swimming & masjid jamek

decided to combine both of 'em (ha! kill 2 birds with one stone..
am i smart or am i smart?)

swimming was fun.. initially i was a bit reluctant.. i mean, i didn't
want to invite thoughts of.. "eeeeekss.. she's so fat!" going arnd in
the heads of my uni friends y'know. ok anyway.. we got a SILVER
for breast stroke relay.. whoopee~! sabena, me, yeeleng & steph
were in one team! only 3 secs behind.. right girls?? hehe.. but i think
i was a bit slow..

if u all know me well enough u'd know i'm not much of a sports
person.. so.. haha.. yea.. that explains it all right??? but i actually
really like swimming, did a lot of that during the hols! of course..
it's more convenient having an olympic sized pool just below where
i stay without any worries of bumping into anyone! :D except my
brothers.. but here in vista.. erm, gotta swim @ like 10 pm to avoid
"human traffic"!

since we're in the renal system right now.. we were sent to dialysis
centres to see how things work there etc. funny enough, when it's
our turn to go, we'll say "i have dialysis tmr laaa..." -_-" sounds
wrong. haha.. typical malaysian english right? always wanna use the
short cut! instead of "i have to go to the dialysis centre tmr".

anyway, the journey there was a hilarious one. quite "membengangkan"
also.. cos first of all, none of us know where it is! (being the first grp
as usual -_-") so we just now it's NEAR masjid jamek lrt. period!
n we happily boarded the lrt (which was when i found out, STAR LRT
is no longer STAR LRT but RAPID KL!! surprise surprise)

happily boarded the lrt!!! n then chun peng was like. eh, u know how
to go to jln hang lekiu ah? i looked at the map but couldn't find it...
uh-oh!!!!! when we arrived at masjid jamek, we looked at another map.
there was hang tuah, tun perak, but NO HANG LEKIU!!! panicked a bit..
then we start asking around for directions. those pakciks working at the
lrt station have NO IDEA. n the kakak who sells kuihs just pointed
somewhere behind.. n burger king workers says it's behind too! -_-"

can u imagine, 8 of us.. trudging along masjid jamek.. not knowing where
to go exactly. hmm.. quite a sight.. especially when we cross ROADS!!!!
chun peng!! u've gotta look at the TRAFFIC LIGHT! :-P me & anu were
always behind.. hence always "almost" being "knocked down" by
accelerating vehicles. oh n did i mention it was drizzling too?!! *splash*

finally, i said, there's gotta be a phone number somewhere.. n so we called.
lo & behold, we were just one street away from it. happily again we
walked there and saw the LANDMARK! *eyes sparkling* JIN HO building.
the nurse said the dialysis centre is beside it. so we crossed yet another
road.. thinking we've arrived. and guess what!!!! the building was actually
right behind US. we didn't have to cross that road..

but the whole session there was fun. cos the patients there are special.
very motivated.. they can hook themselves on to the machine n take it
off themselves. they interact with each other & it's like one happy
family.. (except i guess, being on dialysis isn't exactly something to be
happy about) but what i admired most is.. they made the best out of
their situation.. and they don't dwell in self pity.. but are determined
to live that precious God-given life.. YAY!