Tuesday, December 2, 2008

we are compelled to do what we have been forbidden.

Sunset behind after a u-turn. and if you look really closely, 
you can see the droplets on the window panes :)

While being stuck in traffic for more than 2 hours today and heading towards the west (west-er than pulau ntu which is saying alot), there was this awesome sunset in front of me. And it was raining. And when its raining, the only music I listen to is dashboard. And somehow, the very weird mix of Carrabba's tunes, the orange yellow hue ahead and the droplets on the panes, it reminded me of You and I got to praying. 

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Oh, and I told Train I'd blog about our Yoga session today. With all due respect to Train, who found the session very useful, Yoga to me is plain dumb. I do admit that I'm not the most flexible person, so maybe that's why I didn't gain the full pleasure of the entire session. But the poses that they ask you to do, cobra stance, eye exercises and rubbing your palms together to put it on yr eyes, chest, thighs, makes no sense to me. At all. 

After a lot of the stretching on our feet, we were asked to lie on our backs and do some MORE stretching. At this point, the instructor told us to close our eyes and concentrate on our breathing. Obviously, the inevitable occurred... I fell asleep. And even started dreaming. And I stopped doing any of the (useless) exercises. When everyone got on their feet to do MORE stretching, I was still prostrated on the floor. Deep in meditation. Train had to shake me awake while everyone was standing up and I was still on the floor. HAHAHA it was a real laugh. I couldn't take anything seriously after that and I think everyone around me was secretly sniggering. :) 

I know Yoga has its benefits, and my mum swears by it. But for me, I'm glad I did try it once to know that I'm never going back. Maybe I'm just too uptight that I can't clear my mind to allow the serenity, calm and relaxation to gently coax my mind into surrendering myself to the poses that are suppose to release the wound up tension in me. 

OR, maybe not.

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