The Run

I hardly slept a wink the night before... NOT that it wasn't comfortable enough or quiet enough. It's just difficult for Moi to sleep at 9pm at night. Twinny had went through quite a bit of trouble to "prepare" Moi for a good sleep :

1) Bunking at her place and on her bed so that her poor dearie got to sleep in another room.

2) Pre-cooked nice claypot rice and fried rice so that I can eat it immediately upon reaching her place.

3) Preparing bath so that I can take it immediately upon reaching her place.

4) Making breakfast for me at 2:30am in the morning so that I could catch another 10 minutes sleep.

This is just so Sweet Sweet Twinny. Muackz.

And all these only because of my RUN last sunday. Though I am doing the 6-click run which only started at 8am, I had intended to reach there super-super early to cheer our 21km participants and 12km participants (deaf and hearing) who are running for our cause. The whole gang of us capped in our Mutant tees, did look quite a little like either a ninja turtle or a L.G.M. But it's for a good cause so Moi ain't complaining. We did not have many runners only 10 for both the 21km and 12km runs but still I think it's worthwhile making a trip down to give them a little moral support and to cheer them onz. ^_-)

Thanks to Super-kiasu SuSe, Moi reached the Esplanade by 3:30am. Yup!! We are so siao... while SuSe moved on to look for his running kakis, Moi went around receeing the area and getting ready. Went up half an hour early on the bridge for both the 21km and 12km runs to cheer the runners. It was quite a feat trying to spot 1 runner in a sea of thousands over participants. BUT our tees were TOO OUTSTANDING, thus making spotting fellow mutants a much easier task than expected. Kekekeke!

Yawn!! 5:15am, 21km Run ...going to start soon.....

By the time, it was my turn to do the 6km, Moi was a bit wee tired. But thanks to Pooh and Smurfette that kept me onz...Moi managed to complete it at around 40mins. Though I was a little shocked and upset to learn about the news of the 21km participants that died after completing the race... this again enforce the hard tough fact that life is fragile and we should treasure every moment and the people around us and not be fussing over small issues and turning around in circles.

Completing this race was just a small milestone to show our determination to do something out of our ordinary routines to prove that the deaf is able and that the deaf can work. MP Ms Denise Phua was our Guest of Honour to grace our event. I was very touched by her sharing, her enthusiasm and her spirit. She went all out of the intended schedule to come to the starting line to cheer our 6km runners, to hold our banner high and run for a 100m along with the deaf. She spent a good one hour just waiting for all our runners and gave a very encouraging and moving speech that she may not be able to run this race with us but she will definitely wants to run the life race with the deaf and to do within her possible means to make Singapore more compassionate, loving, stronger and courageous society. She ended with a quote from Oscar-winning deaf actress, Marlee Matlin.

"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."