I have a ton of readings to do in the next 1.2 days, and then I realise I'm on exchange but that still doesn't make the panic go away because...I don't know why! It's just that I want to put in effort in whatever I do, so when I die maybe my children or wife or someone will put on my gravestone "He put in 100% effort 100% of the time".
Which is not really true. Take running for example; I can't put in 100% because of some reason which I learnt in SPT (but I was sleeping during that class, after they said "There is absolutely no way you can put in 100% effort for physical training".) Speaking of running, I went for 4 runs in the week, three down to the Spanish Banks which is down the slope, north of UBC, (we got lost on the last Spanish Banks run but found our way there), and one in the gym because it was raining bollocks-ish.
There is about 3-4 days' difference between the rain in Vancouver, and the weather report about the rain in Vancouver. From Sunday until Tuesday, I was anticipating wet weather, and it didn't come; some days it was sunny, and some days it was cloudy, but it didn't rain. I stopped believing the weatherman even though it was cloudy one of those grey, dry days. Then, on Wednesday I had a lesson which ended at 9pm (!! Yes! That's how
chao pia I am!) and when I got out of the classroom, I knew the weatherman was right at last. There was a hard drizzle and I was dismayed because i brought along my green hoodie as protection against the cold, not the rain. So I ran 1.2km back to Thunderbird in the rain and was soaked. Luckily Gilbert and Laura (a Singaporean law student living 2 doors away) had heated up soup for me, those two nice souls!
Thankfully, we have only had 2 days of rain thus far. But, one thing that makes Vancouver's rain more enjoyable than Singapore's is that you can get caught in it and, given a little time, still come back dry in the end because moisture just evaporates so quickly. In Singapore, you perspire when that happens and you stay wet because of the high humidity.
I have taken precautions against the rainy weather though. I bought today from Main Street and Granville Island: 1 X Track Pants, 1 X Longer Running Shorts, and 1 X Thin Jacket. All these, as you can tell, are geared towards running. More specifically, they're geared towards running in the rain. OK, the boring part is over.
Now, for something totally different. Today, I was in Granville Island with the usual gang + 1 (a girl named Hui Ping) and we went to the Granville Public Market and Kid's Market. We bought strawberries from the market and they were soooooooooooooooooooooo good! And we were stuck in the Kid's market for a damn long time because all of us were so fascinated by the toys and games. It's like Toys R' Us X 10000000 for us! (I bought the Thin Jacket from this island peninsula thingy place).
Then we moved on to Robson because I wanted to check out the sizes of the shirt for the New Balance Fall Classic (and not make the mistake I've made 3 times in a row, namely choose the wrong size for the T-shirt). There, I tried on this long-sleeved running T-shirt which I know I will probably never use in Singapore, but which has SO COOL THUMB HOOKS and it feels sooooooooooooooooooooooo good! It is the same price as long-sleeved running tees in Singapore, and I might buy it because I loves it so.
And then the group split up, Sulynn and I went to Main, I got my shorts and pants, and then we went to Gage and I got files from her and I went back to Tbird and I am here typing. This last paragraph is necessarily short because I want to hit the books. For Gilbert's part of the story, I shall direct you to
the taupok's blog.Bye!