I'm back from my dive trip over the weekend and i've completed my advanced course! haha. Still feeling abit retarded from all that nitrogen, so decided to post abit on my long abandoned blog.

Good thing about the trip was that i managed to coerce Xun to send me the pics from my previous leisure dive trip at Aur. Pwah, long awaited but better late than never. (pics from my advanced trip to come real soon)

Anyway, i had a blast, and for those who haven't got bitten by the dive bug, nor infected with dive-o-mania, here are some reasons why diving rules, even though you hafta withstand long sea-sick inducing journeys and smelly toilets...


1) The Island

No, its not the name of some crappy Scarlet Johansson movie, but the place where it all happens. Going away for weekends are amazing. It makes you forget about reality, run away to a deserted island, and really to let all your troubles go. It may be back to the basics but you really appreciate home a little more when you come back.




2) Sunrise and Sunset

It is only at the beach where you can find such beautiful views of sunrise and sunset. And of course, it is only at these places where i wake up early enough to catch the sunrise. ha. It is breathtaking, awe-inspiring and just simply wow.



3) Water

I love water, being in the water, getting splashed by water, looking at water, and just being around it. It calms me. It soothes me. Check it out, it is so clear that you can see the corals below.


4) The Fishies

This pic was taken from our dining area where we feed the fish our leftover food. (they are huge from all the weird things that they eat) No underwater cam this trip, thus this is the only pic with fishies. The wonders of the marine life is enough to keep you going, and wishing you had like 5000 bar of oxygen going to keep you underwater long enough to catch that reef shark, find that lion fish, or even see what "Nemo" is going to do next. Keeping fingers crossed that i will actually see a shark at Similans.


5) The Fashion

See how cool we look in our wetsuits (minus the weird expression on my face cos of the sun) haha, we look damn pro lar.


6) The Food

There is a reason why divers are fat. The itinerary for dive trips is always the same: dive, eat, dive, eat, sleep. The donuts at Aur are to die for... combined with Hershey's Chocolate Sauce is ooooooooh. I gave up my diet for it. It was worth it. The barbeque dinner, with chicken wings, sausages, prawns and crabs are super shiok!






7) The Friends

The company is always cool during dive trips, and this time it was Marc, Xun and Kuah. Everyone was easy-going, fuss free and just hilarious. The best thing is we laugh abt most things, bitch like we were in JC again, and just go through all the crap together. We came up with the Pristine effect, thought of nicknames for Skinny Beng and many others. At the end of it all, we are glad we have each other to enjoy this trip by.

See, Diving is fun lar!