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Woohoo!!

finished an awesome weekend of diving.
6 dives in 2 days, 4 on sat, incl a nite dive and 2 on sunday.

doing 4 dives on sat was a killer.
i'm not exactly v fit to begin w, so it was definitely physically draining...
but the moment i put on my wetsuit, gear up and enter the water, the fatigue is gone until u have to fin on the surface to some location a distance away.

fotos are all on fb. so pls check them out over there. i'm too lazy to upload here on blogger.

sat was a real scorcher, w the sun beating down mercilessly.
and my 30min lie-down in the sun, gave me a lobster-red glow, which in turn, developed into sunburn.
as a result i also got a real sexaye tanline. across my body. in fact, there's only 3 lines - 1 across the waist, and 1 across each thigh.

took leave today in the morning so i can sit in the ac room and cool down, while dousing myself in Burnaid for pain n burn relief.

but the food there was pretty shiok!
when we first arrived at 3.30am, ben n i each got ourselves a ramly burger coz we were hungry.
tho we bought snacks, i din wana eat them coz i wanted hot food.
so dat was round 1 den off to bed for 4 hrs b4 we got up and started diving.

after 3 day dives, ben n i, again, went to have prata. damn shiok la.
nothing beats having a nice prata after a long day of diving.
after our prata, we went to look for jacq who had to do her theory test to get her open water.
and while waiting, we had a bit of jacq ice kachang, dat was also shiokness.

did my nite dive after dat.
nite diving is definitely something different.
for one, u need a torch to look at the little stuff dat's going on.
but the fishes u see darting and swimming ard in the day are all juz floating motionless in the water.
did a couple of drills underwater and we went on looking ard for interesting stuff.
1 diver said he saw 2 bamboo sharks. but i din see them. so it was a rather quiet dive for me. but dat's good enough coz i was really tired.

packed up my gear after the dive and went back to the room for a nice cold shower, and den it was dinner.
bbq seafood and meats w fried rice or fried noodles. food was not too bad.
but came the real treat, the super shiok ice kachang. guess it's shiok coz they put a bit of milo powder on the top.
so the milo gives it a fair bit of oomph.

but while we were halfway thru it, the wind started to pick up and it got REALLY cold.
so having ice kachang while the cold wind is blowing at u is indeed a really interesting experience.
i quickly finished up the ingredients and we were back to our room, getting our much needed rest for the next day's dives.

woke up the next day, feeling tired and slightly achy. did think of skipping the first dive.
but somehow, once i got to the boat, i juz suited up and jumped in.
i'm glad i went on dat dive, coz got quite a few nice fotos from dat dive, incl a foto of 3 barracudas and a nice foto of a clownfish in the anemone.

came up, rested a bit, and did my last dive, which included a underwater navigation drill involving moving in a triangle n a square pattern. did both w/o a hitch and went on to enjoy the dive some more. came up, packed our dive gear and the moment we hit land,
ben n i went straight to the prata shop for food.
so lunch for me was 1 plate of mee goreng, 1 prata kosong, 1 prata bom which is basically planta butter n condensed milk, followed by 1 ramly beef double special. on top of dat, i had 1 teh and 1 teh tarik. shiokness to the max man.

after dat, went to shower and packed our bags to leave tioman liao. thankfully there wasn't much of a jam at the checkpoints.
so we were back in clementi ard 7.30pm i think. had dinner, den went home.

dat was truly a fun adventure. but i dun think i'll kill myself doing 4 dives in a day.
congrats to jacq for completing her open water course as well.
welcome to the diving fraternity! she's super excited abt diving now. wanting to go for another trip.
so we'll see when we can go for one more. my best guess will be ard aug/sept but we'll see... we'll see...