The muscles ached so bad. But it was so therapeutic to crawl laps in the pool. Bliss is to simply stretch out after with the Air, Berry, Kindle and a cold cold glass of ummm....Bowmore 15y.o. Besides tending to the comforting beeps from the gadgets, I want to do NOTHING because I was awake all of last night.The mad girlfriends decided that we should see sunrise at the active Gunung Merapi and no matter how vehemently I protested, I got dragged along. I was like, I've been up there twice!!! Once on a school geography trip and the other was part of a full trek across East Java (which included going up Gunung Bromo) and overland to Bali. This trip, I obviously didn't pack for any sort of serious walks! I wasn't interested in ripping nicely manicured fingernails or turn toenails black. I whined very loudly. Obviously I got shushed.
It was a good long cycle/walk. I couldn't even cycle very well! But the alternative was a really long 8-hour walk. No thanks. So I grabbed a rickety bike and muttered about dying from falling off the sides of the tracks. It was a bloody difficult route to cycle okay. No one paid heed to my grumbles about being buried alive under volcanic ash.
The spectacular sunrise and that feeling of being up and above the clouds made up for everything, but the burning pain in my butt and thighs. It rained on our way down. That was absolutely cold and miserable. At that moment, I truly missed the comforts of urban living in Singapore. Sigh. Why do I always sleep so little on these trips? The girlfriends smirked, "Hey, what's the point of a holiday if it's all luxury and no pain?" Right. I hate you! Whatever. Don't really care. I'm going to be limping for the next 2 days dammit.
A couple of the girls have run off for more torturous climbing up a cliff somewhere. Most are at the spa. I whimpered and walked really slowly out to the main pool. I'm having my butt lie horizontal all afternoon without having to move very much.
I stared at the sky for a while. Ah. There is no haze here.
7 comments:
Wahahaha, can really feel how much you're loved by your girlfriends!
kikare: DOH. i hate them! >_< hummmpf. some more i not very fit, make me do all these things. GAAH.
wow! amazing girlfriends you have. They really worked you out to the max!! It's all worth it right?? :)
Haze from Indonesia not in Indonesia. How strange! :P
jomel: they're horrible horrible horrible! but i'll have a tight butt at the end of this short getaway. oh well. the minister already said wat- it all depends on which direction the wind blows....
ah, a tight butt is always worth the regime. :P
i like how you call them mad girlfriends :)
mistipurple: hahaha. it'll just last for a day before i flatten it out by sitting in an office chair all day.
sinlady: they are! :p
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