Dayang - Advance Diving Day 3 (23/07/06)

Had a really good night sleep, but alas, need to wake up at 6.30am as our first dive is at 7.00am...cold!!!

Dive 5 - This dive we went back to Reynes's Rock, hoping to do another deep dive. But as the current is too strong and water too crowded with other divers..lol...we drop that idea and just went for a leisure dive. One fish which divers fear in the water is.....no, not shark....its actually a trigger fish! This type of fish is very aggressive and would attack a diver. My first encounter with a trigger fish was at Redang, where that trigger is nothing as compared to the one i saw at Reyne's Rock!! I only need to "shoo" the one at Redang with my hand and it swam away. While descending at Reyne's Rock, i saw 1 approaching Halil. As Halil descend faster than me, i was above him when i saw this big fish approaching him. At first i didnt realise its a trigger fish, i just wanna tell Halil that there is a big fish behind him. But then i suddenly remember my lesson on Fish Identification. Its a trigger fish and its dangerous! It attacks divers!! At once i can see Halil's expression changed. We quickly flee that area, but that trigger fish is damn persistent and it gave chase!! Can you imagine 3 full grown divers being chased 1 trigger fish!! lol....That fish chased us for quite some distant before turning back..but by then we are already very tired and shacked out, thus we dive for a while more before ending our dive early.

When back on boat, Asha refresh 0ur memory on how to use the compass and taught us how to do a Square navigation underwater. This is our last subject for Advance Diving and we are going to do it in our next dive.

Dive 6 - This is our last dive for our trip. Its quite a shallow dive and we only need to perform our underwater navigation skill. After that its leisure dive. Isa and Asha took quite a few video clips during this dive. Will try to upload the videos (provided i manage to figure out how to do it :P)

Halil(below), Law in yellow weight belt, me in pink weight belt and Isa behind me

Holding onto the line while doing our safely stop

Asha, our dive instructor

After that, its home sweet home. For the rest of the pics, can go to: Advance Dive - Dayang.

Dayang - Advance Diving Day 2 (22/07/06)

Reached Dayang ard 7+~8am *faints* Checked into our room and slept for a while. Was sharing the room with Law, Liping and Halil.

Dive 1 - Started our first dive at 10am and its at Pulua Lang. Its only a check out dive; for us to get used to the water and the pressure. My mask keeps on fogging ( as i forgot to put toothpaste) so didnt really enjoy this dive as i was unfogging my mask every few mins. After that we back to Dayang for lunch where our next dive was at 2.30pm.

Dive 2 - This time we were doing one of our core advance diving subject, that is deep dive. Went to Reyne's Rock, where we descend dwn to 33m. I was actually being buddied up with Lawrence, but lost him when descending (after that realised that he couldn't equalized, thus needed more time to descend). So me ended up going with Halil, Isa and another instructor and diver. Its really different to descend to that depth. Firstly, its much colder and darker, secondly, the pressure is greater and we used up air much faster and we also face the danger of getting Nitrogen Narcosis, which is the posioning of nitrogen. Managed to find a sleeping Nurse Shark under one of the reef!! As Halil and Isa were running low on air, we decided to surface up. It really a lonnngg...surface lol.. As we are quite far from our boat, both Halil and Isa (both are quailfied Rescue Diver) deploy their sauage (luminious orange in colour which is used to seek attention of the boat).

Halil with his sauage

Dive 3 - Its at Captain's Point. In this dive, we did another advance dive subject which is Fish Identification. We learn how to identify fish from the same family. Its basically like a leisure dive but we have to take note of the fishes we saw and to identify them later.

Nudibranch-taken from my cam! So beautiful right! Its very small, like half the size of our last finger

Dive 4 - The last dive for the day was a Night Dive. This is also one of our Advance Diving subject. The night dive started at around 7pm and everyone of us are required to carry a torch. We were taught how to use the torch, like where to shine and how to shine/move the torch to sign for help etc. Its quite a scary dive as its a drift dive, meaning we dun really need to "swim", we just move along with the current. The drift was pretty strong and fast and together with the darkness...it all adds up to 2 words - "Scary" + "Panic"!! Lol....however we did manage to see large school of fishes!! And also Hermit Crab!!

This pic was taken with 3 torches shinning on it and me taking the shot.

Was damn tired after 4 dives. But still need to log dives. Asha was trying to teach us to use the Wheel Chart to plan for multi-level dives but we were partically switched off alr..brain not functioning..haha...however we did have the strength to play Indian Poker!!

Dayang - Advance Diving Day 1 (21/07/06)

Went to work as usual today. Last day of my internal training course and next week its back to reality! Work!! Sian...After work, went straight to Blue Reef. Suppose to set off to Tioman for our advance diving course, but due to some last min changes, we are going back to Dayang again. Yes again..its is our 3rd time there alr.

Reached Blue Reef pretty early @ 7.00pm, but only set off from Blue Reef at ard 10pm. Law need to go early to "study" my diving's theory knowledge review. There are 4 of us plus 1 instructor - Asha for this trip (2 leisure dives and 2 of us). Another 2 person from Mako join us for the trip. Its a 4 hrs car ride to Mersing and another 4 hrs boat ride to Dayang.

My luggage + dive gears

In the boat abt 4am

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Seagrass Studies

Went for the Sentosa Seagrass Studies yesterday. The meeting time was at 615am!!! So early for a saturday morning. But no choice cos we must make use of the time when its low tide. Candice was late. Called her when i reached and she is still sleeping!! Luckily her house was quite near and still managed to catch a cab down.

The study site is at the beach off Rasa sentosa. We started off the study at around 7.30am. After that we make used of the remaining time to explore the area. Was really amazed at what we found! Never though we would be able to see such marine life in local waters!

Shore @ 715am

A blue coral

A red one

Another coral

Crab

A sea spider

A nudibranch

My team mates

After that, we spent the rest of the morning and afternoon at Sentosa, enjoying the beach and the sun...nice!

My Strawberry Shortcake

Went to collect my strawberry shortcake slipper after work. Its a custom made slipper whereby you provide the person with your own design and they would draw and hand craved it out.

So its the only pair in Singapore!! Anyone interested in making a pair for yourself or ypur partner? It would be an ideal gift! My friend's shop is at Icon Building (the building opposite Bugis Junction). Its called Slippery, @ 2nd level. If interested can go visit the shop.

Dilemma, dilemma

Woah, seems like i am addicted to blogging alr! Will blog as and when i am free and feel like it! Haha, you must be thinking that i am damn free right. But you are half correct. I am pulling out from my client's place today (pulling out for audit means that we are done with the audit and have to bring everything back to office) and am now waiting for my client to give me the Consol Pack so that i can bring back to office for my AM (as their reporting is next wed, have to get everything done and sign by then)..so its the waiting game again.

Oh ya, back to the topic. I am in a dilemma..as on the 29th Jul, its me and my dear's first yr anniversary, but then i also have a chalet on that weekend and i promise to go (as this is with frens that we have not meet up for a very long time) .. at that time when i agree to go, i dont know that if dear manage to take leave for that weekend (due to his nature of work)..but now he tell me he manage to get the leave!!! On my...but i already agree to go for the chalet .......sigh........how how?!?!?

Lunch time again...

Yup, its my lunch time and i am having my lunch in front of my laptop again. Am at Ubi Techpark this week. Its damn far from my place. Travelling time is about 2hrs!! Imagine i leave my house at 730am and reached client's place at 930am!! But its such a small world, i saw my secondary school classmate , Valerie when i was taking the feeder bus from Euons to the Techpark yesterday. Both of us stayed in the west and we have never met each other there or in Orchard..but in Ubi!! Haa, her office is only the next bus stop from my client's place, thus met her for lunch.

Been busy these few days, both at work and off work. My Advance Diving course cum trip is next fri and i need to complete my theory module before that, thus have been going down to Blue Reef Scuba for the past few nights. Still need to go in for another night or two before the trip and to finish reading the textbook (OMG..zzzz..). Haa..havent been eating at home for the past few nights too and when i told my dad me not going home for dinner yesterday, he said,"Again..." Okok....point noted...tonight i would guai guai go home for dinner ok..Lots of things to do before next fri:

- Test my underwater camera housing

- Go to blue reef scuba for 3 more video cum theory lessons

- buy luggage tag (for my dive bag - anybody know where i can get them?)

- Read my Advance diving textbook and to finish all the knowledge review (must submit b4 next fri)

- Sentosa Seagrass studies this sat

- Calvin's house warming this sat

- Sign RISIS's accounts before going on leave

- Bring down my dive gears to BRS one of the night (so i dun need to carry the bag to work on fri)

KL Trip Day 3 (Sunday 02/07/06)

Today is the last day and we are going home. Nice things always dun last...Aug and Cindy are such nice ppl!! They woke up at 730am and went to queue for the tickets to enter Twin Towers for us...and we ourselves slept til 930am (Woah, after that crazy night, we slept at 430am!). Everyone was drowsy and tired in the morning..some even with hang over..lol...

Went to KLCC for brunch then proceed up to the Twin Tower. It has got quite a nice view up there. Didnt know that, that area used to be a racing course.

These pics are taken below twin tower:

That was our last stop, after that we headed back to Singapore. Halfway we stopped at Baskin Robins and have ice-cream!

Yummy!

Its Zzzz...for me all the way...but Aug was quite entertaining! ahha...on and off hearing his voice talking about his childhood and keeping Fred and Yenling company...Dinner is back in Singapore at Serangoon; Teochew porridge.

Its really a great trip, thanks guys!!! I have uploaded the rest of the photos

here.

KL Trip Day 2 (Sat 01/07/06)

Due to the late night, we woke up about 11am this morning..lol...We headed out for our brunch at Hong Kong rest at Sungei Wang. The food is quite nice. After that we went on separate ways with the guys and we gals headed back to our hotel where they are having a MNG sale downstairs! Haha..a MNG sale...we expected a lot of ppl (like in Singapore) but then..haha...there is no queue at the fitting room!! We stayed there for more than an hr going in and out of the fitting room. Its at that point of time when we received the news of our promotion...everyone was so happy and started to feel so rich now..lol..all of us got something from MNG and i bought 3 tops and in all it cost lesser than S$50!

Brunch at HK rest

My brunch : Pork Chop Mushroom rice. Nice!

Went back to Sungei Wang to look for the Elephant statues that my mom wan me to get for her. Search the whole building and cant even find one! After that, met up with the guys and went to Secret Recipe for tea time. Wow, they really served nice cakes!!!

The cakes that we ordered

Next, we headed to Petaling Street for more shopping. Petaling Street is like Women's street in HK. Selling lots of cheap but fake stuffs. Went to try the famous Logan drink, but find it too sweet..Wanted to get a watch for Law, but didnt see one that catches my eyes until the 5th ~ 6th stall and i saw it!! Its a black bulky man's watch. There are a few models but my colleagues and i only liked that one which i saw..haha even asked Fred to wear it so i can see how it looks like on a guy's wrist..lol..Things that we brought at Petaling street includes cuttlefish, clothes, Ba Gua.

After that we went to do foot reflexology. Its da** painful man!!!! But they said its good for health...

When we reached our apartment, everyone were dead tired but not the guys! They started pulling us up to play cards...we mixed our own drink, volka ribbina, volk orange etc..the loosing party would need to drink. We started with "Asshole Da Ti", followed by Indian Poker and as the night goes, everyone became more and more wasted and started to crap and be creactive, we played newly invented games like Cap-tain-hook and Gum-Mi-Bear-Bong...and some other totally out of this world's games..you can never guess that auditors could be so crappy!!!!! Normally see them in office, all so soft spoken, decent and smart..but then off work and with a bit of alcohol, it can really do wonders!! lol...

Asshole 1, 2 n 3 lol....

Indian poker

KL Trip Day 1 (Friday 30/06/06)

Cal suppose to pick Fred, me, Jase and Cass before heading to Woodlands to meet the rest. But guess what, he over slept and we ended up taking bus to Woodlands ourselves...duhz...We had breakfast in JB (you tiao and noodles). On our way, Calvin was suai..got caught for speeding and ended up paying $50 to the malaysian police...

Actually its true that ppl say you will get to know a person better when u are on a trip. Me also see the true colour of one of my junior. She is soo...da** bitchy..As Cal so call know his way ard KL, Aug is suppose to follow his car. But halfway, Cal said that he doesnt really know his way to Sunway Lagoon, so we ended up consulting the map that he brought. Well the map states that, after exit 604 would be 508 and we are suppose to exit at 508 to turn into Sunway Lagoon. So on the way we saw exit 604 but 508 wasnt in sight even after 10~15 mins drive..and yes, we are lost. Thus we stopped at a petrol station to discuss with the colleagues in the other car. The first thing this colleague (we shall call her B) said was," Where are you guys going!! You are bringing us round and round. Do you know your way or not!" And she wasnt using those kind of light and joking tone. Boy was i pissed upon hearing that. Hey, you think we like to be lost and purposely made us go round and round? Please loh, if you are so clever, please lead the way and not to start bitching around. So in sensitive! But of cos i didnt say that out loud, but i am sure she can see that we are not happy about what she said. So Cindy being the sensitive one qucikly added," Oh nvm lah, its not fun if we didnt encounter any problems right..sometimes its fun to be lost lah..haha"...But nonetheless, we didnt let such "ppl" spoil our day.

We had a great time at Sunway Lagoon and i didnt realise that my guy colleagues could be so crappy + fun + vain!! haha...

Outside Sunway Lagoon

Donuts!!

Its was a great afternoon with the fun gang, playing, swimming and screaming!! We also took a lot of photos at Sunway Lagoon. For the rest of the uploaded photos, can go to the link stated at the end of the 3rd day's blog post. Haha...After that we went for dinner and Colleague B's grandma (her grandma is staying in KL) brought us to this famous roadside stall to try out their "Zhi Cha". The food was delicious! Haha maybe its becos all of us were starving after that wild afternoon. We only checked into our apartment at 11pm+..After unpacking, we headed out again to a cafe to catch that night's football: Germany vs Agertina. We had a small bet within us and i support Agertina...too bad they lost and there goes my S$10..lol...

Seagrass Briefing

Went to the seagrass briefing (for next sat's seagrass transact studies@ sentosa) today. Our project leaders are Ria and Siti. Both are very fun, friendly and humorous ppl! I am sure we would have a great time working under them. For the project, we were being put into teams. Candice and i were being allocated into diff team, with me in Team Enhalus (Team E) and Candice in Team 640 (Team F - but errr..why 640 har??). The purpose of the project is to study the shore area at Sentosa, taking note of the growth there, any living marine sighted. As in the near future, there would be sea work being carried out at Labrador Park, this might affect the marine life at Sentosa, thus we are suppose to document the growth now and it can be used to compare with the growth that they would be carrying out a few years later (after the Labrador sea work is done). The briefing ended at 5pm and we made our way down to Sentosa for the Jazz @ the beach.

Today Law would be working late, as Sentosa is having a major function with about 4000+ guests. He was looking forward to it as its his first big event. Me didnt realise what 4000+ ppl really mean until we reached Sentosa. The blue line (as the event was held at Siloso Beach) was packed and the queue went almost til the toilet!!!! OMG!! These ppl were all dress in white and they are making a hell lot of noise!! We have no choice but to take the Yellow line to Palawan Beach and walked till half way before transferring to the Beach Tram. It took us almost an hour to reach our destination! If we were to take the blue line, it would be a mere 10~15mins only!! Crazy right!! Sentosa should have charted buses for these ppl. Imagine what the tourists felt when they encounter such things, it really make it so inconvenient for us. Luckily we are regulars and we know the way ard the island and how we could change buses in order to get to our destination...hai..the poor tourists...

Look at how hot we look..but still manage to force a smile...lol..

Today's singer is Paul from Harry's Bar. Candice's friend Michael joined us after his work (he is also working at sentosa, but working as a live talent at Images of Singapore). It was a hot night and we were getting restless..thus left ard 9pm+. Yutang came to fetch us home and gave us some egg tarts, dao sa pau and da pau.

The stage

Da pau

Egg + cheese tarts

When i say da pau, its really da pau!!

Delicious!!

Thanks Yutang for the ride home and for the Dian Xins!!! Very delicious!!

Now you see it, now you don't

Yes, i am still at my client's place and guess what, i was doing my work while waiting for him to get me some requested documents and after a mere 15 mins, he was gone. Gone home? Nah i dont think so, cos his PC is still on. He must have went for dinner. Well, its rather inconsiderate right? Me waiting for you and u just went for dinner like that? Didnt even inform me...now that i am done with my work, i still need to wait for you to come back. I couldn't wait till tomorrow as i would be on another job alr, so i got to get things done today...sigh...sad life of an auditor......

Great savings!

Blue reef send us an email on Monday. They are having promotions for their dive courses and trip from Jul onwards!!! Yippee!!!! Just in time as Law and me would be taking their Advance Course in Jul. Each of us would save $50!! $50 is a lot ok..i manage to get 3 MNG tops at KL below $50..hehe..

Was busy busy and busy, thus doesn't have the time to update my blog on my KL trip. Would need to edit the photos first. Stay tuned and til then, its back to work now.

Big name big responsibility

Wow, i have been damn busy every since i came back from KL!! Now is our so call off peak season, but i was so busy that I don't even have the time to chat with my frens properly on MSN. Oh ya, and i received my promotion letter alr. I would say the increment and bonus are better than expected..hehe..finally the company is doing something good.. :P but i heard that other big 4 are getting even better bonus!! Anyway, i am contented with my current takings. And yes dad, i am going to start saving..so don't worry about me ok (yes, my dad is hip, he would read my blog thanks to my sis...).

Ok back to the things i wanna grumble about my work: From 1 Jul 2006 onwards i am officially a senior. This designation comes with a big responsiblilty and i can start to feel the stress alr..i was like doing 2-3 different jobs concurrently for the past few days. Worst still i am suppose to go on job next week with a junior, however that junior was being put on course on the last min, so my AM (assistant manager) told me to go alone. Her respond was," Aiya now u senior alr, can one lah." Oei! U think senior is god har..senior can say "presto" and all the work would be done?? Nah!! We are also human loh..so pls give me more time ok..

Am alone at client's place now. Lunch time now, no one to accompany me for lunch so i ta pau back..luckily they have connection, if not it would so boring. Would be alone today, tomorrow and the whole of next week..sob sob..no lunch partner...sianz...

Super Duper Monday Bluez...

First day back at work. Its super sian and tired..especially after the fun filled weekends!!! And first thing in the morning was to call my Australia client. Had quite a hard time talking to her and explaining what I need from her. It seems that she just cant understand what I want.

The only 2 thing to look forward to today is to meet my Ah Dear after work (haven’t see him for 3 days alr!!) and the other thing is to collect my promotion letter (after 2pm, cos boss not free..lol)..excited man .. dunno how much would the increment and bonuses be. Heard from other units that the bonuses for them are quite good. But then as KPMG is a partnership company, so the no. of months that you would be getting depends on your own unit’s partner… and our partner.. erm.. is not those generous type loh…hai..we shall see.