today

the father, having watched the fitness health show thing on either channel eight or u, featuring vincent ng (who, i am sure, has had either ab implants or fat cell removal, how can you have abs like that, it is seriously unhealthy and not human) and belinda lee (who has a very big mouth, but i like) as not-so-competent, slightly haolian and unfunny hosts, featuring people who cannot run/ do sit ups/ run/ are fat/ think they are fat/ ugly/ think they are ugly/ cannot run/ etc, running, in this episode, up a forty storey block of flats somewhere in toa payoh, is now waxing lyrical about how he can, at the ripe old age of fifty two, still run his 2.4 in a tiny ten minutes, and also of how, as an ex-school marathoneer, he used to run from bedok to somewhere which had twenty five storey flats, and run up and down said flats in, i dunno, two minutes flat, when above said contestants managed forty in about six minutes on average, and with much sweating, snot and unglamity, causing the father to condemn said contestants with regards to their apparent lack of fitness vis-a-vis his own, which naturally led to a discussion of how the mindef isn't doing enough to train their soldiers during NS, which is strange, since mindef is prolly only concerned with the fighting fitness of the eighteen to twenty year-olds which are depended on to save the nation, and would rather those not in NS be doing something more productive like earning more money, as opposed to running up and down forty story flats, there are lifts for a reason, and step-up machines in the gym are designed to give you a more efficient workout akin to stair climbing, taking less time with a lower potential for injury since it is in a controlled and safe situation where you won't tumble down eighty flights of stairs when you trip at the fortieth story.

i hate running.

reeeech