Free-running

Sometimes i wonder if parkour is just

running on an

adrenaline high.

The feeling of abandonment
The ability to free-run not because you can.
Leap over places. Jump over seemingly high railings.
Not because its rehearsed.
But the body just wants to run when its feeding on adrenaline.

Indomitable.

Running the R-Cube run

Supposedly Competitive run.
Didn't push as hard as i would have like.

Date/Venue: 10 Aug, Pasir Ris Park
Time Taken: 11 min 38 s 50 ss
Approx. Distance: 3km

Remarks:
Been rusty.
But still content with a run below the target i set for myself.

Got to run faster. Gasoline.

DREAMS ON FIRE

Dreams are running so fast, as if they are on fire.. should i stay grounded and risk losing dreams or risk losing possibility of it not materializing at all? such a DILEMMA.

WANNABE FIGHTER.
WANNABE DRUMMER.
WANNABE DRIVER.
WANNABE COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER.
WANNABE DANCER.
WANNABE WRITER.
WANNABE CURRENT AFFAIRS ANALYST.
WANNABE CASH COW.

WANNABE WANNABE

hope i don' run out of steam.. do what's necessary. and not be fickle.

we got to hold on,
to what we got,
it doesn't matter if we make it or not
...

we got to hold on,
READY OR NOT
You live for the fight when its all that you've got
...

really life's a fight.
and we got to live for it like its all that we've got.

arrest the sloth!! sirens please!!
Adapted from Jon Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

For the fun of it

Considering an open relationship

An open relationship is a relationship in which the participants are free to have emotional, spiritual and/or physical relationships with other partners. If the couple making this agreement are married, it is an open marriage. Open relationships are often confused for partnered non-monogamy in which only multiple sexual relationships are arranged with other partners.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_relationship

A casual relationship is a physical and emotional relationship between two people who may have a sexual relationship or a near-sexual relationship without necessarily demanding or expecting a more formal romantic relationship as a goal. ... Related terms are friends with benefits...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casual_relationship

it is not a wonder while many have turn to an open relationship.
the concept of being involved in a relationship yet not being anchored responsibilities-wise is an enticing concept for many.

we just wanna have fun and not force each other to commit yeah? its just a part-time effort on each party. or no effort at all. just call each other out when you would like a date. accompany-sake.

sex or no, fun's the calling.

in fact sex isn't even an important ingredient. its for the company, for the relationship experience, for the fun..

the casualness and deconstruction of traditional belief of what a relationship - commitment may be appalling to some. but face it, its very functional and feasible for this age of time.

Popular sex educator Tristan Taormino is also an advocate of open relationships.

not ruling out long-time commitment, commit only if you want to. we want democracy, we want freedom. this is it. it maybe miscontrued. or even less morally sound. it is even less congruent with "traditional society's standards". but..

it is a game. Just as J-Drama fans would have remembered from Takuya Kimura in Pride, its really just a game. Why not?

"its just a game"

In Malaysia, Are you Chinese?

Excerpt from

In Malaysia, the question is finally asked: Are you Chinese?

By Shuzheng

More than anybody else, the former premier Mahathir Mohamad must bear responsibility for this racism, promoted in his pseudo social commentary, The Malay Dilemma where he virtually invented Malay grievances and directed them to the Chinese as the primary cause. This is racism par excellence because it mirrors the way Nazism pinned the problems of the entire German nation on the Jews.

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/24636/84/

Followup commentary soon

Discover the world

Discover the world starts with small baby steps.
Spark off the Discover Singapore movement.
Starting with Culture.
I'll start by discovering and examining the cultures of the races in Singapore. =))

Culture
Chinese
Malay
Indian
Nation
History
Defence Force
Region
World
Music
Stamps
Sports
Science
Health
Arts
War

Step out and enjoy life. I'll try to provide scans of reports done of each visit. =)
till then..

Inaction and our youths

To think or not to think
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/chronicle/opinion/vol15no10/p3.html
Digital Nanyang Chronicle: Vol. 15 no. 10

It is true. I personally observed and found it to be disheartening that i rarely find individuals talking "aggressively" about their passions, championing causes and doing things they lack. Things that they often cite are excuses, army lah where got time, study lah where got time, exams coming lah where got time, lazy lah where got time (oops its lazy lah whr . . .)

But conversations nowadays seem to centre more around work and studies. When we are already clocking like what, 9 hours a day? Maybe this is true, what the author Nabilah Bte Syed Sultan wrote

if you are more comfortable with the person you are conversing with, you are more likely to open up and speak about issues other than school. Conversation topics differ, however, when you are with acquaintances or with, to put it crudely, “friends for convenience”.

But even close friends seem to mumble about work or studies now.

Has life gotten boring?
Or have our youths forgotten about listening to their passions? Their dreams? Have they forgotten to take their ROADTRIP to discover the world? (courtesy of reading Roadtrip Nation)

Disillusioned, uncertain and wrapped by retarded layers of spoonfeeding for years, i fear that our youths are getting consumed by inaction. Already defence of their own passions seem to be taking on a losing battle over their conversations as the article would have proven.

Apathy. Inaction is a tempting consuming hand. But this is your own life.
This is your own run. You run it.

As Howard White, Vice Director of NIKE says, take the same passion you display when you head to the basketball courts (if you love basketball, i do so i can relate easily) as you would to life, if you love life and want to do well in it.

Its your life. Its your fight. Its your run.