Month: January 2006

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Setting My Sights On The Hermes

HMS Hermes - the only diveable aircraft carrier sunk in combat

I’m setting my sights on the wreck of the HMS Hermes, a Royal Navy aircraft carrier that was sunk by aircraft from IJN Akagi, IJN Soryu and IJN Hiryu (three of four Japanese aircraft carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor and later sunk at Midway).

HMS Hermes now lies on her portside, off the east coast of Sri Lanka at a depth of 53m max (44m top).

Now that is so cool!

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Minuscule-Brained Arsehole (MBA)

Stupid sperm

Three years ago I spent 10 days in Bangkok doing nothing. Three months later I went to Langkawi to do a sites survey for no reason.

A year after I went to Bangkok doing nothing, I went to Langkawi again to do nothing. Well, I did something but there was nothing. When I raised certain issues, some dumbass said to me that it is okay to “lose a battle than to lose a war.” He was refering to my being harsh towards some people that they wanted to quit their job.

Now we’ve lost the war…for nothing…and all because some people think they’re smart and have an MBA, when I was already managing people while he was still swimming in his father’s balls.

MBA my ass…Minuscule-Brained Asshole.

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Make A Guess…

Business Development and Research Department - February 2004

This picture of my department was taken almost two years ago. Seated moving clockwise is Tan Ju Nah (left in October of 2005), Nazli Tan Sri Awang Had, Muaazam Mahmud, Christian Kumar, and, Faizal Sanusi…of course there’s me.

These are (were) the jacks and jill of all trades in the company.

I wonder how many will be left after the first quarter of this year. Take a guess….

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This Is A Weird One…

Winching
Divernet News, dateline 11 January 2006
‘No thanks’ to rescue helicopter

A stranded New Zealand diver turned down a lift by rescue helicopter – because he was afraid of heights.

The incident, which occurred just before Christmas, involved two divers who, after entering the sea off Island Bay in the Cook Strait, were left stranded when their dive boat lost power and drifted away. The boat put out an emergency call and a rescue helicopter and police launch arrived on site.

One diver was spotted in the sea near Island Bay’s Taputeranga Island, and was tended by the launch. When the other was spotted on a rock close to the island, the helicopter headed over to hoist him up. But when the lift man arrived alongside him, the diver refused to go, saying he was afraid of heights.

He said he would prefer to stay put a while longer and wait for the police launch. The winchman retreated and the diver duly swam out from the rock when the launch arrived to pick him up.