~2 days of Paradise~

Doesn it already explain everything?

Clear blue sea and a jetty with dive boat all ready to bring us out to the other world...

It was a 2 days of paradise at Dayang resort where we did much >>> EAT>>SLEEP>>DIVE>>EAT>>DIVE>>DIVE>>EAT>>SLEEP

ALL in a day! :) and consecutively for 2 days.

Best thing was the place was not reached by ANY satellites at all. So we werent bugged by the phone calls and msgs from office :)

By fate, this trip just submitted itself to me. It happened with a phone call from D to inform tt his dive school was organising an open waters trip. Then he called up his friends excitely telling them of the opening. And they decided to go for the 1st meeting with the owner of the school, just to 'go and listen la'. Unfortunately, i was held up by a meeting with the partner till late tt night and did not manage to go. And then suddenly after their meeting, D told me he d help me sign up 'just go for the theory lah. and go for 1 pool lesson to see if u are comfortable anot'. And so.... fate sets in..

EVERYTHING was planned for me to take steps towards this 1st underwater trip of my life, to think that i have not always been a strong advocate of this sport..

And so, 1-2 weeks later, I had my pool lesson. Theory was a breeze, so i shan't mention it further. Just that I had to take time off from work on 2 sats to attend the theories. On my FIRST pool lesson, i think i totally flunked the 200m swim test as I starting panting heavily after the 1st lap (25m). With not much water confidence to speak of, it was naturally a tough task for me on tt particular pool lesson. Did not excel in all the drills. And so, me and buddy were given special attention tt day..

To further build up the confidence, the school signed me up for more pool lessons. This really built up my water confidence but heaps and bounds. I managed to swim 6 laps on the 3rd lesson (instructor told me to stop as he already felt the confidence i had in myself). I was able to swim this miraculously well, considering it was only the next weekend after my 1st pool lesson and that I did not specially go and exercise for it, because i found the cause to my panting. Rather, the instructor who took me highlighted it to me -- that i swim too gan cheongly and hence gets breathless very easily. So this time round, I swam, slowly and steathily :) and it works! :)

Of cos the success did not come without any pains. It took great discipline to swallow the words of giving up. Many a times during those pool lessons, when i really felt horrible in the waters, the dryness of the throat, the feeling of wanting to puke, not being able to open my naked eyes in the water while doing mask clearing, not able to see while taking out the mask and putting it back and when i couldnt control the buoyancy while doing those drills, i really felt like just telling the instructor to forget it, i dunwant to go to the sea anymore.

Somehow something held those words back.

And so, i was eligible to go to the open seas :) :) :)

it was a weekend well spent and definitely deserves all those tormentous weekends I spent at the pool :)

Scene outside out chalet.

Chalet is not exactly the atas type. the bathing water smells of Fe that I almost thought i had a nosebleed from the high pressure under the sea. the floors were sandy and was even wet at the bathing/brushing area. there was NO blanket to keep myself warm @ night and the largest towel i had and brought along on the trip did not serve sufficient purpose. the bed and pillow was deng kok kok (SUPER HARD), but luckily being the pig i was, i slept well all nights. food was not fantastic and colorful enuff but was edible.

But of course, the colorful seabed and the wide array of fishes made up for everything! :)

Now, anybody interested to go with me on this new-found hobby??? ;p

fully geared up and got secretly shot by my admirer..the half naked man in the foreground is the man who pushed my theory exam marks from 68 to 80 on the 1st night :) hence i passed my theory with a breeze!~the sweety pot pie who planned everything for me :)

So hooked on it now and am looking at taking the advance this june/july :) :)

Diving anyone???!!!

more pics of my own gears and fishies next time..

gotta return to my files (still in office now...)

===DIVING DIVING DIVING===