Spinning: Feel Good Time - Pink
Hola! Just woke up from a few hours of much needed sleep. Thursday was a rigorous day in more ways than one really. I agreed on a trip to the beach on Thursday to get a little outdoorish for once - hadn't been getting adequate exercise ever since the end of my SJ days.
So, me and 4 others (my fellow guitar club members - surprise, surprise!) went out to sea and canoed for 2 hours. In case you're wondering - canoeing is very much like kayaking, only it has an open top, and it's probably less easy to capsize in a canoe. You can pretty much lie down on the canoe and still not topple over in the sea. It's been at least 2 years since I last touched a paddle, so I needed some refresher courses from my fellow canoers, and I got the hang of it after awhile. Canoeing, much like kayaking, is a very, very tiring activity - especially so for your waist and and arms. It's also the perfect activity to sun tan without knowing it. Just ask me. I'm very happy with the tan I got - except the top of my shoulders, which got more colour than needed. It's a frigging scarlet colour now and hurts like crap. -_- And as usual. My face is peeling off.
But you know, I guess the highlight of the canoeing trip for me was when I started to get sea-sick. Please don't laugh... 'cos I'm about to tell you I ended up puking in the sea. My breakfast was just a cup of tea so thank goodness, just liquid. Anyway - I'd never gotten sea sick before, so my guess is that it was the lack of solid food in my stomach that caused me to feel nauseous. Being sea-sick, esp whilst being out at sea, is just the shittiest feeling on earth. Wherever you look, east, west, south of your canoe, you feel like puking 'cos the waves are travelling towards you, away from you. Lying down and looking at the sky is one of the stupidest options to quell your lurching stomach - because you're lying on a bobbing canoe. Up and down, sloshing the bile in your stomach around even more. So I was just sitting up rigidly, my eyes focused in front, and I just kept moving on because I'd feel worse when I stopped. I puked right in front of the others - and what a
paiseh moment that was! I was one of those uniformed groups alum, so why the hell was I getting all pukey in front of people who didn't have any experience with canoeing! Eeep! But really, I forgot about the issue of '
saving face' after that.
Those 2 hours of outdoorish activity weren't enough for us, apparently. We opted to go cycling for another 2 hours after lunch. We went almost non-stop, only stopping at the jetties to take a swig of water. All the way from Marine Parade to Changi. We even stopped near the Changi Depot to watch planes... embark and disembark. God knows what's so interesting about that. But anyway, it was an experience 'cos I'd never ventured that far before.
Yeah, it's just so weird to go all outdoorish with acquaintances - we don't know each other that well. At least it felt that way for me. All 4 of them were in the commitee - I wasn't. But honestly I was just there for the canoeing and cycling really. Perhaps it helped me know them better. Perhaps it helped THEM know me better.
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