belajar berenang - should I???

Alooo semua ....dah ready ke nak undi sapa esok??? undi jangan tak undi ..kalau tak mengundi tu, dok diam2 ajer lah ...if you dont vote, you are forfeiting your right to have a say (kata aku yang tak dapat nak mengundi coz tak register nama for postal voter masa sampai NZ aritu) ...

sebab aku forfeited my right, maka aku tak nak cakap pasal politik ...aku nak tanya soalan nie ...should I learn how to swim??? bukan apa, I am doing a research on riverine transportation ..akan ke kawasan yang mana pengangkutan sungai adalah satu2 nya kaedah pengangkutan untuk ke destinasi yang aku nak tuju ...bukan calang2 sungai ok ...my case study area is Rajang River - including Baleh and its tributaries ...when i told my friends here about my research, semua excited ...and want to know the area ...want to know the conditions etc ...and i show them the picture ....and when i told them aku nie tak tau berenang ...they find it soooooo ironic ...like my opismate kan ..he was the first person yang kata i should really learn how to swim ...considering i need to travel for my data collection trip nanti ....and especially biler dia tahu aku gi sana aritu tak pakai life jacket semua tu ...orang concerned about kiter le katakan ...hahahaha silalah muntah!!!!

perahu macam nie lah yang akan aku gunakan nanti for my data collection trip

anyway, dia dah offer nak ajar aku berenang way back in April...but aku skeptikal coz aku memang takut nak berenang ...apatah lagi biler dia kata senang ajer ..kang dia tolak ajer masuk dalam kolam ...i was like what??? you wouldnt dare ....he was looking for pools (heated pools) and stuffs aritu and also carik sapa lagi yang boleh tolong dia ajar aku berenang ..knowing that probably aku nie songgel and macam2 alasan .....but kena tunda coz dia nak pergi from NZ for a couple of months .....aku ingat dah tak jadi le kan ....sebab no news since the last time we talked about it ...until two weeks ago masa party tu, ntah macam mana kuar conversation pasal swimming lagi ...this time coz ada minah nie, dia baru balik from her travel round the world with her bf ...merata tempat dia gi for a year and a half, dia siap postponed study dia so that boleh jalan2 round the world (aku kata kat my friend, i wish to do like that huhuhu ...and my friend kata, we have to find a rich bf if we want to do that lol ...terus aku ingat kat Fendi lol!!!!) ...anyway, dia cerita lah how she loves swimming and masa dia travel tu mmg hari2 dia swim coz ada pool etc...and my german friend nie terus cakap ....ehhh, you tak tau berenang kan? and yet you are doing this research on river kata nya ...said she could teach me ...i said i will think about it bla bla bla (aku memang banyak alasan ok ...coz aku takut nak berenang) ...somehow, that conversation telah didengari oleh my opismate ...tapi dia diam ajer hahaha so i thought aku dah menang ke kan ...berjaya menepis offer nak ajar aku berenang ...


and the issue crop up again two days later ...dia kata dia dah kata nak ajar aku berenang ..so dia akan ajar aku berenang ..cuma kena tunggu dia balik ....aku ingat dah lupa lah kan janji itu ..coz au memang harap ianya tak ditepati lol ....dia kata it is good for me to know how to swim ...considering the conditions that I will face kan ...kata nya ...and he also said that senang kalau tau berenang ...NZ banyak activity berasaskan air ..so I will have the opportunity nak enjoy activiti2 itu ....i said i think about it ...and guess what, jumpa sv pun sv dok pesan soh aku belajar berenang ...looks like semua nya nak aku berenang ...especially after they seen my fieldwork photos ....Kak Shidah pun encourages me to learn how to swim ....dia in fact start her lesson lusa ..i cannot join her coz kelas dia tues petang ..clashes with my class pulak ,,,Maryam pun dok soh aku belajar berenang ....aku check dah kelas2 renang kat sini ...mahal weiiiii ...and pools are out of town sket ...kat Karori, Tawa and Johnsonville ada heated pool ....kalau private pool lagi expensive ....hahaha excuses lagi kan??? so tak tau le macam mana ....deep down aku tau i should give it a try ...but aku takut at the thought tenggelam timbul dalam pool ...aiyoooo

saw this and immediately thought "aku faham perasaan mu wahai kucing"

hahahaha just cannot help myself ok!!!

aku nak sebenarnya berenang ...but cannot bring myself to learn how to swim ...perasaan gementar menguasai diri ...semalam sv kata, belajar lah ..tak rugi pun ...in fact selain dapat PhD, aku dapat new skill iaitu berenang kata nya .... deep down, i know i should ....but whether I can force myself to "belajar" swimming is another matter ....