It's been so long..

Since I've been back on water, and it's been even longer since I rowed a RJ boat. Reminiscing the good old days of a 18-year-old jc student, certainly one of my most memorable phases of life where I picked up a sport seriously, trained insanely and gave my heart and soul to canoeing.
And so the inaugural gryphon sports recall last Saturday brought me back to the water and the new rj campus again. Lovely and huge new campus with great toilets and complete gym! If only I'm still that canoeist now I'd have buried muself there! But I must say the old container classrooms, old and rusty weights room (it's not even called a gym I realise) brings back beautiful memories. It was a simple get-together event with some sporting actions and food, but feels good to be back and knowing we can still blend in with the 18-year-olds!

Not many photos, just 2km on water and we didn't capsize!
TGIF! and that's what's on my mind everyday at work:

Weekend Withdrawal Syndrome

Started off with perfect rainy Saturday catching up on sleep, gym on Sunday morning which leaves me aching now, followed by Hi-Tea Buffet with durian desserts!

the durian cheesecake before it got destroyed.

the little monster enjoying his chocolate fondue.

Groupshot of everyone, full from food, playing handphones to digest food. Quite a variety of food but not exactly fantastic, well, you get what you pay for right?

haha, love the expressions on those 2 cheeky boys, epic!

Went down to SMC to make our second deposit for our banquet, woohoo, first round of 12k to maximize our cashback! Now believe me when I say we're broke!

Now the week starts again and I'm so looking forward to our bkk trip in 3 weeks time, till then, I ban myself from shopping!!! But freak, exhibition the very weekend before I fly off! Total mood spoiler!

TGIF

Koped that from fb, perfect picture of my day yesterday, less the start and end timings. Without a doubt, I'm type A, munching food, making coffee/tea, listening to 933, planning my bkk trip, searching for job, and puzzled at why there is only 1 show of painted skin on both sat and sun. hmmmm...

And as I was working hard hunting, I came across this:

LOL! I don't mean to be mean, but who names their company 'japa.lang'?

Made some shocking discoveries while googling yesterday, and I was bored enough to google myself too, and guess what I found?

tada!!!
They should seriously update their website.
And I should seriously find jobs that allow me to make full use of my inborn talent of digging information.

Happy 2 months!

Happy day today because the cat is away (or rather dog) and finally had a rather early night's sleep last night after our weekly run and getting caught in the sudden downpour! That cheeky ko-ed at 10pm without even brushing his teeth!
Photoshoot date booked, now the search for venue begins, and as usual, I have some exotic and not feasible ideas. Hmmmm...

Look cheeky, look what you've gotten yourself into! haha

Let the games begin

Because I have decided enough is enough. I've been munching this pathetic grass for almost 2 years and it's getting dry. No doubt every grass has it's own flavours and seasons, but do let me revisit the buffet spread again, because it's either now or I've to chew on for another 2 years. Hate the thought of coming to office everyday and face that useless pathetic dog!
Oh well, wish me luck!
Highlight of the week: Food!!!

Call me suaku but that's my first dining experience at Sun with Moon for a early 2-month wedding anniversary dinner and because my coupons are expiring soon (yes I'm such a sucker at buying coupons). But I must say their sashimi and cheesecake are to die for! Mmmmmm....

New Friend Found

While walking around Vivo on Monday before Spiderman, I wondered into lasenza because the word "sale" was shouting too loud. Damage: 3 bras for $40. And yes, this is my first bras from lasenza cos I always thought they were overpriced and overpaded. To my surprise, those on sale were mostly non-paded and they are so comfy and fit nicely, not to mention, cheap cheap!! Now I'm tempted to get 3 more since there's so many designs. Hmm.. pretty lingerie really makes one happy, or rather, makes two happy :)
Spidey was nice, cuter than the previous one :) Caught it after the crazy first-week overpriced 12 bucks per tix. I was happily munching popcorns before the movie started when I smelled something salty and sour, smells like mayo, but when I looked around to see if anyone smuggled food in, there was only popcorns and to my horror, I saw, just under my right shoulder, somebody's foot in peektoe shoes sloted in between the seats! Total disgust! luckily the armrest was movable so I lifted it up so that the stupid indian got nowhere to slot her smelly foot! Such inconsiderate people!

Peach Garden lunch on Monday (fat and succulent chicken feet and dumplings), Macs breakfast on Tuesday (can't remember when was the last time I had it, at least a year ago I think, didn't even know they use fresh milk now instead of creamer), Taste Paradise lunch on Wednesday (super nice codfish and their mango sago chilled with dry ice!)
So fatty me and cheeky hubs decided to make Wednesday our workout day. And so we kicked off with a 5km run yesterday. That cheeky boy, ask him to start running, he takes out a packet of seaweed from his pocket and started munching!

super powerful mini, my lifesaver from boredom at work!

Found NEMO

Woohoo! After 2 nights of theory lessons, 2 nights of pool classes and a weekend of sun, beach, sea and the amazing world underneath, we've finally gotten our PADI open water cert to explore the underwater world!
We set off on Friday evening, took a 3 hour bus ride to Mersing and then a 6-hour boat ride on the super-slow 'sampang' before reaching our destination - Dayang.
An hour later, we got out of bed, had a sumptuous 'kampong style' international buffet breakfast before heading out for our first dive.
The first 2 dives were mainly on practising the skills and getting used to the sea water. Even though we didn't swim around much and I was freezing underwater for the first 2 dives, it was an amazing experience to have so many beautiful fish swimming around me. And those fishies are totally bochup, they just swim around as though divers are another species of fish. It was only on the 3rd dive that we really went around exploring, and gasp! I FOUND MY NEMO!!! OMG! they're so perfectly in the shade of sunshine orange, round, plump and juicy! playing hide and seek in those plushy anemone. Super Love!!! Day 1 ended with a BBQ dinner, doing up our logbook and listening to our dive instructor's collection of photos before hitting the sack.
Sunday started early because we had to leave by noon due to the tide, but we did manage to go for another 2 dives, breakfast, lunch, wash-up, pack-up all before noon. Amazing experience, no wonder people say diving is addictive. Next time we'll make sure we get a underwater camera, and a proper set of attire to capture the wonders of 'under the sea'! Nemos, turtles, muray eel, gigantic clam, huge starfish, sea cucumber, lionfish, beautiful coral, puny little shrimps, colourful nudibranch, fishes big and small, there's just too many!
Here're some of the photos, not many cos we're too busy with all the gears and have yet to invest in a underwater camera.

Open water scuba diving, finally off my wishlist!
Next up: skydiving???? ok, cheeky??