Frankly from a Friendly Foreigner

UM (University of Malaya) is near my condominium. I sometimes go there after work and there’s always something happening there every time!  The students are so bloody active!  (Maybe because UM encourages them to do extra-curricular activities by letting active students stay on-campus.)  No wonder they were in the top 100 universities in 2005 (100th place actually, lol, but hey, that’s not bad!)

There was a charity 10 km running competition in UM last Sunday.  I’ve been jogging for the last few months, so I felt prepared to perhaps even win the race (I’m a giant so my steps are pretty big, lol).

I missed the event completely!  The girl who’d told me about it had said it would start at 5:45.  "AM or PM?", I asked.  Only PM made logical sense, so that’s what she replied.  But it had in fact started at 5:45 AM before sunrise!

I didn’t regret it a single bit.  In fact, I’m glad I missed the race because I heard an entire jogging club had taken part and the winner had run the distance in just 20 minutes!  Oh my word!!!  I have a book here in front of me that says if you had superior fitness you’d be able to run 10 km in 28 minutes!  Is there a mistake somewhere or did the club fly all the way from Kenya?

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