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Since March this year, I\u2019ve been slacking and letting my muscles atrophy.<\/p>\n Since March this year, I\u2019ve been slacking and letting my muscles atrophy.<\/p>\n
Why March though? Well during that month, I was spending two evenings per week at the SAFRA Toa Payoh gym to work out. Part of national service obligation individual physical fitness proficiency etc. But I enjoyed the experience: working on those individual stations and running 6-7 kilometres each of those evenings on the thread mill.<\/p>\n
But that was months ago, and after weighing myself recently on the bathroom scale, I realized in abject horror that I\u2019d gained a bit around the waist. So, now that I\u2019m taking a few days of child care leave this semester break to help take care of Hannah, I\u2019ve also resolved to get a bit more physical and keep my tummy at minimally respectable girth.<\/p>\n
Thing is, I can\u2019t run. Since the last 3 months or so, there\u2019s been some pain in my left sole. Think I must have fractured my left ankle from accidentally stepping on too many cables on the ground. So, I\u2019ve turned to hitting the pool each day I\u2019m on leave to swim laps around the pool.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s quite a refreshing experience. As a child, I enjoyed swimming. My two brothers and I each completed our individual bronze, silver, gold and long distance swimming proficiencies before we turned 12 years of age. Unfortunately, after I got to secondary school, aside from the odd week where we\u2019d all head down to the ACS swimming pool for our P.E. \u2013 that\u2019s Physical Exercise, Matt ol\u2019 bud \u2013 sessions, I haven\u2019t swam much anymore.<\/p>\n
Part of the problem is that I absolutely dread swimming in public pools. Way too much human traffic, and there\u2019s been some letters to The Straits Times of the public complaining about how sections of the pool were routinely partitioned off for private swimming lessons.<\/p>\n
So, the pool at The Rivervale has been a god-send, underused by the two of us it\u2019s been since moving here. On weekday afternoons when I\u2019m at home, it\u2019s just me at the pool, alongside a couple of young children playing at the kid\u2019s pool with domestic helpers keeping a loose eye on them and catching up with each other.<\/p>\n
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Oh yeah: the picture’s a HDR merged from 5 shots at +\/- 1 EV. Went easy on the tone map settings too. Taken using the Sigma 18-250mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Since March this year, I\u2019ve been slacking and letting my muscles atrophy. Why March though? Well during that month, I was spending two evenings per week at the SAFRA Toa Payoh gym to work out. Part of national service obligation<\/p>\n