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Back to Sanity Part Deux

Taken behind dive boat at Long Beach, Tulai, Tioman

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…

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Back to sanity…

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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SDI/TDI/ERDI Sue PSA

Hmm..interesting.

ITI Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Scuba Diving International (SDI), Technical Diving International (TDI) and Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI), has sues Professional Scuba Association International (PSAI), Professional Scuba Association, Inc., (PSA), and all its officers worldwide.

Read more about it at CDNN.

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China Launches Shenzou 6

China has launched its second manned-rocket into space, the first with multicrew. It was almost two years ago that it launched its first astronaut into space. Cool.

It took the Soviets slightly more than 3 years after launching Yuri Gagarin into space before they launched their first multi-member crew mission. The US took 4 years after Alan Shepard’s solo space mission before getting a multi-member crew up into space.

Looks like the Chinese are doing a fast-forward version of the Cold War Space Race.

I hope someone would launch a probe to see if the moon landings really took place.

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2nd Day of Fasting

My blood pressure shot up yesterday…this is bad as I get stressed everytime I walk into the office. Especially after a dive trip.

Spent the day today recovering…at RecNTec logging on to the Net and for the first time in weeks, posted on the MDC Forum myself.

Yusmar and I have signed up for the Advanced Nitrox course and by next week we should be certified as qualified Advanced Nitrox Divers.

Had a good time too breaking the fast with Erik, Faizal, Shamsul, Yusmar, Nazri and Ling.

I still feel as if the world spins around me. Must be due to reverse blockage while surfacing the other day.

I need to go back into the water.

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If Divers Are Wet and Dive Deep…

Giant Squids Do It Deeper!!

One year's supply of calamari rings!!!

Recently 5 Giant Squids (Architeuthis), one of them 12 meters long, were washed ashore on the beaches of the Bay of Biscay.

Two of the males were found to have been accidentaly inseminated.

Crikey! I thought it was just me and the wife, and millions other human beings who get inseminated accidentally.

Read on on the link up there.