Skip to main content

Diving

Diving, the latest hobby that I've taken up a few years ago, 2004 to be exact. Ironically, the hobby was being introduced by my boss! Reluctantly, I agreed to take up diving lesson just to get him off by back, and telling myself that I would take up the activity just for exercise. I am a person who's always been afraid of water, and being in the water is the last thing that I wanted to be in! I remember declining when Susan asked me if I wanted to go on a cruise, and I told her that only after I learn how to swim that I would want to step on a boat. Voila! What do you know! Not only I learned swimming, I've also taken up diving! A certified Advanced Open Water diver, no less.
I instantly fell in love in diving because through it I have made quite a number of new friends, new places to explore, or rather islands in Malaysia that I've never knew existed, or never care to go before. And, what a stress reliever it is! The fact that you can go to Malaysia's beautiful islands and not thinking about work at all. All you talk about is fish and other sea life, learn their names. I cannot even begin to tell the new things that I've learnt every time I go diving, every time I make new friends and who have become close friends as we have been diving together for some time. You also learn how to be safe underwater. I have also taken up underwater photography just so I can record what I've seen underwater. Though amateur, I managed to capture a few good photos, well, at least to me anyway.


Of course, going diving is slightly expensive than normal holidays. Besides having to buy your own equipment, you would have to pay for the diving itself. You would have to be slightly fitter as you'll have to carry your own tank, but it doesn't matter. As KAZ's tag line says ' Have fun, dive safely". Being sun burnt? PRICELESS! Ha, ha...

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Step at a Time

A step at a time is about my own self reflection of my life's journey, the things that I encountered in my everyday life, the journey that I have experienced as previously matured student in Scotland for a couple of years, life as an expat in Bahrain that I lived for 13 years, places that I traveled to, food, health, friends, people that I met and most importantly the lessons that I learned along the way.  We live in a world that are fast-paced and demanding, so taking one step at a time can help me re-think how I can approach challenges and navigate through life. It's a continuous journey. Each step, no matter how small and embracing the learning process means understanding and learning from mistakes will open new doors, new experience and shape our life. Challenges are inevitable and taking one step at a time involves confronting difficulties head on and developing resilient mindset, so that we become stronger. 
Post a Comment
Read more

New Challenges

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin.....But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. Alfred Souza Indeed, we seem to wonder that our lives haven't started and when will it start? There's a lot of things that we need to do first before we can begin our lives..what life? This is our lives. Looking back, I realised that my life has been somewhat colourful. All the obstacles, the ups and downs makes me a stronger person, more confident to meet the rest of my journey of life. Gone through several jobs, taking care of my mom (with my sister) who had diabetic who finally passed away due to renal failure, more jobs, learning diving, quitting jobs, relocate to a place that I would never imagine to be, err....Scotland, going back to school to do masters degree, (and in th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Interlude

I haven't update my blog for almost a year now, not because of haven't got the time, but there seemed to be lots of things to be done. I keep putting it off as I spent most of my time writing assignments. 7 months of reading and writing. More and more words were put down and after a while I get sick of thinking and writing. I just wanted to relax. But the trouble is, too much relaxing also makes you lazy to do anything else. I think I spent too much time during the break watching movies, from internet to movies on tele and cinemas. I will write something about this later. Just to update, I am halfway on my masters course which hopefully will finish this coming September. I remember complaining there was no time to relax during the last 2 term breaks as we have to finish group assignments that took up most of the holidays. Now that I have time to relax, I became bored very quickly. The most I can relax is a for a couple of days! Even then I didn't know what to do. I know I...
Post a Comment
Read more