3.68km in 30mins today. Looking at that time, I wonder how I ever clocked 15min25s when I was in Secondary 2.

But then again, that was the month after I spent my school holidays camped up in CCA camps (both school and course camps), only to have classmates comment that I looked as if I spent my one month break locked up in some concentration camp to come out looking like a POW (not to trivialise real POWs and concentration camps but I did have a couple of classmates making that comment, and that was the year I finally got out of the national Trim And Fit (TAF) club, which has since been abolished by the government after numerous complaints that the program was causing students to lose all sense of self-esteem, of course I wouldn't know, having spent 'only' 8 years in said program).

I got mistakened for a 16 year old by this middle aged guy who's a tutor at the gym today. He actually thought I was his 16 year old student. Right....

I'm behind in my textbook readings now, and I blame it all on last week's massive workload. And the same amount of work looms next week (and more, since I actually have a test next week).

Of course I just had to google for the Grey's Anatomy Season 5 promotional trailers this afternoon and now I can't stand not knowing who Meredith was shouting "NO!" for. And it's disgusting how Shonda Rhimes said that McPlant wouldn't be pregnant and then modify it to become a fake-pregnancy plot. Die McPlant, DIE!

And then there's the US Presidential Election. Sarah Palin for VP? COME ON! She labels all crimes as hate crimes, leaving out the reason why people actually call them hate crimes (because they're targetted against a specific group of people, usually of a particular race). She is effectively against affirmative action. She is anti-abortion, pro-guns. How can any woman vote for someone like that? Woman.. the focus on women as the swing vote in this upcoming election, it's long overdue how they finally recognise that appealing to women voters, especially if you can get them involved in the political process, can pay off. Sarah Palin is riding in Hillary Clinton's work. Clinton got them energised, involved, gave them hope and then Palin is just trying to build on that, with the bulk of the work already accomplised by Clinton. Palin's hoping that women will vote for her just because she wears skirts, wears her hair in a up-do, possess 2 X-chromosomes. All these without considering that Palin stands for everything Clinton is against.

She may be charismatic (kind of like the Caucausian female version of what Barack Obama is to the Democrats) but she has a non-existent track record. Sure, she's the governor of Alaska, the ex-mayor of Wasilla. But how can you compare that to running a nation? Republicans are calling Democrats and the US media sexist for putting Palin under the spotlight and no one even batted an eyelid when Clinton was subjected to worse. The Democrats may have made a wrong choice is nominating Barack Obama and then leaving Clinton out of the VP ticket but voting a McCain/Palin ticket into the White House may prove to be an even bigger mistakes.

A campaign that initially started out as full of hope and promise has turned to a deeply disppointing one with mistakes made all around. It was supposed to be an election for the Democrats to lose after 8 years of disastrous Bush administration and with mistakes being made all around, the question now is, who's making the bigger mistake? A Democrat as the next President? Now I'm not so sure.

Hopefully Clinton runs again in 2012 and puts right things that went awfully wrong this time round.