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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...

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