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I was suppose to be in Bali during May but plan screwed and this is how Air Asia get richer with every low fare promotion they launched. I was not in total disappointment as I will get to save the money I’m going to spend during the trip by burning the air ticket. OK, never mind, it doesn’t make sense to some of you I think.

The one and only holiday plan for 2010 is gone and soon enough this unplanned cuti-cuti Malaysia to Redang Island materialized  in conjunction to my diving course I took out of sudden. It was initiate by someone else which benefited me in the end. A paradise get away was what I wanted so much to temporarily ignoring the hectic stressful office work.

So, on top of certified as licensed diver, I got to enjoy in paradise for 3 days. Crystal clean water with clear blue sky accompany by white fine sandy beaches never fail to excite me.

View from Redang Bay Resort

Just check out the crystal clear water. Its a huge salt water swimming pool which will lure you into it every time looking at it.

Salt water swimming pool

When the sun is up, eat-dive-talk-eat-rest-dive-swim were what we did repetitively. When Mr. Sunny clock-out, it’s time for God to transform into Evil Demon and Holy Angel metamorphosed to wicked Fiend.

Redang Bay at night – First Nite

First night was solely having fun among our own group but when the darkness strikes on the 2nd and final night, we got into some interesting cultural exchange session with the Redang’s native friends. The drinking games were simply crazy. Lucky that I was not feeling well for alcohol level challenges else I’m pretty sure I will be puking my stomach out.

The challenges begin

You may see there were fairly few of us versus whole big Redang group of 7-8. As result, those involved in the games drunk like a proper drunkard. Prove? check out the below.

Acrobatic Drunken God

Things started to get more fun when the clock hit 3am when Fireangle decided to venture towards the sea middle of a dark night all by herself trying her luck fishing some sea monster or water ghost.  Soon enough everyone who was still awake joined her and it turned out to be a session with ummphhh…. Climax of the trip.

There’s a boat by the shore which got molested thoroughly by 5 of us. Yeah blame it on the alcohol but there were 2 who was actually 100% sober. What you gotta say about it then? We are fun people to hang out with YEAH… (syiok sendiri) Wanna know more? check out Kim’s write up on this.

Almost ripped the whole blardy boat

The fun continued with some timer multiple shots feature available on my camera.

Posing with timer on with flash | managed to captured some1 fell from boat

When your camera do have long lasting battery life, you don’t charge it as frequent right? So with the hardcore continuing flashing, the battery life almost drained dry. No flash didn’t stop us from proceeding further. Not at all. Once Endorphin kicks in, it is hard to stop.

We used torch light to continue with multiple shots camwhoring

R18 (Restricted to adults over 18 only) type of conversations were going on for more than 30mins in the room before everyone starts the snoring progress around 5am in the morning. Kim participated using her BBM (Blackberry Messenger) in the other room.

My plan to wake up early on the last morning for some nice sunrise photo shots obviously FAIL. Although I was not able to wake up early enough for the sunrise, I was still the 2nd earliest person and managed to walk over to the other side of the beach to check out the famous MoMoTee Chalet.

The movie that kills Redang slowly| Summer MoMoTee

Group Pic of us before leaving paradise & back to hell

Sotong | Fireangel | Edvin | Joe | God | Haze | KY | Kim | Me

Going back was all fun together. Leaving the island on Peter Stuyvesant style’s speedboat which make the pictures taken in it looks like we were on a roller coaster. Had keropok lekor and lemang along the route back to hell was all good.

Final bit of enjoyment before heading back to hell (KL)

Last week was seriously one of the most eventful week for 2010. I took a day off on Tuesday and did my Diving Confined Water Training before 3 days of business trip to Singapore and Batam, Indonesia. Ruby who suppose to be my dive buddy cannot make it this round which ended up me doing the lesson all by myself.

It has been a while since last I did some swimming hence, the training almost killed me when my instructor Edvin asked me to swim 8 laps without fins as part of PADI’s requirement for new student. Lucky I was in wet suit which helps me float easier yet I was truly exhausted from this.

Basically, I was instill with knowledge on diving equipment, safety precautions and also the skills needed underwater in order for me to go in water alive and come back up breathing after dive. Well, I’m still alive to write these shit after my certification proof that I learned well during my training.

Confined Water Training at Cheras

In order to be certified as a licensed diver, on top of going through theory and confined water training, I need to do 4 real open water dives. This was the best part of the certification because it means HOLIDAY in PARADISE, Pulau Redang.

My 1st and 2nd dives was just a shore dive around 6 – 10m in depth lasted about 62mins. I was request to complete all the skills I learned during the confined water training here. I have no idea what I saw during my 1st dive because I was too busy showing my capability underwater with the skills I was taught and trying to breath as I was taught and worst was controlling my buoyancy not to crash into the corals and got killed by all the ocean lover later on.

2nd dives was like hell for god’s sake. After almost completed all the skills demonstration required except CESA (emergency technique to surface) I came across severe pain on both my ears from not able to equalize the pressure. Edvin tried guide me with several equalization method but none of them works. Dive aborted after 40mins of struggling underwater. 1st thing I did once I was back at the resort was throwing out . Puked out all the lunch I had before the dive, showered and went to bed passed out for 3 straight hours. Most likely I was over exhausted from the rush from the business trip I had and lack of sleep from the night drive.

3rd and 4th final certification dives were 2 amazing diving spots by boat. We started as early as 8.30am to Tg. Tokong (North of Redang Island and not a place in Penang Island). After got sufficient rest, I can easily equalized and relax hence, can really enjoy the dive. There were so much to see and the feeling was much different from the 1st and 2nd dives.

After an hour of rest, Southern Tip was my 4th dive’s location and it was the best dive of this trip. The visibility was superb. Only later of the day I found out from the rest that this was also one of the best visibility dive they experienced. I bet I was just a lucky dude.

Turtle | Puffer Fish | Eagle Ray | Eel

Some beautiful Corals

Nemo, Clown Fish

Graduation Picture taken by Edvin (I thought I suppose to exhale to make bubbles)

Completed all my certification dives before noon on the 2nd day and I was not really satisfy with only 4 dives, so I paid extra for my 1st leisure boat dive with the rest to Sharon Stone and accompany Kerol and Kim for their Discovery Dive at the shore which make it my 2nd leisure dive.

After completed certification dives, can take out regulator for pic dy

I’ve learned a lot regarding aqua life during this trip and sad to know global warming is causing the water to get warmer from day to day and corals are too sensitive to temperature changes hence there are many bleached corals easily seen everywhere.

Bleached Corals taken by Edvin Eng (Awesome dive instructor)

I’m so glad I did the lesson and I’m now a certified PADI diver and surely hope to explore the underwater world more before everything turn snowy white. Ultimate diving targets are Sipadan and Maldives.

Trip dive member, Joe, God & KY

P/S: Most pictures taken from KY, Terence God, Joe and also Edvin Eng.

I’m wondering what was the purpose alcohol was initially invented for. It seemed to evolve from whatever reason it was created for to one super multi-purpose drink at this current moment.

You may be wondering why I said multi-purpose. Don’t you ever agree alcohol is always the best tool to enhance the atmosphere, do you? Exactly like how.

When people face sorrows in life, they intoxicate themselves to hide away from the cruel reality hoping that everything is going to be vanished once they got drunk and situation would remain that way. In my humble opinion, it will just make the feeling from bad to worse. I’m not going to spoil my day continuing this depressing chapter further.

On the other hand, people also drink when they are happy, enjoying our life. We drink during parties and also during celebrations. The best part is alcohol can always enhance to provide additional entertainment to the particular occasion. I have come across few hilarious incidents caused by some over dose of this heavenly drink from hell.

1. A friend started to wash his face with drain water outside our neighbour’s house. Tried to move him away but he insisted that the tap water is clean.

2. Someone who is an English educated started to speak in English accent’s Mandarin and claimed herself as “美女” (pretty gal)

3. An uncontrollable dude made the 1st floor apartment window as urinal and peed through it. Sorry to those who walked pass and thought it started to rain or what so ever.

4. A friend decided (unconsciously) to pee in his own car when someone else drove his dead drunk corpse home. He kept mumbling about Mangkalai and claimed that he held on his pee because he was molested by the Mangkalai who took care of the washroom in a club.

5. A friend who is supposed to be prohibited from consuming alcohol beverages got drunk and claimed the earth was moving and fell everywhere like 532,168 times without breaking the 20% filled wine glass he was holding.

There were many more but that’s all for now. I’m sure you do have a lots more similar type of stories stored in your mind. Please do share if you want to.

Car, something used to be luxury rather than necessity is now needs to many, especially Malaysian. Don’t tell me you are asking why. The answer is as simple as 123, “because all Malaysian can afford a car our public transport sucks big time.”

Our expectation for this 4 wheels mechanical creature is getting  higher along the way started from the engine performances and both interior and external aesthetically aspects to safety features that reduce injury and death rates tremendously over the years.

Active safety features like anti-lock breaking system preventing accident from occurring and passive safety features like safety belts (I wonder how many of us actually buckle up for our own safety rather that doing it merely because the traffic rules said we must? By the way, I do buckle up for my own safety.) and Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) or more commonly know as air-bags are features that safe our ass from ending up in the hospital or worst rest on the very last bed of your life, coffin. The picture on the left taken from Wikipedia on SRS showing bursted air-bag.

I came across this during my last trip to China. It simply tell us, who cares about safety and I fixed it without spending expensive few thousand for SRS replacement.

Taxi I sat in during my last trip to DongGuan, China

~There I Fixed It~

It was an exhausted business trip week for me. Hasten schedules, head cracking brain storming session, long-winded discussion and crucial decision making drained me empty. The only nice thing about this trip was, my butt get to comfortly rest on MAS’s nice soft cushion instead of black hard and straight Air Asia’s seat.

It has been a while since I last step into KLIA for departure. Normally, I don’t really care much about the surrounding but this time something really captured my interest. I don’t remember I saw this my very last time at KLIA.

KLIA Jungle Boardwalk

I really like the idea of having this little passage converting the advance futuristic building into wild tropical rain forest by just walking through it. Seeing big trees covering the sky with leafy canopy and dense tangled vines surrounding and occupying the ground might not looks interesting to us but to many foreigner out there, this experience walking in it, is indeed precious.

I remember how we laughed at one of the tourist hot spot named Yanoda on Hainan Island, China during our family trip. This place has nothing much to offer except the experience of walking through the rain forest and enjoy the natural flora along the way.  I have to agree that this place is actually quite nice and well preserved. It can easily amazed many of its visitors but it didn’t impress us that much as rain forest is basically part of our live in Malaysia.

View once you came out from the KLIA passage of transformation

I think it’s a very smart and bright move for KLIA to have such an area which may be an eye opener to our visitor.

Soothing waterfall