Pulau Dayang Coming Feb.

I'M GOING DIVING THIS TERM BREAK! HELLO, ADVANCED CERTIFICATION :):)

Destination is Pulau Dayang, Malaysia (again...) But, I don't mind as long as I get to dive again. I'm actually going with the NTU divers. Not that I want to compare, but SMU diveteam sucks in getting good deals and they are certified under NAWI. They arrange to go to the same place but charge higher prices. =\ Since I'm a PADI certified diver, I have to learn from a PADI dive centre (I prefer PADI anyway.)

Click here for PADI's official website. For the uninitiated, it stands for Professional Association of Diving Instructors. It is the world's largest and most recognized recreational diving membership and diving training centre. (Taken fr. Wikipedia) A PADI membership is for life.

Side note: (evil and biased one towards NAWI certification)
I wiki-ed NAWI and Wikipedia doesn't even recognize it! It came back with weird results. Hmm.

So, please go for PADI! It's Australian and it says alot already.

Anyway, really looking forward to it since Shao and my boyfriend will be going as well. It will just be like the old days when I went for my first diving trip.

I'm really hoping Youie can go and someone kindly be her buddy so she will want to go. Diving without a buddy sucks. Jax and I are going for the advanced lessons so we cannot dive with the leisure divers so technically speaking, we won't be diving along with Youie so it's kinda sad because I have never dived with her before.

But, fret not, once I get my advanced cert, we shall go to Sipadan for diving okies.

Talking about going for this trip. It was kinda tough convincing Jax to go... But he finally gave in. I was so desperate that I said going for diving trip shall be my birthday present. Hence, he does not need to buy me any present at all.

Honestly, I'm quite afraid of diving in certain aspects like buoyancy control (I have a tendency to go too near to the corals and get myself scratched which is super dangerous because some corals are poisonous) I got scratched really badly the last time I went diving and the wound was like bleeding quite profusely. Thankfully, it healed completely and the scar I thought would come along with the injury didn't appear. So it was really Thank God or else I think I would be sad to have a scar on my leg. Plus, I read about how divers got infected with flesh eating bacteria, which got me really worried. And I have this tendency to get lost while navigating.

Nevertheless, all that is not gonna stop me from enjoying the beautiful underwater world. I'm going to conquer my fears!!


OH, another good thing. this guy just joined my cell group and he's a divemaster! So cool. He gets to dive for free because he works for a dive mag. I want that job!

As you can read, I'm really excited over the trip :)

So dear friends or school pals I'm doing project with, I'll be away from 22 to 25 Feb (its the weekend before term break.)