A typical weekend

This weekend I had a whole lot of own time. As my sister went back hometown, and my housemate missing in action, I guess she went back hometown. I had the whole house to myself. Nothing much happen, most of the time I was in Maple world up-leveling my archer character.

On Sat, after a whole after in the virtual world, I snapped back to the reality, realising that I haven't been exercising much lately, for at least 2 weeks already. I then decided to find some nice place to jog. First thought is jog just near my house so that I don't have to drive, but I brush the thoughts away. As my house is near the sea (sort of), Malay guys like to lepak there, and they like to kacau whenever they saw girls walking pass. I don't like the sound of them calling 'ah moi ah moi, boleh join?' Although it's only their mouth that is itchy, but I don't feel comfortable having people like this around.

I talked to a half-marathon runner once, and she recommended Botanical Garden for jogging. She said a lot of runners usually train there. So, I drive myself to Penang Botanical Garden about 25mins drive away. I park my car a distance away from the park, because usually the parking near the park would be full at evening time like this. I really don't mind walking because the reason I went there is also for excercising, and walking is part of it.

At the park, it was not as crowded as I've expected it to be. The park has a tar road track, a quarter of it a little bit uphill, a quarter of it downhill and half of it flat road. In the park, there were a lot of monkeys running around. Other than the monkeys were of course human! LOL. When I was there jogging, I also saw photographer with their huge SLR camera taking pictures of everything they can get their lens on, a number of Middle East tourist who wrap themselves up from head to toe in black clothes, children catching fish happily in the small stream, parents playing badminton with their children in the field in the middle of the running track and I saw one familiar face. I saw Yew Khoon there, my x-supervisor during my industrial training in Agilent 2 years ago. No I did not approach him, as he was sitting at the bench chatting away happily with a bunch of other guys.

I have not been running since the Penang Bridge Marathon in June, that explains why I was only able to run 3 rounds in the park. I enjoyed the run very much, Botanical Garden is a very nice place to jog with plenty of things to see while running, won't get bored. After the run, I walk back to my car with a shaky leg. A search in the internet shows that one round in the botanical garden is about 1km, meaning I had only run 3km and I am all out of breath. The next day I woke up to muscle pain on my legs.

After the run, I sit in my car flipping through the Penang food book that I always kept in the car with me, looking for what to eat for dinner. Landed on the page with A1 Bak Chang (meat dumpling) somewhere on Burma Road and Tavoy Road. As I'm not very familiar with Penang road yet, I still need to refer to maps which is also readily available in my car.

Refering to the map, I drove there. It's kind of dangerous, driving while at the same time looking at the map. On my first round, I missed the junction and had to turn the second round (Penang roads just make you turn round and round as most of them are one-way). This time I make sure to not miss it, actually, the road sign for Tavoy Road is missing, no wonder I missed it in the first round. Reaching, there were no bak chang stall in sight. Apala, ZZzz...that bak chang not open on Sat and Sun wan lar...haih, should have check the opening hours first, as it is all stated in the book. Sienzz...waste petrol nia...

Still not knowing what to eat, I wander around, turning where ever i like without consulting the map. Accidently, I drove myself into Swatow Lane, which is famous for it's ais kacang+fruits+ice cream-all-in-one. The ais kacang stall and char koay teow who is previously by the side of the road now moved into a newly built food court already. There were plenty of parking available, parked my car and settle my dinner there.

Satisfied with my workout that day, I rewarded myself an ais kacang. Went back home with old calorie burned and newly calorie added :)

Sunday just fly away in the virtual world, and I ended my weekend just like that.
Ahh..life! Simple and nice!