this tered still at first page so less pipu swim ar..

still trying to pickup my stamina in swimming. been stopping for too long. i remember last time max i can maintain my breath for 2 laps with breast stroke

Just had one last Monday when I was doing laps there was this bunch of Pinoy ladies not doing anything but just standing in the middle and chatting. It's very irritating.

Well, I purposely kicked hard, got my legs out of the water. They only got the hint after 5 or 6 laps. 1 off incident maybe. Pool was clear when I went yesterday. Here's hoping it's clear today as well.

Haha! the competitive swimmer was a long long long long loooooooooooong time ago. After I stopped, i immediately gained so much weight and very hard to even catch up to that speed anymore. And now it's freaking hard to lose those fats, have to rely on diet really. 30% exercise and 70% diet.

Swimming pool is really hard to come by in Malaysia, because Malaysia is not a swimming friendly country, same goes to cycling etc. Unlike in the USA and Australia - Swimming pools. Swimming pools everywhere!

Condo pools usually are not rectangular pool, because most of them are designed for people to play water, hence it is not preferred for swimming laps. Serious swimmers usually will look for rectangular pool or at least Olympic-length pool. Finding an Olympic-size condo pool is like dredge for a needle in the sea. Go to public pool instead. But bear in mind most of them are not Olympic-size pool, they are just Olympic-length.

Alex Lim Keng Liat has won a gold medal in the 1998 Asian games in the 100m backstroke event.

Yes, no new talent for the past 10 years. The Asian swimmers have improved by leaps and bounds as Japan and China usually rule the pool. If Malaysians can get medals in the Asean arena, it is good enough. Now we are lacking behind Singapore vastly due to the emergence of a new breed of powerful swimmers, mainly Joseph Schooling who can give the Japanese and Chinese top swimmers a run for the money.

Well that's... pretty looong time lol   
Never too late, you pretty much got the right idea, diet does play a huge part in weight control.
For me, if exercise doesn't cut it, control the diet, and vice versa, has to be balance to see the outcome.
And taking food before bed time and gobble up lots of food in one meal are also bad eating habits that may lead to undesired weight gain... or so i believe
And utmost, the lesson learned from you, do not stop swimming for too long, LOL
Damn, I gotta find a way to get back into swimming 

The floor all round pool area, I slip & direct fall in to pool water, lucky not fall on the floor...      I already direct complaint to manager there. 

Holy cow. When I was there, it wasn't that slippery at all. Glad to hear that you fell into the pool water and not the floor     

You're welcome 
I went there yesterday for the 6 to 8 session as well. One thing to note about is the pool water seems to be a bit murky. Not sure if it was due to the constructions nearby. Even with my goggles on, I can't really see anything further than 5 meters away when I'm underwater lol. I guess this is the only downside as of now.

What did you knock your head against that time? Big bruise for a week sound serious to me 

Ouchhhh! Is the pool wall OK? Any cracks on the pool wall?     

I think the pool management does not have alternative because their changing room is in the pool area.

I think last week got an incident where a swimmer tries to wet himself prior to swimming using the shower outside. Then instead of coming out cool water, hot water was pouring out, burn his skin a bit i think. He is wearing swim trunk and naked on top. Then i saw him complaint, pack up and went home directly already.

I think I was lucky didn't use that shower head. I felt sorry for that guy.

My god!!!! That is horrible!! Thanks for info again.

I cannot be 100% sure, but i keep hearing the guy says hot water hot water.
and then I saw several staff gather around the shower head. I knew something must be wrong because that guy looks seriously pissed.

So just to be caution, next time i will open little water to test the temperature first before turn it to fully open.

Unfortunately, I don't think so. 

it's all relativity. 25% bodyfat will float better than 10% bodyfat. Swimming is one of the rare sport where fatso tends to perform better than lean people.

wow .. nowadays swimming lessons can be so expensive ..

erm ... not really need to be good in swimming to play water polo .. (im not those competition ppl, just fun game) ..
as long u wont sink and able to swim then you are good to go ...

how long i swim ... ermm ... my sister teach me swim when i form 1 (now im 30 years old uncle already ..  ).. so till now i know breast stoke jerrr ...
want to learn freestyle very much .. still self learning ... (ya .. still learning .. unable to swim in freestyle also ..  )

30 years old is still very young especially for guys.

Well, i'm targeting to learn freestyle for my very first swimming stroke. Actually, what stroke is easiest to learn?

i will say breast stroke ... cause my sister just teach me how to kick and how to crawl .. then everything self learn ...
ya .. normally i will see how people swim then try to imitate .. 
slowly then can swim ..
but free style ..  till now still not kick well but at least have improvement (ya .. it moving ... slowly .. )

luckily nowadays have youtube .. so can see from youtube .. last time no youtube then need see how people swim at the pool ..

not many friends are interested in swimming. they are more to body building like going to gym which i think is super overrated. Managed to find a friend but he ditched me about 1 hour before we promised to meet at the entrance of the swimming complex. 

most probably i will go to swim alone from now on. Very tired of 'begging' others to go.