Sunday, August 29, 2010
Ahhh yes yes, i know i have not been blogging for a darn long time since my last post has been what feb?.. ok so theres long lists to update.... well finished my sem as usual then i went on to my 5 week practicum at Outram..
Outram was pretty fun, i had a good bunch of teachers and great CTs to guide me...not to mention the fun i had while teaching my class. My NA and NT classes are especially fun to teach... my NA class was pretty engaged which is good...and my CTs and my Sup was quite happy with my performance so far..so its pretty good that i passed..
After practicum, dearie and I went to Batam to celebrate our anniversary...though we celebrated on the day itself with a cable car ride and dinner... we went to batam on an all expenses paid trip by dearie as a present for me haha... we enjoyed ourselves loads with plenty of down time, relaxing, playing scrabble, swimming and simply walking around. Batam was pretty fun for a short getaway..
Guess wads my present for her...haha we went to a concert by Jeff Chang since dearie quite like his songs and I find him quite good too... His concert at Max Pavilion is great..lots of great fans and nice song numbers... an enjoyable experience!!
After the Batam trip, i simply slacked, played a lil sports with dearie and celebrated Papa's birthday. We had dinner at Ah Yat seafood and we had our favourite bamboo clams and i got to eat suckling pig as well haha...
Lately, i just came back from a 3 day 2 nites live on board diving trip as part of getting my PADI certification... well since we were with some advanced divers...our dives were in interesting parts of the Pulau Aur in Malaysia where currents were stronger and unlike calm waters which we are supposed to do our drills, we actually went to real dive sites to do our training dives... its really beautiful down below where we saw lots of marine life... from stingrays and morey eels to schools of barracuda and even a giant barracuda..nt to mention also all the fishes u can find in finding nemo...minus the shark which we could not get to see...we even saw parrot fish, lion fish and trigger fish...and some mysterious sightings of cuttlefish i think...the dives were great and the water is good.. viz is not too bad except for the last dive at jack rock where viz is about 6-8m i think.. but yeah good dives..compared to normal diving courses where u had to do lotsa stuff at absolutely calm water sheltered bays, these dives were a little more challenging but alot more interesting since my instructor told us if it was the normal kinda training, the dive sites are not beautiful and there would have been little to see.. hahah now i am gg into my new semester again...so ya..hope i blog more this time round yeah!!