*@*+LuLu+*@* 's BLoG.....: Sabah Adventure 2008 : Day 3, 4, 5, 6

That was 17th, 18th and 19th of June...
Basically, the last three days was filled with lessons to get my PADI OWD license...

OMG diving is awesome...love it...the thing with people is that, when they go for a world scout Jamboree, they vow that they'll DEFINITELY go back, or they go for OBS and VOW to definitely become a C.A. or blablablabla...

Just hope that my loving diving now wont be a blablabla thing....that I'll really go around the world clocking in 'bottom-time' hahahaha...

Good thing is at least a few friends are divers, so It'll be easier and less boring...
Btw, the first day of OW lessons was a theory/video thing, which is OMG so so boring..
But then again, I was so so sleepy from the night before that I'm sure I slept through quite a substantial amount of it... Luckily even in a haste, doing the paper, passed! On the dot....

Boring Video

Getting on at Sutera Harbour Jetty

Before we put on the wet suits

I am so round!!

First dive was crap, Sapi Island...not that Sapi sucks, I suck.
I have a problem sinking, when we had to take out our equipment underwater, I kept floating all over the place!

Second Dive was also Sapi Island, much better dive actually but still sucks for me.

Third Dive was also Sapi, this was when I started to really dive properly...It was the last of the 3 days of the PADI OWD course....8 Koreans came onboard to just leisure dive...apparently they are like damn pro, got dive-master amongst them... Did talk to them a lil, but it was so so hard....language problem...

Fourth Dive (last) was the best, got a hang of how to sink and float without moving any limbs...and since I'm a 'floater' I keep trying to sink, cos with a small kick anywhere, I'll flat up...btw it was at Hanging Gardens, Pulau Gaya... The reefs were like a small bukit that slopes upward underwater...will have pics later...one of our friends had a underwater camera...we're supposed to be capped at 18m, but I swear it was somewhere around 25-30m cos I'm one of those idiotic 'kiasu' divers who keep checking my gauge all the time...

But nevertheless, not for that depth, we'll see nothing la.
Saw like colourless lighting up squid, lots of live corals...fishes...the nemo kind...and I dun even know what are they so I cant say....previously at SAPI everything was like dead...cos we were muck-diving near the shore, lots of sandy storms due to inexperienced flippers blasting sand all over the place...

View from Wisma Sabah (Dive Training Centre)

First night after the theory part, Fiona and I ate at a street market...it was drizzling, so dinner was this nasi campur ala kampung style...nice to eat actually...We were in search of the 'famous' philipino market actually, but ended up at this random market...it was drizzling...eat lo...

Nasi Campur Melayu

The following night we finally got to the Philipino market with another backpacker we met, Nazrin from SMK Sultan Abdul Samad. Currently we just moved from Borneo Global Backpackers to Tropicana Lodge...I like BGB, but its just too far...So we're currently sharing a six bed dorm room with him...

Filipino Market

Our Squid(RM7) and Tenggiri Bakar(RM7)

Our Ketam (RM5) and Sotong Kecil(RM5) Bakar

Sting-Ray(RM6) Bakar

The last night after we got certified, one of our fellow diving batch mates, Toby who's native Sabahan from Lahad Datu took us for Chinese Seafood..yay yay yay!!! I was good...really good...and cheap too... I dunno what it is but for some reason all Sabahan guys have this thing that they MUST pay for girls...puzzled...We ate like a kilo of large prawns(RM52) and 1/2kilo soft shell crab cos Nazrin cant take hard shelled (RM25+) and a steamed fresh 'sepan yu'-800gms (RM50) and a Sabah Local Vege...