Just came back from malaysia!

I finally finished my Open Water course. It was really fun being out in the sea and all that.

Friday 26th May 2006,
We met at the atrium in the evening, formed our groups and boarded the bus. Damn bus. So uncomfortable! We made our way to mersing jetty on that bus and reached there really late. On the way to the jetty, we passed by an accident. The car was totally wrecked, all I saw was the hood of the car in a vertical position and crumpled like sweet wrapper.

Saturday 27th May 2006,
We reached Mersing Jetty early in the morning, rushed around carrying all the equipments onto the speedboat. After that, we boarded the speedboat and rushed to beat the tide. The tide was going down, our boat couldnt beat the tide and got stuck at the mouth of mersing river. The guys got off the boat and pushed the boat for a very long distance. BUt we were still stuck, so we boarded the other speedboat that came back to rescue us.

My jeans was wet throughout the whole journey and the aircon on the boat was not functioning. After a really long boat ride, we reached Pulau Aur. Its really beautiful, the waters are crystal clear, there were fishes and jellyfishes in the water, bla bla bla. We reached at around 4. Had a quick briefing and rooms assignment. Then we went to our rooms to slp.

Got up at 8 for breakfast and first dive. We suited up, set up our gears and got ready to jump. First dive was to 10 ft, to practice mask clearing, mask removal, regulator clearing and regulator retrieval.

Went out of the water after 40 mins. Rested awhile and went for second dive.

Second dive was slightly deeper to 15 ft. Practiced tail pivot, bouyancy control and removal of BCD. At the start of this dive, my tank got loose and dropped out from my BC. I lagged behind the others and tried to slip the tank back on. Luckily my dive instructor saw me and helped my strap the tank back on and I was good to go. Went down and did the activities without anymore mishaps.

Exited the water after 40 mins for lunch and rest.

Third dive was skin diving. We went in with just mask, snorkle, wetsuit and fins. Learnt skin diving techniques like the Duck dive and Kelp dive.

We did our dive logs after that and then went for our theory revision. Somehow, we ended up playing mahjong, sun tanning, playing sepak takraw and all other funny stuff instead of studying.

Theory test was quite simple and fun. Our group did the test with NUS people and we were like discussing the questions and answers together.

After finishing dinner and the test, we went for a walk around the compounds and to the jetty. We spent quite some time lying down and looking at the stars. The sky was really filled with stars. No matter which part of the sky you look at, there will be at least 50 stars. Maybe more. The sight was really beautiful.


Okay.. too tired to continue.. Post part 2 back shortly..

Hah.. Finally an update!!

School was interesting. And interesting things happening in school. Hahas. Like my class - 1T01. Scary place with weird people. As in literally. And I actually thought I was weird. = / well, my defination of weird has changed now. Hahs.

I got placed into Dance Sports for my IS Sports and Wellness module. Learning ballroom dancing and stuff (UGH..). Kinda dumb choice. But well, what's done's done. No point crying over spilt milk. Who asked me to be on MC during week 1. All other choices got snapped up and only Dance Sports and NETBALL was left.

Going off to my medical checkup le. HAh. Update next time.