This is almost the last day of the year and I think I spent it the way I always have been. I went for a swim and amazingly (even until now) it didn't rain.

In fact with the abundant sunshine and slightly cold water, the swim today reminded me (again) of the swims in Phuket earlier the year. But a swim in the pool is never the same as the one in the sea - there is no sand, no sea bed, you almost cannot see the sky (more of a surrounded-by-HDB view), no wave (people swimming past you in the pool with big strokes splashing water all over the place don't count) and there is no adventure. The swim in the pool is always one straight line to the end (there is an end even) and back (but sure one will grumble if some fellow cuts your line/swims into your lane).

I recalled swimming along that safety rope (I supposed so) out in the Phuket sea towards the end that I cannot see, I recalled swimming around the tiny white-sanded island, I recalled snorkeling the sea with waves pushing me backwards.