Sunday, August 17, 2008

Dayang Open Water Course (May 08)



Excited, anxious, uncertain, lil scared, total coolness! Some of the emotions felt before we met up for the trip. (actually alot more, but blame it on my lousy house of vocab!)




Diving Buddies happily taking photos at the JB checkpoint!





intended jump into the picture but ended up disappearing from the shot




wilson pong and the stoned me and xian, wondering what we're waiting for. (After 3hrs of plain waiting)


Tired of waiting, we decided to entertain ourselves with the all-time-fav-sports-camp-PIZZA HUT-game!!

and it did keep us quite occupied for some while. got all other by-standers interested too, i guess.




introducing......wooooooooolaoda, our instructor with the blue shorts!




1/3 of our luggages?




After the pizza-hut-game had lost its usual circle of supporters, me and ahxian decided to resume our skipped netball training. Ball handling...den we went on to passes..(by which our stray passes scared quite a few)


cheers to self-entertainment!




after like 4? 5? 6? hours of waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.....and the bus has yet to appear!


little did we know, this was the merely the start of our loooooooooooong nightmareeeee!



this is the end-product after 7 miserable hrs on that rocky boat! experience of an lifetime, seriously! casualty count : 80% and as you can imagine, hendrick is victim #76.


but alls worth it the moment we set foot on this beautiful island! totally like fantasy island!





the beach at our doorstep! how cool is that?!




just look at those clear waters!



our neighbour resort (dunno why our resort wasnt shot, probably cuz its too cui, haha)




can see the corals underwater?


and that is definitely not our dive boat.


alex - crazily funny boss of fishermen dive.
the one who came up with "what's the most dangerous shark in the whole wide world?"





the babes! or Er-Mei Sect, according to Alex




always time for cam-whoring, even in the middle of Alex's pre-dive briefing.




diving rocks!




drying ourselves up with the warm sun on the deck


FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!! yummy yum yum!

too bad i didnt feel really hungry right after dive.


aaaahhhhhh~~~ feels soooo goood!




i think this is one of the diver's son!


the pole-dancing buddies!

yizhen . hendrick




...sunset...





our 重量级tanks. i cant even stand straight with those on my poor back.




our cui faces after a satisfying dive.


love this pic!

spot-on on the timing!





floating around on sea, waiting for our dive boat to rescue us!




the cuttlefish i attempted to chase and almost got separated from the group. luckily woolaoda called me back.




1 more shot before descending into the deep blue sea!



-rescue trg-


rescuing our buddies, tough swim!



some extremely tiny fish?




tweeeez for the camera!




- nudibranch -




eel? fish? cant remember.




- crown of thorns -


everybody pose like king-of-the-world!





buddy and i




i think its me . buddy . xian . junqin




more buddy shots underwater!




underwater smilies!


the whole jean gang of open water divers!





taking a rest at the jetty after our dives




hanging by the edge of the boat!





again waiting for our boat to rescue us. I wonder why we are always stranded somewhere.



the sun . the sand . the sea . the babes!

breakfast by the beach! how cool is that! (although the only thing edible is tea)





sad to say..its time to bid this pretty island goodbye, sigh.


group shot of the fresh grads with the boss


King of the Worlds!

on our boat back to Mersing Jetty


illegal gathering kena discovered!

goodbye dayang..



our seafood dinner, featuring whalepong!

cheeeeeeeeeers!!

on the coach back to SG.

all buddies unite with woolaoda in the lead

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