monday

sometime in the past two weeks, an officemate handed me a little card that entitled the bearer to a free training session at the boxing gym nearby.

so: borrowed gloves and hand wraps from jo last saturday, all set for monday, then.

you know the saying about the best-laid plans? well...

not that all was in perfect readiness, mind. i'd left my workout shorts at the office, for one. for another, i overslept. then there was the crawling traffic from sucat to the alabang interchange. then there was the monday morning reactivation of user accounts (that i've yet to find a way to automate).

all said and done, i finally managed to show up at the gym a full hour later than was likely good for me (and the workday to follow): 8am.

so i go up to the gym, get to the counter, and...

...the building's water pump had just gone kaput earlier, so no post-workout showers available.

hmm.

were i a little more superstitious, i'd think that i wasn't fated to box my way to better health. hehehe.