hear ye hear ye! i am back from tioman! ok it was a few days back but who cares! days in tioman was great! diving was great. when i went there i felt like i wanted to stay there forever and ever and ever. everything was seemed nicer there. even the stars shine brighter and waters sparkle more( stating the obvious)
the journey there was quite interesting cause i went by this coach to mersing on the way the battery died so we had to push to start it moving. hehe.. when we reached mersing, we found out the boat broke down so we had to delay our plans and stay in one of those super duper cheap hotels. one night there can cost between 10rm-35rm.. it was quite an exprience cause the room was just pretty basic. no tvs or whatever. thank goodness for the aircon though.
the boat ride to tioman island was gorgeous. just take a look for yourself!
schedule was very packed so once we landed there it was time to go for my very first open sea diving trip! within 1 day i dived a total of 3 dives. never once crossed my mind that diving would be tiring but it is! its damn tiring. having to fin around causes me to work my tighs and i havent been exercising much either. sometimes i slack so much i almost fall on the coral then i have to fin for my life. thank goodness i didnt fall on any unlike tze wei who crashed into some. grr... spoiling the nice corals. =| theres so much to see underwater... colourful corals, sting rays, mini sharks, baracudas, sea urchins, clown fish and sometimes turtles just to name a few and the rest i cant name. wish i could have taken a few pictures unfortunately my digi cam would drowned if i tried.
got to know a couple of people around my age. tim, cherie and charlene. all of them rather experienced divers.. so when we werent diving we were clowning around poking fun at a person. hehe... there were quite funny stories like having a sea urchin almost falling on a certain person's head and pants tearing...
the first day's diving was NOTHING compared to the second. we went out further this time to deeper depths, stronger currents and higher waves. it was worth it of course. getting down from the boat, finning and getting back on was the tough part. in the process of getting back on i even got a bruise. how dangerous.. =p current was so strong i felt i wasnt even moving underwater cause the current was so strong.
over there i hardly got a tan cause most of the time i was either indoors, under the sea or in something long. i was only a wee bit tanner when i got back. what a waste. the weather over there was sunny throughout whilst it was raining away in singapore. haha!
unfortunately diving is an expensive sport. so if i ever wanna do diving, im gonna have to pay for it. sigh... wont be doing it so often then... =S