Sunday, December 21, 2008
ytd was a busy day, whereby i had diving in the morning, NJD sparring tournament in the afternoon, dinner and movie at night.

morning was diving with imbal.. oh ya, talking abt imbal, i have to post sth on his facebook group.. ahhhh.. eh found.. oops, not imbal, is iqbal. =x anyway, diving with him, liying, vien and dajiejie (huiling) at pulau hantu kechil. the water is horrible and dark murky green. visibility was low, i think about max 3 or 4 metres. diving there was like taking a chance, if lucky, u see something, if not, u see nothing. the spot that i was diving at was all macro stuff (small tiny thingys) and i did see some small tiny thingys, more like nudibranches or gobies. my first dive was horrible, as i couldnt go down. the first time i could but i hit reef and was pushed up again. 2nd time was bad, as i couldnt go down, then 3rd time succeeded.

the 1st time, huiling, my buddy, we were supposed to go down tgt, but i hit reef at abt 4m, so i was pushed up. everyone surfaced, except for her. we had the buddy system in case anything like that happens. if someone lost her buddy, we're supposed to surface and regroup (due to super low visibility). but she didn't appear. we used the tank banger (the pointer, a metal stick) to hit the tank to give out a sound in the water, which sound like *tink tink tink*. i tink tink tink so many times, but she didn't surface. its like everyone's worse nightmare. cos hantu's vis is so low that a few people died b4 due to inability to surface or what. and cannot see then panic. iqbal and vien went down to check on some bubbles, cos got bubbles means got diver, but its all the basic divers getting their certification. they went down and huiling came up on the far side, where she was. she thought that the tink tink tink sound meant that we were underwater. but actually not, cos sound travel in water differently. then iqbal and vien came up, and luckily, the nightmare didn happen.

getting lost underwater is common, but i had gotten lost once last time so wasn't keen on something like that happening again. but it did, cos i got lost underwater. iqbal signaled for me to avoid the seaweed, but i thought it meant "go that way". so i followed the reef of seaweed until i lost them. =.= and i have to give out the distress signal of tink tink tink again. this time everyone was up there. thus, huiling and vien (more experienced), went off on their own, and liying, iqbal and me went off on our own, cos both liying and me need looking after. i had quite a high lvl certification of rescue diver, but i still could get lost.. shame on me.

we went down again, of course, now with iqbal pulling on both of us, in case i decided to go missing again or in case liying needs help. ok, liying is an advanced diver, a rank lower than rescue, but she haven dived since 2006 march. woah.. long time right, so she needed looking after. whereas for me, i went missing, so that was adequate reason for us holding hands and diving. ahahahaha. so you can imagine, 3 divers in a row, holding hands and diving. i was the nearest to the corals on the right side, and those and steeped up. and i had a hardtime avoiding those suddenly protruding corals, but other than that i was fine. then after 30+++ mins we surfaced, and went back to the boat. we were the last to get into the water, and also the last to get on to the boat. i still had 1/3 or more of my air left, so it was a fine dive, relaxing and not anxious.

after diving we went on land, on to pulau hantu to eat brunch.. at abt 10+. its a plate of chinese fried rice with a chicken wing. we had iced tea mixed from those kind of syrup. then we sit on chairs and ate. after eating was diving, rigging up of gears slowly and digesting the lunch. when gears are rigged, we went down for the 2nd dive.

the 2nd dive we split up again, with vien and huiling going under the pier, while iqbal liying and me stay near the boat. its also relaxing, plus after the checkout dive (the first dive), we were more able to control and to not need more guidance, therefore having the time to check out the reefs to find those critters. nudis and gobies, nudis and gobies.. seahorses are likely, but rare.
surfaced and again, last to board the boat. the boat moved off while i'm still unrigging my gear. in a hurry of course, cos we are supposed to leave a bit earlier. ok then after i packed my stuff i went up to the 2nd floor, where we sit and talk until the boat is near the jetty. after we alighted, we went to bathe at the club, cos we are at the "Rupublic of Singapore Yacht Club".

i love the toilets cos its so posh hahaha. so we bathed very fast, but i had to go off early due to the NJD Sparring Tournament. had to reach by 1.30, and i left the club at 12.45. lucky for me, a cab just dropped off a lady at the club, which she, very nicely asked me if i wanted the club. thanks lady~. haha but i forgot abt my dive bag, which was in the toilet, so i had to ask the uncle to stop, and let me out to go and run and get my bag. which i throw it on the floor of the behind seats. it made a sopping mess of the uncle's floor, which i hoped he didn realise. so he drove me to NP and i alighted at the field there. ok, the tournament stuff i will add up.. by tonight midnight. hahahaha.

P.S.: we saw Rafi and Uncle Robin (our old instructors) sibei paiseh

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