Wednesday 19 aug 2009
Alarm sounded at 7.20. Snoozed thru 10mins.
Woke up still coz I wana dive!
Going to faroud, a oil tanker wreck.
Faroud was a damn cool dive.
Swam across open water for abit, den slowly e shape of e stern comes into view.
Swam thru e port side corridor of e middle deck den was out in front, facing e main deck.
Swam up to e monkey island. Took some fotos.
Quickly rejoined e group n swam on, passing e stack along e way.
Next dive was at lapsi. It's basically a small seawater pool day's sheltered.
But there's an uw cavern underneath day leads out to e sea.
Swam thru e cavern in a straight line w the dive guide in front and me at the back.
Entrance was a little small but big enough to dive thru. No squeezing required coz the cavern opens up really wide.
Swam along e reef back to e 'lake'. saw a couple of hermit crabs and another octopus.
It was quote interesting g to be diving at abt 10m below ppl's feet. Watching them swim, tread water, or snorkel.
2 kids who were snorkelling saw me n waved. So I waved back. Turned out one of kids, who's 15, dived w me yest.
Back to e dive shop after e dive to make payment n to wash up my gear.
Forgot to take a foto of e 'pool' in lapsi. Also forgot to get a foto of the bay we dived at to get to faroud.
Hope I can find fotos online to show u.
Monday, August 24, 2009
The Maltese Adventures - Day 4
Tuesday 18 Aug 2009
Diving day! But e bad luck continues to plague for a little while more.
Juz b4 gng for e 1st dive, my fin strap broke. So I had to sit out on dat dive.
It was a wreck dive of a patrol boat.
But e dive shop ppl managed to help borrow a pair for my 2nd dive. Coolios.
Hit a thermacline at ard 18m. Good thing e suits were 5mm. So it din kill me much tho I was wearing shorties. Saw a few jellies.
there was a statue of e virgin mary in an underwater alcove. Saw some old stuff lying on e seabed.
at first glance i tot they were like old cannons but tot they wun b on the surface still after so long.
Went for nite dive as well. Most interesting thing was we saw a baby octopus.
1 of e dive masters tried to catch it but failed. In a bid to escape, it squirted a lil swirl of ink instead of a big puff. dat was fun.
was ard 12.30am by the time i got back to the hotel and dumped my stuff to find food.
but there was no food to be found. no room service either.
spoke w the recep to see if there was any food ard, but there was none.
the coffeehouse had some cheese n ham available for breakfast the next day so they said they could make me a ham n cheese sandwich.
i readily said ok. 1 sandwich and a fairly filled stomach, i went back to my room.
was super tired. fell asleep halfway writing this on my itouch.
Diving day! But e bad luck continues to plague for a little while more.
Juz b4 gng for e 1st dive, my fin strap broke. So I had to sit out on dat dive.
It was a wreck dive of a patrol boat.
But e dive shop ppl managed to help borrow a pair for my 2nd dive. Coolios.
Hit a thermacline at ard 18m. Good thing e suits were 5mm. So it din kill me much tho I was wearing shorties. Saw a few jellies.
there was a statue of e virgin mary in an underwater alcove. Saw some old stuff lying on e seabed.
at first glance i tot they were like old cannons but tot they wun b on the surface still after so long.
Went for nite dive as well. Most interesting thing was we saw a baby octopus.
1 of e dive masters tried to catch it but failed. In a bid to escape, it squirted a lil swirl of ink instead of a big puff. dat was fun.
was ard 12.30am by the time i got back to the hotel and dumped my stuff to find food.
but there was no food to be found. no room service either.
spoke w the recep to see if there was any food ard, but there was none.
the coffeehouse had some cheese n ham available for breakfast the next day so they said they could make me a ham n cheese sandwich.
i readily said ok. 1 sandwich and a fairly filled stomach, i went back to my room.
was super tired. fell asleep halfway writing this on my itouch.
The Maltese Adventures - Day 3
Day 3 Monday 17 Aug 2009
Din dive today. Woke up a my left knee kinda stiff. Knew it was e result of too much walking at mdina. Went to e hospital nearby to get meds to recover so I can dive on tue n wed. Got a lil lost looking for e hospital. Walked past it, not realizing it was a hospital. stopped a car to ask where it was and he told me it was round the corner. and i had not spotted the hospital after making the corner until i saw the ambulance parked in front. only den did i realize dat DAT was the hospital. saw the doc and he said dat e pain was a result of built up lactic acid in e body.
looks like my body needs to get more fit.
stayed in the room pretty much the whole afternoon n watched my movies to rest up the leg.
by evening after dinner, the pain is no more n I can dive tom! Woohoo. Not as many dives as I had hoped. But at least I get to dive.
Din dive today. Woke up a my left knee kinda stiff. Knew it was e result of too much walking at mdina. Went to e hospital nearby to get meds to recover so I can dive on tue n wed. Got a lil lost looking for e hospital. Walked past it, not realizing it was a hospital. stopped a car to ask where it was and he told me it was round the corner. and i had not spotted the hospital after making the corner until i saw the ambulance parked in front. only den did i realize dat DAT was the hospital. saw the doc and he said dat e pain was a result of built up lactic acid in e body.
looks like my body needs to get more fit.
stayed in the room pretty much the whole afternoon n watched my movies to rest up the leg.
by evening after dinner, the pain is no more n I can dive tom! Woohoo. Not as many dives as I had hoped. But at least I get to dive.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Maltese Adventures - Day 2
Before i get down to the actual blog details, i'll juz state dat i'm juz dumping wadever i wrote in my itouch during the duration of my little holiday in malta.
there is no day 1 coz nothing really happened. i juz walked ard.
and fotos can be found on fb.
and with dat, let's begin.
Day 2 Sunday 16 Aug 2009
Super cockup. Forgot to charge can batt. Got half life for whole of mdina. Hope it will last.
A bus inspector came up to check out tickets.
funny thing is the inspector looks like he's abt 15yrs younger than e bus driver la.
hahaha...
my cam batt died halfway thru Mdina.
it is really as it claims to be - a silent city. A small walled city a narrow streets.
you feel like u're in a different world once you step in.
and it's not jus a tourist attraction, it's a place where real pol live in a their own addresses.
the place is pretty steeped in history having survived thru e centuries. simply amazing.
cockup no2 - somehow e itouch got turned on.
guess I din turn it off tho I tot I did when I got off the bus.
so no music for the bus ride back to the hotel.
on the way back, e bus drove by a car accident.
couldn't see if any1 was badly injured, but there was an ambulance.
and it doesn't matter where u're from, you'll kaypoh when u see an accident.
Back at e hotel ard 5.15pm. Quickly dumped my stuff in e rm n headed down to pub at e street corner to catch e spurs-liverpool match.
spurs played a gd game I must say. Liverpool din look like they had much ideas gong fwd.
glenn johnson did put up a gd performance running down e right flank.
insua din seem to know wad to do a e ball on e left flank up front.
gota b up early tom for my dive at Gozo.
hope I'll get to see some of e island.
Need to find some form of moisturizer cox my jergens ultra healing lotion is running out.
shd head to e supermaket now b4 it closes.
bad news - the supermarket is closed.
BAH.
there is no day 1 coz nothing really happened. i juz walked ard.
and fotos can be found on fb.
and with dat, let's begin.
Day 2 Sunday 16 Aug 2009
Super cockup. Forgot to charge can batt. Got half life for whole of mdina. Hope it will last.
A bus inspector came up to check out tickets.
funny thing is the inspector looks like he's abt 15yrs younger than e bus driver la.
hahaha...
my cam batt died halfway thru Mdina.
it is really as it claims to be - a silent city. A small walled city a narrow streets.
you feel like u're in a different world once you step in.
and it's not jus a tourist attraction, it's a place where real pol live in a their own addresses.
the place is pretty steeped in history having survived thru e centuries. simply amazing.
cockup no2 - somehow e itouch got turned on.
guess I din turn it off tho I tot I did when I got off the bus.
so no music for the bus ride back to the hotel.
on the way back, e bus drove by a car accident.
couldn't see if any1 was badly injured, but there was an ambulance.
and it doesn't matter where u're from, you'll kaypoh when u see an accident.
Back at e hotel ard 5.15pm. Quickly dumped my stuff in e rm n headed down to pub at e street corner to catch e spurs-liverpool match.
spurs played a gd game I must say. Liverpool din look like they had much ideas gong fwd.
glenn johnson did put up a gd performance running down e right flank.
insua din seem to know wad to do a e ball on e left flank up front.
gota b up early tom for my dive at Gozo.
hope I'll get to see some of e island.
Need to find some form of moisturizer cox my jergens ultra healing lotion is running out.
shd head to e supermaket now b4 it closes.
bad news - the supermarket is closed.
BAH.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Bored, Boring Monday
Wad a slow day today is...
got nothing to do in the office.
and malta is now postponed to next week.
i hope i only fly on thur. den can still mambo on wed.
in the midst of bored surfing, i was sent 2 websites:
http://stevenlim.net/models.htm
http://rawkitchenbar.com/RAWKITCHENBAR/rawkitchenbar.html
raw kitchen bar looks like a nice awesome place to be checked out soon since it's so near home.
and stevenlim.net was just for laughs.
had a decently quiet weekend tho sat was a bit of a rush.
was awoken at 10am by candy to help her bring her stuff to singpost to ship them to bkk.
and after dat went down to sim lim to get the new desktop for the home.
haircut after dat and den to holycross for mass.
dinner was at aston's at jurong east and i gave markie a treat coz he was feeling emo for the whole week.
and the reason for his emo-ness was dat we were caught on camera during the liverpool match and of the 4 of us, we could see 3 of our faces. mark's face was blocked by my liverpool scarf.
so tho we all know he's in the papers, his face was covered.
i'm sorry markie.
fel, mark n fred went to jp to watch the potter boy. so ewen, ben, peter n i went to my place to play powergrid.
played one game but it was a damn close game. and i won! i usually dun win at boardgames. coz i dun bother to think hard enough.
we ended the game ard 1am.
sunday was damn nua. woke up ard 11plus. den milled ard the hse till 2pm den left the house to have lunch n to go get my hdd from peter
at guerrilla games. played GH world tour band career till abt 6ish den it was off to dinner w the family.
dat's all for my quiet weekend. this coming weekend shd b good since it's national day weekend.
ideas of whole day mj sessions are floating in my head now.
and a day at the beach sounds good too. but i think it'll b damn crowded but we'll see.
got nothing to do in the office.
and malta is now postponed to next week.
i hope i only fly on thur. den can still mambo on wed.
in the midst of bored surfing, i was sent 2 websites:
http://stevenlim.net/models.htm
http://rawkitchenbar.com/RAWKITCHENBAR/rawkitchenbar.html
raw kitchen bar looks like a nice awesome place to be checked out soon since it's so near home.
and stevenlim.net was just for laughs.
had a decently quiet weekend tho sat was a bit of a rush.
was awoken at 10am by candy to help her bring her stuff to singpost to ship them to bkk.
and after dat went down to sim lim to get the new desktop for the home.
haircut after dat and den to holycross for mass.
dinner was at aston's at jurong east and i gave markie a treat coz he was feeling emo for the whole week.
and the reason for his emo-ness was dat we were caught on camera during the liverpool match and of the 4 of us, we could see 3 of our faces. mark's face was blocked by my liverpool scarf.
so tho we all know he's in the papers, his face was covered.
i'm sorry markie.
fel, mark n fred went to jp to watch the potter boy. so ewen, ben, peter n i went to my place to play powergrid.
played one game but it was a damn close game. and i won! i usually dun win at boardgames. coz i dun bother to think hard enough.
we ended the game ard 1am.
sunday was damn nua. woke up ard 11plus. den milled ard the hse till 2pm den left the house to have lunch n to go get my hdd from peter
at guerrilla games. played GH world tour band career till abt 6ish den it was off to dinner w the family.
dat's all for my quiet weekend. this coming weekend shd b good since it's national day weekend.
ideas of whole day mj sessions are floating in my head now.
and a day at the beach sounds good too. but i think it'll b damn crowded but we'll see.
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