Boy, I feel real tired, yet happy. I was in Melaka earlier today to have a look at a potential LOB. To my disappointment, it doesn’t fit the criteria of one..what more it runs on petrol (wrong choice of engines). However, I feel happy because I now have a good wreck in the Strait of Malacca to dive on. I shall organise a trip when the east coast season’s off. So now it is back to the Sekinchan potential LOB if my final attempt in Johor fails too.
I need to have an LOB. My cash reserves are down to critical level so I have to quickly identify one and write-up a paper and present to the old man. Hopefully, the old man will buy the idea and agree to finance me with a interest-free no-payback loan for the operations. After all, he was the one who suggested I do something that I have passion for. That’s diving then. But to open just another dive shop will kill me for sure as there is no way I can make safe and comfortable financial margins. And since the LOB craze seems to be catching on, I would say it is the way to go.
Talking about LOB, tomorrow is the big day. By this time tomorrow (2347 hours Malaysian time) I should already be on the MV Wavebreaker, and hopefully Massive Headwound will be able to catch a flight from Kota Bharu to KL. Day after tomorrow, I shall be back in familiar surroundings.
As for August, I have been invited to join the Coral Society’s dive program. My sister, whose identity you can find out in my previous posting (Hey, I’m 40 – Part Deux), will also be there. She hopes for me to join that program. So I may make that trip. Then she will have a week’s break, and wants to go somewhere before she gets busy again. So I have suggested an LOB trip. She has agreed, and hopefully the weekend after that, we’ll be diving again. She is upset she is not able to join me on tomorrow’s trip as she has just returned from London and need to do some work, attend some press interviews etc. She’s upset mostly because it is going to be mainly wreck dives from an LOB. Real wrecks…not those sunken fishing boats.
So, there you go…hopefully I get to get the financing for the LOB of my choice.
If you don’t want to read my previous posting to find out who my sister is, her picture is below:
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