i'm in love....

finally, i have found love...the one true love of my life...at this moment that is...*laughs* a long weekend just passed and i must say it is one of the best weekends i ever had because i had found my love...my one true love...my one true love is fun, interesting, addictive and healthy...my one true love is expensive too...but what to do...good things dont come cheap...anyway, this is where i spent my weekend:

pulau aur's view of the sea...

very beautiful scene right? it's good to escape into the embrace of mother's nature..to be back in the arms of trees, the kisses of the sea breeze and the cool touch of the sea...but to get to such a paradise...one had to travel by bus for about 3 hours from singapore to mersing..then by boat for 4 hours from mersing to aur...it's a tiring journey...especially, when you have to be woken up in the middle of your sleep to get down the bus, get up the boat and with all the luggage and bags....*argh* treacherous!! and the stupid air-con is so blardy cold and the seats are not comfortable at all...

anyway, pulau aur is a very simple island...with only a dining area and some individual houses as rooms...very simple but yet sufficient...my room was one of the best...spacious with a quiet air-con..my neightbors were complaining that their air-cons were so noisy that they couldnt sleep well..but mine was as quiet as a whatever...hahahahaha! although simple, but we do have an attached bathroom that seemed to attract dragonflies...but anyhow, it's good enough for me....*smilez*

so what did i do on this little island....i DIVED... *smilez*

that's me on the left and jill on the right

it's so so so so so so so freaking fun..i enjoyed every single dive that i had...in total i had 8 dives...and each of them were so amazing...we went as shallow as 10m and as deep as 22m...saw many beautiful corals, fishes, and marine life..it's simply wonderful and amazing...to breathe underwater and to be so close to the fishes and all...and here are some of the animals that i saw:

a bigger version of the angelfish...haha!

i found nemo..in fact i found nemos...*laughs*

this is one of the famous fish..forgotten the name..but look like luohan fish to me...bigger version.

think this is the rainbow fish..quite obvious right? haha!

one of my favorite..turtle...it's so amazing to be so near to one in the middle of the blue ocean...

blue-spotted sting-ray...was swimming just right under me...cool right???

other than animals, there were many beautiful corals, starfishes, sea cucumbers, funny round things...it's simply so beautiful...although most of the time, am trying to keep myself neutrally buoyant!! at times, i'm sinking..at times, i'm floating...i cannot keep still and have to keep finning to keep myself at the correct position..need to improve on this...

the people i went with are fabalous...we were like an international group..there were 12 of us...4 singaporeans, 1 malaysian, 2 turkish, 2 germans, 1 americans and 2 british...although we didnt seem to get along initially..but ultimately, we were really cool and enjoyed each other companies...although no cute guys..the guys are mostly uncles..but very happening uncles...hahahahaha!

one of them is actually a father of 2 and he not only dives but sky-dive..how cool is that..another is a 38-year old single uncle with many dramatic stories to share with us and he's also my alarm clock...the germans girls are pretty and have a cute laughter..the american guy was really adventurous...the turkish couple was cool and friendly... my diving instructor and his girlfriend are the british and they looked good together...underwater, the uncles took really good care of us...because we always lose our instructor...hahaha! above water, we had nice little chats about anything under the sun...but again, i'm the butt of the joke...forever the main "item" to be teased and disturbed...hahahaha!

not only do i dived...i even went trekking...we walked upwards and reached some nice place with nice sceneary:

we look really small because the camera was far *laughs*

actually, the trek upwards was quite duhz...because we saw nothing but heaps of cow dung after cow dung..most of them are dry..only some were fresh...then we were wondering...if there's cow dungs..where's the cows? hahahaha! and if we ever see a cow...are we supposed run? what if it's abull and i'm wearing red!! hahahaha! but thank god, we only saw the dung and trees and leaves and coconuts..nothing much..but a breath-taking scnenary is our results after climbing, walking and cut by plants...

all in all..i have truly enjoyed myself...everything has been so perfect...and diving is indeed addictive..the moment i reach singapore...i want to dive again...since i'm in love with this sport...am going to invest in my own gear..hahahaha! and guess what, most of my friends are actually divers..they are either seasoned or new...this is so so so so so so exciting!!! and guess what, jill and i are planning to go in June again!! *yay*