I am back!!!

Hhhhheeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooo!! hehehehehehehe it has been ages since I last updated my blog. Few weeks back when I hang out with my school friends I had heard complaints on me not updating my blog. I know my blog is one medium for my friends to know my whereabouts but I was so damn busy this three months I just lost track of time.

People like to give excuses and I am going to give mine too :) there are the reason why I did not update my blog:
1. My classes are damn tight. I had a loads of homeworks. I have tests every week.
2. Limited internet connection - the IPBA's line are damn slow and whenever I had my chance using the internet at OE or abang's house I will be very busy with my assignments or at least check my emails.
3. I was very busy... errmm... dating!! heheheheheheheh

I am now in Kuantan, spending this few days with my students who are sitting for their SPM. The paper I taught, Additional Mathematics was on today. I was so damn nervous as my students spent the time inside the examination hall answering the paper. There is nothing a teacher wants more than happy faces coming out from the hall. Every smile I saw brings me to heaven. The best of all when they thanked me for whatever I had taught them. It is not easy to answer the paper and I was there at the side of the hall most of the time just to give the inner strength for them.

Well... It's time for dinner... I will continue to write soon as possible.. (ermm i might spend the time sleeping tough.. ) I have so many to share... Ttttuuuunnngggguuuu...

I have been tagged

My friend, Dr. Lynn aka Bones aka Bakawali had tagged me. hehehehe doing this for fun... here it goes..

5 things in my bag
1. My Wallet
2. Keys - car keys, house keys, room keys etc
3. An english novel book or/and magazine
4. My handphone
5. Lipstick and compact powder

5 things in my wallet
1. My ID
2. My Padi AOWD Card
3. Lots of cards - atm cards, credit cards, bonus points cards etc
4. My Dive Buddy picture
5. An old RM20 note

5 Favorite things in my bedroom
1. My "Selimut Busuk"
2. My laptop
3. My magazines and story books
4. My new bed
5. My old perfume collection

5 Things I wish to do
1. Live happily with my dive buddy
2. Dive exotic dive sites with my dive buddy
3. Write a book
4. Do bungee jumping at New Zealand
5. Grow old with my dive buddy

5 Things I am doing now
1. Lying on my new bed with my homework all over it
2. Chatting with my colleague - talking about our big bosses at school (ngumpat masa bulan posa-hehehehehe)
3. Thinking of my dive buddy - who is sick on the weekend I am not around
4. Planning on what to do next, before I head back to KL
5. Ermmm.... nature call!!

5 Person I would like to tag
1. Ardy
2. Muzie
3. Aneez
4. Siti Hasina
5. Marina

My New Life #2 - I'm the lucky one

Been thinking either I should write this or my report on my trip to Perhentian during the National Day for the underwater clean up but then I decided to write this first. Just to make it easier for me to tell about my Perhentian trip later. Before I start I wanna share this first. The lyric of one of Anuar Zain's new songs - I'm the lucky one.

Ku persembahkan satu cita ku
Setulus hati hanyalah untukmu
Dan ku lakukan semampu aku
'Tuk menyayangi mu
Hingga kau merasa jadi pujaanku

Chorus:
Meski bercinta kadang tak indah
Tapi 'tuk buktikan kau yang terindah
Dan ku pastikan
I'm the lucky one
Nikmati cinta
Lebih dari segalanya

Jiwa ku dulu yang tak tersentuh
Kini terasa sejak bersamamu
Berikan hangat hingga ku tak mampu '
Tuk jauh dari mu
Kerna kau yang bisa buat ku bahagia

Bridge:
Caramu membuat ku tak terdaya
Mata hatiku pun ikut terjaga
Kau ubah hidupku ini
Jadi sempurna

Yess.... I'm the lucky one. Ermm I don't really don't know how to start this but I just would like my friends to know about what had happen to my life. I think you have read one of my blog saying that I went out with my "Dive Buddy". Well it is official now I am with him. He is a diver for sure. I am sure to tell more about him later, I just lost my words now. I will attach two pictures of us underwater during the Project AWARE dives.

Pictures courtesy from Comot. Thanks

My New Life #1

Ok... I am still wide awake at 4 am. Maybe because of the ice coffee from Kemaman Kopitiam I drank while hanging out with Yat or maybe because I slept in the bus all the way from KL till Maran and continued sleeping after Maghrib. Well I am really tired, mentally and physically but after quite sometime since I last logged in I would really take this time to cramp everything.

Oppsss... back to the topic... My new life #1... well I made it!! I made it to the 12 weeks Japanese Conversion Course. I registered on the 27th August 2007. I was informed that I was selected only on Thursday afternoon so I don't have a lot of time to settle everything. There were so many things that I need to settle in three days. The car need to be fixed, need to settle my school stuff, need to pack up etc. That is the reason why I don't have the chance to even write a single line for it.

Ermm... it has been quite sometime since I last studied full time and the feeling was good. Well to tell the truth, I really need to adjust myself on the fact I am studying full time now. My brain is a bit rusty but I enjoyed every second of it. This conversion course is only 12 weeks and it is an express course. In this 12 weeks I need to learn so many things. Even Hiragana - one of the japanese characters, I spent a day to get to know it, write it and lastly remembered it. HUH!!! My last Japanese course I spent 2 months to do it but in this 3 weeks I can read Hiragana. Ermmm...

The Zakuro 2

In this 12 weeks, my other 18 classmates and me will not only need to learn about the language but also the japanese culture. So we had and will have few trips for this matter, the first was a lunch trip to the Zakuro - a japanese restaurant besides Ampang Park. Enjoyed the food so much. Love it.

One of the sets offered at The Zakuro 2

For the time being, I stayed at my apartment in Damansara Damai but sometimes I slept at IPBA. I have a beautiful room there. I love my new life, eventhough it is a bit hectic but I need the change, I have been in my comfort zone for quite a long time now. I love the language though, that is what made me took this.

My Classmates at the Tatami Room - Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur

After the 12 weeks course, I will take JLPT (Japan Language Proficiency Test) Level Four (the lowest level). Next year, out of 19 students only 15 will go to next level, a year course to prepare ourself as Japanese Language teachers. I hope I can make it. A break from the school is something good.. I need it. :)

Huh!!

I had been very busy with my new life this few weeks which had practically made me of the net which is something will drive me crazy last time but not this time. I have so many things to tell yet I don't think I have all the time to do it. I wanna tell everything... Every single details on what happen to me this few weeks. Just wanna share it with you guys. Ermmm for the time being I wanna clean up my mail box and browse for information on the stuff I need to do (homework.. or should I use the word sukudai) huh... I will be back soon!!!

The Thousand Kilometre Journey

Yahooo..... today is the last day of school for this first half of this second semester. I need a break but this break does not means a lot since I have bundles of exam papers to mark. How I wish I just could teach the kids and don't have to mark any exam papers. Keep on dreaming babe.

I would like to share what happen last week, starting from Wednesday. When I first woke up that morning I could see my eyes were red but ignored it as it is something normal for me early in the morning. As the clock strike 9, the redness in my eyes gotten worst and I could feel the pain in it. I went straight to the office asking permission to go to the clinic. It was confirmed that I have sore eyes which I 'inherited' from the family. It started from the doctor in the house hehhehehehe. I got 3 days MC for that.

I went directly home just to make sure none of my students will 'inherit' it from me later. They were sitting for their SPM trial exams at that time. I dozed off for awhile and when I woke up both of my eyes were flaming red. The pain were unbearable, my eyes were with tears all the time and it started to swollen. Despite of my swollen and teary eyes, I pack up my stuff and started driving to KL. It was the most torturing drive I had ever experienced. I stopped at every single RnR, just to clean my eyes and put some eye drops to it. I managed to arrived KL after nearly four hours drive. Went straight to my apartment, clean up and took a nap.

It was nearly 9.30pm when my Dive Buddy finally finished working and drove to pick me up for dinner. We had yong tau foo at Damansara Uptown. Then we drove around town just to kill the time, chatting and exchanging stories. I finally arrived home 3.30am and went straight to bed. 'Dive Buddy' woke me up that morning at 6.30am so I can be prepared for the interview. The interview was held at Institut Perguruan Bahasa Antarabangsa (IPBA), Lembah Pantai. I arrived on time just to find out they were still preparing the interview room. It started with two simple test, one is about general knowledge about Japan while the second test was about Japanese words (characters). Having basic knowledge in Japanese did help me a lot for the second test. The interview went well, I do think I had done quite a good job so just pray to Allah I will get the spot. My eyes were still flaming red and swollen. It was something to remember the rest of my life.

After done with the interview thing I rang my Dive Buddy for lunch. I picked him from his place and he drove us to Midvalley for lunch. It was nearly four when I started driving back to Kuantan. I arrived Kuantan around 7pm, clean up and try to sleep as I will start moving from Kuantan to Mersing around 3.30am. Dive Buddy woke me up around 3am where I slowly and quietly pack everything to start my journey. It was my first journey alone at that particular time. I did not have any problems along the way as it was the same route to my village. But the quietness did bother me. Luckily Dive Buddy's smses did accompany my morning ride. I arrived at Mersing few minutes before six where everyone else where already there. Everyone would be Halimi, Muzie, Shah, Razi, Azmi and Hafiz.

Me and Shah... Could you see my swollen eyes... ooouucchhh it hurts

We took the 7.30am ferry to Tioman. The ferry was full with passenger and the water was choppy, less then 30 minutes on the ferry I could hear sounds of people vomiting. Well, me and vomits will never befriends. I couldn't stand everything about vomit, the sound, the smell and the look of it. I tried to cool myself up even though I had the feeling of vomiting myself. Luckily I did not ate anything before the ride or not I will join the vomit party. The ferry was damn cold till our mineral waters turn to cold mineral waters.

We arrived at Kampung Salang just to realize there is no Maxis reception. Wuuuaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!! Ermm I had been through the time where I don't even care if I have a cell phone with me but... I do really need my cell phone now!! Help me!! I really need it. Not this time.

Ok... Back to the main story. I was in Tioman for my AOWD (Advance Open Water Diver). It is the second level in diving after Open Water Diver (OWD). For AOWD, we need to take 5 specialties which had been list out by PADI, which from the five, there are two compulsory specialties - deep dive and navigation dive. The other three we can choose from a wide range of selection offered by PADI. For this particular trip, Halimi (my instructor) had chosen Peak Performance Buoyancy, Night Dive, Wreck Dive and Nitrox. Nitrox is another type of air which the percentage of Oxygen in it is not 21% like normal air, it can be either 32% or 36%. With bigger percentage of oxygen, the decompression time will be longer so we can dive longer with it.

My first dive was at Pulau Soyak for navigation dive. It was cool when we need to navigate under water with the visibility less then 10m. The second dive was at the House Reef - my first taste of shore dive and this time for Peak Performance Bouyancy (PPB). It was fun playing underwater and I had the first taste of laughing under water. Really laughing under my regulator. The third dive was night dive, again at the House Reef. Night dive was superb, it is as if we were flying outer space. The darkness, playing with the torch, watching the fishes sleeping and the nocturnal under water creatures alive. It was just great, would love to do it again soon. For the record, I was still unwell because of the bumpy ride earlier so I vomit twice, after the first and second dive but I was quite upset it is not in my regulator hehehehehe...

After the first dive. On the boat with Hafiz

On the second day, the first dive was at Sea Fan, it was for the deep dive. For OWD, the maximum depth is 18 meters while for AOWD it will be 40 meters. So we did a deep dive around 24 meters that day. Going deeper is something very cool - both literally and not literally hehehehehe. The second dive is diving at the Marine Park where 12 boats had been sunk for wreck dive. This is where we use our EANx32 tank, love the experience of breathing 32% of oxygen while hovering around wrecks. I still found it very uncomfortable for me to dive at wrecks, I don't know why. The fifth dive was the last dive as I was certified as an Advance Open Water Diver. The last dive was the fun dive errmmm I can't really remember the name of the site and I am to lazy to take out my dive log to check it out. The fun dive was fun, felt better than the five dives where you were supervise all the time.

My EANx32 tank... cool

I decided not to do the extra dives, why you may ask.. Frankly I don't have my heart during the dives.. It was... errmm... just somewhere else... Anyhow I was grateful as this trip really had helped me make an important decision where I had given a chance to my heart, yupp I listened to my heart where I had neglected it for quite some time.

We had another bumpy ride on the way back where we took 3 hours to reach mainland. It was raining all the way through. Lucky I was so damn tired so I slept most of the time. After having dinner with the whole gang, I started my journey home where I arrived about 12pm where my car meter shows that I had driven 989km.

Capricorn and Aquarius

When Capricorn and Aquarius join together in a love match, they tend to bring out the most positive attributes of one another. Capricorn is a more cautious, rational outlook on life, while Aquarius is insatiable, fostering an idealistic approach to nearly everything. On the surface, they may seem like total opposites, but once these two set eyes on one another, an unbreakable bond is formed.

Both Capricorn and Aquarius can be opinionated to the point of seeming unwilling to compromise. Capricorn thrives on organization and is always looking for consequences. Aquarius is modern and finds routine troublesome and boring. Capricorn will find wonder in Aquarius, but may get frustrated trying to find a stitch of logic in their partner's desultory, mystical mind. Aquarius will not appreciate the domineering streak in their partner, but will find the solid base that Capricorn provides to be a great support and will be relieved that someone will help them to take care of their personal matters.

Capricorn and Aquarius are ruled by Saturn, and Aquarius is also ruled by Uranus. Saturn is a cool, traditional energy. This planet is very goal-oriented and devoted to progressive thinking. Capricorn and Aquarius merge their strengths to Aquarian revolutions or Capricornian social status. Uranus is about all things different and unusual. Capricorn will show Aquarius a life based on organization, rationality and comfort. Aquarius can help Capricorn to dream more and possibly stand up for their beliefs.