nitrogen addict

Friday, October 06, 2006

diving at Tioman was gr8. went there alone, stayed in a RM25/nite place w freezing cold water, no sink, no mirror, one unreliable fan and a holey mosquito net. the result? short, cold baths; brushing teeth over the toilet bowl; no looking at my reflection for 5 days; multiple sandfly/mosquito bites; IMMENSE FUN!
despite having dived at Tioman for quite many time alr, the dives nvr cease to bore me. i luv swim-throughs!!! they're totally diff from normal dives, and i like the contrast btwn the light outside and the darkness inside the swimthrus. plus there're a gr8 many micro stuff to look at :)
lots of cuttlefish. even MORE jellyfish. fellow divers got stung cos most were wearing shorties. my legs n arms were entirely covered, so i was safe! plus, i had gloves, so i played w the jellyfish by taking them in my hands n poking them. they're far from soft/jelly-like! in fact, they're hard, as if they have shells. maybe they go limp only when they're dead.
saw a marble ray (relatively large) at a mere depth of 3m! it was lying peacefully next to a smaller blue-spotted ray. I got as close as possible - if it had wished to, the blue-spotted cld've stung me exactly like one did to Steve Irwin. dint provoke it, tho, so i'm still here.

papers all returned... back to mugging, i guess. god knows i've loads to catch up on.
too little time, too much to do.

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YY dived deep at 12:46 PM

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