To Learn to Swim

I have been thinking. We Malaysians r sooo very lucky. We have such beautiful beaches almost everywhere... even if u live in the city, the beach is let us say maximum 2 hours drive from the beach??? And yet quite a lot of us do not know how to swim.... (my assumption)

Take me for instance. .. As i was growing up.. before istanbul, my home was in Penang n later langkawi n then again Penang....Much too often, i went to the beaches.... countless batu feringgi..countless pantai tengkorak... Yet for those 24 years... had i learnt to swim??? Did i know swimming??

I would put that to fear. In my case, nobody ever offered to teach me to swim. My dad being a custom marine officer (before retiremnent) naturally knows how to swim. but he never offered to teach me to swim.. well to be fair, he was away most of the times anyway.. and i had this one case of almost drowning experience in telaga tujuh when i was in form 3 (do u still remember mat kie?).. if My teacher dearest cikgu Hashim had not rescued me, i would be an arwah at the moment..u would be referring to me as the late simah right now...i owe cikgu hasihm my life i think.. so my fear of swimming was only natural even if my dad had offered to teach me..

To think again, without the case of *almost drowned* thing..i think i would have still be afraid to learn to swim....My personal opinion is.. for everyone..to learn to swim.. the enemy of learning how to swim is not the technique itself.. it is the fear within oneself..

To float in the water.. it is easy enough.. let urself free..u can float...as easy as ABC..i think everyone can do it...What made people cannot swim is this fear..the fear that * i will sink*..I started to brave myself to swim when i was in my matriculation years in PPP...I remember how we girls used to book a bus n together we all went to the itm pool for an hour or two.. At that time even i could somehow swim.. i could go to the deeper part .. but this one fear that i would sink affected my logics n made me a coward in the water regardless of the times Mary or sham meow or dayah tried to persuade me not to be afraid.. i was still afraid till the end of my tertiary education..

I was still afraid even after i came to turkey. Slowly with halil's persuasion i managed to overcome my fears. I was a weak swimmer then..The SEA?? woah.. i never dared go anywhere deep..at least not where my feet could not touch.. It was that one çeşme trip..where we stayed at Afife Teyze's summer house there for a week n Meşelar was there as well that for the first time, together with halil, i actually went swimming in the sea....That was the first time there were people (Meşe n teyze) who looked after the kids at the beach while halil n i romantically swam together..n he taught me a few techniques on how to avoid the waves..etc..etc..etc..
I never look back after that..the only problem is.. halil wont let me swim anywhere else other than edremit..n since hatice will start her pre schooling soon.. edremit is like a bye bye for us for a very very long time... tu la yg nak balik mesia.. nak berenang...

When i look at hatice n baddin.. again what held them back in the early stages of swimming is the fear *i will sink*. Alhamdulillah hatice had overcomed that fear..but baddin is still much too full with it.. how do u overcome that *i will sink* feeling?? i have no idea..do u know?? Would u like to share it with me? For myself, it was halil's gentle persuasion. For hatice it was Zeynep who subconsciously acted as her motivator...baddin? i dunno...

To learn to swim in the pool vs to learn to swim in the sea..which one is easier?? There r the pros n cons of course. For instance;-

---- if u learn to swim in the sea, the salt water supports ur weight. Therefore, u swim much much easier. What about the waves?? It does affect the swimming lesson right? To have the waves splassssssssssssh on u all the time as u try to swim....i dunno..what do u think?

----if u learn to swim at the pool, there will be no waves. But no support as in the salty water. Hence, u swim much much more harder...but at least if u r afraid u can touch the ground. But then, that would be bad coz u wont be forced to overcome ur fears.


What do u think? What about U?


It feels funny though..ı was living in Malaysia n i took the beach for granted ..now i am somehow without it...my heart longs for it... i suppose all my life trees n beaches..they i adore...i still dream a lot of them..

Hatice n her new swimsuit
Pink as usual


Baddin n his new swimming trunk
Red coz he loves spiderman


Both siblings posing together

I will go missing again..the usual place.. will be back before the 20th... U can guess our activities by now there.... i have an armut (pear) tree to finish....that is my mission this sapanca hehehehehehehe

scientific fact:1. pear, cherry n apricot helps u go (buang air besar)
2. peach does the opposite.
If u have diarrhea (i think this spelling is wrong)...dont eat anything else but boiled potato without even the salt. Eat loads of banana to help strengthen the body. Drink loads of plain water...roll coffee with lemon juice or lime juice into small balls. swallow it.it helps..

HAVE A NiCE DAY EVERYONE and DONT FORGET TO SMİLEE!!