Started out at 11am (so much for a long run), but just in time to get ready, drive to Subang Parade to play an hour of jazz with my band. It was a few Subang's pre-amble for their Merdeka Day celebrations. Stupid place didn't have their air-con on well, so it was stuffy like an oven, and halfway thru the second song I was already soaked to the bones. Sigh.. cheapskates. But it was fun though, the band was really kickin', although I think a lot of people probably wouldn't understand what we were doing! AHahaha...
Anyway, came back home, chilled for a while, then decided to go to Mines with my brother to catch a movie. Wanted to watch The Village, but fully booked (wouldn't expect anything more or less). Even Aliens vs. Predator (AVP) also sold out. So we were contemplating on either going for the later show at Mines, or go to Cheras Leisure Mall to try our luck. So just before we left, we went for ice-cream just two floors down from the cineplex. It was some New Zealand ice-cream or something like that. And my thoughts: DON'T take the ice-cream there.. it's absolute CRAP!! Dang.. I've never tasted ice-cream which was bad, but this one takes the cake, man! I couldn't taste anything at all! Even the 20cent ice-cream that you'd get from the ice-cream guy that goes around in a bike, tasted nicer.. SERIOUSLY!! So, whatever you all do... DON'T take the ice-cream there. Sucks big time...
ANYWAY, we decided to try our luck and go to Cheras Leisure Mall. Lucky for us, we managed to get two tickets for AVP just in time for the next show. Well, other than the nice visual, special effects, suits and aliens designs, the action, the show wasn't anything much. It's probably like what I'd call videogame movie. But it was still fun to watch. Interesting ending.. if you wanna call it that. AHaha...
Oh yeah, tried this new Thai vegetarian place at Pandan Indah. I sorta discovered it by accident a couple of weeks back when I did the MPAJ Run. It's quite nice, albeit on the slightly pricier side. And I think I ordered too much green curry dishes, quite a mouthful to finish between me and my brother alone. But it was really nice...although I'm disappointed with their Thai Cendol. It's a cross between cendol and red ruby. But less of everything.
And finally.. the Olympics Athletics' Mens' Marathon! Wow.. quite an exciting race. Here are the results in short: Stefano Baldini (ITA) 2:10:55, Mebrathom Keflezhigi (USA) 2:11:29, Vanderlei De Lima (BRA) 2:12:11. Some highlights, Vanderlei De Lima was the leader for over 10 - 15km of the race, and somewhere past the 30 - 35th km, he was intercepted by some 'gila' protestor who came from the opposite side of the street, and it cost him a lot of time. With that tight security, it wasn't supposed to happen, but it did. Wow.. who ever thought running events would be boring? One couldn't help but wonder, if that fella didn't intercept De Lima, would he have been able to get the gold? But from the look of it, Stefano Baldini, who took it easy although he was the chaser group, seemed to have conserved his energy until the last 10 - 15km of the race. So it was pretty possible that he could've overtaken De Lima anyhow. But De Lima was quite disraught and in tears for a while after that unfortunate incident. Wow.. amazing.. check out the results at http://www.athens2004.com.
That is quite an inspiration to run...
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