my wkend started at 620am tdae, as i had to be out of the house by 1030.
grateful to the guys for agreeing to run 30mins earlier!
took a different route today as suggested by uncle jb. so instead of heading left to the ranger station, we explored 'la ruta de montana' tt heads to pierce.
the last time i ran this was when i was coaching my bro's batch of the ac x team.
doing the hills was a not so pleasant reminder of the fact that im not that young anymore!
so its been a long time since any of us did the route, and some things have changed.
#lesson 1: never trust jb when he suggests a new route.
jb, tu 'esquina' es muy larga!'
always check when he's last run the route. u a) either holan, b) end up having extra adventures on ur morning run
#lesson 2: i am afraid of heights.
the next time lionel, jb or kenneth ask me if im ok with something - i will not be so gungho to try.
it was embarassing n frightening at the same time.
cant say what happened here beebs..check ur email!
uber paiseh la.
so after our little adventure getting to the toilet at pierce reservoir; we did the long n uphill run back out to casuarina. was really happy to turn off n go home while the guys accompanied kenneth back to mac.
managed to finish stretching n planks n showered by 1015. ate tau sa zhang, yoghurt n mango cheesecake with starbucks coffee for breakfast =)
left house a lil later than desired at 1040, thought i would be late given the scarcity of buses heading to bishan..(really terrible how they come so infrequently on wkends).
got to cathay just in time for the trailers.
caught the expendables one...its really good and packed solid with all the big names!
u have to watch it; tho as lionel says its a movie u should watch wif guys.
knight and day was not too bad, i'd give it 7/10. abit predictable after awhile.
few hilarious moments. cruise n diaz are pretty gd.
had lunch at pomo jap fdcourt wif my colleagues , n teh bing after =)
was nice company on a sat aftn.
decided to pop by the lib on the way home to pick up some reading.
allowed myself 1 trashy novel out of the cycling books + yell for cadel tt i picked up (which is kinda disappointing btw)
#lesson 3: reading about infidelity is a waste of brain space.
am totally serious. any of the trashy novels about unsuccessful relationships would have been alot better than this. heck, i should have re-read paullina simons novels.
so the wrong choice was a book called lost hearts in italy.
the protagonists are a expatriate middle class american couple in their mid 20s, harvard grads.
what makes their relationship unique is that she's black and he's white; this is set in 80s/90s/2000s.
so the story really begins when he gets posted to roma and she gets flown out to him on first class. an italian (twice her age) is the only other passenger in first class, and he happens to be (i assume owner of PEZ) a very rich man.
so he's attracted to this bella who has a very nice behind?!!? and asks for her number which she naively gives.
she n her husband are madly in love, but she happens to meet this italian whenever he calls her in italy, tho with her husbands full knowledge. he wines and dines her , and the first cracks start when he takes her to his private yacht. nothing happens , and they dont see each other again for a while.
in the interim, she and her husband have a girl.
ffwd two yrs later, when the italiano dude calls her again, and this time, she meets him n start their rendezvous.
things cool btw her husband n her, and eventually she confesses, he kicks her out, they divorce.
he gets posted back to london (ibanker), she stays in italy with their daughter.
she gets pregnant with the italiano dude's kid (wow. surprise.did she have an abortion? dunno n cant be botherd). anyhow, they both remarry n have kids wif their respective spouses. n mr-italiano still calls her occasionally. but they don't see each other anymore. (or so i gather)
so the story is told in retrospect in 3rd person. alternating betw female, male protagonist n mr italiano (baddie!) while the story is set in italy, where it seems to be that extra-marital relationships are the norm and not exception, the author seems to allude to the broader globalised world.
she's at fault. but so is mr-italiano for pursuing a married woman. then again. he divorced his first wife (n made italian history when divorces were first made legal in catholic italy) ,fathered a son through an illegitimate union, and continued to have casual relationships with other women when he was seeing this bella too.
it reminded me of the article last wk on how divorce rates are rising; and more women are initiating divorce. its just very sad how the institution of marriage has become cheapened.
i was jus very disturbed after reading it, should have picked up something else for brainless reading. this provoked even more thought then necessary!
=(
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