Life of an intern

Work is very draining. And usually, the fatigue doesn’t set in until I get on the train home.

But.. I’m loving it!

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I love this photo!

All of us unanimously breathed out AT THE SAME TIME. How cool is that! Taken by Ferris with his wide-angle lens, during our 3-mins safety stop.

Tiomaannnnnn

It was in-between study week and exam week, and I took 4 days off to Tioman for my, very possibly, only dive trip for this year.

First time staying at Barusa (?) Resort at Tekek, and diving with Tioman Reef Divers. The experience wasn’t too bad; the dive shop wasn’t too small, but everything was neat and tidy and all the spaces were made use of.
Couldn’t have asked for more!

Andy Yap, my buddy. (=

Just a little bit into the trip, someone told me, “hey, you know full-moon was just over?” And I thought, “SHUCKS. That means currents and huge surges!” Look at the waves pouring onto shore!

At least, visibility was quite commendable

The usual – some new, some old
Juliet, Ivan, Jackie, Jimmy, Alvin, Andy, Gary, me, Ferris

Haha. Me playing with the clownfish! This is bad example, but for all the time I’ve been diving, this was the only time I got to touch the clownfish. =D

The 5 who were game enough for the 6th dive. Everyone else gave up after the 5th.
And guess what.. in the ambition to catch the sight of a whale shark, we went somewhere notorious for its currents, and it lived up to its name! My inexperience with currents had me fighting it like crazy.

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Shadow play

Where’s our ferry???
We’d been waiting for our ferry for 2 hours. One thing that dive trips have taught me is to embrace the concept of being “lan-lan”. If there’s nothing you can do, there’s nothing you can do but to make the best out of the situation. Thankfully, the company was great! We had fun talking, eating sunflower seeds and peanuts, reading CLEO, cam-whoring. (=

At the ferry terminal on the way back, the weather was humid; in bid to catch the ferry, we didn’t have a proper lunch; there were many people jostling around and we each had huge bags to carry; and we had to wait 3 hours for our ferry.

I thought out loud, “why did we put ourselves through all these just for Tioman??”

And Jackie answered, “this is called ‘quenching the thirst’.”

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Indeed.

The best friends

This post is going to sound a little constipated because only when I started writing, I realised that I dont have that much to say. And it was supposed to be posted yesterday but something went wrong with wordpress.

These are the 2 rascals.. Black and Spot (their names are very literal).

And this is Jacks (I think.. if I didn’t remember wrongly). He’s the most huggable dog I’ve ever hugged.

Taken at Yukon – one of our stops while we were in Alaska. I think he’s pretty accustomed to people hugging him and taking pictures because not only doesn’t he squirm when I hugged him, he gamely smile at the camera! I miss him! He must still be getting alot of hugs everyday at the other end of the world.

I’ve actually wanted to post this entry for some time, just that I havent had the time to do so. And just today, as I was writing up the post, Ting told me that Austen, her 5-year-old golden retriever passed away in the morning. To say that my heart dropped to my stomach was an understatement; and there wasn’t anything much I could say in consolation. =(  Though I don’t know Austen that well, I remember him as a very amicable dog who has a very comfortable relationship with people. It’s always hard to lose something so dear.

My World

It’s always this time of the semester that I feel like I’m cut off from the rest of the world; and my life revolves around projects and SMU.

 

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And I miss my girlies.