my lovely memories on pulau tioman...
it all started on fri evening.. gathering at the club house.. filling up forms.. getting up on the bus.. and off we went.. :) got off at the checkpoint.. my first time doing so.. heh.. normally always enter m'sia via car.. met the aur grp there too.. pple like greg n kheng moh! heh.. *waves* it's always nice meeting frens esp when u're in another country.. :P
slept the rest of the bus journey there.. stayed at hotel timotel in mersing.. not a bad place.. :) got hot water n ac.. that's all u need to make jenjen a happy lil girl.. heh cards over at dawn's cuzzie's room b4 heading back to our own room to concuss..
freaking wake up call at 630.. barely ate bfast coz i dun have the habit of doing so.. den it was a 1 1/2 hr boat ride to tioman!!! :) check in to the resort and headed down to the jetty in prep for our first dive.. heh
first dive @ pulau bay, 6m deep.. entered the water via giant stride.. descended down and performed some basic skills like regulator removal, half mask clearing, full mask clearing, fin pivot and hovering.. first time underwater.. a lil scared but was happily enjoying the fishes with my dive buddy.. there was this fish that swam v close to us.. heh.. wanted to touch it but it swam away.. and i crashed into a huge coral.. coz it as behind me n i din see it.. but luckily it din break or anithing.. phew..
2nd dive @ pulau soyak.. 12 m deep.. after lunch we took the boat out to sea again.. this time it was more of a leisure dive.. entered the water like james bond.. the reverse backflip.. so cool.. sit at the side of the boat and just lean back and flip 180 deg into the water.. hee.. practised finning n hovering.. but it was a lil bit scary coz this girl, huixian or so named mini cooper by jack suddenly stopped finning and sank right into the corals!!! jack had to go n rescue her.. my gosh.. i was so scared.. thought something happened to her.. she kept sinking whenever jack let go of her.. haha.. as wad jack said.. poor corals.. thankfully she din land on any of those hideous sea urchins.. saw stone fish, squid and a school of barracudas!!!
3rd dive @ pulau renggis.. 12 m.. my first leisure dive!!!! the open water divers were split into 2 grps from the start.. so for this dive we all descended down tog.. after descending down tog with my dive buddy.. i started swimming into the school of fish coz i saw fins from a distance and wanted to go join them.. lol.. kana pulled back by zhiming.. lol.. wrong grp.. :X but that moment when i was swimming in the midst of the huge school of fish.. magical! magical! magical!!! everywhere i looked.. i was surrounded by fish! up down left right.. there were everywhere!! so so pretty!!! totally took my breath away! even saw a blue spotted sting ray.. dunno why zhiming din manage to see it.. heh
returned to land after that and showered.. got ready for dinner too.. heh.. food was not too bad.. :) but din realli eat a lot also.. dawn had 3 servings of rice!! so scary!!! i am so amazed at the amount she eats man.. waited for the leisure divers aka daniel adam n wanho to come back from their nite dive as we were playing asshole daidee and i had my traffic light ice cream~ i dropped from being the president to being the big asshole.. wah lau.. so suay..
all 9 of us gathered in the room to play cards.. joined the 2 double decker beds and was happily playing daidee with 2 decks of cards when suddenly there was a blackout!!! *sings i need a man who can make it blackout blackout* haha lame.. but yeah so we were all sitting there for a while.. wondering when the lights will be on again.. it was quite dumb lar.. i was still holding onto my cards.. after a while it got super hot so we decided to go outside to get some freash air and check out the situation.. turns out the whole island had a blackout!
went to the dining area to sit around and enjoy the sea breeze.. and i started falling asleep.. heh daniel had to wake me up to go back to the room.. was listening to mp3s on the upper deck of the bed and unknowingly concussed.. i din realli feel hot as there was a slight breeze blowing thru the room.. the torch kev passed to me for my esp ushering job b4 i left for tioman came in handy! heh was using it and sharing my torch with others..
awoke at 630 on sunday by zhiming.. washed up and headed down for bfast.. omelette!!! there was a huge storm and it rained like crazy.. but after a while it was just drizzling.. cold n sad.. we headed to the jetty once more for 2 more dives..
4th dive @ pulau renggis... took a boat ride out to renggis again where we had a leisure dive.. the water was super choppy.. and visibility was low at 5m.. swam around.. admiring the corals and all.. alex was the dive instructor this time round.. dawn jeff n jason got lost from our grp.. according to her they were the last 3 to descend and one min they see us.. the next min they got intercepted by a school of fish and couldnt find us animore.. so they resurfaced and went for their own leisure dive with another instructor.. i tried to go as near the sea bed as possible but there were moments when i freaked out and floated up a lil more.. partly coz i dun wanna destroy any corals.. and also coz i dun wanna get stung by the sea urchins and end up lying in bed for the next few days.. did a safety stop and resurfaced.. waited damn long for the boat to come and in the choppy water i tried breathing thru the snorkel.. but the min i leaned back.. i drank sea water! eeeuuuwww.. but yah.. it was hard to breathe properly as well.. just couldnt wait for the boat to come.. the boat took ages to come man.. n i realli had no more energy coz i had to keep swimming towards the boat and prevent myself from not drifting too far apart.. the current was super strong.. in the end i hooked up with my buddy, william, roy and another open water diver from the other grp alex.. n i rested.. really super shag.. when the boat finally came.. i let the other girls go up first b4 i went up.. my energy level dropped to zero.. i couldnt even take off my fins! intructor alex had to do it for me and i was literally dragged up the boat.. climbed the ladder and almost fell back coz the tank was weighing me down..
den the best part came.. when everyone was back safely on board.. people started getting sea sick and puking.. it was madness i tell u.. like out of the 13 open water divers.. 4 were puking and there was this girl stella puking right beside me! my gosh.. i also buay tahan.. tried my v best to control and look far.. den we were told to reek up for our last dive n i carried my weights belt (which is 8 pounds!! coz i kept floating up), my fins and my mask over to the end of the boat.. almost fell off the boat man.. thankfully for roy and myself.. haha i crashed into the wooden seat.. so everything was fine.. roy helped mi carry my stuff over and we all reeked up.. being the lousy dive buddy that i am.. zhiming had to reek up on his own and den help mi reek up.. ee tze was helping me too.. i remember squatting at the side of the boat and shutting off all the puking sounds.. haha
5th dive at pulau tomok.. went into the water and immediately felt damn sick.. but i controlled.. so we did alternate air source ascent with my buddy, CESA and while waiting for my navigational lesson.. i felt so sick.. i puked! like a mouthful... so disgusting! it's like how mani years since i last puked.. totally hate to puke.. no matter how drunk i am i also dun puke.. oh man.. den when ee tze came over to show me n zhiming how to use the compass i told him.. i cmi le.. i need to puke again.. but this time round nothing came out coz i barely ate.. haha zhiming kept asking me to puke it all out but i din wan to.. apparently he puked twice and felt damn song after that.. lol
after all those training skills.. i realised i was like one of the few left onthe surface.. saw quite a number of people on the boat.. den i asked ee tze if can go down for leisure dive and alex brought me down.. this time the depth was onli 10 m.. but it was one of the best underwater dives i had out of the five.. just me n alex.. he showing me all the wonderful creatures.. playing with the cuttlefish.. me accidentally breaking a small piece of coral.. :X playing with mani nemos.. and even seeing a tiny tiny nemo.. seeing bat fishes.. did a safety stop b4 going up.. i wished i could stay in there forever..
but in a sense i couldnt wait to get back to shore.. felt realli sick.. and at the jetty.. there was xiao mao mi!!! alex named her tiger.. heh.. she almost got blown off into the sea.. luckily i held her.. brought her back to a safer spot and she was following me quite a distance.. heh.. so cute.. i love kittens.. din eat lunch but ordered hot milo for my grp of 9.. the milo did wonders.. i felt so much better.. went over to ai meng's room coz alsa's room had a queue.. took a nice warm shower (my area had no hot water at all coz of the blackout) and headed back to my lil chalet.. packed up and lepaked around.. :)
while waiting for the ferry to take us back to mersing.. i dragged zhiming, william and roy to find tiger.. heh played with her a lil while and den bot sour apple ice cream! so yummy~ heh filled up my dive log book and got my temp card! cant wait for the real card to be posted to me! blasted music the whole boat ride back.. was v hot n uncomfortable in the boat.. coz had to close all the windows.. den i had nothing to do coz daniel was sleeping.. heh.. washed up a lil b4 getting on the bus.. the bus ride back was long.. had a lil jam.. shared all my goodies with my grp on the bus.. yum yum.. nestle milky bar!!! :) reached back to the club house about 11pm.. and mummy came to fetch me home!!
so super tired but so super happy!!! this rounds up my whole adventure at tioman.. the magical moments underwater.. the new friendships made.. and honestly im quite impressed at how nice guys can be.. it's been a while since i last came into contact with a nice guy.. and this time round i came into contact with quite a few.. esp daniel and zhiming.. :) thanks my big brothers.. *grin* hope i wasnt too much a pain in the ass for u guys! heh
i miss tioman!! i wanna go back... im stuck in that moment n i cant get out of it...
gonna share with u all my magical moments at tioman..
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