Ma Virtual Diary

another memorable event on malaysia’s 50th birthday..got a call from my guru that they are having a k-ok session in the newly opened Neway outside my house…was sleeping @ that time but immediately agreed to go…woke up, brush my teeth, freshen up and then went there straight..and the next thing u knoe, we sang from 11am - 7pm straight !!! longest k session i hav ever had !! but it was worth it…havent seen some of these guys here for like close to 2 years already !!..its been that long…and time flies !!

as i lie awake for the past 24 hours, i’ve been trying to figure out what would be the best to celebrate merdeka, since its our 50th independence day, i thought, hey, why not make it a double celebration? i thought it was but till now after going through all the countdowns and what not, i m not sure myself if this is the case…once upon a time, merdeka meant alot to me, especially when i was back in high school, specifically form 2…that year ( 1994 ), it was a memorable year for me..i got involve in sports ( for the first time and no turning back ever since ), i met someone special, i became a school prefect ( which i hav always wanted to, since primary school ), i was in the 3rd class and i was part of the team who paraded for that year’s merdeka day ( our school was chosen for that year )..but these days, that feel seems to be diminishing..i wonder why..

it was a working day on the eve of merdeka for me, right after work, had to run errands for my pesky lil sister, had a quick dinner and then off to find my own activities…i need more and more of it these days to make myself tired as its been pretty difficult to sleep lately…i get dreams, nightmares and unsoundly sleep most of the time…well, since its a celebration day, probably anywhere around town is probably gonna be jammed pack so i decided to stick to the one nearest to my place..sunway pyramid !!..by the time i was there it was already close to 11.40pm..20 more minutes to count down..so i just walked around, looking @ the crowds, etc and interestingly enuff many ppl parked by the shoulder of the road, probably hoping to catch free fireworks ( free cause no need parking and no need to squeeze with the crowd )

paid my usual cover charge and went in Q Bar..they were having some sexy dance contest among 5 sexy ladies doing pole dances…the crowd got to vote who is the sexiest by screaming and cheering…the music that was blaring in the background was rihanna feat. jay-z’s Umbrella…fuiiiiiiiyorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….the ladies were truly hot !!…i knoe hav an association in my mind already..everytime, in the future, hearing this song, i will always remember the ladies on the podium !!..by the time all this was done, countdown was just 5min away

as i stood quietly by the corner observing the crowd, preparing to count down, the DJ shouted, 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1………MERDEKA !!..and sudirman’s ever famous song of merdeka was aired….as i toast my beer, i saw the crowd going crazy singing to the lyrics, kept blowing their whistles, screaming and shouting…its just ironic come to think of it now cause, that feeling / thinking i had at that moment was "what if tunku saw how we celebrate merdeka now, what would his feeling be seeing us screaming our lungs out but truly,how many of us know and appreciate the real meaning of that word?" ( i myself DONT )..2nd thought that came across was…"in the near future, for every occassion, events, celebration…am i gonna be sharing it with more and more unknowns?"…then i knocked myself on the head.."helllloooooo, ur out chilling out !! whats with all these serious thoughts???"…

by the time all ended, it was close to 4am..i didnt find myself tired so i went to my usual "sarang" looked for my DVDs…during the day, i suddenly thought of a movie that is 3 years old and i wanted to buy it back then but until today havent…fortunately for me, i found it BUT in an 8 in 1 DVD..no choice had to buy it…as i was paying on the counter, i was BOURNE ULTIMATUM….OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!..this movie is not due to release until end of september !!…so i eagerly asked " cheng parn ar?"…as usual, respond would most certainly be, " pao cheng…mm cheng hoi yi lor farn lei wun"…and i replied.." ngor yu si !!"…and she obliged..when she turned it on, MAMA MIA…PERFECTO !!!…by the time i reached home, bath and brush teeth, it was already 5am…

as i am typing this blog now, its 9am and i just finished watching the 2 movies…and i realized the stories in these movies hav very close relation to merdeka…in one movie ( Throw Down ), its about one person finally stopped running from reality and decided to face it…and in another ( Bourne Ultimatum ), its about one person finally found out the truth about himself [ BUT BUT...i think there might be a 4th Bourne, damm...i hope there is, there are 1 or 2 loose ends not tied up and i cant sleep now partly cause of that !!..shit !! ]…in both movies, both finally merdeka…will the same fate fall upon me? i do wish,hope & pray it does in a smoothly and successful manner…

piu yi??? whats that and how??..as ah mok ( character in Initial D the movie, describes it, its when u reach a corner @ high speed, u decellarate, pull the handbrake and the car will swerve through the corner..so what if that happens?..ada gaya lor..i think this must be the single coolest thing u could ever do and i wonder if i ever gonna hav a chance to try this out myself….nonetheless…all this while, drifting to me has always been something that is done on land with a car UNTIL recently…guess what? drifting can be done under water too !!!…concept roughly the same and both equally dangerous if executed incorrectly !!, on land, u would probably crash the car..under water? u might end up in the next island or "sulawesi" as we joked about during our drift diving session in Pulau Tenggol….

once again, the trip was tiring as i was the driver, but this time its much more better cause the distance was shorter…well..as usual, ppl complaint that i m driving too slow since its at night, theres no car, i should go a lil bit faster…but i kept to my pace…we managed to reached the jetty before 8.30am..phewwww….already i had the feeling that we are at a rundown place…for a start, theres no place to park my car, so i had to hijack a parking spot of a residential flat…then as we were eating breakfast @ a mamak hut, they didnt hav a toilet so i had to pee by the bushes…as we boarded our ride to the island, i slept on the boat…when we arrived, we tried to keep our feets dry and was snubbed by the dive instructor.."are you guys divers or not? how come scared of water ???"…

as we walked in the resort…mannnnnnn…i immediately remember one of my conversation session with Tan June Keng some few months ago about divers goin to dive in places where its shabby and run down…this is definitely one of it…it didnt even hav a reception counter as a resort !!..then we were shown to our rooms which was on a hilltop…which means come night fall we would hav to track through jungle up the hill before reaching our errmmm…hut?..as i opened the door and looked inside…wookay, atleast our hut is not too bad, quick similar to watercolours BUT still shabby…

then we geared up for our dive…1st dive was @ a spot called turtle point..ironic for it to hav that time cause by the time i was done diving, i didnt see any turtles at all..but it was truly an eye opening 1st dive….the dive sit had many healthy soft corals unlike all the other places which i hav been diving….2nd dive of the day was where the excitement came in…it was the first session of my underwater piu yi…whoaaaa….scary…as u piu yi to ur destination, at times u gotta fight the current by finning as hard as u can…1st nite there was already a disaster cause we were harrassed by a RAT that sneaked into our room and tore one of our packet food !!

diving for the next few days was excellent cept for the frequent vomitting due to nausea both on boat and underwater !!…and i hav just reached an all time high record number of dives in a day, 5 dives in a day !!!…mannnnnn..by the end of the day, i could feel my body like falling apart !!..we left 1 day earlier than anticipated…the drive home? it was torturous…firstly cause on the day we departed, we did 3 dives !!…secondly, we got lost few times so it was driving up and down of the same road ( kampung roads make it worst as we would need to travel for some distance before we see a decent landmark that will indicate if we have been travelling the right directions or not )….and thirdly, i started driving @ about 8pm but we only reached kl @ about 3am !! much much more longer than when we travelled there…

nonetheless, it was a good, smooth, and successful dive for 2 reasons…we travelled there,dived there and came back safely ( i knoe i m a lil bit superstitious..but still, chinese calendar indicated that we are right smack in the middle of 7th month..;) )…and most importantly, my prayer for good viz, good condition was answered !!!….ahhhhh…someone up there still listens to me every now and then after all…;)

just attended a risk management diving seminar few hours ago and the topic was on diving safety….as i took up my rescue course a few months ago, i learnt many things about being a responsible diver..havin this new knowledge, i felt that i have more responsibility on my shoulders..and these days, every dive i go, i feel that i m not properly equipped with the necessary gears IN THE EVENT that an accident occurs….well, reason being i dont have the $$$ to assemble a complete full gear..theres just so many things to get..all those small small stuffs, when they add-up, phewww…can come to a whooping huge amount !!…

the last trip i went was a total challenge to what i have learnt in rescue, reason being was because there were students who had a certain amount of fear during the course of training…my first encounter with them was this…a guy who first tried on the regulator and started breathing under water using the tank…he panicked for a few times because according to him, the regulator was not working properly and he had problems inhaling the air, he didnt feel that there was a smooth flow of air to his lungs…after a few attempts, he finally shot up to the surface and gave up….i pulled him to shore and took his equipments off, i told him to sit on the beach, and relax and breathe !!! and i told him dont go anywhere as i need to get back into the water to take care of other ppl…

as i got back under water, there was another person who had difficulty in equalizing her ears..and as she tried many times, she just couldnt do it and fear started to take over..she started shivering underwater…i brought her up to the surface and she couldnt stopped shivering..so i pull her up to the beach as well..her jaws were clacking against each other..her fingers/palms were cold and she was just shivering…i asked her if shes cold or is she scared…she told me she couldnt tell the difference…i gave her a nice warm hug and told her to relax and breathe !!..everything is OK, i m there to help her and shes out of the water…theres nothing to be afraid…next to me was the guy whom i pulled out of the water earlier..and he suddenly just said ,"i dont know la chuan..i m just so scared now, i cannot explain to you the fear i have in me now…i m just scared !!..oooo god, i think i m goin to give up diving…i m so sorry to have dissapointed my collegue…i m just goin to give up la..i want to go back"

wow…barely just a few months from my rescue course and now i have 2 panicked students next to me, one shivering from fear and one about to have a mental breakdown from fear..this is too good to be true man….i was totally not prepared for this !! and so all i could think of at that time, was to hold their hands, and told them to relax, its just their 1st session, its ok to panic, but try not to let fear get in the way and make them give up..so i told them to sit around in the water, i will accompany them until they feel abit more comfortable to walk…once they feel like moving away, i told them to get a cup of warm water and sit down to relax again…so i left them alone @ the pantry drinking hot water and asked them to talk to each other as i unload their gears and mine…i was still in shocked actually but i tried my best not to show it to them and remained calm…the last thing i need is them losing confidence in me..when the instructor came up, i just told him what happened and that we would need to pay extra attention to these 2 ppl…

what follows was a serious of rescuing attempts that i hav to make in order to help the lady..one of which, i had to pull her to the shore once again from the sea…half way swimming she could hear me breathing heavily as towing ppl isnt an easy thing..then she said..i m actually feeling much better now, i think we can take a rest before swimming to shore again..then i said, yeah..its a good idea that we rest !!..as i was resting, i thought of other ways which i have learnt in my rescue to save ppl..one of which is pushing instead of pulling…i hit myself on the forehead..geezzz..i hav an easier way to save this person !!…muahahahaha…

the guy regained his confidence and could manage on his own already..the lady on the other hand, still had equalization problem to which, 1 serious one was when she tried so hard that her nose started bleeding…and she kept complaining that her head was very painful and her ears are very painful…when i saw blood on the surface, i wanted to freak out !!..but i didnt tell her that she was bleeding cause i didnt wanna make her panic..what i did was towed her about 100metres to the boat and told the boatman to take care of her..then i rushed back down under water and told the instructor about her condition, instructor said that shes fine, dont hav to worry..of course, i still felt uncomfortable leaving her all alone on the boat but instructor insist that shes fine and i dont hav to worry about a thing…and so that was the experience which i have learnt very valuably in that trip…

and today’s seminar reminded me again of that trip..y? cause today’s seminar was on dive safety and the consequences that arises if you neglect those safety procedures…today’s seminar was especially important because of a diving accident that caused the life of a fellow diver…and more importantly they managed to take this footage live as there was an onboard video man…we looked at the scenes leading to the death of the diver and analyze on the various aspects of safety that was neglected as well as court proceedings showing how the dive instructor was found guilty of murder due to safety negligence…..i feel afraid now with diving having to know all these small factors that we tend to neglect at times, decisions which we make before, during and after a dive all makes a difference…the speaker of this seminar was saying that its ok to make mistakes cause we are just human, but we gotta learn from this mistakes and never repeat them in the future because we do mistakes today, it could be fine because either we have sheer luck protecting us or theres someone there to cover up for our mistakes..but if we keep repeating it, we never know if one day it will bring fatality to others or urself !!

another case that he mentioned which made me feel it was a worthwhile investment in getting a compass ( i purchased one last weekend knowing that i could get lost underwater and that i m goin to dive with my buddy with a group of cowboys ) was this..a group of new divers with a DMT..they ran out of air, so the DM asked this DMT to bring that 4 students back to shore..TO SHORE !!..they never made it back to shore cause the DMT lost his directions and out of that 4, onli 1 survived…and come to think of it…me being a DMT on my last dive, chose to ignore the beeping sound of my fellow diver’s dive comp !!…arrrghhh..i just put everyone @ risk the last dive !!

phewwww…i hope i learn and be more careful in my future dives…particularly this coming one to tenggol…i have just gotten my sausage and compass..but i dont hav a watch or dive comp to monitor my bottom time..geezz..i m risking it again without proper complete equipments….ooo nooooooooooooooooooooo…my buddy was saying i should get an MBF card and go for the ezzy 12 months 0% interest payment scheme with one of the dive shop and just grab everything in 1 go…hoooooooooow nowwwwwwwwwwwwww brown cow???

the year was 1998, the night was 1 day before SPM results were supposed to come out…just like any other students, i felt the pressure and that made it difficult to sleep…fortunately, there were a group of us who felt the same and so we thought, hey..why not just hang out together and spent the nite till early morning then we could just go to school and get done with it…unfortunately, today i only remember one guy from that trip and that guy is david teoh..why i remembered was because he tried to sit on the car trunk and my friend told him to get off cause hes huge and he might just dent the car !!

the last location for the nite was bkt gasing..its my first time goin up there that year and boy, there are just so many cars up there..well..as a kid i always hear juicy stories bout bkt gasing and all the farny things ppl would do in the dark up there…while on the way up, we curiously peeped into every car that we see stopped by the road.muahahaha…curious minds and eyes @ work !!…

dun really remember wat i did that nite, but almost towards the morning, we were having breakfast outside the temple my parents usually frequent..told my fren to stopby and i knocked on the door, the priest came out and opened the door for me…and there i was praying @ the 11th hour for a favourable SPM result…well, i got my result and until today i dont know if i should consider it good or not…many things have changed since that day when i visited the temple…one of which, i visit that place lesser and lesser now…

i think i practically grew up in the temple, when i was a kid, my grandma used to bring me there…as a kid/boy, my parents used to bring me there…and as an adult nowadays, i still follow my parents there…many ppl in the temple still recognized me as the small boy whos now an adult..and everytime i visit, they would come and chit chat say hi, etc…goin to that temple sometimes makes me feel like a star coz apparently i think i m the one of the few who actually visits the temple since a kid and still am as an adult…not many ppl i hav seen do that..my childhood fren was asking me that day if i still visit that temple often…i said NO, not as often as i used..she asked why..i just answered, i guess i have changed and things are just not the same anymore..beliefs, religions, etc are just a bunch of question marks to me these days..

as i visited the temple again 2 nights ago, i realized that it just felt like yesterday when i was running around behaving mischieviously…and today i m standing there wondering what am i doing here? is there real truth to all of this that i m praying and hoping for? will i be able to continue this after my parents are no longer here?…questions questions questions…

as reluctant as i m, i still hav a promise to keep, only this time its something that i always try to avoid doing…visiting hospital !!…i still remember my first visit to the hospital was when i was a kid in primary school…that particular day, i was out having fun with my school friends when i slipped and fell…i hit my jaw at the edge of the drain’s concrete and it instantly produced a cut on my chin…blood started dripping and i got scared so i hid inside the toilet waiting for my dad…dad brought me to Universiti Hospital and i received stitches there, wide awake with local aneasthetic….ewwwww….first encounter and i already hate hospital so much..

the other experiences i have with hospitals are mainly just visits i.e when mom gave birth to my sister, etc…i realized back then as a kid, i will never like hospital and till today i still dont like hospital…everytime i walk in one, i only feel 2 things…COLD !!, GLOOMY !!!..smelling the dettol smell on the floor, seeing sick ppl walking/hanging around…and ppl on the sickbed makes my knees weak…and most importantly, i always have this imagination that a shinigami is just lurking around somewhere waiting for the next soul…when i was a kid, everytime i hear stories about dying ppl who wanted to move out of the hospital and move back to their own home to exhale their last breath..i always thought that it was such a silly move because theres no one to care for that person if he/she moves back..in case of emergency, nothing can be done..why not just stay in the hospital where there are experts who can take care of you 24/7???…well, i guess, as most things in life, you will only get the answer as u grow older ( not necessarily wiser, but older )….n the answer i know now is pretty simple…they want to exhale their last breath in an environment thats full of love knowing that they lived without regrets, got loved and gave love with all their heart and soul….

well, i told myself this time that probably all this while i have been hanging out in the wrong type of hospitals..probably this particular would be different given that its one of those expensive private hospital…but guess what?? hospital will always be a hospital regardless its an expensive one or cheap one…feeling walking in it its the same to me…but nonetheless…a promise is a promise..i will always try to fulfil them whenever/wherever possible….

dont know if i m goin to make the headlines one of this days with this blog or not…but i would like to ,deeply from the bottom of my heart, pay my respect to the "bruder" who recently had to make public apology for singing out loud what he thinks is right…i believe we all know why u had to make that public apology…sing on bro…

as i lie awake in this green room, i feel like superman being surrounded by kryptonite…well atleast lilian too says that i shouldnt be around green stuff, its supposed to make me weaker…muahahaha….well, this blog entry was typed on a notepad as i do not hav the password to the wireless network available..the weekend was meant to be an interesting one but something unfortunate just hav to happen to spoil it for me…threat sms..sheshhh..how childish can someone get…nonetheless, with my amount of tolerance towards hardship, this is just another epic tale in my life….
the night ended young with me and yee leng being the last one to leave the primary school reunion party ( will write another blog about this since i havent gotten the full set of pics yet )…by the time i was done with everything and ready for bed, it was already 5am….dammit..there goes dim sum on a beautiful saturday morning….woke up @ 9 unwillingly..continued rolling in bed until 10 when sms came through.."location?"…i replied.."cant make it…lets do dim sum tomorrow instead!!"….and finally.."muahahaa..then i can sleep more !!"..packed my gear and started my road trip up north to the land of beautiful beauties..a trip that was meant to be for 1.5 hours turned up to 3 hours due to traffic…but i wasnt in a rush..whats the meaning of having a road trip when ur rushing? so i just took my time, drive leisurely…until an urgent call came…"wait for u for lunch or wat??"…to which i replied.."of course !!..else i eat wat??"…
first thing i recalled was hearing this…"got u a perfect accommodation @ RM 60 per nite"..uuuu..what a caring and lovely gesture by the host !!
as for the remaining hours..i did pretty much what tourist would do…shop for local delicacies and bring back home..as the night approaches, where else can i go after a voluptous meal of hokkien mee + man yee mee + korn chao hor….somewhere i can digest these food by "burning calories" @ the same time adding more "malt" calories…muahahahaha…after a quick screening of the available spots, we finally settled down in Sincero…what a nice name…the old name was abit dodgy though..Y2K???…reminds me of Sdyney 2000 in Melaka…DJs werent too bad except that i could see they didnt have much experience in mixing music…most of the songs were from compilations CD and to make them more unprofessional, they played the songs as they appear to be on the compilations CD !!..they did try to put in a couple of disc jocking skills in between..atleast something !!…saw a familiar face in the crowd…itawpp..muahahha…gosh…we could never agree on a place and time to meet up in kl and we just had to meet up all the way up north !!..ironic…i had a feeling earlier that i would see her and it came true !!…and damm….so it seems that the kiddo wasnt pulling my leg after all, they serve Kilkenny with a Guiness mug????

me with Kilkenny in a Guiness..

Kilkenny in a Guiness mug up close and personal !!

well, the time now is 5am…another 5am night for me…and goshhh…dim sum tomolo !!..how how??..well, atleast this time it was for a good cause !!…accompanying a fellow drunkard…i have had my shares of drunken days, and having gone through it so many rounds ALONE !!!, i knew exactly what needs to be done to make my fellow drunkard more comfortable in her ordeal of trying throw up whatever she has drank and ate earlier….well, wasnt to suprise to hear the comment of "padan muka..let her sleep in the toilet !!"…i cant ask a fellow non-drunkard to understand the feeling of a fellow drunkard…interesting part of all this in a summary is trying to convince the person to quickly move on and puke as much as they can…first it was at the car porch…ok…helped to chang heels to slippers so that wont feel that uncomfortable…next stop, toilet bowl…wookay, HOT HOT…so helped to fan to keep cool ( i know how it feels to be hot !! )…and the interesting portions comes in…"go sleep !!, dun bother me, let me rest at this toilet bowl for a while !!..go go go.."..to which i replied, "what?? rest @ the toilet bowl? the whole bowl looks bigger than ur head…later u slipped in how??…let me give u a snorkel so that if u do slip, atleast u hav some survival chance since u can still breath through the snorkel !!"…and constant wiping clean of u knoe what…;)
i bet she must be wondering how come a fellow drunkard needs so many pit stops…well, i didnt explain @ that point of time due to wearyness, but hey "madam"…this is the explanation..reason why drunkard puke is because the alcohol is irritating the stomach walls thus causing a very unpleasant sensation in the stomach everytime that person moves !!…thus, the person would usually prefer to sit in one location for some time until they hav actually regained some strength and confidence that they wont puke anymore, then onli they can move on to the next location…moving to the next location however meant that the alcohol in stomach would move and start irritating the stomach walls thus causing the puking sensation again….the ultimate goal in getting a drunkard to stop puking is to get that person to the bed asap so that they can sleep off the puking sensation…thus the long journey of from car porch to downstairs toilet to upstairs bedroom and aircon water bucket….it was meant to store the final puke in the bedroom after travelling from downstairs toilet…and the final piece of the puzzle is of course making sure everything dangerous is off so that the drunkard wont accidentally hurt themselves..i.e earings, jewelleries or most importantly contact lenses !!
having to experience and survive through this alone all the time whereby later gotta clear up the mess, etc, my only way of repaying the society is atleast to make life easier for this kiddo drunkard….hey kiddo, if ur reading this, which i hope u do…drinking to that extend is only meant for troubled ppl…for happy and happening occassion i.e hanging out with u knoe who..its meant to be sweetly memorable…not bitterly difficult !!..

during my high school days, the most talked about issue was bohsia, bohjan, sarong party,…and most happening was of course slumber party…definition back then was a group sleeping over at a person’s place..crowding either in the living room or someone’s room…no hanky panky of course !!…

my first informal introduction to that was actually work related sleeping over..back then i was the school’s interact club president and we had this campaign/event that we had to organize..so we put in alot of effort to making this a success..back then we were doing it @ Kris Uttraphan’s place..and we worked till so late that we slept over at his place…didnt call my parents and my parents called everyone in my phone diary searching high and low for me ( back then no handphone ma…) and finally found Kris’s number and found me…phewwww..u can just imagine the amount of lecturing that i got !!..that was late into my secondary school years…form 4 to be specific…it was nonetheless hell lots of fun !!…

2nd informal sleeping over was during SPM’s preparation for accounting paper…man..that was a killer paper for me considering that i hav not put in enuff of effort learning the theories of accounting..back then it was in my high school buddy’s apartment and so happened that he had his prodigious cousin sisters around ( still is smart alect until today )…and so we had to get crash course from his cousin sisters ( younger counsin sisters to be specific )…i knoe, abit mem-per-sia-sui-kan..but those were desperate moments !!…

my first formal slumber party ( 3rd time sleeping over ) was during my pre-u days in the uni…man..i love and miss those days man !!..damm..thinking about it just make me realized, time flies !!…it was in allen pui’s shoplot rented unit…a bunch of us were celebrating ppl’s birthday and we spent the whole nite together..i took some pictures back then..but i never got it back…back then it was a mixture of sarawakian gang, jb gang and individuals like me from other states..it was hell of a party !! though back then no drinking cause never had the $$$ to drink…

and well..the next following sessions ( i kinda lost count and lost track of it )..was mostly just partying, drinking, burning midnite oil before final semester exams…i guess the most memorable part when we were celebrating 4 person’s birthday ( gurdave, victoria, calvin tan & gavin )…man..that party was a blast man…i only managed to taste the cream of that cake…as for the rest of that 2kg of square cakes???..i think it landed everywhere else except for our mouth and stomach..and we spent the whole night cleaning it up…that was the night i was striped and caught on camera BUT, the pic didnt turn out well..phewwww….ever since graduating, i have not slept over @ ppl’s place UNTIL RECENTLY !!

recently got to know this new group of friends who were celebrating birthdays..we had a blast..a nice dinner @ TGIF..and then adjourning to Velvet…gosh..i think i can just leave the details to ur imagination…here is the gang..

order from left to right: - Ferlicious ( familiar face? ), Aran ( macha ), Adrynn, Bawanee, Me, Lavie & Avi….birthday person was Ms Lavie !!…after which we went over to Aran’s place and continued on with drinking and listening to music…slept @ about 7am…woke up @ about 1pm…felt kinda dirty, so borrowed a towel went and take a bath..all cleaned up..next thing was food..went into the kitchen..saw bread, saw vinegar and saw Olive Oil…ahhhh…mama mia..instant Itallianies recipe of bread dipped in vinegar+olive oil…took out my masterpiece breakfast and got Bawanee surprised !!….then next 4 hours was total indulgence in Aran’s 80GB Ipod !!..dammm…i just keep shuffling the songs for 4 hours !!..sitting down on the sofa while the ladies chit chat….ahhh..live’s most beautiful moment…a relaxing and chill out moment !!

the last slumber party i had was a farewell party, for my party mate TAVEESAK PROPATANULSAKUL @ GOLF…he has spent the last 3 years or so working in Malaysia and its time for him to go back Thailand…we had a fantabulous dinner with him @ 7ate 9…fantastic meal with a even more fantastic bill !!…but it was worth it..

back row ( left to right ):- Passara @ Umm, Me, Golf & Bawanee

front row ( left to right ):- Avi, Kelly & Chieng

as usual as the dinner period ended, night was still young and where else could we go?? check it out….

for the record, we took a total of 154 pictures just that night..and the rest are rather "forbidden" pictures to be posted here..i dont wanna get banned by friendster !!..muahahhaha….we finished a total of 3 whiskey bottles that night…by the time i reached golf’s apartment, i was dead tired as it was 6am…i just doozed off at the couch till 10am…woke up, did my usual round of cleaning up and preparing breakfast with whatever that was available..then sit down chit chat while trying to shake off the hang over….

best of moments of life…in a nutshell…

few years ago there was a movie about a female footballer called bend it like beckham, about her struggle and all in the football arena and how she triumph above all….interestingly enough, i met this lady ( siew’s gf ) who calls herself beckz…well i never did ask the full name of that ..maybe i should one day…

well, this blog is dedicated to her simply because she reminded of how important safety while diving is…there were 4 of us down there diving..only 1 had dive computer ( not me unfortunately ), she had her normal watch…nobody had compass but 1 had a sausage ( not me again unfortunately )…so i had to depend on the one with dive computer and also sausage to tell us the time when we should resurfaced…it was so exciting exploring around looking around that i started forgetting about the time…then suddenly i heard a beeping sound…apparently that was the sound of the dive computer telling us that its about time to go up…i wasnt sure what it was, so i ignored it and we continued on

after sometime..i guess beckz looking at her own watch must hav gotten worried.."what are these cowboys up to?? my watch timer says that its time to go up but these guys are still continuing??"…and so she signalled me underwater…"time out, when?"….and i laughed and signalled, "i dont know, need to ask the dive comp"…then i signalled the person "when goin up?"..he showed me the time of his dive computer and said "OK"…abit puzzled, i didnt ask for more clarifications…then the dive computer continued to beep…still ignoring it…and finally beckz asked again, "when, timeout?"…and so i asked the guy again, and he signalled, "OK, lets go !!"….

the whole conversation through signalling underwater was rather hilarious at that time i would say, theres me the person leading the dive depending on 2 other ppl to tell me when to go up, whereby one is anxious and one is taking it easy….but nonetheless, for that trip, i have compromised a few important measures which i must now remember in my future lead dives..thanks to beckz !!!