Sometimes I wish I had Running Shoes

My next thought is almost always, "If I had never worn shoes, I wouldn't be so weak to need it."

What else do we not need? What are the things we can't live without, what are the things giving us comfort, and what is only holding us back? I know kids that are perpetually bored without some form of electronic entertainment. I know guys that can't even masturbate without the aid of pornography! We can't even kill bears without weapons, or catch fish with bare hands. Sigh

How about money? I was just thinking about Peter's obsession about it (always making up games that has some form of monetary punishment) and I realized, money has no value besides that which humans ascribe to it. You can't eat it, you can't use it to make anything else (besides stars, and little paper hats and what not), you can't write on it, it's not very good as toilet paper...

If not for its ability to be used, it would have no use... What would happen, if suddenly, money had no meaning, and it became nothing more than multicolored paper...

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When I woke up this morning at 6 a.m., I felt the aches in my body, and I went back to sleep thinking, "I'll run to Monash another day."

Then I woke up again at 6:13, and I thought of the children in Africa. Do they have a choice on how to go to school? No, they have to run 50 km to school everyday, and 30 km to the nearest watering hole, and 100 km to the phone booth to call their girl/boyfriend. (I don't have the exact numbers)



I also remembered that I had told Brandon and Jeannette that I would run to Monash. And it's not manlily to go back on my word.

Also, googlemaps says that it's only 11 km to Monash from my house.

Also, YaoYun said "run jared run..." in my cbox...

And my final reason is: I am awesome. Yes, click the link.

So I left my house at 6:43 a.m. feeling good, after having a cup of Instant Nutritious Meal Plan and a nice, long stretching session under a hot shower (to get the aches out). In the end, I made it to Monash at 8:34 a.m., 26 minutes less than googlemaps' prediction. But the prediction was for walking, and I ran a bit. Yes, I only ran a bit.

From the start, I decided that googlemaps did not show the shortest way, because there are all those back alleys and what not that must be quicker. So I decided to take the straightest way possible from my house to the NPE (New Pantai Expressway). I should have realized that a lot of back alleys are really old and the tar on the roads would have worn off leaving a bed of stones... My feet are really bruised now.

I reached Old Klang Road. Unlike Bandar Sunway, most of the sidewalks in Klang Valley are covered with small little itty bitty stones. For short distances, they're fine, but when the same spot gets poked repeated you start to feel it... Yeah, it was quite hard and painful. Sigh so weak my sole.

I saw an old man trying to cross the road at the corner, he kept sticking his head out trying to see if there was any car coming, but by the time he leaned back on his cane to start walking, there would be a car coming and he would have to stop, and stick his head out again... I was wondering how he was still so clueless at crossing the street, he should just take another step forward to get a better view, or move further away from the corner. Finally he managed to cross the street at a time when there really was absolutely no cars. Then I realized, "Oh no, I should have helped him."

So I decided to help the next person I saw that needed help. 5 minutes later, a car with a Malay couple in it came rolling up beside me, and they had a cardboard box stuck in between their tire and the body of the car (I don't know what that place is called). So I bent down, and pulled it out. Whee.

Then I passed the toll. And I saw the NPE ramp leading to Bandar Sunway going up, and no way to get to it. And even if I did get to it, there would be no place to walk. But I decided that as long as I could keep it in sight, it should be fine, so I just kept walking, trying to follow it. There was even a time when I was running underneath it...

Soon the ramp came back down and I was back on the NPE, but now I was on the right side, and after the toll (this time it's the going back from Sunway toll), there suddenly came a point when there was no way forward, there was simply no place to walk. So I went back to the toll plaza and asked the dude there, "Hey Uncle, how do I walk to Sunway?"

He told me to walk on the other side... "Just walk through the toll booths, and cross the road on the other side. Then go straight all the way."
Yay! Two firsts in one go. I have never walked through toll booths (sideways that is, I had my first first walking through toll booth going straight earlier), and I don't think I've ever crossed a highway. =3

After that, it was straight all the way.

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I just took a bath in the handicapped people toilet. I used hand soap.