~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===

Nursing @ Home

I am nursing the weak body at home monday, yesterday and today.

All after the super late nights which lightened and weakened the body for the past months. It came after the 7 hour long pool session I had on Sunday to test my water confidence and to perform some drills before our actual hit in the open waters.

All the diving lessons had to be squeezed last weekend as the trip is only 2 weeks away. So I had to slog and slug till the wee morning on Friday. Almost. 5AM.

Before I hit the sacks, messaged N to tell him NOT to wake me up with ANY morning calls as I d sure be grouchy if anyone does that. So he sweetly drove to me house to nudge me up at 1130am (or so) so that I could go for my theory lesson @ the west.

And so, sat was spent on half the theory lesson and sun, on the FULL day pool lesson. And i fell sick ^_^

Was panting heavily after my FIRST lap.. i tell u... it was an embarassing moment.. I was resting and the other end of the pool to catch a breather before i do my 2nd lap but the instructor shouted across the pool to ask me to swim back o_o

And so, being the good student I was, I swam back. Midway, as I was approaching the deep end of the 2m pool, i suddenly felt afraid.. afraid that my energy will not sustain me through the swim and if I sink, I ll drown in the 2m deep waters. So fear-gripped, I flipped over to do a back stroke, only to realise that I have never swam straight in a back stroke before and chances were that I was swimming towards another end of the pool. And so, I flipped back, and the same psychological fear hit me again. So it went like this, I flipped back and front around 3 times and started to struggle a bit. The instructor dived in and brought me the the edge of the pool.

I tell you...it was the most embarassing moment. i was never rescued from the pool before. neither do i have a problem with swimming. i think i just have that psychological fear when my toes cannot touch the ground of the pool and knowing tt i can savely stand up if anything happens. that is why I have never swam at deep pools before.

Throughout the drills, I just stood up whenever possible to catch a breather thru the nose as i am also not accustomed to breathing thru the month..

Tonight's another lesson at the pool to compensate for the last drill I missed on Sun and to build up my water confidence...

wish me best. i want to see fishes..

mummy just brought in a BOWL of fruits to make up for tt nutrient deficiency..

WII

the arms are aching from wii boxing @ pin's house yesterday.. and the butt was smacked by the mama who was playing wii tennis with me..





pin has kindly invited us, the north-easterners, to his play for steamboat & wii yesterday afternoon. it was originally a wii cum DS-lite cum PSP cum mahjong gathering but we just had wii the whole day :)





kinda fun BUT strenuous! din imagine i d have an ache today! if i can have more time in future, i might just buy it home :) :)





baby clare was there as well and we had a good time playing with tt little girl...there was also an exotic pet... haha.. and it looks like this!! (this was taken @ sentosa thou..couldn bring myself to carry pin's one yesterday...EWWWW) I dunno what made me carry that fugly little thingy down there..

playtime was short.. today is work time but yet i dread the feeling of waking up this morning... the work just piled higher and higher... and i couldnt manage all at the same time. with multiple urgent things on the plate... i kinda felt like giving up totally already.. sigh...

the boss has nominated me onto the appreciation list for my hard work thus far.. there s possibly a higher bonus for me.. but i am afraid i cant meet his expectations anymore... i m just a lost little girl without her wings for the next 2 weeks... and i have neglected a lot of other jobs and the managers for those jobs.. just last labor day, i had to pull an asst with me to a client's place because there is no better time on working days to work for other engagements... sigh...

i pray for a miracle to happen

and pray for today's dinner time to come quickly as i have no mood to do the multiple things i have to do... can imagine being chased by everybody tomorrow already... i hate the feeling... and i pray for a new job to be bestowed to me in time to come.. wana leave after my bonus!

also pray that dee can find a nice good job as well... he s been unhappy lately...

~tataz~