After wondering what to do being so free yesterday, today I had a lot to do. Went to sleep last night intending to wake at 6 and set off early to ECP but unfortunately it was raining very heavily so I waited till later before moving out. The weather cleared pretty fast and I was out and on the way to ECP.
Travel travel travel...
Back to a very familiar place, but this time with a very different reason. This time it's not for a marathon, nor training for any other run. Made my way down to mac first as the sky still looked rather gloomy and there was still a slight drizzle. After breakfast walked along the coast of ECP and the tide looked pretty high, I forgot everything about tides and was wondering if they change like every 12 hours OH NO. Anyhow, found a bench, sat down and did some bible reading first.
A cool breeze and the gentle sound of waves meeting the shore...
After I was done the tide seemed to have lowered some and taking a look around, there seemed to be more shore further up. Took a walk and along the way stared at the ground, surprisingly there were a number of shells even beyond the safety barrier and like near the grass area. But really scattered, too few to consider picking up. Further up, much more sand but no sight of shells yet.
Take a look at my phone, it's already close to 10am.
Just a little further I saw what looked like a trail of shells (and sticks, leaves, tissue and styrofoam sigh). Pull out my ziploc and began my search. Mostly fragmented bits but soon I find some nicer ones.
Piece by piece, into the bag they go....
Occasionally I find a really unique looking one that seems to have the word epic written all over it heh. They would make good corners =) I always thought shells were like white, brown, orange... but much to my surprise a lot of them had a purple hue and looked really interesting. Tried to collect ones which have the same or at least close shades of colour. In the end they were mostly white, white with a purple hue or white with a tinge of orange.
The bag starts to feel heavy... Today this is my resource, unpredictable, irregular and I have no idea if they'll fit together, or if I even have collected enough...
Walking on, the trail slowly dies off and I check the time again. 11am. I think I have enough shells to work with, I'm done here, time to get everything else I need.
More travelling, and back to another very familiar place, Bras Basah
Got most of my stuff from Popular this time instead of Art Friend. They didn't quite have what I wanted, unfortunatedly. Had a quick lunch before heading back to hall.
Travelling is a really tiring activity.
Reach back at 2ish and crashed out till close to 5. Quickly went to wash the shells and then dry them and lay them out before going for ulti. Went down to the field at WCP and there were a lot of people there today, many new faces and a bunch of guys from SP. Man they can run...
2 weeks of exams and my forehand is gone case again
Jialat sia. And I grazed my knees again, left knee this time...
Ting Yu came later but had to make a move before playing cause something happened.
Ban Mian and bubble tea for dinner again
After dinner it was time to get down to work. My second time working with super glue and unfortunately it leaves one with hard fingertips heh. Play around with the different shells, note the colours and form a general scheme. Slowly put it together piece by piece while having long msn convos with Ting Yu and Ivan, and John Mayer playing his heart out in the background. Man his live vids are amazingg, whether he's singing or playing solo's he really does it as an art, and with the finest expressions even when no words are mentioned (lotsa HQ vids from his LA show are on youtube). But enough of John Mayer, as mentioned earlier he was in the background anyway. Some portions were really hard to cover, but now after it's all done, seems rather amazing how everything managed to fit into place. Irregularly shaped, yet seemingly natural grooves for each other...
Perhaps, this will cheer you up
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