EXHAUSTED

A.

Tremendously tire-d out. Havent have any good rest since I got back till now!

Alright, last week's peekaboo.

Monday.
Work as usual. Then after work head to Bugis. Meeting a yahoo aution buyer to buy my 5yrs old Adidas watch.. I sold it for only $38.. Kinda miss it. My first self-bought decent watch in my life. But oh well, because of the Seiko, Adidas has to leave. I only have one wrist.

Met up with HB too. Had a walk around Bugis Junction. Kinokuniya and found a book on Philippines. God da*n hell, the map doesnt show Malapascua, wasted our time searching till our eyes are popping out. Whatever, so headed to nearby LiangSeah street for some Duckie rice.

It was nice of him to take train back with me to Jurong and a cab transfer to my place. Hehe. That was how Monday ended up a late night.

Tuesday.
Work as usual. It was meet Pauline and TBS day @ PS. Of course, did not neglect my babe. Meet Mel for a walk walk talk talk then joined her friends at Cartel till Mr TBS arrived, I shifted over another table. We had soooo much fun upon arrival of Pauline ^^

While we were engrossed into some topics, Mr TBS has to dig the I.S. Magainze out from his bag. Probably the most hilarious part of the meetup. He showed us whta caught the attention of his eyes.. Erm... These....

Then we discussed some issues.

After so much, came across this.

Then whats the point of doing survey and reading survey??!! Waste-d time. LOL. Then we reminded of the Cartel menu which has this print on.

So that's why the portion that came was TOTALLY not the same shown on the menu. What joke?

Wednesday.
Work as usual. Was supposed to meet Jon after work. But he last minute cancelled our dinner date at 5pm+! Then how am I supposed to find dinner kaki in such short time? I knock off at 5.30pm lor. His reason is 'cos I wanted to catch my tv prog at 10pm. But we meeting at JP, how slow can we eat? I dont know... So went over to JE popular meet HB instead. Spent some time shopping for didi's birthday gift then WALKED over to IMM. Killing. The floor is wet.

Had my favourite Korean BBQ chicken set at the Kopitiam. Happy ^^

Oh, he see me home again. Took bus! W.O.W. But then as I thought it's an early night, I ended up watching the Arts Central on Caves!! Yummy. Me and Duddy were msn-ing and droooooling away. The wonders of saltwater and freshwater combination diving. DRRRROOLz

And then had long session on MSN with friends and ended my night at 2am. Zzzz

Thursday.
Work as usual. Except HB's sister reprimand me for saying I make his brother come Jurong. LOL. Laughicious! My fault?!?! *knock*

Thinking might be able meet James and Esther. But in the end was asked to head Outram only at 10pm. So I have 6pm-9pm free... Planned to go Kinokuniya or Borders then.

HB looked for me. Asked him join me and Mel dinner then. Of course, he rushed down. LOL ^^ We had our dinner at some HongKong restaurant. Not very fantastic. Mostly P.O.R.K. dishes. Ultimately, Mel complained it has been some time I havent spend time with her.. For the entire night. I was guilty so I sms James and cancelled the meetup. Oops.

Lalala... We walked Zara, walked Esprit, still cant help Mel get rid of her FREE vouchers!! Da*n, but luckily I didnt spend on anything ^^

HB boy sent me home again and I waited til 1am+ when he reached home then I concussed. Meaning, ANOTHER late night. I'm now declared officially walking Zombie. -.-

Friday.
MSN-ed with Roy! Wow.. Becoming a once in a month thing.

Anyway, went to PS find Mel makan dinner. Along came HB. Then came August. Me and HB headed to Dragonfly after that. YUCKS. Q for 2 long hours and dint managed to get in!! Really is wasted my time!!

Sarturday.
Had lunch with Mel over at VivoCity. Spent $100 bucks at PageOne Bookstore.. Bought "Ocean" book. Wow. Think I liked it very much. Heh.

Supposedly have to meet my Sipadan gang for video screening but was really so tired and the place is sooooo damn far. So stayed at home. Jon and YF can be my witness!! Heh.

Sunday.
HB woke me up at 9am+. To facial at CosLab @ TanjongPagar. Heh. Kinda ok la, however the shoulder massage was like a breasts turn-on massage sia! Very different from Posh Wellness. LOL. Wasnt very efficient in relieving my shoulder or back stress. But ok la, cheap trial :)

Then went to Suntec to catch 5pm "200pounds Beauty"!! Crying show. Hehe. Walked Suntec and Marina till legs also want to break liao....

...that was how I ended my week :)

and then came to realise I cannot update blog at home. No access from home pc. No idea why. To think I was all so excited to update my Sipadan trip... One problem after another for my blog.. Sigh

backtracking

A.

All these days spent have been good before the 2 dive trips, during the interval of dive trips, during the dive trips and after I'm back from the last dive trips.. Been already more than one month since I last ate mom's homecooked food.. Boohooo..

Then I thought, why do I have such 'evil' and poke-me friends??

sTaCiA says:
dangerous to go dive with u eh . . . always get lost
sTaCiA says:
i start to worry abt andre in oct liao
Me says:
kick!!!
sTaCiA says:
u always the first to do silly things hor

sTaCiA says:
still dare to blog . . . confidence but wrong direction
sTaCiA says:
shld ask andre to read, get himself prepare

This is the conversation after she read my Thai LOB trip report. Doh.

Then came another one today.. Miss Esther! Harroz!!! And James..!!

"Today took my 1st THEORY lesson for PADI open water... Wah lau... Apparently this dive trip all girls. SIAN. 5 girls. sigh...

Then James, our lecturer for the day said - see, now you know why EVE never go on this trip - cos no guys..." ---Esther from her blog!

Sometimes, I just have such NICE friends........ Who know me toooo well. And then, that's dangerous apparently.

And then came my another dearest dear... Think the two above dears drove me nuts? No, wait till you see what I chanced upon all of a sudden, which is THIS and THIS and yes, THIS! Speechless. T.o.t.a.l.l.y.

No wonder my poor boy said, he has to be careful of what he says, cos everything he said can be used against him in the court of bloggers. LOL.

-.-

Besides these annoying people in my life that realli spiced my life up, there are nice people around too! Like my family....

It's mom's birthday, same day as Stacia's and Steve's.. They celebrated on Friday, I celebrated mine on last Sunday. To the Holiday Inn Atrium, Melting Pot Cafe!

Yummy! Buffett, I love.

Followed by many many other servings. The food wasnt fantastic though. Very few varieties. Not very recommended at all. Ooops. Then had family shot taken!

Best of all, my family as crazy as me, I was pausing to take mirror shot (of myself), my family all paused and posed!! Wahaha.. So I thought ok, since all paused, we take mirror family shot!

And ta-da!!::

Before that, woke at 6am+ for prayers in temple and Mandai. What a long day! To make it worse, I slept at 3am doing that Thai LOB thingy on the night before!! That was when I got back form JB at 12am+..

Yep, went JB on Saturday in noon. Yeah, I was the clown again...

Stood there waiting, a blue car approach, someone alighted, I looked away, car followed closer, I saw number plate with only 3 numbers, I looked away, car drove even nearer, cant see through the windscreen cos of bad reflection, so I looked away again, car moved to even nearer this time, I figured someone inside on passenger seat laughing her lungs out. FINE.

It took more than 5mins to realise they are all along in front of me. Stupid Andre didnt even horn, nor did they wind down window to wave?!?! Make me stand there for them to laugh. Best of all, think my short-sightedness getting worse?? There were FOUR numbers, I saw three, Alphabet also see wrongly. OOPS. Point is, why didnt they call me!? Brrrgh.

Pick XiaoWhite up and left to JB.

Jusco-Chocolates-Durian chocolates-Doughnuts.

Went JF house and head to Kelong for dinner.

Approach a monkey cage. I mean a cage with 2 monkeys inside. I was happily taking photos of them n they screamed, Stacia pulled me away. Apparently the monkey was trying to snatch my handphone... Thanks JIE!! Nearly lose my handphone just like that! EVIL.

They had a little kelong area for keeping fishes. I got seasick-ed. Dizzy. Stupid XiaoWhite ask diver will seasick meh? Kao, just because he Navy can yaya is it? Hmphf.

Dinner done with one bottle of beer. :)

Headed to Lavender, gosh, SMELLY TOFU sold along the roadside. They decided to get and Andre was saying I smelt smellier than the smelly Tofu. What the.... Brought the TWO LARGE packets to JF's house to makan.

The guys apparently enjoyed..::

Obviously not the ladies::

Forced to eat by Andre. Said "no eat, no home". Sob. Stacia took one mouth and vomitted out immediately. Poor me, took one bite and concluded, that is the LAST bite of smelly tofu in my entire life as long as I lived! They blocked the dustbin. I pushed the tofu to left side of my mouth. Unbearable I finally spat it out onto my hand!! Yucks!!

And then the days before I cant remember much how I spent.. Prolly most of the time spent with HB.

Thai LOB 4th-10th April

Alright, Hallo, this is the time I finally can sit down and blog my trip peacefully.

For those who dont know what is "LOB", it means "liveaboard" which simply means a diving cruise, so to say. Of course, the boat isnt as big as a cruise but the logic is there, you dont get to the island, just dive eat slp on the boat for few days.

Departure date: 4^th April

Arrival date: 10^th April 0035hr

Operator: Seamoth

Members: Eric Wang, Kym, Joyce Lim, Greg, Chris, Jinhong and Yours truly

Location: Trang

AND RASH GUARD ALL THE WAY! NO WETSUIT!!

DAY 1

I met up with Eric at Cityhall and we took the train to Singapore Airport. Our first time to Budget Terminal via public transport. I must say it's very convenient!

Checked in before Chris reached, no idea why he was sooooo late! Had a quick dinner inside. Mee Siam + hot Tea.

Reached HatYai at near midnight Singapore time. Amazingly, the airport staff said there are no taxis around. WHAT??!! Its the airport and no Taxis lor! Fine, we booked a van. hmphf. To Sakura Hotel and meet up with Seamoth op- Gan. Its the 'best' hotel available in the small town already even though it looks slobbish.

After checking in were the roadside stalls dinner::

Can't imagine the crazy idea.. To the pub. PINK LADY.

Was supposed to be one of the happening ones in town, apparently, inside is like a dead zone. Quiet and nobody. So I indulged myself with....

Only awhile we hung inside and left back to our respective rooms.

My gals in our connective room::

DAY 2

Woke early for Massage. Jinhong woke me. Tempted me soooo much I have to wake. 240baht for a 2hrs Full body massage. JH, Joyce and myself went. Then jinhong have to tempt me again for Foot massage. 250baht for 1hr. Oh well... Since we have the time, why not?

We took so many hours to massage here massage there. End up, rushed for lunch, everyone's waiting. Heh. Tom Yam is a must.

Alone on streets (the bellboy took this pic for me!)::

Took this fun pic while on the move. I swear I dint know they were posing behind me!!! ::

After lunch, Gan waited for us at the Lobby. Grabbed our gear and luggages n board the van to Trang.

Shopped at stopover- Tesco::

Hallo Seamoth!!::

Had simple briefings by Gan on boat till ChongPeng arrived with two other lady Thai divers. By then, dinner is served. Yummy! Thais really have good food sia.

(Left) Dive area (Right) Makan booth::

Oh, and after setting off for sometime away form the jetty, Seamoth actually puts off Firecrackers onboard, its like a form of "good luck and smooth journey" prayers. Very interesting!!

Joyce n me took a pic while waiting for the crackers::

Travelled and I finally felt a little sleepy, headed to bunk. Kym showed me some videos we took earlier on in Hatyai. Thanks to that, I felt giddy immediately, felt like throwing up. Boohoo.. Went up to deck hurriedly and stare at sky blankly. Chongpeng laughed!! Followed came JH and Kym.. Whahaa... Apparently I'm not the only one seasick-ing.

Took me like 45mins before I calmed myself down and ready to sleep!

DAY 3

Hurray!! Diving!! Yeah!!!

@Q$#@%$#&^ First dive of the trip only cannot equalise. Took me some time before I can descend. DM Chongpeng was with me then DM Chai took over. Ultimately, yes, my style is simple, still stubbornly descend.

It was a Cave Dive. I fell in love with Cave diving..

I know, pictures damn blur, i dont know how to operate this Sony camera::

I was impressed at the same time, felt abit horlan, as usual...

Dive 2 was even better!! A more cave-y cave. One entrance two exits. Eric and Kym and some others want me to enter first so I did. I already knew they made a wrong choice. Whatever. Hoho. Yep, as most have already expected, I horlan-ed, IN the cave. I was camwhoring till I wanna move out of cave and eh, where is the exit? Suddenly a bright light came across!! Whooohooo... Yala, Chongpeng knew I was lost so he used the light to guide me. Doh. How embarrassed. And he said its the first time he ever seen his diver horlan-ed in the cave. FINE.

Happy after dive::

I wasnt familiar with Pauline's camera which I borrowed for this trip so couldnt make focus for most of the pictures I took. What a waste.

The poorly taken nudi...::

Cant catch the juvenile emperor angelfish well::

We did the night dive as well.

Interestingly, I finally get to see how they dive. Some with super fast air consumption, some irresponsible, some just kick n kick, kick your face, your tank, your butt, your legs. I wasnt the perfect one, but still.

Dinner was good and ChongPeng was funny. No seasick experienced for the night either. Heh. But its LOB and everyone slept so early. Left me, Chongpeng and Joyce talking at the deck.

And then I accidentally boiled a bug with hot water alive::

DAY 4

Another day of cool diving. Hin Deang. Was expecting mantas and whalesharks cos we are still in time for the season.

But poor visilibity disappointed me. No sightings of Mantas nor sharks. We basically just finned aimlessly hoping manta or shark will bypass us, but in vain..

Two of such dives. Meaning twice the disappointment.

We gave up in the end, of course. Not in the luck means not in the luck.

That's me (nothing to take so take myself)::

And then JH was clearing her mask when she was stung by Crown of Thorns. Sigh. The accident was witnessed by Greg.. No sightings of mantas or sharks did not disappoint me as much as this incident did. How could one witnessed it and did nothing and only to laugh aloud? I share her agony while Chongpeng tried to treat her bruised and poked knee.

Glad she still can walk, dive, jump, eat and sleep :)

The night dive of the day was the BEST dive of the trip. Chongpeng was the first diver and I was the last. Somehow somewhat, we end up buddying each other. The rest were ahead. I dont know what the rush is for. I was enjoying though.

My torch batt went low.. So I switched on when Chongpeng showed me some interesting stuff and switched off when we moved. I did this continuously till Chongpeng passed me his spare torch. And he told the rest, have you ever seen your buddy always on her torch only when you showed her something and off it when we are done? Damn. Me lor. Hehehe. *blush*

But the night dive saw Mantis Shrimp, crabs, alot macro which hyped me up!! Hyped Hyped Hyped!!

More of them stayed up for the night. They dont drink though. Hmm..

Then as usual, I went round making people take photos with me.. LOL. I even went into the staffroom to find the whole bunch!!

Me and some crew who always helped me and make fun of me too::

Funny man and me::

DAY 5

Boohooo.. Last half day on board. Last 2 dives. Of course followed Chongpeng throughout!! Wahaha...

And then Jin Hong couldnt equalise. And I dont know why she didnt want to follow the bubbles so I had to surafce with her. Greg saw but didnt come to our aid. So being the confident me, led Jin Hong to surface and she said she wanted to try again to find the rest.

Scary eh? I said ok. So we descend. She held on to my hands. I was in front finning, looking at depth gauge constantly. Cos we were in the middle of nowhere, no reefs nothing. Visibility damn bad too. She told me I looked so confident she felt safe.

But faints. All along I was in wrong direction la! I dont get the "horlan queen" title for no reason. Ooops. Confident but wrong direction.

Anyway, I signalled to her let's do safety stop. Constantly pulling her as I doubt she even look at her dive com. Yet I was relying on my watch n depth gauge. Launched the SMB was funny. As usual, I cannot understd sign language. I thoguht she was asking me should we launch one or two SMB. (on surface she said no, she was signalling its her first time launching). Anyway, she let go the SMB without sufficient air inside, I have to ascend to grab back the SMB. Her string was in a tangle. -.- When she pumped air, I have to grab her fin to ask her come back and stay at 5m alright? And please be aware! sighz...

And then, Hallo Chongpeng!! Hehe.. He found us by our SMB :)

ME and ChongPeng underwater::

You can see the visibility is bad.

After all dives were the exploration to Emerald Cave. NOt confident in swimming then wear jackets.

So some did.

At the entrance of Emerald Cave::

Look at the waters in Emerald Cave::

having fun above water as well::

Myself in Fins, cute anot?::

Group photo::

I took this pic::

... the small boat (right) I sat with Chongpeng and one Thai to check out dive sites before too!! The Thais asked me along :)

Last day onboard::

So travelled to land and headed to Police station because Greg wanted to report his damage of his video camera and to claim insurance in Singapore. Apparently, was flooded. -.-

The guys did funny things secretive and out of us girls' knowledge. Fine. Not as if I am very interested. So the rest of us, less two men, headed to dinner.

After some time then gather to go some ulu pub.

Us @ pub::

BAck to hotel and then so bored, they dont really drink::

DAY 6

Woke early after Jinhong physco me to Massage again. We discovered there is a man in the women's room. Whatever. Even though I didnt expect but oh well... Not in MY room, that is what matters.

Had the Oil Body Massage at 350baht/hr and we had TWO hours. Cool.

Headed back to hotel room and nearly fumed mad, the next door girls already checked out?!!! Without us.. What the.... Not even calling us on our mobile or anything like that to inform us. They left a note though. Telling us to find the rest upstairs.

We went up to their room. A room filled with 6pax. Chris was out shopping alone. Doh. Two beds. One taken up by Greg and Joyce, the other was squeezed by Eric and Kym. Me and JH? Took the armchairs.

JH was pulling long long face.. She wanted me to go eat with her without them. They were basically enjoying the moments hugging in bed while me and JH suffered from starvation.. They had heavy breakfast without us apparently!! No one wake us up!!??

Then I have to hurried them and emphasize there are people hungry here, would you guys mind we go check out for the girls' rooms and head for lunch!! After some time they finally move their butts outta bed. Good.

OUCH!!!!! At the reception, the girls have to ask, "do we need the room key for checking out? no need right?" First time stay hotel meh? Oh great, we ended up waiting longer AGAIN. For them to go back to room search the key, cannot find then come down, another one go up find. Doh.

Look at their mess, ho ho ho::

Had lunch and JH and myself went shopping on our own. We gave up and left the group to do our own shoppings.

Hallo Mr Froggy!!

And bought two bras nia! Cheap mah. 100baht each!!

Back to hotel at Singapore time 7pm. Checked out and took the van (350baht in total) to Airport, much cheaper than the Airport cab we took on arrival to Hatyai.

Bye bye Sakura Grand::

Slacked at coffee cafe after checking in @ the HatYai airport. HEee..

(left) pic shown on menu (right) what i got::

DAY 7

Reached Singapore Budget Terminal at 0035hrs. Finally bought the Clinque Perfume at DutyFree, no 5% GST. Yippeee...

Shared cab with Eric back to home sweeeet home. For 3 days and head off to Sipadan!

Injuries for the trip::

All the cuts were gotten from horlan-ing in the cave. Bruise were from someone who use tank buang me. bottom right was dont know by what, many many red itchy spots.

Look out for updates on Sipadan trip SOON too!! Promised the underwater pictures will all be MUCH better! Because its Olympus720! Wahaha... Pauline, not ur cam not good, is this silly girl no time to figure how to perfect her pictures. :p

I am f.i.n.a.l.l.y. back

A.

Nope, not refreshed. Is e.x.h.a.u.s.t.e.d.. And it's VERY.

Guess what, My Thailand trip was on 4th, till today I havent have the time to actually upload the photos from the camera and my handphone! Today's the 19th lor!!

I only got back home yesterday at bout 8pm. Could have taken a bus home but dont know why Jon asked to drop me off at somewhere I can horlan, so took at $10 cab. Yep, first thing I did, mend my nails even before I started unpacking my TWO big bags. :p

I realised I forgot the feeling of wearing specs, forgot the wonder of the internet, forgot the hassle to catch public transport, forgot what is called rain, forgot how mama's homecooked food taste like, forgot which episode of drama I stopped at, forgot how does my room smell, etc etc

I miss home sooo much, but I miss Kapalai too, look out from my bed, its the sea, look out from sundeck, its the sea, look out from toilet window, its the sea, look out from the door, its the sea. How relaxing, surrounded by magnificent seaview.

And then, decided to try and upload some pictures taken from the both trips tonight after I return my gear. Damn tired. Imagine, Sipadan alone we have 8 cameras, one camera at least 280 photos, ahem! And then, videos?? Wow. I need external hard disk, definitely lor.

And then, now I upload unrelated to my trip pictures. Hoho, got it from Stacia's blog anyway..





As for my trip reports, have to wait larz. No time update nor upload.

And thanks peeps for saying I AM BOLIAO to do the auto-postings.. At least the posts bring smiles to your faces? No? Sure have la, thinking this Girl damn boliao.. It's me mah!

Ciaoz

A.

Besides the Sayonara of Sembawang-Jurong relationship, weekend has been Great because of other issues!

Myself and SokMoey::

Its her last day at Khongguan (lasyt Friday), mine will be in June? I hoped.

Let's see, Friday, thank goodness I got better from my illness so I can attend the Girl Guides Singapore dinner held @ Conrad Hotel. Guest of honours are the Mr and Mrs President themselves.

The Stage::

The ticket::

We were late for cocktail session but still managed to take a group shot (before Huifang and Yiling arrive).

And then when YL and HF arrived, during the dinner, I managed to take with few of them. God knows when will be my last chance. LOL.

I attended this dinner cos of her::

Dinner was only OK. No shark fins nor abalone. Boohoo.. But this is the first time ever I had dinner with some of them at the same dining table! Yep, my last chance too, I reckoned.

Andre and Stacia picked me up from Conrad! Thanks!! Ooops. And Blackie too! Heh

Headed to you-know-where. StJames PowerHouse. Again, stupid incident occured again to me at StJames.

Stacia handed Steve's (her brother) membership card, immediately confiscated. -.- not transferrable. WTF? Cant the bouncer even warn us first?? Best of all, to be claimable only a week later. dot dot dot.

Steve reached. Argued, of course. We want to see the manager! And, its Gordon.. But he didnt recognise me, as usual. He was kind enough to let us in (by paying entry fee) but claim back the card on the spot. He is the boss anyway, of course he can fight for us! DOH. If only he recognises me, we get the Free entry as well lorx!

Anyway, alongwith were Adrian (the bday boy), Sedric, Andy, Irene and i-forgot-his-name.

My gf and the bday boy!::

Sabotage drinking was all. Zip. LOL

Something happened but I guessed it wasnt TAT nice to blog it out. Anyway, thanks Steve.

Steve was sooooo farnie. He searched for me in Friendster on Sat through Stacia's list. -.- Anyway...

Saturday, a day of sleeping (i only got home at 5am+ on Fri lor). On medication in the afternoon and slept throughout, I have to get well lar. And of course, watched my laughicious Drama on channel U. SIGH! Gonna miss TWO episodes on coming TWO weekends.... CRY*

Woo... Went to Swensens again, chit chatting with Esther :) Reached home at 1am.

Yesterday woke early at 6am! To Mandai for prayers. Qing Ming festive. Terry is back!! woohooo, heard prolly for good! Happy! All ended and home after brunch at 11am. Need to say? No. Its ZZZ time!! Till 3pm+, dragged my butt outta bed and head to... complete the Sembawang-Jurong story. Rushed home and to Holland Drive for dinner. =)

Today's Monday! Its a packing day tonight.. Awww... Busy busy. Too many tasks to be completed, at home and at work! Brrrgh