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Ever since I used the INSPIRATION CCR, I’ve been dreaming of doing an actual CCR course, and purchasing my own CCR. I am torn between buying a breand new Sports KISS CCR, or a second-hand INSPIRATION CCR. I wish Erik or Xavier can help me out here.
Financing such an equipment is another issue. If my brand new KISS or second hand INSPIRATION is gonna cost me RM18,000.00, I’d better have the same amount to keep the wife happy.
This is a mammal intestine tapeworm. This species occurs mainly in rabbits, cats, and rodents, but sometimes humans.
The adult tapeworm you see above has a “scolex” with suckers and hooks that anchor to the intestinal wall of the host. While the tapeworm grows in the host’s intestine, body segments called proglottids bud off its head and neck regions. Tapeworms have no digestive system of their own, but absorb through their skin partially digested food from the host’s intestine. It causes diarrhea, weight loss and abdominal discomfort. Adult tapeworms may grow 5-10 meters in length.
Some human beings though, behave like this parasite, causing nausea, heartache, anger, and can breakup communities. It feeds on the generosity of others while telling its host sob stories that will enable the parasite to feed of whatever the host earns. An adult human parasite can grow up to 1.80 meters in height.
Reminds me of a diver….
For the second time in 60,000 years, Mars will swing by close to Earth again this weekend. This time it will be 43.1 million miles away (as compared to its 35 million-mile distance in 2003), and will appear as a brilliant ball just above the horizon. Its closest pass will be at 10.25am Malaysian time on Sunday.
Mars and Earth are normally separated by about 140 million miles, and will not be this close again until 2018.
Last week, members of the Malaysia Diving Community organised an underwater wedding for two of its members who married each other. It was a moving experience for the bride, Kit (handle: csi) that she shed tears of happiness. 30 members were there altogether. The groom, Mervyn (handle: hilk) was his usual cool self.
At 7.55am (UTC +8) today, Datin Seri Endon Mahmood passed on, leaving behind her loving husband, Datuk Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia; a daughter and a son.
The Narcaholic team conveys its deepest sympathies to the family for the lost of their loved one.
May Allah bless her soul and may she rest in peace.
The Director-General of the Malaysian Fisheries Department announced recently that the department will be tabling the National Shark Management Plan with aim to protect sharks in Malaysian waters. Currently, only the Whale Shark is being protected in the Fisheries Act, 1985. The DG related how disgusted he is at seeing the pictures of carcasses of sharks that drowned after being finned by fishermen and dumped back into the sea to drown.
I must congratulate the DG and I hope that his department is serious in enforcing this act.
I dived the Inspiration CCR last weekend….cool! Had to learn scuba diving all over again.
The photo above was taken the first time I went back to Tioman after 22 years. It was taken just before my last dive for that trip at Batu Malang (Malang Rock).
This is the paradise that takes me back to sanity. Christopher Cross’s Sailing describes my feelings of Tioman aptly. Tioman, the paradise as I knew it, and as I still know it:
It’s not far down to paradise
At least it’s not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
It’s not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
Sailing
Takes me away
To where I’ve always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free
Fantasy
It gets the best of me
When I’m sailing
All caught up in the reverie
Every word is a symphony
Won’t you believe me
It’s not far back to sanity
At least it’s not for me
And when the wind is right you can sail away
And find serenity
The canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
Until next season…
Tonight I should be winging my way to Tioman…perhaps for the final time before the season is out. I have my storyboard ready for my video shots. Hope to have a final Tioman video compilation before next week’s out. I just cannot find a way to host it on this site though.
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