It happened during our short trip to Malacca last year. I procrastinated in writing about it again and again due to the after effect that actually, still lingers inside me until today. It’s the emotion of boiling anger, which triggers the impulse to choke someone whenever the thought of it crosses my mind.
In fact every time I try to type the first sentence about this incident, I would start to kick Azman’s shin for absolutely no reason. Then he would get really pissed off and told me after he sent me to get help in Tampoi he would feed Miki KUIH APAM! Only he said it really slowly… kuuihhh aaapaammmmm…. After that the entire citizens of Bandar Kinrara experienced shattering earth quake. As for today I have had a whole bag of Daim candy and have lost the ability to kick anybody without fidgeting like a mad cow. So I guess it is safe for me to write.
We stayed at Mahkota Hotel, Melaka during our trip to historical city. They had nice swimming pools and little Miki just adored splashing in the cool water. So after breakfast we gathered all the necessary things, Miki’s floaties and baby Miki before we dashed to the pool.
Azman was wearing shorts that ten billion other guys in the whole world wear in swimming pools. Miki was wearing cute little Hawaii short on top of his swim diaper. Both handsome guys had no shirt on.
I don’t give a crap about swimsuit, if it isn’t for the pool regulations, I would be happy joining my men swimming in a pair of shorts and one of my skimpy t-shirts. But I obeyed the law and wore my one piece swim suit. It had a plunging neck line and bare at the back. Because I am kampong not so daring, I put on a spaghetti strap top to camouflage with the locals. I don’t want to make it so obvious that I have just gone back from shooting Baywatch. Hehe. BTW,the spaghetti strap top is as black as my one piece and skin tight, so in a glance, I looks like I am just wearing one suit with a normal neckline.
All three of us were having very good mood that day, in fact we were very happy, contented with a big breakfast and with smiles painted on our faces, we were eager to take our son swimming. We wrote down our room no at the life guard’s and take the towels, chose a nice spot at the corner, and we were all ready to jump into the tempting water. Just when we were about to tough the water, one of the life guards stopped us.
He said Azman can’t go into the pool because his shorts were too long.
We were like wtf? We point out to another guy at the pool and his shorts was similar type, how come it was okay for him? The life guard insisted that his shorts was knee length and Azman’s was below the knee. In reality, it was like 3.5 millimeters longer but the guard suggested that Azman rents ‘proper shorts’ from the gym.
It was down right ridiculous. But we were in holiday and not in the mood to argue. We figured they wanted the RM5 rental money, so fine! Azman went and changed.
By the time he came back Miki and I were already in the pool, Miki was excited as always and trying to get out of his floaties. After Azman had joined us for about 2 minutes the ugly life guard came to us again and spoke to Azman. He asked what I was wearing and told me TO TAKE IT OFF!
For your information, the strappy top is skin tight and black in color just like the swimsuit itself. Without scrutinizing, one could never tell that I was even wearing an additional piece of clothing! Has this moronic jerk been microscoping my baju in the water?
What the hell was this guy trying to proof? He said please his manager will take action on him and what not but I was pissed off! My happy mood was gone in that instant and hell no I WON’T TAKE MY SHIRT OFF!
Diyana never have people telling her what to do and this freaking bastard was telling me to bare it or get out of the pool?!! Fine, I got out of the pool.
It was a big issue for me. It was not funny. The swimsuit was already very revealing for me and now I need to take expose some more? This could be a matter of modesty to me. What was his problem? The top won’t hurt anybody! Not even ME! What, the top make me not sexy enough to be in his pool? He wanted to secretly take my photo or what? Eh, memang babi lah..
Miki was just oblivious on what was happening but Azman’s high spirits were dampened too. He just paid five bucks for the silly pants to join his family enjoying the pool only to have his stubborn wife storming out of the water two minutes later.
From then on and possibly until now, I just couldn’t stop bitching about it. We had enjoyed Malacca very much until that freaking moron lifeguard came into the picture. I was just too outraged to even speak to the lifeguard but when we were checking out of the hotel, the pompuan front desk got my bashing on her face!
I asked her what is this hotel’s standard on swimming pool regulations? Olympics’ standard? Mind you we have been to much-much more posh hotel than the cheapo Mahkota Hotel but never were we asked to get out of the pool! She said it’s not the top that matters but the material. Perhaps it was cotton.
So it was okay for the guys to wear shorts of whatever material as long as they were above the knee and the ladies must wear what? Spandex? What what what?
I told her she ruined my holiday and she was sorry.
The life guard was a Malay young ugly boy. He bet he was born hopelessly unintelligent and perhaps just a UPSR drop out that can swim well. I just know this type of people. Low on the IQ, zero on the EQ. Have you not met uneducated people that were given power, even the slightest degree of authority, and started to get revoltingly cocky and use the power with no tolerance what so ever. I have met a few in my life. This one is an example.
Stupid moron jerk!
Note : The word ‘ugly’ has been unnecessarily used in this post. Mind you I only call people ugly and FAT when I am angry. I am not a pig. They asked for it.
Uuu..Uu..ini boleh mendatangkan marah..memang bodoh la life guard tu! =P
Nize, mmg macam sial kan dia?? sakit hati aku…
aku rasa la..life guard tu nak tengok azman je hahahahahahaha..tu sbb dia suruh azman pakai suar lagi pendek sket dan suruh hang keluar dari pool tu hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
mmg bodo la life guard tu dan hotel regulation tu. normally, big big posh hotel, when it comes to malaysian especially kita org melayu ni, they dont give a damn kalau kita pakai apa pun gi swimming pool. kecuali la kalau pakai jeans dgn tshirt atau slack dgn t shirt…hotel itu memang bodo dan bodo sungguh hotel itew.
aaaaaaaa….aku sedang berinternet di tepi swimming pool di sg petani ni…aku rasa mcm nak terjun ler…..tataaaaaaaa
semenjak blog aku kena delete, aku berjiwa kacau..
sabar bani..ko jangan terjun dulu..sebelom aku terjunnn…tidakkkk…!!! =P
Sy setuju mahkota hotel pool mgnt mmg hampeh3x
My hubby pun kena gak sbb short yg dia pakai tu x sesuwei gitu…
tapikan…. diyana, boleh tak hg post kan gambag berbikini itew? muahahah!
Akuni,
ooo ada orang lain pun berpengalaman yang sama la ye? mmg bengap la diorang tu… aku duk hotel 5star pun tak byk cekadak ok!
dah agak dah mesti ada yg mintak gamba.. hehehe… tapi tak sangka la pulak Cik Puan Akuni yang mintak… hahaha… nanti saya upload gambar mandi bogel, tapi gambar Miki lah bukan gambar I.. hahahaa
kesian you..psycho gile lifeguard tue. you know what, you should just kick him so hard down there, that he wished he cud go back to 10 years ago, studied hard and pass his UPSR,PMR and SPM, went for a degree and become someone more than just a psychotic annoying lifeguard. get a life, mamat psycho!!
hmm susah gak itu macam. kang kalau ko pakai two piece string bikini plak pun for sure kena complain gak dengan makcik-makcik yang dok tepi pool.
pakcik-pakcik sure tak complain. 😉
babe.. understand your anger. me n hubby here pun bertekak in the kitchen abt it. stupid fool betul. y’know, hubby said complain to the management hotel of their non-sense policy. this is your chance. ask them to review back their pool regulations. yes, i understand the material (cotton or whatsoever) can leave stain or dirty the pool. but if they asked ur hubby to change into a material that is NOT of lycra or pool material, that just doesn’t make sense!! complain, complain! you paid for your stay INCLUDING their services, you’ve all the right to do it.
p/s: haa..now i can sense the rising temper of a preggie lady ni! hehe!
ehh…ehh…
sapa yang preggie nie? diyana ker miza?
oooo…that ugly fella must be trying very hard to impress his boss. Or probably this is the first time in his life that he was given some “powers” so of course he became over-zealous. i would write to the management about it 😉
1na – miza le preggie. yg tiba2 emo abt other ppl’s problem ni. hehe!
aku tau cerita ni..memang BODOH pakcik guard itu..saje je la tu..buueeekkk~~
tak la gamba kontrovesi itu..awwwwwww~~ 🙂
Salam Diana..
I am an occasional reader of your blog- a lurker i think for the IT savvy. I complement your flair in writing as well as the way you spice things up with humor, sarcasm and pure facts. For that, keep on writing girl.
However, this post has left me thinking the whole morning. you see my dear, it was okay to be angry- well in your case i believe the right word is “livid”. He embarassed you and spoilt your holiday mood. But then again, remember how certain things happen for a reason? Well..lets look back at what you could have learned from the soon-will-be forgotten incident.
Unlike the lifeguard whom you labelled as “moronic’, someone who is highly educated with an exceptionally high level of EQ like you would be able to digest this two cent’s worth of ramblings with a pinch of salt. so here goes..
a) has it occured to you that the Pak Guard is just doing his job based on how he was ordered to carry out his duties? He was actually tactful when dealing with this issue by speaking to your azman about you. Worse senario could have been – picture him shouting at you on top of his lung so that the whole breathing and living things in Melaka could take part in his little scheme. Being a life guard, young or old, i bet they have seen enough half-naked flesh. Yours was not the first.
b) if modesty is an issue for you, i find it ironic that you should put on a Baywatch-material swimsuit. my suggestion is- you should purchase another swimsuit that is less “baywatch” so that whenever the question of modesty comes up, you grab the one that is less revealing. By the way- Baywatch is full of blonde, porn star air heads- be careful with your choice of words.
c)girl- you should wear stuff that you are comfortable in so that you wont be haunted with the thoughts that people are gawking at you and that you could hear jaws dropping every time you walk by. For all you know, the makciks and pakciks dont even care. and for someone who has so much of confidence, why would you care about what they are going to say (silently) of course. looks, too , dont kill.
d) be easy on the insults. Education is not the only yardstick in life. If you ever want to refer to education as a measure of humane act- pause and think. An educated woman with considerably high EQ would not have vented her anger at a helpless “pompuan” counter who was not involved in the whole little swim pool circus.
e)The fact that you told her about 5star hotels that you have stayed in various escapades was irrelevant to the pompuan counter’s life. A lot of 1star mentality people can afford to stay at 5star hotels. what’s the big deal. or perhaps you are implying that the likes of you should only walk among the elites and anything lesser than that, is not worth it?
f)learn to control your ego and erase arrogance bit by bit. if you feel you are going up ..so high now..dont neglect the people that you see on the way because if you fall..you might need them and the higher you are, the harder the fall. Dont look down on those who are less educated than you. in fact, what is the value of a degree now? any ABu, Ah Kow and Muthu can have a degree..so what?
Take a chill pill!
Hi..
i dare you put my comment here! telus la sket..ha hahaaa
hi medusa,
diyana is sleeping after long travel from our hometown.
however, i have the feeling that i would like to say something on this before diyana..
thank you for being an occasional reader of this blog. we appreciated it and diyana might enjoy it as well.
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I dont know what is wrong with your comment…i have to read all 7367 spam queue just to find which one is your comment and de-spam it.
after reading all your comment… i started to wonder….maybe our spamming software is right after all. haha.
medusa,
you ni overr tau!!! i ni kan drama queen… you tak kenal i kerrr?
aww! aww!
ps- thanks for visiting my blog.. 🙂 oh by the way, i dare you leave your link here lah… blog, facebook or friendster… telus la sikit… hahahhaaa
betui la tu…pak guard tu buat keje dgn telus. tapi apsal dia tak telus dgn org lain kan…org lain bole lepas tetiba diyana ngan azman kantoi…hmmmm…telus sungguh pak guard itu dan telus sungguh undang undang di situ.
Medusa,
U remind me of a friend I once had, loves to leave inconsequential comments on matters that didnt affect him for d most insignificant of issues. Needless to say he was a very boring and lonely soul. Maybe d two of u are related. Or maybe it would be a good idea if u guys get to know each other.. keep each other company and take your minds off the need to overanalyse even the most trivial of things!!! If u want his number let me know!
repulsivelyrina,
u remind me of a friend who sat on my chair in front of nize during cimiki Bday…har har har…..
salam,
erm..sorry but i think maybe u shouldn’t have wear that in the first place..?as a Muslim..?
“But then again, remember how certain things happen for a reason?”-medusa.well..i believe EVERY thing happens for a reason..or two..or more.
sorry again..was just saying.peace..:)