Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Much Like You

You know you are moving into another phase of your life when all the people you hang out with are either married (kids optional) or going to get married. This becomes vaguely obvious when your casual chit-chat revolves around topics like “how my partner folds the clothes” and “my uncle-in-law the asshat”.

And then you go running with other men, who are all running because

(a) Their wife says they should
(b) They don’t want to drop dead anytime soon on their family
(c) It’s their only chance to spend some time with the boys and get some beer later

By the way, I hate running in Singapore. The other men are always curious why I am not wearing government-issued New Balance shoes which results in me having to launch into an all too familar tirade about how I’m not local. So there I am in my beat-up Nikes, whilst everybody else has a pair of white gleaming New Balances. What gives?

Got Brooks also.

No leh. Dowan to run say dowan to run lah. Don’t be like the ‘Dunno How To Swim So Blame Swimming Trunks’ boy.

why almost every sporean guy has new balance shoes?

Bcos they are cheap (only abt $40+ from the army’s e-mart, IIRC) and relatively good.

i don’t like new balance.

Is someone running in the army half marathon! Woohoo.

I have NB shoes, cause they were half the price of every other brand?! I was at the store determinded to get adidas but the salesguy almost forced them on me. So you have beermoney left over after buying them, that’s good enough of a reason for me.

Aiyah, phase what phase? Want to blog, blog. Dowan to blog, don’t blog. Same with run. Want to run, run. Dowan to run, don’t run.

Actually, IF you have been joining us lately, you will notice that it is not just the BOYS who have been joining us, but also a few ladies. In fact, the very fit ladies kick all of our asses (except Miyagi’s, but even HE has to push really hard and kena next day everywhere pain so that he does not lose).

And nobody cares about your Nikes lah. Wear whatever shoes you like.

We just like seeing you in your tight black netting running top, the one that shows your nipples in dark brown.

Muahahahahahahaha!

I’ve moved on the the next phase after the next phase: The “Stop Nagging - Don’t Evolve Into Your Own Mother” Phase

I stopped telling Hubs to go running, I stopped telling him to stop smoking. We just stopped talking.

yeah caleb. i don’t mind seeing the nipples under the fish net top. not a bad idea at all.