small victories

Last night, I swam more than I ever did - eight laps of freestyle!

Due to an accident at my first swimming lesson, I hate putting my face in the water. So whenever I was in the pool, it was with a lifesaver or backstroke.

After watching Riding Giants, a surfing movie, two years ago, I knew that I will one day want to learn to surf. Well, got to swim first.

Even living at great places with pools, I never could go for more than 2 laps. It's just so traumatizing.

Well, with a friend's encouragement and her great pool, I finally did it! It was a break through for me. Today, I have been on cloud nine. Who knew that it took something so small to change my whole outlook? Cannot wait to go to Hawaii and learn to surf next!

the art of rejection

I have been polling my friends about how to reject men romantically. The one drawback about going on lots of dates with people is that there are rejections, on both sides. Almost everyone says to be direct, but I tried that and just don't think it's me.

I've been rejected enough times to know that it's not fun being on the receiving end of one of _those_ speech. One cannot be nice about it.

What's easier is to allow people to see for themselves why the relationship would never work. I am always my crazy self, so more often than not, men know exactly why they wouldn't want to be involved with me long term...

Besides, it cannot be easy to date someone who is just not quite ready to settle down just yet...