but samz and myself managed to pull through the entire diving trip with minimum mishaps here and there...

let`s start off from the day we were about to leave for tioman, at bout 2pm...samz msn me and told me her passport nv renew and there was only 4 months left and by RIGHT, if wanna go m`sia, need at least 6mths on the passport so i was a bit despressed coz i thought the trip has to be cancelled again...

mood was rather spoilt by a bit but then after i called charlene and siti, i heard of this by LEFT rule, see ah....the m`sian custom dun really check as long as there`s a 3 months valid left...so we juz tried our luck...

juz when my mood was back, it turned for a worst when i forgot to bring my jacket there coz it was rather cold at night and i had to snatched the blanket from samz every night....she was quite sweet to not snatch it back from me...ha ha....thanks buddy !!!

in total, there were bout 15 people going on the 1st day for the 2-in-1 combo diving trip...mostly youngsters...bout our age so very easy to get along...a mixture of NSFs, NTU students and a few working adults..

initially, all of us stuck to our own group of friends but after a while, all of us were acting like we knew each other for a long time...

the resort is nice, the sea-view is nice...everything except the room...which is really sucky !!
i expected better accomodation after spending $730 but had to share room with another 2 fella...this sibling which i thought was a couple...

quite cute gal...but not really my type....talked every night while her bro was fast asleep...but relax...it was btw me, samz and her...ha ha....

same age as me and also from NYP but from digital media design....

quite impressed coz she started her own company instead of working for people...unlike me...still stuck in NS....shit !!!

back to the trip.....yesh....the water was quite clear and there wasn`t much area to walk along the beach coz it was only a jetty and people all board the boat to go scuba diving or snokelling....

the 1st dive was a bit scary coz it wasn`t in the swimming any longer and the last time we put on our gear was bout 1month ago and there wasn`t any revision session...the SEA is all we had infront of us.....

didn`t know wat to expect...put on the gear and plunged into the deep sea for the 1st time in my life....the sea is so freaking clear although the water was a bit green but it`s still damn clear.....

only the 1st dive and i was already so excited...i din know that the water there was so damn salty, not like those east coast kinda salty, it was worst......but the view underwater was juz breadth-taking....worst part was when the salt water got into your eyes and mouth...argh...the feeling is juz disgusting to the core !!!

saw a couple of NEMO aka clown fish....sting ray.....giant sea turlte... sea snake....sea cucumber...sea horse and the 1st goes on....

it`s their territory underwater and we had to respect it......while scuba diving, we had to give way to school of fishes that wanna cross our path...ha ha...so cool, giving way to fishes in the water coz there was juz too many of them...

i nv felt so free before but having said that, the underwater current was kinda strong and the waves were choppy on certain days and i dunnoe bout the rest of them but i was a bit panicky coz my suit was out of air and i kept drinking in water and i was floating in the middle of nowhere and the boat was too far to be seen....

these were juz a few scary moments....

every dive was a new experience, we got to see diff kinda fishes and corals.....very beautiful works of nature...

we even got to see some sunken ships...dunnoe how many did we see in total but it was juz like a abstract from the movies....

a bit scary coz i didn`t know wat was inside and i kept imagining something from inside gonna grap hold of my leg and drag me into the ship....

there were a lot of loose wood and ropes all over the place and as a diver, wat would make me worry was the ropes kenna stuck on my suit and i can`t get it out and i panic then it`ll be very serious...

my suit was stuck in some coral and i totally freaked out coz i couldn`t move my leg and the rest of the group was swimming ahead of me...and i struggled to break free also cannot until i calmed myself down and succeeded, imagine, you`re so deep, u can`t see the bottom of the ocean and you can`t see the top and even if i stuggle to reach the surface without my equipment, i also dunnoe if i can make it up to the surface in 1 breadth so muz stay calm at all times...

although, we have buddies and obviously, samz and myself partnered but i freaked out in the water a couple of time and lost track of her and she went missing for a no. of times...sorry buddy...ha ha...i can only concentrate on the instructor or the fishes and i was always distracted that i lost her....

the most scary part of the whole trip was when we had to do deep-water navigation in order to pass our test, and the current was very strong.....we were paired in groups of 4 and when we were told to descend into the water, i was samz next to me but when we reached the bottom of the ocean, she was missing and then i signalled to my instructer and we decided to serach for her for a while, still can`t find the we surfaced to find...

then still couldn`t find, and then we decided to carry on without her, i totally freaked out when the instructor saod, juz carry on...she shd be fine...wah lan eh, i thought finding her was more impt but i wasn`t in control of the situation, the current was too strong and the safest place was to go underwater to avoid the current...

the current was still very strong and i had hard trouble doing my navigation and suddenly, the other group that was with us, one guy`s nose and mouth started to bleed....scary and then he couldn`t continue and surfaced and swam to the boat....then i asked if we shd continue or continue to look for samz...

but still...the instructor say continue....but when we went into deep sea ago, i started to get swept by the current and banged onto the coral and i couldn`t get up coz the current was forcing my chest and it was damn hard with the coral hitting me !!

had cuts and bruises all over my feet and fingers...but that`s only a small price to pay !

the instructor and the other partner had to pull me out and i almost pierced my foot into some sea-urchin which is all over the sea bed and can be deadly, it pierced through my dive flippers but dunnoe why din kenna my feet which was really astonishing !

i really thought, that was it, jia lai...si liaoz.....then the instructer signalled to abort mission and go back to boat...wah lan, if only he listened earlier...but it wasn`t his fault la...

i dun blame him !

then we kept searching for samz coz everyone was on board except for her and everyone started to panic and i kept thinking bout how i`m gonna explain to samz`s mum if anything happen to her...ha ha...

then after more than 1/2hr of search, we found her at another nearby island which was damn far from the location that she and me started off with....damn heng found her sia !!

she was with the leisure group and she was stressed-out although she still could tell me she saw a lot of very beautiful corals and etc...ha ha...!!

scare the freak out of me sia !!

there was a hilarious situation though, see ah........i wanted to shit badly but it was time for the next dive and no choice, since they couldn`t wait and it was only a 30mins dive coz going very deep, i decided to shit only after the whole dive, the experience wasn`t good,....i kept farting underwater and wana shit badly....

i buai ta han, and i signal my instructor that something is not right and i faster made it up to the surface, swam to the boat and quickly went to shit, they also came up soon afterwards...

argh...the feeling was so shiok, 1st shit of the whole trip and it was on board a boat with no toilet paper...amazing stuff !!

then i realised there wasn`t a proper sweage system for the urine and shit, and all of a sudden, the people on the 2nd deck of the boat shouted that there was something HUGE floating and everyone went to see...of coz i was curious and then someone shouted..."WHO SHITTED"...ha ha....and everyone went *YEEEEEE*.........opps....no choice, i treated it as a joke, not so much as pai seh, and i admitted la....ha ha...

since then, they called me the shit man everyday...ha ha...cool name, i can take jokes la...!!

this is the pix of the gal who came with the bro and was in the same room as samz and myself, 1 room has 2 queen size bed so samz and me shared one....ha ha....dun anyhow think ah...everyday, dive from morning till evening and then reach room, rest, play cards and sleep...

totally, no night life there....very sianz so eat dinner and rest...so din spend much...changed $100 to m`sia ringit but i think i din even spend $30 lor...ha ha... we got to know each other better when we talked bout BGR stuff and other stuffs during the night...very interesting sharing and listening to everyone`s story....

everyday slept for 6hrs plus and then wake up and dive till evening....tiring man !!!

did i mention that our toilet in the room is very funky...ha ha...actually, it sucks, our sink, the water tap is spoilt and since the 1st day till the last day, we couldn`t off the water coz the tap was damaged and when we informed the staffs, they said oki but nothing was done, so as a result, i got used to not switching off the tap when i used the water....ha ha...wonder if it`s still flowing now ???

anyway, to summarise the whole trip, i`m having very bad sun-burn on my face now and i`m so dark, no red...but i feel good...at least i experienced something i nv ever did...

will i go back again...yapz...maybe once a yr at a different location.....bali perhaps...anyone interested ??

please watch the below video....very funny, samz and me jump overboard from the 2nd level of the boat into the water but look at wat happened thoughout the 20sec video...ha ha...comment ah !!!