Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Aww man...Woke up in e morning @ about 7.30am to prepare for a swim. In attendance was Jia and duh, me. At e swimming complex, i couldn't help to say, the waters was sooooo coooold...And e sun was rising to be so warm n hot!

Not a strong swimmer though. Swam like a breathless kid struggling to understand e proper usuage of his miniature lungs..Swim is can, but probably not far...So, i stayed in e water wading my body to make myself happy. Haha. Jia was like so hardworking, spending every effort to learn and explore the right technique while i slackened to watch kids swim under instrution from their coach. Wad? Observation thru' learning is exposing one to literal understanding can?

KIDS swim soooooooooooo naturally. Must be mama who didn't put me in a bathtub to play in water when i was an infant. =X opps..

So, dada called me few days ago and exclaimed,
dada: kor! you know how to swim not? go practise and learn how to swim one lap
me : huhz? siwm? should be can since still alive today(i drowned twice when young)
me : does it mean to swim to and fro or to only?
dada: one lap
me : means to only right(cos i tot one lap is to and fro about 100m)?
dada: yar...
me : orh. Okie....i will
dada: oh yar!(with his sexy and coarse voice) Go run 2.4km in about 9.44mins...
me : orh.....(tot for a while...) huh? Under 10 mins? say again?
dada: 9.44
me : wah! for wad?
dada: get IPPT with gold
me : Ohh...Okie...i'll go practise also...
And the rest goes on talking about some stuff in there, caring for him, him asking family and help to check some stuff n i ask him to take great care...yaada yaada yaada...

And, his intention is to prepare me for NS! oooooooo...loving n sweet bro.

Back to e day, i was glad Jia was motivating me to swim! She encouraged and decided i should go to the Olympic Pool to try out. So i did. To my shock, one lap took my breath away! I was left panting for O2 man! After some time back at learner pool to see kids swim and having fun laughing at the coach playing with them while coaching, i decide to at swim another lap at the bigger pool.

Just as before that, Jia was sharing with me two of her friends who swam 14 laps. This pathetic boy was so demoralized because he is entering NS and the sergeant would kick his butt into water expecting him to swim!

My say: two laps in the Olympic Pool proved the water is hard in nature(i was still wondering if they did use different water...dumb when i tot of it tho) and there was much friction while having myself swimming in the 'ocean'.

At the end, while Jia was dicussing some technique she learnt by oberving some 'chio bu'(pretty girl) swimming in the water, i decided to give it a try. Guess wad? I learnt another skill to swim much properly(cos everytime i swim i have to learn and improve)!

Back home later on, i rested for a little while before the next phrase of excercise begin. I took a run to east coast beach and back home again. Papa Sun loved me so much he gave his rays upon my back. Can't believe in due time i'll be doing worst at Sunny Island BMT.

I decided to whine more like a civillian cos i had been deprived of it in my 6 years of service to NCC. Terrible when i think about going back to that kinda life again soon. Well well, AGAIN. I don't hate it, in fact i kinda quite like it...but the PICKING UP is killing me!

Third phrase of excercise may take place at night. Will see how it goes.

Ending it with an Army Song...

"In the early morning run, with a backpack on my back
with an aching in my heart, and my shirt is full of sweat
I'm a long long way from home...and i miss my lover so
In the early morning run...when the cold wind blows
when the cold wind blows, when the cold wind blows, when the cold wind blows...
and it blow blow blows"
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