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Wednesday, 17 June 2009

SAFRA jurong west

Been going to safra jurong west since the start of this month, I guess I'm now starting to slowly get used to the difference in gym equipment and stuff between this and yishun. But ohwells, went for my first swim at the pool today and gosh, yishun's waaaaay better. Haha.

Okay the best thing about the pool is probably the tanning beds. HAHA. It's not those white plastic ones you find at public pools or condominiums, nor are they those brown wooden ones you find at the other SAFRAs. It's this mesh netting thinggy which is coool! It doesnt get all hot under the hot sun, and it's comfortable to lie on! Yups yuppps..

But that said, here's the top 4 reasons why I really won't wanna go SAFRA jurong west swimming pool....

#4: The size of the lap pool is weirdd. Okay not entirely. It's just that it starts off from 1.2m on one end and just increasingly slopes to 1.8m at the other end. Usually it's 1.2 then slope down to 1.8 plateau in the middle, then back to 1.2 back on the other end. And I think each lap is 50-ish metres, depending on which lane u use.

#3: There are just waaay too many kids. It's just the noise that's getting to me sometimes. I was happily lying there tanning and relaxing and having those this-is-life moments and I get rudely jolted out of my dreamscape with a shrill shriek followed by a series of ecstatic laughter and shouts. -.-

#2: Somehow, so many people love to use the lap pool - for various purposes not meant to be. I mean it's like halfway through doing my laps, I push off from one end of the pool wall and suddenly a towering figure lumbers across right in front of you. Err yarhhh super a lot of people like to move across the width of the pool and it's diagonal some more. Some were piggy-backing-their kids ACROSS the lap poool. GOSH. Okay I know I'm totally bitching here but hey, it's a lap pool wat. And it's not like just one pair of father-kid, it's like this whole shoal of father fishes trying to fishy-back their kids. And they come in waves -.-

#1: And of course the top reason would be simply 'cos it's at the boonlay area. Think jurong island, industrial area etc etc.. Yarhh it's the air. The smell of burnt rubber and chemicals and whatever else floating around in the air which totally reminds me of marmite. I really thought I might turn into a rubberband, or rubber man. Something. Okayy not working. But seriously, one day they might find someone whose health is affected by this weird boonlay smell, and they start rounding up people for rubber-sniffing (think inhalent abuse) or sth...

Alrightts so with all that said, will I still go back to the pool there? Actually yes. HAHA. Alrights there's only one reason alrights, and it's simply because it's convenient for me to head down to the pool right after gym. Yesssss convenience. I'm a lazy dude, so there XD

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So anyways, was kinda thinking about it. Although I'll admit that lil' pesky kids really do get on my nerves, but there's always sth in them that just makes them all so adorable. Maybe it's because they are kids, or because they are innocent and naive and vulnerable, which makes our hearts go out to them. You know, it's like this 'little kids are meant to prance around the open meadows and frolick in the clear waters' type of innocence and simplicity and vulnerability, because they are still untainted and uncorrupted by the world yet.

But then again, are kids really all that innocent? Everytime I ponder about this issue, William Golding's Lord Of The Flies never fails to pop up in my head. Then we also have Susan Hill's King Of The Castle. I'm not exactly sure what my thoughts about all these are. But an incident just now totally struck me.

There was this boy who shouted out to his mum that his friend, who was also at the pool together, says he has gold medal for swimming but then he can't even float lehhh. Was that a simple remark to his mum to show his disbelief at his friend's apparent contradiction, or was that a darker taunt to an adult so as to discredit his friend, or would that be an outright shaming of his friend?

人之初、性本善，还是人之初、性本恶？

啊，这个问题值得我们深思及探讨。

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