Sunday, August 12, 2007

Empowered for More...

I just came back from a swim.
Draped in much flab and fat, i was amazed by how much ease i managed thirty laps, without much stopping in between, except to clear my googles. I haven't really exercised for the past few months.
I must sound like someone with a super huge ego, but i'm really flabbergasted by my stamina. I must be a superwoman in my previous life. Haha.
But swimming in a public pool on a Sunday morning isn't much of a pleasure. Not when the pool is packed with kids with raging hormones bent on being juggernauts, kicking and splashing their way through the pool in one straight breath, determined to ascertain who the Great One is to reign the pool.
Thank goodness I emerged alive from the crossfire, save for some internal injuries sustained from kicks by the darned ones who lived in their own Universe.
Oh well, the things you have to put up with when you need to fight flab.

Oh and when i was at the carpark leading to the sports complex, i saw the tarmac floor littered with tiny dots, remnants from the parking coupons that car-owners had conveniently poked, plucked and thrown.
I was disgusted. Argh. It reminded me of a phrase i always use in class "With freedom comes responsibility". You can have all the freedom, do whatever you want, but only when you know how to act responsibly. If you can't, you have deprived yourself of that right to freedom.
And i quiver at the thought of whether we are ready to have less rules and regulations in our nation, when we can't even have the basic civic-mindedness to even throw litter at places where they should belong. And i hate to admit that sometimes rules and regulations are necessary, thanks to such people.
And then i remembered why chewing gums were banned. Some idiot decided to stick the gum on the door of the mrt, and the door got jammed, stalling the entire train system. It sounds like an over-simplistic explanation, but it was one of the reasons. What were these people thinking?
I fail to comprehend.
Sigh.
Bring me to utopia.

2 Comments:

At 8:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG~ Welcome to my world! From the pool to the squeezing of brows at the thought of irresponsible citizens.. Oh yes. A tip for swimming on weekends: Grow your nails and sharpen them. Will be really useful for self-defence.

 
At 10:27 AM, Blogger Slacker said...

Oh dear... im gulity of the little dots you find in carparks sometimes too... OPS..

 

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