because I don't. All I know is that the music is good... the lyrics sound intelligent and emo don't I have yet to decipher exactly what it means... and the entire track makes a good listen. Enjoy.
“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
