Aches and pains

After 8 months of virtually no physical exercise, I decided to go and play badminton yesterday. It had been more that 3 years since I went to play at the Sunday morning badminton club I'd been a part of since grade 9. There were some new faces, and I could barely recognise the kids - they've grown up so much! I remember some were still running around in diapers back then, and now they're taking part in the DASH training sessions. So many more kids have joined now that there's a coach. The atmosphere has completely changed. After playing 2 doubles and 2 mixed double matches, I was beat. My backside, legs, arms...my whole body was (and still is) aching. As soon as we got home after lunch and grocery shopping, I lay down on the sofa and fell asleep instantly (which is not at all like me). I'm so out of shape...

This morning, I went to the dental surgeon to have two wisdom teeth removed. While I was sitting in the dental chair waiting for the anesthetic to do its stuff, the dental assistant babbled on about how repulsive she found the sight of hair growing out of moles, yesterday's tv program on aquaculture in China which then turned to talk about the tsunami warning for the east coast of Australia (due to the huge 8.1 earthquake near the Solomon Islands this morning), the difference between washing clothes in cold water and hot water, the ridiculous laws that restrict people living in apartments from hanging their washing out to dry on their balcony, and how Saturday's "earth hour" saved an amount of CO2 that is equivalent to taking 50,000 cars off the road for an hour. It just goes to show how much energy businesses use and how simple it is to help reduce carbon emissions if people, especially businesses, embrace energy-efficiency. If only the govt didn't just think about money and the economy. Anyway, back to the teeth extraction, no holes needed to be drilled after all. The teeth came out smoothly with some skillful tugging by the very experienced dentist. It's still bleeding and my face is still numb, but at least it's not painful. Thank God.