The Grace in Grace

My ideal job is to be a travel photographer. That explains why I want a career with National Geographic.. I should so invest in a DSLR soon and start the journey..

I should let go, and not hold on to something that doesn't or shouldn't exist. I don't want to spoil it, I don't want to ruin it. Let it remain as what it should be.. I should be contended and not cross the line.. You got to be sane, Gracie!

The right time is coming soon.. pretty soon :)

Let me tell you a story of a sea cucumber. Let's name it Greenie. While doing our underwater navigation dive, Perry saw Greenie and picked it up, then passed it to Ben. Ben was seen twisting Greenie around and Greenie freaked. Ben then threw Greenie towards Grace's direction, but because distant judging in water and on land is different, Greenie fell on Dawn's head instead. When Grace picked it up, Greenie was puking her guts out! It was all white and looks like.. you-know-what.. Then Grace pass Greenie to Dawn. End of part 1.

Back on land, white substance was spotted on Dawn's head and it looked like you-know-what from the cucumber. And the whole thing went.. "Dawn ah, you turn the sea cucumber on ah! What did you do to it?" Dawn blamed Ben, Ben blamed Grace, Grace blamed Ben.. That white substance was so hard to get rid of, Dawn was taunted through out the whole trip for "turning the sea cucumber on". Hence, Dawn is now also known as: "Sea Cucumber, Cubie and Cu-cum-bler" HAHAHA! Now, back to the main topic..
We are back in Dayang once again! Getting the AOW knowledge reviews one day before departure was no joke. I spent 6 hours reading and doing on day 1 and a few more on day 2. But it's diving!!
AOW students clocked 7 dives this weekend including 1 night dive. The thing about diving is, no matter how awful you felt from the seasick, currents and giddiness or just sheer tiredness.. you still want to dive! I soooo love he picture above.. Haha.. Perry looks cute with his ranger hat, David looks cute in his sleeping pattern.. and the 3 mischievous ladies taking stolen shots of them while sleeping.. HAHAHA! That is me. Hiding behind that smile was sea sickness and weariness after fighting the strong current at Lang during Night Dive. All else worked fine when we moved to the next location. Current was strong, but as Ben was towing me and Sing Hui back, we get to enjoy the sky that was filled with stars :D Ben's towing service don't come cheap, 2 cans of coke and wanted to blame me for Dawn's cucumber issue.. :D Nearly let him copied my knowledge reviews too.
Morning dive after heavy rain. It felt like I have slept for a long time, was really shagged from Saturday's diving even Perry's snoring didn't bother me, AT ALL. If you're wondering why we are that happy.. Divers are happy people. Actually, Ben was trying to push us under and we were holding our smile and keeping ourselves up.
We saw the puffer again! And a whole lot of other fishes too.. This trip is much better than OW trip. Better buoyancy and consumed lesser air.
See the bright colors under water? You should go diving and be awed by it too!
During dawn dive, we saw like a thousand of this Kuning Fishes.. You know, the fish you eat with your Nasi Lemak? Hahaha.. It was a pretty sight, thousands of them swimming near us.
It's like Jia Wen telling me, "Don't smile so wide lah, GEL!"
We have to do stunts like this during AOW. Coolness huh? I like this stunt though I floated all the way up to the surface when I first did it :P We had to do somersault (backward and forward), twist around in water and even took part in the underwater race. Ben won, he played cheat. He was a few steps ahead of me before race start.. HAHAHA! But at least he shared his chocolates.
Turtles again and please, do not do follow what Everett is doing :)
Here we are, surfacing after 63844637 dive.. Not that much yet lah huh.. soon soon.. and I was happily pee-ing after each dive MUHAHAHAH!
Girlfriend didn't come with us this dive, so we decided to take picture with Ben's M&Ms blanket and tagged her. See, we thought of you during the trip! So, think of me during the Perhentian trip!
It was cold and tiring after clocking the 7 dives. The ear was painful from equalizing, the knee was painful from the scratches.. The body needs sleep and food..
I had this small orange blanket that covers only up to my leg. So I stole Dawn's blanket when she was away.. and cover all the way to my head.. Cause I knew people are going around taking unglamorous shots of people sleeping :D I'm that smart.
Dinner at the usual place.. Jun tried to poke my eyes out, looks like she is still suffering from narcosis.

Yeah!! Certified advanced open water diver! But it will be a few months before my next dive trip :( I wanna go Perhentian too, but low on finance and can't keep going away during weekends for diving.. how how how?

So international, just like the ship family. Singaporean, Filipinos, Japanese and an English man from Ireland!
The sun was pretty bright that day, glad everyone enjoyed the cycling trip.. I wanna go again!
So, we were sitting by the board walk watching the mangroves grow each second.
And then Imelda took this shot when I was resting at one of the stops.. I should say, nice post and I look slimmer.. maybe because I wore black all over.. :D

I guess it hit my breaking point. The trash from weekend plus yesterday's misunderstand just pushed the button. I thought I was strong enough when I shed no tears during the weekend, even when tears were rolling, I force them back in. Yesterday, it just couldn't contain anymore. What has to go, has to go.

My voice choked during the phone call, the tears flowed after it ended. It wasn't a very huge thing, but it's big enough to make me break. I sat there in my cold cold lab, wondering what the hell did I just do. So, they say it wasn't my fault.. but still I felt so wrong. It's not like these things never happened to me before, but yesterday just wasn't the same. Maybe I sat there for a good hour with tears flowing. That bugger stayed in the lab, I couldn't walk out to get tissue.

Sometimes I hate myself for being so emotional. Why the heck are the tears flowing, why the heck am I feeling like this, why the heck is all this happening? I sucked at handling mistakes, disappointments, misunderstandings and what-so-ever.

Makes me wanna run somewhere and just cry everything out.. Don't offer me hugs, meet-ups or anything that has to do with facing you, now; cause I know I would just break down again in front of you. If I could only manage a weak smile when you see me, trust me, that's the most my lips can bend, now. If I couldn't smile, not that I hate you, just that the face doesn't want to.

It will take some time to recover.. Grace is a tough cookie, she'll get by this.
I dragged my body to Dorcas' place for her birthday celebration yesterday. I answered no phone calls and smses, till I was better. Still, smiling and behaving like I always do was hard. People began asking what's wrong and why. Sorry people, I just didn't want to talk about it. But towards the end, all things went well. The mood was better after talking to Matthew, the smile was wider too. Life is like this lah...
Then this Princess had to sleep this way at the shoe rack. No amount of touching could wake her up.. I want to laze around like her too..
I could live life the way it should be.

Got scolded? Smile.
Misunderstood? Smile.
Sad? Smile.
Angry. Smile.
Downhearted? Smile.
Disappointed? Smile.

I still do remember this phrase: Smile, and the world will smile with you :)
It couldn't be that bad..

"Cry if you may, but remember to wipe those tears away and stand up strong again."

Some parent tried to ruin my weekend on Friday's evening. She did, I was fuming mad and shouted back at her for shouting at me. I've never shouted at anyone on the phone, rarely in the face, she's that good to make me shout.. and I'm not afraid to say, I don't feel guilty doing that. Totally lost my mood for weekend, Goon has to take my moodiness over dinner and almost through out the time we met. Camp in Church was nice, the movie was good and to top it all up, it just feels good to see all the churchies again lah! Late night mushroom soup with spaghetti, mini worship session after 3 whole weeks and catching up time with the people; make the moodiness goes away a little.

Saturday's cycling trip to Ubin was nice, ultra nice! The sun was good, the people was good, every thing's good. We even had lunch at Ubin First, expensive but it was nice that the people enjoyed it. I wanna go Ubin cycle again!

And just when I thought the shitty part of the weekend has gone, it came back again. I could only have myself to blame, why tell those kids stories in class when I jolly well know that 60-40 chance I might get into trouble? Ended up one of them cried in class because of my stories and so you know where's the finger(s) pointing at now. I still don't understand the issue of over-protective parents.

"What if she gets fits? What if she gets nightmare and couldn't sleep? What if she harm herself? What is she is affected psychologically?" --- Give me a break. Some body throw that kitkat over here, please.

I told her, "I don't think I could ever be a MOE teacher." She asked if I wanted to be one, and don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not.. I told her, "It's ever child's dream to become a teacher when we were in primary 1."

Forget it, I say it once again.. teaching in a Singapore government school just isn't my calling.

It so happen Goon was the one who took my shit when we drove into JB for massage. That massage is all I need from all the trash. But damn it, that person was like going to kill me with his ultra mighty massaging strength. But getting a massage at 11p.m in JB was a whole new experience. How I wish we could have stayed for some Lok Lok!

Sunday was nice talking to Val and Wan about diving, and that after-lunch chat with Jing Yan. I was hoping that training will cancel, it was after all raining very heavily when I left Church at 2.45p.m. Training was still on and I was like... "Oh, physical session here I come! (All ready to be shag by it). Turns out there wasn't any physical, just a normal training (with lots of blue blacks and bruises). I am still slow in reacting to a ruck.. But thanks Gina for the advices!

Oh Glor, it's a sign to not stay in office for too long after what happened yesterday :D Rest well!

Took our own sweet time to shower and get changed. Small talk all the way till we parted. I guess what made the shitty weekend better and what kept me going was all the small talks and chats I had with my loves. They might not know that I am having a trashed weekend, but those moments really made me much better :D Thanks, girlfriends.

Met Churchies at PS for movie. Departure was nice, you should watch it. For the first time, I would say I like this Japanese movie.

At the end, the weekend wasn't that shitty at all. Who's that woman to ruin my weekend with her shouting and who's that finger pointer to make my weekend trashed? Nothing would beat my loves to bring it all up again :) Even though it was unknowing to them.

It's proven. If I were an MOE teacher, I would have been long sacked and maybe even appeared on headlines. Growing up in mixed schools is really different compared to those who has been in single-sex school all their life. For once, the parents in mixed school weren't that protective. And in my memory I have no recall of my parents ever making complains to school, even when the math teacher hit me on the head, called me names or did funny things!

Other teachers have been telling me, "Don't be too pally with the kids, that's when trouble comes." It make no sense to me. Why must the line between teachers and students be drawn so clearly? The youths in my Church are the same age as the students I teach, how do I expect myself to act as a no-friendship-with-students-teacher during weekdays to a youth leader who has friends that age on weekends? Yes, I do regard my students as friends and yes I've notice some of my students talk to me like their friends; which I don't mind at all! Isn't it what it's suppose to be? Isn't it important for students to feel comfortable around you? Why must a student always fear a teacher and never dare get close or friendly with teachers?

There are so many rules to abide, to follow in schools. Rules that still didn't make sense, parents that I don't know why they are so protective and students who gets me into trouble. I thought I could manage to stay on in teaching till next August before I leave for full time mission. But it seems, I couldn't. The thought of staying one more day is killing me. The students are great, fun bunch; it's what's coming from the black sheeps, parents and upper level.

I regret to say, I'm counting down to the end of my teaching days. I would still teach, but not in Singapore's government school, I should say.. I don't want to teach in Singapore if I have the choice. I won't do or abide in something I don't believe in. Looks now from now on, I'm just counting downs the days before I leave. The calling to teach is gone, all gone.

How I wish the school would sack me now, and I move on to a mixed school. Or the company would sack me now, and I can make it for the September's intake in Logos Hope. Disappointed, discouraged, downhearted.

I hate to hear the word "Ms Grace" now. I guess the one my students once knew, died. "Ms Grace" just can't be the same anymore.

I was rather distracted these few days, no idea what was causing the restlessness. There was no focused, no patience and no motivation in the things I do. I gave training a miss last evening simply because I didn't have the mood. Where did that come from? In the past I couldn't bear to miss a single session, but yet I skipped training just because the mood wasn't there. Spend the whole evening with Goon, distracting myself once again that I ran away from training. We had a nice chat by the beach after dinner. Grace is still a quality time person; guess that will never change.

This morning, the whole mood was down. Half an hour before my first class, I still couldn't find any reason to smile for that day. I was reading through some blogs and the question suddenly came to me, "Who is/are my best friend(s)?" Actually, what's my definition of best friend? I really envy those who can openly declare that who and who are their best friends, they have been besties for how many how many years.. It never happened to me, or so. Often when I thought he/she is my best friend, that person didn't think or maybe react so. I should so set my definition of "best friend"; cause I think mine is waaaay different from the rest.

Maybe they didn't know that this Grace takes longer (much longer) time to open up to people, and when she does, you'll know her so much more that what you see. This Grace doesn't show that she cares openly, but when she does, she wants to care from the very bottom of her heart. This Grace has a fear that she'll be disturbing people whenever she has a problem to share or someone to talk to, she needs assurance that she's not troubling anyone. This Grace still has a sense of insecurities. This Grace still has wounds not healed. This Grace still have issues unsolved. This Grace is trying hard to open up and not be the "quiet one" anymore. This Grace is trying to break through. She knows who she is now, is not what exactly she is suppose to be.

Maybe all these while, the focus was shifted. Shifted from the cross to the world. I was looking for the "friend", "thrill", "accomplishment", "belonging" and whatsoever through people and things around me. And so, I heard God calling me back.. I heard this song from youtube, and instantly I knew what went wrong.. Thank you, God.

King of Wonders
We could try to count the stars,
You already know them each by name.
Every single galaxy was your design,
Your majesty displayed.

Your glory shines before our eyes,
The more we see, the more we love You

(Chorus)
King of wonders, we stand amazed,
Theres no other, other than you.
King of wonders, you know the way to our hearts and
The more we see the more we love you.

You reveal and we respond,
You have shown theres no one like you God
Your love and mercy welcomes us
Into the beauty of this Holiness.

Your glory shines before our eyes,
The more we see, the more we love You


The more we see, the more we love You. And so, I'm going diving again :D

My very first OW dive to Dayang! I rushed off after work to Parkway for photo-taking and manage to reach Eugene's place on time. Packed the equipment and was lamenting on my hunger. Fridays are always busy, but that day I ate nothing (literally nothing but some candies) throughout the day. I am glad my gastric didn't act up :) Finally ate something on the bus kindly offered and served by girlfriend. Dawn was jealous :P Oh, meet Dawn, my dive buddy. The prettiest diver in the OW group, and I'm serious. We know why lah huh...
I was still hungry after that otah sandwich, when you're hungry you're sleepy too. The bus ride seems long, I was falling asleep when we had a stop over at Kota Tinggi for supper (my breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper). The Nasi Goreng Ayam tasted good at first, but I knew the chicken's texture was weird. Well, when you're hungry everything is nice (at least that's what I told Glor when she ask how was the food). Journeyed some more till we reach Mersing jetty.

I tell you, the moment I stepped inside the boat it just reminded me soooooo much of Logos II! The exact smell, sound and feeling! The sitting area was freaking cold like a chiller! Gave girlfriend my fisherman's, poor her, the shorts so short and she didn't bring any longs. I wore back my jeans. Still it was freaking cold even with a jacket, jeans and blanket on me. Literally shivered my way out of the boat.

Felt that I have slept a long time, for a moment I thought the sun was out. When we arrive, it was about 5-ish. Went to our room and slept till the sun came out. Then it was the safety briefing and then first dive!
I notice my head was the biggest in this picture..

The first dive was a little scary, we didn't know what to expect and for the first time we are going down 18m deep. I had some difficulty equalizing, breathing through my nose didn't help. I was at the bottom when the ears got really painful. Eugene then signal to swallow. Eureka! It worked!

It was pouring when we went for the first dive and there were current underneath. The boat journey to the first dive site and that current underwater made me sea sicked. We did mask clearing, removing, fin privet and some other skills again. It was really different doing it in pool and in the open sea.

Head back to land for tea break. Through out the dive trip it was dive, eat, dive, eat, dive, eat, dive, eat.. No wonder.. HAHAHA! We re-did some of the skills in the second dive, slightly more things to see. We were doing well, the instructor then allow us to have a leisure dive for the third at Pulau Lang. Saw fishes like the bump head parrot, trigger, clown, bat and school of barracudas. Oh, we saw cuttlefishes, christmas trees, sea anemone and a lot of table corals too.
By the end of third dive, the sun was setting. We lost Eugene's group and had to sail around the island to find them. Current was strong during the last dive. I remembered being swapped away towards the front of the boat when Dawn's o-ring exploded. No one saw me, I struggled back. By the time Chris notice I was out of sight, I was in sight again. Phew.. thank goodness I still have strength to swim against that current.

Had theory session at night, half way we set off fireworks to celebrate 2009's first session dive. Ahhh.. reminds me so much of the time when I was younger. We used to set off fireworks back in Malaysia during CNY.. The dive table was a headache, Dawn and I almost gave up. By the time the whole theory session ended, it was midnight.
We woke up at 6.30a.m the next day, the sunrise was pretty! Set off to our first dive and did CESA. Didn't get to practice during pool session, so was naturally nervous about doing it in water. But all went well, wasn't as scary as I thought it would be.
That's Eugene with his fish friends. I say he's a very good instructor, although he wasn't mine. Very good with his words and he has this charisma in him. With him and Chris around, you know nothing will go wrong.
No idea what it was, but look at the bright colors! Welcome to underwater world!
Lots and lots of corals. That explains the scratches on our legs. We are still not very good at controlling our buoyancy, so we either float up or crash down. Poor legs, arms and hands.
Check out that giant clam. We saw a lot of them and I have the urge to put my finger (OK, at least something into their mouth and see what happen) Nope, didn't see any pearl.
We saw nemo too and I didn't know the sea anemone sucks ( I mean they sucked when you touch them)
I always see this fellow while I was still in Underwater World Singapore, seeing it in the wild is a different experience. Kind of cute I should say..
Finally we saw turtle! It was swimming so close to us, less than 1m away! If I'm not wrong, it's a hawksbill and female.
The dive buddies. Diving is really cool, the tranquility was all that you could ask for in the open sea.

We were all checking out the clown fishes and anemone. Dawn was especially drawn to them and that christmas trees.

Finally, spot that angmo guy? He's Chris, our instructor. I like my thighs, looks smaller in water and in that wet suit :DAnd all good things must end. Didn't had time for lunch and we had to depart Dayang. The leisure divers and the OW divers. The weather was too good to sleep away, so I hung out at the deck. First it was talking to Hong, he shared so much about diving. At the same time, I was practising my talking skills. Then saw gf sun tanning and when to join her. For the second time in my life, I fell asleep in the sun again. Not that burnt this time though :D Went around talking and simply just enjoying the sea breeze.Meet Bob, Jun's invisible friend. Actually there's another friend, Sponge, he came to join Bob after Jun went to sit behind.

The whole trip was really nice. A short getaway, close to nature, picked up new skills, got to know new friends.. what a weekend! But it was tiring though, was shagged at the end of the trip. I wanted to sleep, but with my contacts on.. very difficult.

Logged our dives into the log book during dinner and finally get the long awaited temporary OW dive card. Grace is now a certified OW diver!

I can't wait for the next dive. Advanced Open Water Diver Course, here I come!!

Tiredness. I need sleep. The weekend away in Dayang was nice, the first Open Water dive trip was magnificent. Now I truly understand the meaning of underwater WORLD; it's really another world beyond what normal eyes can see on the surface.

First dive in the sea was scary, I have no idea how deep we were going and my ears just refused to equalize. Blowing through the nose doesn't seem to help, until Eugene had to signal me to swallow. But sometimes having to swallow with a regulator in your mouth and being underwater; it's tough.

The whole experience was beyond words; or maybe I'm just too tired to blog in details. Wait till the pictures are out and my mind has rested. I'm burnt, but I'm happy :D Can't believe I fell asleep in the sun again, but thank goodness I have sun tan lotion on..

Eugene encouraged me to take my advanced open water on the 20th, which is very soon.. I don't know.. should I? My concerns? Besides the money wise (which Eugene mention we can get that settled), it's the family side lah.. what am I to tell them this time? The Dayang trip I said it was a holiday trip with friends and water sports, for pool session I said I went swimming . Either way it's not lying what, right? HAHAHA.. I went swimming; deeper and with a tank. Diving is considered as water sport :D

I've been away from Church for 3 weeks straight (I know my Churchies misses me heaps!) If I were to go on the 20th, that means I'm back with them this week and gone away the next.. Hur hur hur.. How? I miss them too! Oh come on, Grace.. They lived without you for 2 months before, 3 weeks straight and another week more.. wouldn't make much difference? :D

Cast your votes people..

Tattletales. Usually in American comic, only small kids does that. Currently it's happening in the adult world (in fact, it's always on-going. Some people just don't grow up), what's the fish! It's not the first time that teacher(s) tattled on me. If they have a problem with me, come straight to my face! Get your balls out and talk to me face to face. Why complain to my HOD when my HOD don't even think it's a big enough matter to talk to me about?

So, you teachers think that I'm slacking in the lab just because I'm there most of the time instead of attending to your IT needs? I'm being lazy because I couldn't do anything to the printer when the ink ran out? I'm not up to my job because I couldn't unlock your computer without an administrator password? I'm being irresponsible, rather-do-my-own-things-then-to-bother-about-you just because you saw me using FaceBook?

I so swear that all the vulgar words in my dictionary is coming up.

Get your ass brain here and let me tell you this.

1. I'm in the lab most of the time BECAUSE I plan my lessons there, I get connected to the website server there, my stuff is there, my work station is there! Don't judge I'm the same as the TA, always walking around doesn't mean always on the job. Sometimes I don't attend to YOUR needs because there is nothing I can do or either you had dropped me tiny little microscopic hints that I couldn't catch you need my help.
2. I don't usually pick up lab's telephone because 90% of the time it's not for me. You don't like the frustration of walking all the way in front to the phone and then the ringing stopped, don't you? I don't have the luxury of having the phone NEXT to me like you do.
   
3. I couldn't dig out printer inks for you or your precious students because the inks are locked up and the key is not with me. So, what? I banged down the store for you?
   
4. I couldn't solve certain computer problems because I don't have the administrator password or either it's really not my talent. I'm a training executive, not a technical assistant!
   
5. Is FaceBooking a sin? Damn it, just because you don't have one or you only log in when you're home doesn't mean I have to follow your bloody foot step. FB-ing doesn't mean I'm not doing my job. @#$%&! You don't have a life doesn't mean I don't also.

The bottom line is, come talk to me if you have a problem with me. I don't have to change just because I'm not like a normal NIE teacher should be. I don't dress like the rest of the teacher because I don't see the need. I don't behave like one because that's not me. Why do I even need to get tie down by the rules YOU have to follow?

I used to like being in KC so much. I tried so hard to be part of the whole family thing, tried so hard to feel belong, feel connected. But damn it lah, no matter how hard I try I'm still just a contract worker to you people. You talk nicely to me when you need my IT help, you don't even care that I existed when you don't need me. How many of YOU actually bother to find out more about your CONTRACT WORKER colleagues, oh wait.. correction.. DID YOU EVEN TREAT US LIKE YOUR COLLEAGUES?

Give me a break, I'm just want to get some working experience. Indeed, you people are making it a memorable working experience. Thanks for affirming myself that my kids in future will not ever study in Singapore or at least a government school. Thanks for affirming me that I need to get out of Singapore, like soon. Disgusted.

Let's move on to something lighter :D Damn those people.. They won't dare to read on, even if they did, they could only daydream and not do it.
Last night I over heard from the news about this "World's Best Job" thing. This morning I did a search, and darn... It's really a good catch. Too good, I should say. The job scope was to explore the island, feed the fishes, report back, collect mail, clean the pool..

"The Island Caretaker will need to post a weekly blog, photo diaries and create video updates to let the world know about the unique experiences available on the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. There will also be some interviews with members of the media. The contract involves spending six months on Hamilton Island, one of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. The Island Caretaker will also travel to other islands and enjoy activities such as sailing, kayaking, snorkelling, diving, picnics, bushwalking and more. "

and you get paid $150 000 for a 6 months contract! I wouldn't even mind if they pay just $1000/month for that job. You stay in a rent-free apartment in Hamilton Island!

"This is a rare opportunity to help Tourism Queensland promote the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. So, we’re looking for someone to experience Queensland’s unique islands and report back to us (and the world) about the adventures they are having. "
Wah lao eh... I should have read this earlier and try for it, even though the chance of succeeding is 1%. There are 2 Singaporeans that's in the final 50, vote for them!

I should so quit my job and roam.. @#$%& those people. Maybe this whole event was to further prepare me for the Dayang trip.. So I will have something to relax and let go into the ocean.. Hurry up, Friday. We are all waiting for you..

Study, study for theory.. :D

Pool session from 9-4 yesterday. Hur.. so I finally breathed compressed air..Oh glor, thanks for driving me and putting me up at your place. I would have so gotten lost if I were to go on my own.. And I forgot to complain to you.. YOU KICKED ME IN THE BUTT AT NIGHT!Diving make my hair fly like nothing, so uggggggggggly! I'm amazed that I fit into a size 8 wet suit.. My teeth and jaws hurts from biting on the regulator, too hard. I should wear sock during the next dive.Breath in, breath out... relax, stay calm... and welcome to scuba diving! So, you think it's easy kneeling on the floor with what's on your back?Of course doing it in pool is different then in actual ocean.. I can't wait for Friday to come. Though it's scarier in the open waters, but... bring it on! I will survive! So, we had the mask clearing, breathing without mask, neutral buoyancy and a lot other skills. Not as tough as I thought it would be. Maybe because I'm smart :D

The day was well spent. Rugby training was canceled because of bad weather (woots!) Ya Kun toast and tea after pool session was the best the weather could offer. Hopped down to Anchor Point, don't look at me, I bought nothing. Eat some more, and it marks the end of the day. Seriously.. I should start talking more.. But the words doesn't come.. How leh..

I left my textbook in Dawn's car.. How to study like that?

Woohoo.. that's one more down from my to-do list in life.. Sky diving, anyone?