Until yesterday.
My friends and I were at Sunway Lagoon on a high school graduation trip Karen and I organised to the three places.After waiting in long queues for a few dry park rides, we decided to split as some of us, including me were getting tired and restless waiting our youth away.=-=
So, a few guys and girls and me headed for the "beach"(just a pool like thing with coarse sand and water la no big deal la). I was happy to be in water and did some strokes and back floated. As any other swimmer, I'm sure you'd be tempted to test yourself to deeper waters, right??righhhhtt?Well, I did just that.We saw a rope tied across the pool which was located with the water depth of around at least 1.75m.It might have been 1.8m or 1.85, i'm not sure, but all i knew was it was damn deep.
So, I raced my friend to the rope even though I was in casual wear and goggles-less.I was totally oblivious to the fact that I only had a slice of white bread and nothing else in the morning and it was already close to 1 p.m at that time.I tested my strokes and stretched my limbs.How good the water felt.I took a deep breath and started my swim.I felt that I've been swimming for quite a distance but the rope was nowhere in my reach.I kicked the waters and blinked hard to see.The rope was about 5 m away.With a few more strokes, i was already there.I held the rope and was frustrated to discover that it was slung down too low into the water to hold me up above the surface.Yee You found that I was almost breathless and held my hand tightly.I know she meant to help but that made my condition even worse as I couldn't even kick up above the water surface for air anymore.
I tugged her hand away from my wrist , ignored her calls and tried to swim back to the shallow waters.After swimming for a few metres, I found that my energy and strength was already drained.I couldn't swim anymore, I felt so tired, so helpless.I let myself down to the bottom and kicked the tiles hard to raise up to the surface for oxygen.I cried out to my friends frantically and tried to wave to them but alas, no one heard my screams.I've never felt so helpless in my whole lifetime.So terrified.So close to death.
I felt like my life was slowly falling away from me.I used all the energy left in me to kick and kick and kick to go up for more air.Even though i managed to do that, water streamed down my face, covering up my entire face and blocking out the air.I thought of my family, my friends, and air.Am i going to die now?After years in water, am i going to die in it?I'm still so young, am i going to die now?Please, don't let this happen to me.Please, please don't.
My clothes was dragging me down into the water again and again.The weight of it made it even more impossible for me to go up for air anymore and my strength was decreasing steeply by nanoseconds.Finally, I saw a Caucasian lady swimming beside me.I held on to her and whimpered:"Help.". She seemed to be in difficulty too as we were still in deep waters.She held my hand softly and said:"Swim to the front," I immediately let go of her as I knew I might be dragging her down too if I were to hold on to her for too long.I don't want to do that......
I swam a bit more and felt that I was gonna pass out at any moment.
I managed to swim a bit more forward and stood on my toes. I called out again to my friends who were quite a distance away from me after all that struggling.Thank God, they saw me.I was almost closing my eyes when 2 of my friends reached me.
*Thank you so much Rui Heng and Louis..
I held on to RH and he brought me to the shallow waters.Relieved and secured, I took in long breaths .Never had air felt so sweet before.
At last, I was safe.
