Amazing how the sea works wonders to take away your blues for awhile.

I went for a leisure dive yesterday, after a two month absence, and I feel a little lift in my spirits. And I actually came in early for work today. *cue applause here please*

I hate the traffic jams on the way to work which I remembered was the reason why I stopped trying to come to work on time as well.  But anyways....

Yes, the weather wasn't great yesterday - it was cloudy, then it rained heavily and the WINDS! . The boatride was a bit amusing. hard and fast drops of sea water kept shooting into my eyes and at any time the boat went slower than a galloping horse, everyone would turn a greenish hue. I don't usually get seasick, but the rocky waves and the balls of dim sum I had was making me quesy to say the least.

As soon as we reached our dive site, everyone scrambled to get off the boat to avoid getting sick and jumped into the sea. Even with our buoyant jackets and all, the waves came crashing over us. SO now I know what it feels like to be swallowed by a whale.

Anyway, once we went down, everything was good again. My dive buddy was a friend and an experienced dive instructor so we had a ball poking fun and fooling around underwater. Saw plenty of rare nudibranches, odd critters, fish and coral cat sharks, ladder jacket fishes or something like that.

Prolly one of my better dives in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. Its always exciting to get lost in another world where you don't have control over your most basic natural functions. like breathing through your nose.  

Anyway, a colleague of mine in KL once told me that diving to her meant like leaving all your problems in the sea. Its not particularly profound but it is kinda true. When you're down there, you're the odd one out, you're not in total control. So you cant help but just to be alone with your thoughts and observations and its quite a calming feeling. Throw in good dive buddies and its damn good fun.

The other divers was kinda fun too. There was Mike, a 51-year-old Englishman who was 'feeding the fishes' with his vomit, a good-looking Texan who had recently lost about 26 kilos who was reading the lovely bones onboard the boat despite the heavy splashes of water, another english dude with a really witty sarcastic humour which I loved but who could only go on one dive because of his wife, and then my buddy and me and about three others.

After the two dives, lunch w my dive buddy and tea with a friend (who makes me happy), I opted to go home for a rest before my dance class and promptly fell asleep in front of the telly. Dance class wasnt great cos I got stood up (what an ass, I dont think I wanna go back to that studio nemore) but afterwards had a drink w my dance friend and I had a good time. Then it was off for another drink with a friend (the one who makes me happy) and then a couple of games of cho tai ti and then home to bed. Not a bad day i'd say.

I realise I prolly bored you to death and you probably stopped reading this halfway through, but hehe. that aiight.

till i bore u again.