Underwater
Leg cramps, red skin, breaking out, overall fatigue.
Just came back from a diving trip over the weekend. And yep it was great!
I've always wanted to go ever since I heard people telling me how exciting it was. But I guess my parents were constantly worried that I might get into some danger. Then my lucky break came when my cousin was interested as well, so I decided to go with him. That eased my parents' anxiety.
From monday to thursday night, I had theory and pool sessions. The pool sessions really helped, because diving is not as easy as people on discovery channel make it looks. Ok, but truth be told, out of the nine students, I was probably the lousiest coz I took a long time to get the hang of the skills they taught us, like how to clear the mask when water gets into it, how to equalise (ie how to ease the pressure felt in the ears as you descend), and all the other skills lah. The problem with me was while breathing through my mouth underwater, I can't seem to breathe out through my nose without breathing through my mouth. It took a while for me to condition my body to separate breathing through my nose and mouth. Diving really makes you become very conscious of your breathing, something you take for granted when on land.
On friday night, we left for mersing and stayed the night there. The next morning, we took about a 2-hour boat ride from mersing to tioman. Upon reaching there, we immediately checked in, got changed, and headed back to the jetty. The boat then took us to some shallow waters and we headed down the sea. The first dive was only 6m deep. Basically, when we reached the bottom, we just did the normal skills we learnt during the pool. Then our instructor brought us around for a mini-tour, though all we saw was sand. There were only very few and small fishes.
The next dive was deeper, 12m. That dive was pretty magical. Corals and reefs abound with many fishes swimming all around us. Blue fishes, yellow fishes, sea anemones and clown fishes, schools of fishes, fishes that were daring enough to swim up to you... The rule of thumb is, if you keep very still, the fish would naturally swim up to you to check out the "new fish". But any sudden movement would cause them to quickly scoot away. They were mostly small fish, though a few times we were lucky to see slightly bigger ones. The instructor was very good, and he showed us the interesting stuff. He used a metal rod to tease the corals and sea creatures. There was one dive where he used it to "hypnotise" a baby eel. As he lifted his rod, the eel followed it cautiously, peering its head slowly from under a small rock it was hiding. Then when he lowered the rod, the eel retreated. It was almost like snake-charming! And the eel's movements were so cute, coz it looked so enraptured by the rod, moving up and down with it. Its surprised look on its face made it all the more funny!
All in all, we made a total of five dives within 2 days, the deepest being 18m. With each dive, we became better at adjusting our bouyancy by controlling the rate of our breathing. The instructor brought us through some caves to test our skills, but haha, most of us still bumped into the walls of the cave, leaving us (or me especially) with cuts all over. But it didn't make the dive any less enjoyable.
Now, I'm nursing the after-effects of diving. I have bad sunburns on my hand (and I mean super bad, like bright-red type), my body is extremely tired, the saltwater is causing me to break out (ahhh!), and I still feel like I'm on the boat. I sometimes think I sway unconsciously, or my head is bobbing from side to side. Haha, but it's an experience I wouldn't miss for the world.
So many posts!
Wow, it's been quite a while, and all of a sudden out of the blue, so many people have posted! That's quite a record so far already :p. I'm sure most of you guys have Blogger accounts, so just post! It's pretty quiet here, isn't it?
So what's everyone doing now?--especially the guys; all still at your jobs? Or slacking already? Time really flies; it seems like it was only yesterday that it was Cherie's birthday party, and even that is already some 2 months back already.
Well Serena, maybe the whole point is to not brood so much over the years that are going by--to not count the days, but make the days count!--Much as that came from a poster I saw in my camp way back in, like what, April 2003--this super ancient poster from the then-NPB (National Productivity Board; it's now SPRING Singapore) during one of the national productivity campaigns. Haha.
I don't know--sometimes I feel that way too, that I'm wasting my life away as the days go by--and I felt that way a lot before I ORDed, wondering what the hell I'm wasting my time for. And then after ORDing, as the slacking continued, I couldn't help but worry about what I'm doing with my life. Haha.
So life isn't always as good as it seems it will be, and it's always greener on the other side.
Oh well, it's just nice to see people posting--I guess we don't talk much as a class, do we?--It's always more of doing things together, like going to Sentosa to play a few outings ago, or watching movies, playing LAN or pool, but seldom sitting down and talking--anybody else feels that way?--Or maybe it's just me, I don't know.
2 months and 5 days left here for me, and I still don't feel anything yet. Perhaps when it comes, it'll hit me real hard.
Oh well.
Anudder gathering anyone?
Yo people.. Its 4pm in the afternoon and i just woke up only to find myself alone in the house sia.
Damn sad.
Think I starting to turn no life liao. My sis went malaysia with her church mates and my parents went Chinatown to gai gai. My gosh. Sundays are meant to be spent like tt wad. Not sitting in front of a computer wearing only a pair of boxers and hugging a smelly bolster lo.
Surfed the net for half an hour, trying to catch up with all my online groups and communities and was pleasantly surprised to see Alvin's and Serena's fresh entry into the blog so i decided to put one of my own too.
Anyway, bet most of u dunno vibrators are damn expensive in Singapore. I visited the erotic shop at holland v last week and to my horror the cheapest one available is freaking 80 bucks lo! And Im sure no gal in the right mind would wanna buy tt cheapest one... its those kind which is made of cheapo plastic and dussen vibrate (yes a vibrator which dussen vibrate) which i seriously think a regular cucumber would serve a better job at satisfying herself. Use oredi, wash clean liao still can eat with the chicken rice u da pao from downstairs.
The most expensive one seems impressive but is nearly 300 bucks. Got 3 modes of vibration : high, low , and pulsating vibrations. Looks demonic too, macham an exact replica of satan's rod. Black in colour with scales and a small pointed thing on top which i think is used to stimulate the gals g-spot (haha i must emphasize i THINK only, nv seen one b4 k) Super thick and long somemore, god knows how the girl can manage to shove tt thing in la. Even comes with a cleaning dock for after use, sterilizing solution included as well.
Therefore, why do gals still nid to buy vibrators if they are so impractical? Any guys' finger can easily do a better job ma! Dun even nid to manually operate, just get ur honey pot to a close enuff proximity of a guy's hands and u can lie back and enjoy liao lo. Until the technology is advanced enough for vibrators to have a camera embedded at the tip, only fingers have the ability to topo and navigate to the most enjoyable part lo. Seriously other than lao yu's wife, no single woman nids a vibrator in their life.
Therefore, assuming a guy's fingers have got more than three modes of vibration - agressive, gentle, in-out-in-out to name a few, and are more versatile, one finger definitely worth more than 300 bucks, say $400, guess wad? 10 fingers = $4000! Damn, i should reflect this to insurance agencies sia, maybe in future they will insure more for permanent disablility of limbs for guys compared to gals haha.
Oops haha think i got too carried away. Actually just wanted to jio a class gathering say maybe end of June? Think it will be nice to get together again b4 everyone starts flying away to all over the world for studies. Though i think ive seen many ppl recently. Met Peter and Gilbert during scholarship interview. Our schedule one after each other lo. Damn qiao. Saw Zhiguan yesterday at citylink. As I was sneaking up on him, his gf gave him a peck on the face. Haha. Bet she still feeling paiseh. Saw minhao during sec class gathering as well. He now enjoying life la, working in a female environment with lotsa chio bus. Saw eelin as well, think she on her way to work or wad. Still as pretty as ever though a bit fat now haha.
So how guys? On for class gathering? Open for ideas hor. Meanwhile, go check out www.uglyjackass.com to keep urself entertained!
alvin says..
Sol: Gee ur 21st bday post induced fear into me la.. Darn i'm really feeling old. So many young chaps in track n field now performing just as well as me if not better. Puts pressure onto me too. \=
N on laffing at people ya.. Well since u've laffed then nvm la. Most ppl just laff also cuz they just wanna free at ease with wats going around them. Dun blame urself! Its not like u're destroying ur friend's reputation by spreading malice about her ma. Just a laugh-n-forget situation. N if u really feel bad now, maybe try to convince urself now tt hey, she might have been a fashion disaster but she's brave enuff to wear granny panties lei. Respect. Yes it might have been just an after-thought or heck, a thought from Me not You, but maybe tt will help u feel slightly better?
Laugh n forget. Dun stress urself too much ba~ Life's much more than tt. And ain't it great u actually met a jnr u haven't seen in ages? Tats gd luck, ain't it?
Cheers everyone. I got my pink ic! =D
Watch What You Say
It's always too late to regret saying or doing something.
I had just returned from a friend's 21st birthday party which she held at holland village. The general manager was serving us and due to some unfortunate "bending and standing", the back of her panties peeked out from under her pants and was super visible. And it was not the cotton type, but pink lacy type. My girl friends saw it and were totally laughing behind her back, calling her names (silently) and saying that those were granny parties. At that time, I did think it was pretty mean, but because they were making such a joke about it, to say otherwise would risk being called a wet blanket. So due to my lack of courage to stand up for what I really believe in, I just joined in the laughter.
As we were about to leave the place, the girl suddenly looked at me and said, "Serena!". I was shocked, and stared at her for a while. Slowly her face became more familiar to me as I recognised her to be my netball junior back in secondary school. So I talked to her for a while, asked her what she has been doing and stuff, although inside me I felt a whirl of emotions. I felt so guilty for having join the gang in making fun of her, especially since back in those days I was actually pretty close to her, having taken the same bus back and remembering all the conversations we had on the journey home.
As I left, I truly felt ashamed. I wished I hadn't said such things. I wished I had the courage to not participate in the things I know to be hurting. And even though the person may not have turned out to be someone I know, it's still wrong. I know that now, and it had to take such an incident to leave an impact on me. Sigh.
