Self-portrait: Swimming Spectacles

After almost a month of hiatus, I finally drenched myself in the pool again.
(And now I have goggle eyes, haha!)

Swimming, I miss

It's been almost two weeks and I haven't touched the pool for another swim. Maybe that's why I've been ill lately. LOL. I just miss swimming...

Anyway, for all you people out there who want to learn swimming the e-FISH-ient way, you are fortunate 'cause I'm informing you now that swimming classes for kids and adults are conducted at Colegio de San Agustin swimming pool area in Dasmarinas Village, Makati. The swimming classes are headed by a group of swimming professionals and enthusiasts who have undergone training the Total Immersion way (Click the link to learn more about this swimming program). The course is typically a learn to swim program that utilizes the basic stroke, the front crawl, which is popularly known as freestyle.

Swimming freestyle efficiently is very advantageous for those who are into triathlon or for those who plan to venture into such activity. I tell you, if you learn freestyle the Total Immersion way, you'll surely swim it with ease and grace (I can attest to that, as I have employed the program's principles to my swimming routine).

If you want to know more about the swimming classes, you may click here.

At the pool, the Internet, and Hong Kong

Today's one of those boring days when I get do nothing significant on my desk, and I just fiddled on my laptop's keys trying to suffice my drying wetware's insatiable need for input (LOLz!). Surfing aimlessly and whimsically the web was a common reflex of my antsy psyche, trying to focus itself into something worthwhile and somewhat productive task.

Browsing the multifarious dimensions of the Internet, I bumped into quite a number of web sites that merely tempted my mercurial appetite. For a while, everything just seemed to be futile. So, I thought of doing something a little less non-productive then. Since my Hong Kong trip is fast approaching, I decided to check out some travel guides and travelogues regarding this Chinese territory.

Below is a rundown of the sites I bumped into (Some of these I have already browsed months ago). You might also find them helpful if you are planning to sojourn to HK. :)

1. Discover Hong Kong - The Hong Kong Tourism Guide
   
2. Hong Kong Food Guide - It has a good collection of food shops and restaurants ranging from the budget type to the high-ends.
3. MTR Customer Website - Everything you would want to know regarding the MTR's operation through the HK Islands. This offers some helpful maps, travel tips for tourists, and other relevant and useful infos. I myself prefer to use the MTR extensively during my stay there. It's seemingly practical and cost-efficient, pretty like how the MRT is.
4. Octopus Card Website - Anything you want to know about the Octopus Card, the ubiquitous monetary transaction medium of most services in Hong Kong, is found here.
5. Hong Kong Disney - Hong Kong Disney's English Website. You may reserve tickets here.
6. Ocean Park - This is the English portal to the largest aquarium in the world. A lot of tourist information is available here e.g. how to get here?, rates.
7. Lonely Planet Hong Kong - It has a number of tourist tips concisely written for a common traveler. You might find the hotel/hostels review here reputable

Aside from these websites, I knocked into a couple other interesting ones, though not HK-related.

1. Hug Nation - This is an advocacy about the significance of hugging and what it can do to other people's lives. People needs hug, and so do I (It's just too bad my parents are not very touchy. Hence, I do not receive hugs. Huhuhu... Can someone hug me? [LOLz!])
2. Logue It! - It's BootsnAll's network of online travel guides. If you travel a lot and loves to write about your sojourns, you might be interested to apply to this website as an author. Yes, they accept writers who has the passion to transcribe their travelogues on the web. And yes again, you get paid for writing.
   

Apparently, that's what had transpired in my 9-hour stay in this cold office....
I get paid to do my own stuff here, who gets the luxury of that? (LOLz!) Kidding aside, it doesn't feel good and it's not always nice to be like this. Next time, I'll do something more productive. Hehe. (By the way, I actually did some "work", if I'd say, just an hour ago. Hehe.)

---<<--- Before the start of my day in the office, I went swimming again! Woohoo! It was a fine morning at the pool, with cloudy, shady skies and intermittent rain fall. There were pleasantly few people, with no kids around. In the dressing room, there was this weird guy who seemed to be looking at me for most of the time. I don't know why but he seemed to assimilate the gestures the voyeur had when I encountered the latter.

I was pretty much successful refining my freestyle this morning. The body twisting and balance problems I had last Saturday were gone, and I had determined the causes of my difficulties then. Also, it was my first time to do a 30-meter fly without ever panting. It seemed that my body undulation was improving.

I just can't wait for my next swim! :)
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A purported gay voyeur sneaking on me

Yesterday, as I was doing my regular swim at a sports complex, I saw again this gay chap. I said to myself, "He's here again. I bet he's going to peep on me again if we bathe at the same time". Well, I can attest to my prejudice supposition because the last time I took a bath in the nude, he was restlessly peeking on my private parts.

And so, I continued my swim. Fifteen minutes later, the lanes were getting more and more crowded (now being shared by 3 people). I couldn't do my routine effectively; so, I decided to leave the pool and head for the men's bathroom to clean up. Surprisingly, this gay chap followed and went to take a bath also (This was was a bit weird 'cause he usually swims for an hour. Well, I don't know if he had the same reasons as I did for stopping.).

In the bathroom, I occupied the same spot - the less revealed area since the room had no door and is widely viewable from the dressing room. As I was soaping my body (not yet naked. I only remove my swim trunks just before I loofah), he went inside and got a spot right next to me. And so, as suspected, the violation of the sneaky-eyed gay chap had once more transpired soon after I started scrubing). I wasn't looking straight in his face to check if he was eyeing on my phallus. My periphery sufficed me well to affirm my assumption - he was peeping again. And what's more, when only the two of us were left in the bathroom, he lowered his swim trunks and occasionally fondled his tool while gazing at mine.

Frankly, I did not feel really violated by what he did. As far as I can recall, it's not even at par to the sexual irreverences I've experienced in the past. I was more of apathetic then; I just simply ignored every salacious look and self-fondling he did while I was finishing my scrub and bath. Abashment was what I felt for him; If his motive was to seduce me to grope or fondle with him, well sorry for him, I don't answer to such invitation.
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