last weekend i dropped by tioman for a diving trip, it was a fins magazine dive digital wet workshop on underwater photography.

we assembled at tudor court on friday and left, made it to kota tinggi around 930 but couldn't find the diver's hawker centre, and around midnight we reached mersing, and transferred via speedboat onto the mv grace, my my she's a beauty, 120ft of glory, diving equipment, 4 decks, air conditioned saloon and cabins, nitrox on tap..

so for once, i managed to sleep before 2am on a weekend diving trip. we woke up the next morning, and sorted out our gear. my dm was a dm-trainee, but he's cool, belgian named peter, and we managed to get 4 dives on saturday, 3 day dives and 1 night dive, i completed my nitrox certification then too, by completing the tank analysis and marking portion of the course.

on saturday night after the night dive we had a bbq, and it was wonderful, and we had a big fish, a sweet lip that was barbequed very nicely by the great cook on the grace, in fact i think the food's better than dayang...

on sunday we woke up at 6am, and we did 3 dives, and for one of the dives, we were supposed to dive at magician's rock.. and apparently, only my group found it.. all thanks to petey!

returned only at 11pm on sunday night, and upon cleaning up my stuff, i slept at 2am..

and on monday i had to get to cmpb by 815 am for a cpss test.. and i had to contend with vertigo for most of monday and tuesday.. and wednesday heralded the start of a sore throat...

it's finally friday, i'm looking forward to the weekend again..

till then, please enjoy my skateblog and dive pictures

and i'm depressed cuz i can't go to france from 29th oct - 1st nov for the ifsa judge course...