Rig Wreck, Rig Reef and Elryn Wreck

Bubbly bubble coral shrimp

On 17th August this year, Emily and Ricky decided to bring their buddy who just got back from UK to a dive trip. This blog is a special dedication to Lawrence. Hope you had an enjoyable time diving with us. =)

Here comes the photos... after lots of bugging from Ricky! :P

Ricky & Lawrence

Note the kettle in the picture is found in Elryn Wreck

Ricky - Lawrence - Emily (can u look at my camera and not yours? :P)

The Threesome! - as in buddies in diving. Hee Hee...

Bibii(Ricky) - LawLaw (Lawrence) - GeeGee (Emily)

So how was the dive? From Lawrence's smiley face... I guess the dives were satisfactory! Must be the cool DM trainee that assisted the dive... ;) Hohohoho...!

Big 3

Ever since new year celebration this year. I dread for this day to come... When it hits... I was so prepared. Spending quality time with my family, I counted the moment before the clock strikes 12am.

At 12 sharp, guess who was the first to call and sang me a birthday song? My lovely bummie! Thanks babe... love u to the max! Lee Ming and Boon Hui cooked for me before I left for KL. You guys are the greatesttttttt!

So there I am well prepared to accept the reality of turning 30 years old. Gawd I feel old saying that! hehe.. Anyways, with all my frens (older ones especially) they make me feel forever young in heart! hehe..


I had a simple celebration with my family with lots of love, care and good food from my mom! (Mummy you are the best mom in the whole wide world!) And.. of cos, i cant never go away without a surprise from 'yee sou' who bought me a very yummy baskin and robbins ice-cream cake.


And... and... another surprise... from my crazy brother..! hehe.. Love you baby..! You always crack me up.

He surprised me with a bunch of vegetables while i was shopping for clothes!!!

ps: why do i feel all mushy suddenly? must be the mid-life crisis hitting again. hehe..

Tanah Airku...

Referring to my very first blog Ohana, we tried to make at least two family trips every year. This year, the only family trip we had is to Hokkaido during CNY. A lot of ding-dong here and there; application of visa, leaves and break time, best time of visits for the destinations etc etc… we ended up spending what I called the cheapest family trip! Hehe… We went to Kuantan to spend some quality family time in a beach resort off Cherating Beach. We woke up early at 7am and had a beautiful fun-filled 3.5 hrs drive down to Kuantan.

Upon arrival, hmm.. the resort wasn’t like what I expected. The room is alright (we checked-in to a family suite), the beach is hmm… not-so-blue. One of the first few things I asked upon checking-in is; what are the beach activities available? My heart sank when I was told the resort does not have any activities at all! *CRY* My sister and I decided to walk along the beach and we found a beach sports and activities shop and I was literally hopping my way there and even happier to see a dive sites map on the wall!!!! *HAPPY* “Helllooooo? Excuse me???” I did not get a reply. The shop is closed! *CRY CRY*

I walked around the outside of the shop and managed to find a phone number. I called up the guy and asked him about diving. Not possible, as he is on his way to Kuala Lumpur. *CRY CRY CRY* He gave me another guy’s number and told me that that guy can bring me out for a dive or two. I gave that guy a call, and YES he said he can bring my sister and me out for diving the following day. Happily preparing for diving the following day, and getting ready to sleep early, I received a call and the Dive Master said that weather is bad as wind is building up and visibility is not going to be great. So how? Dive is canceled! *Can’t CRY no more!*

Anyway, I am in a holiday and my life is not just limited to diving. That’s what a friend reminded me of. So I spent a lot of quality time with my family, we went for swimming in the beach, in the pool, in the SPA, ordering room service, watching CSI together and also watching filming of Olympic advertisements which happened to take place in the resort (the guys are pretty cute and the gals are HOT!).

Although we did not travel overseas for this family trip, it is always nice to be in your own home country (tanah airku) and it is definitely nice to visit Kuantan once again. After all, the most important thing is who I travel with, my Ohana… :)

Mantas & Stingless Jellyfish

Those are the highlights for the 10days trip to Sangalaki, Maratua, Derawan and Kakaban... Caroline, a dive-bummie wrote a beautiful blog on this trip already. Hence, saving me the effort to write another one. Hehe.. Please visit divebums website for the blog post and also lots of photos from dive-bummies that went for the trip.


Below are some of my favourite shots from this trip. Enjoy the pictures...









For more pictures, visit my flickr.