Tuesday, May 25, 2004
I just read Qiaohui's blog entry about the diving trip, well, that's really really detailed and I'm really not good enough to write that much. Maybe I'll just post a more detailed version of the story.
Well, the trip started in Singapore at Lavenday Bus Terminal, and the coach took us all the way to Jerteh, with our huge stockpile of food and clothing, and for Andy and MArk, their diving gear. From Jerteh, we took a taxi, a privately operated no license taxi to the village with the jetty, (spelt jeti in malay, i think i saw thatsomewhere). Wel, the cabbie told us the ride costed RM 15, but Mr-Smartie-Pants-let's hold-our-hands-toghether said RM 20. What the heck man. Anyway after the 30 over minutes ferry ride to Pulau Perhentian, I was greeted by a really friendly bunch of people. I knew my stay there would be good. Well, in the process of move the barang barang to our room, Qiaohui's peanut butter and chocolate milk disappeared. It just went poof! not my fault, I believe someone stunted it! I'm soo sooooo sorry that Qiaohui missed her breakfast the next day and nearly causing her to faint in water. But come to think of it, she's kinda cute when she starts whining "I'mmmmmmm huuuuunnnnnngryyyyyyyy..." Oops, evil me!
Anyway, the lessons started real quickly, I got Azmi and Divemaster Trainee Nick J Barton as our instructors, at least nick was training to be an instructor, Bryan, mark's friend joined our group. So there we have it, DJL, Bryan, Qh, Me, Azmi and Nick.
In no time we were doing our first lesson: confined water 1 at KK Bay. Most people would've done their confined water lessons in nice swimming pools but I was complaining about doing it at the shallow waters at KK Bay, at least I got a preview of the real thing. Us boys did pretty well in most of the lessons and to learn stuff, but Qh kept drifting off. Whenever she started floating away Djl, Bryan, me or Nick or Azmi had to grab her back. Anyway, we started clearing the stuff we had to learn and Azmi and Nick were indeed really good trainers. We cleared our lessons real fast and we usually came back the earliest among the groups.
After that, we did our open water dive lessons and we saw a turtle!!! Even experienced divers don't have the chance to see turtle, but we were a bunch of lucky bastards and a princess. Found lots of Nemos and lots of parrot fish and angel fish. The underwater world is amazing. Corals, fish, more corals and more fish... After all the lessons and a test that we copied like mad, we were certified Divers!
BTW, I've found Nemo...
Did you know, that in atmospheric pressure, only oxygen dissolves into blood in our lungs, but under the increased pressure underwater, nitrogen will also dissolve into the bloodstream. The nitrogen in the bloodstream will cause dizziness and light headedness. Qh and me both suffered quite badly from that, but I think we still managed to have fun.
On Wednesday night, we got real bored at night and we started playing Heart Attack. Apparently only Qh and me knew how the game works, but Djl and Drandy picked up real fast. Qh, Djl and Drandy had their hands turned damn red after 2 hours of playing heart attack. My hand wasn't badly hurt, except of the mischaps like hitting myself and hitting the ground. Wahahahhaa.
Qh, Djl, Drandy and me went for 2 fun dives after we got certified, btw did I mention that Drandy was there for fun dives only? During the fun dives, first dive was at Small Reef, we saw a school of humphead parrot fish, really majestic, and strong! The next dive was at Tokong Laut, (Qh, ur spelling wrong lah), which translated to English, means The Palace of the Sea. It was B-E-autiful, saw a morray eel wingling about, rare sight,because eels usually hide in holes, only sticking out their heads. I believe I saw a baracudda but no one else saw it, no one believes me. The Anemone City was a hell of a sight. It was just countless numbers of anemone corals, it was really like an underwater colony you see in Star Wars.
LLLeettttttttttttt's GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-VIIInNNNNNGGGG!!!
Posted by NuhC at 10:43 AM
