Haha sorrie for this late update of recent times, been pretty busy with school work and hardly have time for myself, thus making use of that "free" time to play my KOTOR 2 instead of blogging and watching anime. Well, i'll just run through the recent events of the past week. (This will be quite a long post so bear with me here thanks!)
11th March 2005
Nothing Much, just departed for Mersing then to Pulau Aur, surprisingly the seas wasn't choppy at all. Somehow the sea felt like the best sea i have ever gone diving so far, so calm and smooth journey.
The bad part gotta be the damn Malaysian Customs at Courseway, supposed to be able to leave the dive bags on the coach, then we already cleared customs, yet due to some bastard custom officer, we had to make a second round carrying our dive bags instead, waste of time and energy.
12th March 2005
Joined up with the leisure group instead of the Open Water Course group for my diving. Apparently the Naval Diving Unit (NDU) Demolition Squad was having a "holiday", yea the whole batch of them, about 19 of them. LoL they like a bunch of mofos also, very happening, made this trip very fun.
Tried out Underwater Photography for the first time, and damn it wasn't easy. First you got to beat the buoyancy control, then came the waves, then after we had the exposure problems. Sad to say couldn't find much nudibranch (sea slugs) to use as my subjects, only saw 2 on the whole trip. Got to learn the right settings for Underwater photos, got quite alot of under/over exposed shots.
The best part of this day was seeing my Divemaster (DM) Jimmy get attacked by a Triggerfish! As i was tagging behind taking photos (damn they move so fast had to alway keep up), i saw the whole attack scene. Right after the fish swam away we hastely headed into a different direction. Damn those Triggers are fast stuff. Well the DM suffered nothing on the face (trigger couldn't get a proper bite on it), but his hand... T_T cuts all over due to the teeth. But something for me to remember though LoL.
Night time, Beautiful Skyline, Stars in abundance. Wish i had a DSLR and a tripod to take that night sky, simply beautiful. Will load some of the land and U/W photos i took soon so wait for it. ^.^
13th March 2005
I think i overdid myself for going for 1 more extra dive at the end, in order to take some photos of the open water divers, right after a deep dive and average depth dive, suffered from headache for the rest of the day T_T.
At first wanted to sun-tan on the boat on the way back, but in the end was so tired that i just fell asleep in the seats, stayed up late chatting LoL. Still i had my fair share of sunburns T_T. Overall i found this trip quite rewarding, realised that my diving skills is better than alot of the NDU guys, had great fun, took some nice photos and totally enjoyed my dives. ^.^ Worse part of diving trips....washing of equipment when you're dead tired... T_T
14th March 2005
Hmm...nothing worth noting, besides applying for LOA for the next day. ^.^
15th March 2005
Attended the Japan University Seminar at Suntec today, allowed to skip school due to LOA. Interesting talk, though those pure japanese speaker's english is -.-", had to pay FULL attention to know what they're talking. But well it was fun and interesting, and right now i'm about 70% planning to take my Degree in Japan, hopefully with a scholarship, worse come to worse still got PPMM scholarship, if you're wondering what it is...ask your Pa Pa Ma Ma then ^.^ .
Talk ended earlier than expected, ate pastamania with my other 2 friends instead since we didn't have to go back to school as we got LOA for the whole day. Then after went hope, nothing much else to do.
16th March 2005
Morning, afternoon nothing much. Came evening, got a phone call from Ben at Raffles Place MRT Interchange, apparently they were going out for dinner together with Jakob. Since i haven't seen him in a very very long time (ran to Aussie then to Indo -.-"), decided to go out with them.
Met them at Pooltix (Prinsep), then we had a long discussion of where to go for dinner, eventually ending up at Marchie. After the long dinner, when for some coffee at Coffee Bean at Centrepoint. Then after we split up and went our own ways. I think Kob going back to Indo today right? not too sure but well he'll be back in June so it's alright.
17th March 2005
Some long schoolday for me, 10am to 8.30pm, with most of the time spent on completing the damn PLC mini-project. I totally hate that machine now, and just waiting to toss the damn thing out of the window or something. And yea started reading Dan Brown's ~ The Da Vinci Code today. Interesting stuff, started and couldn't stop reading, completed about half of the book on this day.
TODAY! YAY!!
Had Mechanics II Lab Test, some easy but only carries 6% of my total overall marks. Continued reading Da Vinci Code, and i finished it today!!! Yes it took me 2 days to finish the book. Great book interesting story, however i felt that the ending could be made better, oh well could be just me. Should be starting on Dan Brown's ~ Angels and Demons next week.
Ending off here. Hope i didn't bore you with my long post. And yea i already have a new blog design in mind, most likely will be doing it when my school break starts, right now just too busy. Until next time!!
P.S. Will bring back my Quote of the Day soon. ^.^
