difficult ppl is good

I start to like the facebook application - God's message for you today

It's so true many times, many days.. today message is that difficult ppl is important - they teach us to tolerate and improve. Indeed, human relationship require tolerant, especially when u are new to the person, ie diving industry where u meet all kind of ppl everyday. u've to suit urself to them, which i'm not so good at... Anyway, today i met hans issac and the fat comedian (i keep forgetting his name), and a girl (maybe hans girlfren according to the office geng). So, artist always have that kind of artist attitude that i don't like, haha... but have to love them too, coz they also made by God and all human including myself are fall short of God's glory.

oklar, that's all. hope God will give me love to love difficult ppl which i hardly love especially my roomate, haha...

christmas

a boring christmas spent on island....

sigh...

just not my style of christmas that im looking for, haha... wat to do, every place has their own culture, and i just still not yet fit in this type of drinking celebration culture.

This christmas i receive 2 presents. 1 from winnie, the lady-man. He gave me a cute turtle keychain, pink in color. And another from aktar, perfume. Thanks for the present! I never thought that i still can get a present on this christmas without all my frens out there in kk T___T.

Surely Christmas is so so so different without hope church frenz~~ I missed ya all!!! I missed jenn jenn too... i still remember my first year christmas in kk, we hopekkstudent unit make red stocking keychain for sales to raise fund for church christmas celebration. Then we have children christmas party with the puppet show. The 2nd year i have jenn jenn together join the dinner at wat wat banquet, and jenn jenn got the queen of the nite, hohoho... The 3rd year, we have simple celebration at church and that's just so nice=)

Anyway, missed christmas so much!

mabul 3 days 2 nite

14- 16th dec

Pygmy seahorse workshop at mabul island. I represent mataking island for the workshop. The workshop only at nite time coz it involves all the dive operator around semporna, so day time, boring... nothing to do...like now...

Worshop time, serious serious..

The place we (Nina, gav and me) stay for the pass 2 days are at Lai's Homestay. As the name implies homestay, means the place is really simple, just bed. GOod thing is that 2 person in one room, so more privacy. It's cheap (RM50 per nite include 3 meals and room). The bad thing is that no electricity other than 6pm to 6am (nite time only lor). Damn hot in day time.

This is my second time visit to mabul and first time overnite here. In terms of environment, i would say that i prefer mataking island compare to mabul. Why? There're less ppl in mataking, coz no local community, the most numbers of ppl in mataking maybe about few hundreds only. But in mabul, there're so many locals which includes of those with and without documents (maybe about thousand ppl) and dive operators. Everywhere u turn are ppl, ppl and more ppl, and rubbish rubbish and rubbish. But have to admit that the underwater view is really quite nice here, haha...

Most of the locals here work generation after generation as fisherman = poverty. Again, due to no legal documents, they have no 'right' to do anything, not even going to school. So what the kids do if not at school? have fun swimming, playing kites, basketball, blah blah..

kids jumping off the jetty without any worries or fear
jump jump!
kids showing off the fish they caught! interesting~
Basketball! modification of net, haha

the fisherman came back with their harvest, the fisherman boat in front of our homestay actually fish for shark! and they cover it with coconut leave to avoid attention from public
Lai's homestay, cheap cheap Rm 50 pernite includes 3 meal, but electric only from 6pm to 6am=(
Hammock! I love to hang out here all day long
Sunset view, first time i try to adjust the apperture to set the color
Gavin inspire me to take this, thanks gav!

More pic, really fun try to adjust the lightbalik ke bilik dengan letih

underwater photoshooting

11.12.2009
My first attempt to use my underwater casing with camera! huhu!
Dave Bretheron is my sifu since he's the professional photographer already, hehe...

this is dave

so, we did our first underwater casing waterproof test on the morning before go down with the camera inside. so many knowledge that i don't think i'll be able to get it with my own effort, haha... probably will, but take longer time.=p

this is me, trying to find pygmy seahorse

Actually the deeper we dive, the color loses and the thing we see actually are not of the real color. For example, the gorgonian seafan that im looking at is actually red color! but we see as greyish color. The main purpose for us to go photoshooting is because of the pygmy, but seems like its really quiet challenging to get one nice shot, hehe.. And i dont wanna stress the pygmy with so much shoot on it...

Can u find the pygmy seahorse there? i can't... it suppose to be there... less than 1.5 cm

So, have to play around with the white balance, and so on while photographing. It's actually qutie annoying coz many thing u have to take note.

So lastly, just present some of the pic i took after some editing, haha... Dave say the picture i took is quite good for a first timer, hehehee...

Nudi nudi branchi (actually just nudibranch, about 3cm long)
can u find the crocodile fish camouflage

Porcelain crab among the anemone (about 3cm length)
Nemo nemo... i wonder why so many ppl like to take their pic? because they don't swim away? easy target, haha
Lastly trumpet fish, i think they're couple, wanna figure out why one yellow, one chocolate

Anyway, just some wrap up of wat i tot of underwater photoshooting..
it's fun when u're the one holding the camera and try to get the best shoot possible, and one good picture may need several minutes with tens of picture taken. But it's important for us to be sensitive to our buddy or those who dive with us especially if its a big group. You won't want everyone to wait for u or worried that u may get lost in the deep blue sea, or the dive master or trainee (me) to keep waiting and waiting and waiting. yeah... sensitive to others feeling too, haha... my conclusion after follow so many dive together with diver who took picture all the time.. can't they just enjoy the view/ fish without having to take all the picture? hmmm...


Bah, that's all=p

english class

I started my english class for some of the landscape boy, 5 of them actually. I initiated the class after they're complaining about how they're suffering because they don't read or speak english. And i do agree that they missed a lot of chances because of that. So up till now i've conducted 3 class, one session is 1 and half hour. The class is quiet fun actually, and im glad that they're serious to learn=)

Tonite will be their first spelling test. Hope they do well.

rescue course:scenario

09/11, i've finish 2 session of rescue scenario, that were hard session! have to swim half dead and blow and shout and push and pull and blah blah blah... half dead especially at surface. I'm good underwater but it gets really tough on the surface, haha =_____=

10/11, i have my missing diver scenario (as in real situation) and have to coordinate the entire resort ppl who can help to help. Im so so so so nervous that i wake up at 3 am start to think about wat i should do. Anyway, although it turn out to be quite chaotic but ended up well too.

11/11, the very last session. This time no one help me... i have to swim for 50m on my own and tow a diver, give rescue breath all the way back to the shore, CPR for 6 minutes... i almost pass out half way coz too tired...

conclusion, im really good in water, and terrible on water. need to upgrade my swimming skills, haha =) lazy to write liao, coz busy with work, hehe

just some basic intro about mataking

These are just some photo of it:

The reception outside view

Mataking composed of 2 island, 1 mataking besar and 1 mataking kecil, which are linked by sandy bridge that can passed through only during low tide and totally cover up during high tide.

View of mataking kecil during lowtide

View of mataking kecil during hightide

Ohya!'famous' spider lily flower that can be found in almost every corner u turn in our resort

Place that i like to hang out during early morning or late evening

And lastly, our only transport on this island experience car crash just his evening!!