Thursday, August 12, 2010
20:45:00
It's been a lazy week, really lazy. I haven't even left the house except to run and buy food.
You know, I really appreciate being able to run the way I do now. From this current standpoint, I really have NO IDEA how I managed to live with being 95kg+ last time. It just seems like a world away, like two different people.
With music and my thoughts, I can run 10km in just over an hour (1 hour 10 mins would be a safe estimate) or so. I don't know for sure because I usually run something between 7 to 9km at most, and have only tried a longer distance once, when I went for 11km and pretty much blew myself out just after passing the 10km mark. I think I completed that run in about an hour and 20 minutes.
But anyway, as I was saying, running is therapeutic for me. For me, physical exertion represents honesty. Sweat doesn't lie. If you pushed yourself, you feel it. There's no lie about it, whether it's running or basketball or whatever.
Of course, it's a huge added benefit that running keeps me physically fit. My stamina is incredible compared to when I first started, I can last longer not only on my runs but also in basketball, I move faster and feel lighter due to all the dropped kilos... the benefits are endless. I feel great physically, certainly better than I've EVER been.
Running provides me with an outlet. It's a cliche, I suppose, but running helps a lot in stress relief, most of the time. Many a time I've come back from a run feeling refreshed mentally. If I was feeling lousy due to some decision I had to make, I'd come back from a run feeling more positive and ready to make a choice. If I were feeling lousy due to large amounts of schoolwork, I'd come back from a run feeling ready and raring to go, to finish what I had to. Most of the time anyway.
Anyway on other issues, having all this free time has allowed me to get re-acquainted with cable TV schedules hahah. The early evenings (6 o'clock) are the time to start watching. Slam Dunk on Animax (although I've seen it before it's nice to watch again), Simpsons, Family Guy, comedies like How I Met Your Mother and Everybody Loves Raymond... so on and so forth. I don't really laugh out loud at most of the jokes, but to me these shows are all very watchable indeed. Of those, Slam Dunk and the Simpsons are my favourites. Oh yeah, even though I'm not a car buff, Top Gear is fantastic too.
You also have wildcards from HBO sometimes. Although they don't happen much, I have had days where HBO broadcasted two nice movies in a row (maybe more) and I find myself unwittingly leaving an ass groove in my sofa. Not happened so far this hols though. They keep showing Terminator Salvation and I'm not interested in that. They also seem to be showing Lethal Weapon 4 a lot nowadays. I'd be more interested if I hadn't seen it before on the same channel. Now if they had a Lethal Weapon or Die Hard marathon (like the whole franchise), I'd totally watch that.
Speaking of TV, I still haven't gotten the DVD for The Book of Eli. 'Real-life Fallout' is very interesting to me, so much so that I haven't even really read the synopsis for the movie for fear of spoiling it for myself. I'll probably get it one of these days, when I get bored enough hah.
Lastly, for the heck of it I've gotten the mp3s for the opening and ending themes (the first ones) of Slam Dunk. I find it funny how the song lyrics have hardly anything to do with the show, but they do sound pretty nice, especially the ending theme. Maybe it's partially what the manga/anime means to me, but they strike a chord with me.
I'm not much of an anime or manga fan, but I appreciate good storylines regardless of the source. I've been interested by mainstream comics like Spiderman, or deeper ones like Watchmen. Some Japanese stuff have caught my attention, despite my general western-ish preferences. I've read stories and seen movies set in a variety of settings, whether they be a quiet village in the countryside of England or in a dystopian over-crowded city of the future. Equal opportunity consumer hahah.
Anyway I'm looking forward to more basketball tomorrow, and a possible sleepless night cos I had a rather lengthy nap in the afternoon and didn't go for a run today. Well, what happens, happens.
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