Swimming reborn

Went swimming today with Andy and Heng at SLC at around 6.40pm-ish; I decided to go for swimming only instead of gym since I felt swimming allows my body to be tired out “properly”, whereelse gym tires certain parts of your body in high concentration levels.

I’m already feeling the effects now as I type.

The glorious, glorious swimming pool.

This was also my first time wearing proper contact lens to the pool (I did wear once before when Toshi was brought to the swimming pool at Court 8, but that probably doesn’t count since the lens gave me headaches). I had crystal-clear vision with no headaches at all (zomg, an accomplishment), and I felt absolutely euphoric.

If you think it’s strange for me to feel strongly about something that way, just because I could see while swimming, you know you’ve taken for granted the 20/20 vision you possess. My power is around 500-ish.

As I dived gracefully jumped abruptly into the pool, sunk myself in, surfaced and stared at the beautiful, gleaming, yellowish Sunway surroundings, I felt utterly at peace. To be able to see them, at last, after several visits to this place for the past several weeks, without the obstructions on my face that is my rimless spectacles. And I can finally see while submerging underwater with my goggles. Finally. It’s like getting back your virgin eyes!

The water was freezing cold due to the rain several hours earlier, and after completing several laps of abhorrent and uncompetitive swimming I displayed, I felt tired, and shiveringly cold. When Heng was done with his gym session and joined us for a while, we both went to the jacuzzi which turned out to be oh-so-comfortably warm. The bliss of jumping from an icy-cold pool to warm ol’ jacuzzi is any man’s definition of heaven.

And bloody hell, I walked back to the locker room shivering, and the what could possibly be a -10 degrees Celcius waft of extremely cold air made me bite on my towel to prevent myself from stuttering on my teeth. It was just so cold.

With my new-found trial contact lens, I can also finally shower without getting blurry visions (not like there’s anything else to see <_<). I brought my own bottle of shampoo from my own toilet since I’m too lazy to re-shower at home to get rid of the chroline clinging onto my hair.

Andy and Heng walking out from the men’s toilet.

We went to Meng Tien Restaurant, and ordered curry mee which was the best I’ve ever eaten. It’s not any usual curry mee.. the herbs they added puffed out some unique flavour which tasted so bloody good, and even though I’m inherently a spicy food intolerant, I gulped the whole curry down anyway, ignoring my overworked sweat pores.

Me eating curry mee (RM4.30 for the ‘small’ bowl). I ordered zhing min but the dude gave me a mix of meehoon and mee. =___= Oh well at least it tasted good.

Ming Tien, literally means ‘tomorrow’ in Mandarin. If you squint properly you can spot that curry mee stall.

Jon phoned us while we were on the way back (around 10pm-ish), so went out to Syed Ariff and joined Jon and his church friends..watched the final 20 minutes of Croatia vs Costa Rica which ended with 3-0.. it was pretty good.

Just drank for a short while and left after the match ended, reached home at about 11pm-ish.

Not too bad of a day. :)

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Played with Google Earth almost the entire day, and heck was it fun. XD Finally discovered that enabling the ‘Google Earth Community’ layers will display a wide variety of names submitted by said community, which are names of popular areas, buildings, etc. Otherwise, the whole bloody thing won’t show you any names, save for names of major cities. >_>

An example:

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Damn chun hor. Like, that’s when you’re zoomed out. Try zooming in and see, and more names will pop out (although the quality of the image isn’t good in Malaysia.. compared to US and HK and all >_>). I’ve even added my own house, and other friends’ houses nearby just for fun. :)

Feel free to share your coordinates with each other via MSN, since I feel it’s unsafe to post ‘em here. ;P