I've been doing my morning swims for the past month. Well, ever since i found out that i'd busted both my knees i took up swimming again. Worn out knee caps on both legs, thats what the doc had said. Basically, im off all sports which require stress to be placed on my knees now. (Hmmm..actually not really, theres always the weekend soccer treat every saturday evening. Haha) Yah, I've been taking cartilage builders, receiving hydro-therapy (which explains my swimming). Well we'll see how it goes from here.
Anyway, this entry is to showcase the different groups of people who display terribly anti-social behaviour. It pisses me off that i as a paying member of the public have to endure such inconsiderate and terribly selfish conduct. And so, I've decided to flame them on my blog.

(1)Learner Swimmers and their instructors
Wah, this group terrible lah. Riles me everytime i swim with learner groups in the pool. Firstly, the kids (learners) barge and bulldoze their way through the lanes. They dont care if you are swimming in the opposite direction and are coming head-on. They just barge their way through. If you dont want to have to hit them and have their parents cal you a bully, you'll just have to LanLan suck thumb and swim around them. Its not that i find it a chore to swim around someone once in a while. But i really get pissed off when i have to do that EVERYTIME to the same person sharing the lane with me. Also, these groups take up fucking lot of space! Basically, their instructors are kinda retarded. They dont seem to know that a pool has less than 10 lanes. So they happily take up 3-4 lanes for their own learner group. ALthough they dont stipulate that the 3-4 lanes taken up is solely for the learner group's usage, no one in the right frame of mind would probably want to squeeze with 10 or more inconsiderate and noisy kids in the space-starved 3-4 lanes. So imagine when there are 2 learner groups going on simultaneously..utter chaos man! The rest of the public have like only 3 lanes to themselves lah! So all you damned swimming instructors of Bedok swimming complex, do spare a thought for the rest when you conduct your classes can?

(2) The old geezers
Ok. I've got nothing against age in the first place. But all (or most) of the old men who frequent Bedok Swimming Complex all display the same trait. They LANE-HOG! Plus when you try to share the lane with you, they'll give you the "I came here first so fuck off punk" look. After you've gone to Bedok to swim enough, you'll probably not be able to tell the difference between an old geezer swimming there and a dead body floating in the Mississipi River. Swimming at the speed of an ant with arms flailing at their sides and head looking down at the bottom of the pool, you'll only notice that seem alive when they sporadically lift their head up at great effort to draw in a gasp of much needed air. Besides that, they seem to drift at the mercy of the "currents" of the pool. Well, I'd like to reiterate again, i dont have any issues regarding age but what really pisses me off is that they swim so slow yet act as if they own the lane. You'll have to endure disgusted glances and cold glares from these senior swim geezers and yet do your very best to try to get out of their way when you swim head on toward them. And when they finish their swim they will gather together in their clique (oh yes, they all come swimming together one.) and bitch about how the youths today have no "swimming etiquette"! SMLJ lah? Its a public pool for goodness sakes can? Well, not unless you use your pension money to buy your own lane lorr!

(3) The silent "snipers"
This bunch also very irritating. They just camp at the edges of the pool standing around trying to look "cool" hoping that they can attract some babe's attention. They often seem nonchalant but throw furtive and calculated glances around the pool looking for targets. Needless to say, the targets is the reasonable bikini clad babe. These horny fuckers just stand around and survey for the entire duration of their "swim". They dont even attempt to work out. Also, needless to say, the only muscles that feel tired are their optical ones after their "swim". Hell, I'm not against oogling at babes. I mean, c'mon we're all guys. But then again, theres a place and time for this. Definitely not when the pool is already so fucking crowded and you just stand there and take up space such that when i swim, i dont have a clear pathway to swim through.

And last and definitely not the least,

(4) The Mudz
This group everybody loves to hate. Can't you guys do something for once to at least try to make the public adore you? Firstly, swimming with them is totally disgusting. They just jump into the pool with some shorts and swimming gear. And what turns me off most is that they wear their undies to swim. How gross is that lah! All their sweat, essence of their undesirable parts of their anatomy and god-knows what-else in their boxers/briefs goes woosh into the pool. Plus they joke, make a fool of themselves in public, become very noisy....yadda yadda (normal mud behaviour). Well, I still remember the other day when we went to the pool and we saw two female malays who who in the pool already. They had on this suit which was like a tudung lah. Covered every single part of their body except their eyes! Yes I'm not shitting you, and they were in the water! Can you believe it? They looked like some palestine female suicide bomb squad!

Disclaimer: When i say mudz, i dont mean to pinpoint all Malays. Most Malays I know are nice and sincere people and i treasure their friendship. The group I term mudz are youg, rowdy malay punks who only seem to be able to make clowns out of themselves.

Well, phew, my frustrations are finally aired. Since my frustration slate gets wiped clean tonight I'd keep my uncompromising glares and my snide remarks which i normally blatantly air to myself when i encounter certain miscallaneous dudes in the pool.

Anyway for those who read Kenny Sia's blog, I'm fucking XIAXUE!!! Wth lah. Kenny you sure your personality test zun anot?

Congratulations yy, you are...

'Xia Xue' Wendy Cheng of xiaxue.blogspot.com

You are a goddess/god. You've got the looks, the brains and the body. You have such an irreverent sense of humour, people listen to you religiously and worship the ground you walk on. On the other hand you can also be straightforward, blunt and very very controversial. That has the potential to offend many people, but of course you don't care, you just shoot. In the end, people either love you or hate you. Nothing in between.

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