Skin Diving

...skin diving in Perhentian Island...

When I first saw a tourist in Perhentian Island last year doing this, I was so amazed. As far as I was afraid of swimming and going to the sea, I was surprised how someone can hold their breath and goes into the water to enjoy the view underwater. When I pluck up the courage to learn diving, I also learn a little about skin diving. I never put it into practice until I went to Redang. It was so hard at first as the water was very dense but slowly, the boatman and life guard taught me and finally I could do it on my own! And, when I was in Perhentian Island this month, I did it on my own without a problem. Sometimes, skin diving is more interesting than diving ...I feel.

Thanks Sok Peng for the picture!

Meeting Selvam

It's 3 months since we left Redang Island. It's since then we last met and finally we found the time to go out for dinner and beer session. We went to Brussels, Jaya 1 after deciding not to go through the traffic jam in Federal Highway. Ordered two light dishes and of course a bucket of Leffe Beer.

...a very delicious pork dish...

...the Leffe beer...

Meeting up again reminds us of how much we missed the island. Though there were problems in the workplace, but we were happy there. It was such a relaxing and stressfree (minus the internal problems) place where we enjoyed every bit of the sun, the sea and the sand. It was a short 2 months there, but there were so much to share and so much to remind us to go back again one day.

Another drinking 'kaki' of ours is back in Brunei for 2 months now. Hoping to meet him up one day!

"We go to Redang in the same boat together. We leave Redang in the same plane together"

Diving in Perhentian

...dive map of Perhentian...

*yellow highlighted are the dive sites I went*

Don't bother about the weird map I have there as there were no complete dive map of Perhentian Island anywhere in the Internet. So to improvise, I took a photo of the dive map from the resort and just photoshopped whatever parts I can.

It was my first time to dive in Perhentian. Though I went there before during my Backpacking Trip last year, I wasn't a diver at that time, so I snorkeled only. This trip was one trip to remember...

Dive Site No.1: Tanjung Basi

I buddied with Mario, the dive instructor. I have yet to realize that Watercolours Paradise Dive Centre is actually operated by a group of Germans. We had a small team of divers. The dive started with a briefing at 1.30pm and later, we boarded the big boat to the site. Our team did an exploration to the other side of this site and to our disappointment, the so-called Giant Barracuda was not in sight. There were merely rocks everywhere and very little corals to see.

Dive Site No.2: Lighthouse

I buddied with Niki, the dive master. We were told earlier that visibility maybe bad because of water current as this site has the current stream. There we dived and yes! visibility was real bad. It was a 2metres visibility but thanks to my Open Water training in Kuching, I was alright with it. There were many corals though, and we were suppose to see Black Tip Shark and Turtles but we saw none! *sighed*

Dive Site No.3: DeLagoon

I was excited the moment I was told of this dive site because I stayed in DeLagoon resort last year and have been seeing many divers in one particular area in the sea. So this time, I had the chance to dive at that spot. We took a small boat to the site and it was amazing! We saw a huge Stingray and it swam gently passed us and hid underneath the rocks. We also saw two Blue Spotted Stingray swimming by. It was very interesting to see the Cleaner Shrimps as they are so tiny (lucky I had power mask during this dive). So far, this was the most beautiful site I went in this trip.

Dive Site No.4: Terumbu Tiga

We were supposed to head for another site that morning but the waves were too strong even for our boat to reach. So we changed site on the spot and headed to the other side of the island. There were 4 boats altogether in this site. Amazingly, it was like a cave dive as the rock formations were so beautiful and we had to swim through them. We saw a baby Green Turtle eating the soft corals at a depth of 15metres. Also, I saw a new species of Nudibranch (which I have yet to get the name of it) and a humongous Bumped Head Parrotfish swam behind my dive buddy...it was scary at first but it was huge!

All-in-all, I had a good 4 dives with Watercolours Paradise Dive Centre. I had fun during the de-briefing sessions we had after each dive. Although I did not get to do any Wreck Diving this time, I will be back for the Sugar Ship Wreck dive once I obtain my Wreck Diving Specialty! *smiles*

Looking forward to my next dive!

Inception

It's been quite some time since I last watched a movie by Leonardo DiCaprio. I remembered how young he looked in Titanic which was 13 years ago! and now after all these years, he really aged...

I saw this movie trailer in a few movies I watched in the cinema but have yet to understand the movie. It was some weird trailer with weird storyline but great casts. And here I was, on a Saturday morning (this time was before my gym session) watching 'Inception' in TGV Sunway Pyramid.

Directed by Christopher Nolan (director of The Dark Knight) and there it was an appearance of Cillian Murphy in it. It was a very long movie; 148 minutes but it was worth RM9 I paid for the show. One things for sure, never sleep at any part of the movie because the moment you misses a part, you will not understand the rest of it. It's a movie that requires the audience to use their mind to think a little. But, overall, I enjoyed the movie!

GOOD ONE!

Island Getaway to Perhentian

...my weekend getaway!...

Perhentian Island

4 dives

4 stop snorkeling

3 beers

rounds of Uno

a great weekend!

The boat that I missed the most...

The Ramona

I missed this boat so much. It was my playground for 2 months in Redang. Every dive I went, I boarded this wooden boat. The boat crews were great people. The divers on board were from all over the world and so much I learnt from all of them I met along the way. I would love to go back again one day...board this boat for my next dive.

Brand New Haircut!

Yes! I finally had a brand new haircut!

...me with specs...

...me without specs...

Damn it's hard to maintain it this way everyday~

Knight and Day

I thought it was an action movie but to my surprise, it was a combination of comedy and action. Didn't expect to see Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to be in a movie like this one. Though some part of the movie may not make any sense but it was full with laughter. It was a very interesting movie and some of the comedic jokes made us laughed our heads off.

...won't be breaking any bubbles for this show...

It's a movie worth watching!

Reshoot on a lazy Sunday

Another reshoot session going on in the office this Sunday. It's the 2nd Sunday consecutively for this shoot but lucky me, it was a slow and relax shoot with a team of 10 people. Funny thing about this shoot is that...

1. I was to help in this 3 days shoot a day before the 1st day of shoot

2. I wasn't given full information and documents in regards to the shoot

3. I prep only a day before the shoot

But, at least I was kept busy for a short while.

One things for sure...I will be in Perhentian Island for the sun, the sea and the sand this coming Sunday! Can't wait for my dives and snorkeling trips along with sun tanning moments to tan my back.

What a lazy Sunday~

Zanmai Sushi

It was the Japanese Feasta night which we were all looking forward to. My first time to this Japanese Restaurant called Zanmai Sushi at Sunway Pyramid. It was 7th July 2010 and we arrived at the restaurant before 9pm and waited for the others to arrive.

We queued up to wait for a table for 7 and we finally had ours after 15 minutes in the line. We ordered side dishes while waiting for the others to arrive. There was a variety of choices.

...potato salad...

...various sushi...

And as usual, whenever and wherever I have the opportunity to snap photographs, that's where my Nikon D40 will be snapping. But, there wasn't much to take so it was just...

...photo-of-the-night...

Looking forward to...

There are several events coming soon that I am so looking forward too...

First of all~

Date: 7th July 2010

JAPANESE FEASTA!!!

It was during the 'Clever!' shoot that we had great help from our dear colleagues, namely, Sok Peng, Lynn, Moon, Angie and Fei who came and lend their hands to pack, to help and to conduct things on set. So, Aileen and I will be treating them for a Japanese dinner...and that will be tonight! :)

Second of all~
Date: 16th - 19th July 2010

PERHENTIAN GETAWAY!!!

It was my mid year diving vacation to Perhentian Island, Terengganu and I invited my dear colleagues to join me. It started with Lynn and now, there will be 6 of us going for this trip, namely, Sok Peng, Lynn, Moon, Angie and Zetti. It will be a 3 days 2 nights stay in Watercolours Paradise with diving for me and snorkeling for others. Hopefully, I will be able to tan myself so that I won't have many layers on my back *smiles*. Can't wait!!!

Last but not least~

Date: 19th - 22nd August 2010

DEAREST MUMMY AND DADDY TO KL FOR HOLIDAY!!!

...not to mention the weekend in Penang! Yes! My dear brother Alex is planning for a weekend road trip to Penang with our parents. It's been 7 months now since I last went back home and it's been 5 months since I last saw Mum and Dad. I do miss home...a lot! Will be taking a day leave from work to accompany my parents before their flight back home. Food...food...food!

LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL THESE!!!

...more plans, especially for diving, to come...

HSBC 8 Bulan shoot

Date: 4th July 2010

Location: Red Comm's office

I was put to this project on Thursday to help out this project for the last 3 days of shoot. I wasn't exactly clear of the whole shoot as I came in at the very end of the shoot. I had a long wait on Friday to get the documents before I could do anything. And it was to shoot...

...the clapper board...

It was a long shoot for 8 scenes but anyway, it was alright.

...the rundown...

Another 2 more days of shoot to go.

Hovercraft...

...there is an interesting story behind this little hovercraft...

One the day of this little hovercraft shoot...everyone was looking for it. Left, right, up and down and none could even find it. Little did anyone of us know that this little hovercraft was still on the way to the studio for the shoot. We had no choice but to continue the shoot without it and had our host to explain what a hovercraft is without this little toy. Just right after the segment's shoot, this little hovercraft appears on set. Up until today, we have yet to have time to play with it.

p/s: it is a remote control hovercraft