Worked OUT

“Seems like you made a series of bad decisions today”, said Clarice after listening to the physical strain I put on myself from the morning until night.

Today started extra early, getting out of the house at 7AM, squeezing onto the morning train and reaching Ang Mo Kio by 8AM, and catching up with an old friend. Then getting myself to Bras Basah by 10AM, and picking up a 25KG load of paper back to my office at Geylang. Struggling and sweating like mad with this load, in this Singapore heat, I brought everything back by bus, and worked in my office until 1130AM, to reach Dhoby Ghaut by 12PM. A lunch with another old friend until 130PM, to get myself to Kent Ridge by 2PM with another friend. It was an afternoon climb ending at 5PM, and we enjoyed this climb until we squeezed onto our evening train for our dinner appointments, mine at Farrer Road, and my friend went off his way. I was early by an hour, reaching at 6PM. Then I worked at the coffeeshop, and another old friend joined me at 630PM, and then we met the rest of the friends at 7PM. I found out I was missing my power charger, and I texted the climbing gym about it. The dinner ended at 915PM and I went back to the gym to pick up the charger. There were no more buses from the MRT to the gym, so I walked for about 15mins to the gym from the MRT station, reaching at 10PM. Then I took the nearest bus going home, without taking the train , and I reached home at 11PM.

I should have:

• not gotten so much paper at once
• not planned for so many friend meetings in a day
• not bought so much paper on a day I had planned to climb
• not forgotten my charger

There are probably deeper learning and adjustment somewhere else, but honestly, I’m just tired from recapping the day. It was really a long hot day.