Dr Helen Lasimbang organised a post-marathon celebration dinner yesterday evening at The 4 Seasons in Damai. It was attended by those familiar faces from the jogging track, including Dr Liaw, Dr Peter, Dr Joseph and his wife, Jenny, Andrew Voon and his family, Teo Chen Lung, Dr Felice Huang, and others. Mia decided not to join us, as she did not wish to rush after the sunset mass at St Simon. Judy Liew was held up by some of her visiting relatives and arrived late, in fact after dinner was over.
I was lucky to sit between two ladies, Dr Felice and Judy. It was an enjoyable evening. We exchanged our experiences about the marathon. Then Teo (in striped shirt) reminded me of this Saturday's treasure hunt.
We were also talking about toilet breaks during the marathon. Many men simply relieved themselves at the roadsides in some bushes. But women were a bit more complicated and needed proper toilets.
Dr Helen was telling us about the many tattoos on her back; that she organises annual tattoo parties. Before this, I've never known that there's such a thing as tattoo parties.
Dinner was quite nice, though not exactly my kind of food. We had plenty of wine too. We were really a noisy crowd—a lot of yelling in between conversations and sudden bursts of laughter. Everyone was talking at the same time!
We also had a chance to show off our hard-earned medals. Teo was especially proud of his medal, and he brought along his huge expensive camera for the occasion. Dr Peter, the general surgeon (seated), was also very happy, not only because he did not bleed both his nipples this year, but mainly because he's able to complete the full marathon again for the second time.
Dr Joseph, the gynaecologist (extreme left), must be the happiest person in our small group since he was the fastest among us. He finished his 42k in 04:25:23. But he said he's not gonna do the full marathon again. We're all hoping that's just the side effect of wine.
Dr Liaw, the paedritrician (in white shirt), was also very happy because he won a bet against Dr Helen (gynaecologist) for finishing in 04:29:07. I think he won a special lobster dinner.
But all of them couldn't beat Teo's pride in his achievement. He attributed his success to the many, many packets of power gels and bananas he consumed during his run. Well, maybe he has a longer digestive system since he's much taller than the rest of us.
It was a lot of fun. We must do this again after the Singapore Marathon in December.
3 comments:
Hi Corn good to hear you had a decent run. Many many congrats to you and your friends.
I was marshalling the first section of the northen route and I was really trying hard to look out for you when I was on the bike but after looking at your pix I now know it was because you were wearing a cap :)
Hope I did manage to cheer you on a little though :D
Congrats again you guys!
Shan,
It was still dark when we ran the northern route. But I remember someone yelling from the bike, saying something like "C'mon, you can do it!" and then zoomed past. And I managed to murmur something like "Yeah right, you're saying that because you're on a bike". The white man running beside me then couldn't help but laugh a bit. At least the funny side of me still made someone laugh during the hard work, you know.
The cap was mainly due to the phobia of the heat, since I suffered immensely last year. But during the celebration dinner, Andrew said he specially "ordered the good weather for this event" since a long time ago. I'd like him to do that again in April next year.
That was me on the bike! Corn we had to cheer you guys on man. Would have said hello if I'd recognized you :)
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