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May Tomorrow Be A Perfect Day

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:

My sister..equally elegant as she is rugged.

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I Can Smell The Sea

On the surface after a dive at Panuba

54 hours from now, I shall be making my way to Tanjung Gemuk in Kuala Rompin, Pahang. Some 13 hours later, my friends and I should be diving the Nichi Asu Maru wreck in the South China Sea. Six hours after that, we should be diving the Gyoshin Maru wreck, and 18 hours after that, the outer reefs of Tioman Island.

It has been an extremely long time for me between dives…not even a pool dive was done since my trip to Tioman early last month, and it is about time I get back underwater. The polluted air above ground is getting to me already.

I need my dose of compressed air.

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Another Monday Morning

Sunrise

It’s another Monday morning. When you start blogging at this hour, something must be wrong. Many others who are in the same boat as I am would still be in bed. Those not will be braving the city traffic.

It will be another 3 days before I board the MV Wavebreaker heading out towards the wreck of the Nichi Asu Maru, a Japanese oil tanker that sank back in the 1960s. I will be diving there and also at the wreck of the Gyoshin Maru, a Japanese auxilliary ship that was converted into a torpedo gunboat. It sank during the Second World War after hitting Pulau Berhala (a.k.a Varella Rock). Saturday morning through Sunday, I’ll be doing the Tioman outer reefs. I am hoping to do at least 10 dives this trip. I really need the compression. I know I shall be taking lots of pictures and video clips.

As it is another Monday morning, Besut Stud would be up by now and will soon battle for a public transport, or a place in one. I cannot imagine this thin guy and hundreds others in a bus, packed like lemmings in a hole in the ground.

Shaklee Salesman however is now refusing to reply to my text message or answer my calls. Maybe it is because I never buy any of his products.

As for Daddy In The City, I am sure he is glad to get away from the house, and it being Monday means it is the beginning of a more relaxing period…and he will get stressed again on Friday thinking of the chores he will have to do on a Saturday.

Jai the Bhai is still Missing In Action. I am sure he is now scheming a way to bring down some institution as he is now the equivalent to Chuck Norris. He intentionally forgets how old Chuck Norris or he himself is now lest he would feel weak.

MF Moses is now thinking if he can expand his retail outlet business to battle 7-11 worldwide as he will soon join the ranks of those now breathing fresh air instead of smelling vegetable tandoori in the toilet at that s***hole they call an office. Talking about that, I remember a time when someone probably had too much Dhal and could not retain it any longer, decided to let go all the way from the door to the toilet to the john itself. That was gross. If I had found out who it was, I would have gotten a piece of Naan bread and force the person to dunk it in the dhal and eat it clean.

Walking Vibrator is the only happy one. He is now having a cushy job that requires him to be OUT OF OFFICE all the time. Only that his first overseas assignment was to Bangalore. Yes, just another s***hole in a larger s***hole. Come to think of it again, he has to spend a bomb on toll and fuel commuting daily from his house in Klang to the Aboriginal Reservation that they have turned into a sprawling cyber city.

Maybe the only real happy ones are me and Oneon. The only ones answering only to ourselves.

Here I am sitting down re-reading this before I post, munching on some crackers, not sure if I had brushed my teeth, on a typical Monday morning.

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Zara Batrisha binti Ahmad Jamal Omar

My 5-month old niece, Zara Batrisha, and I

Today, my niece, Zara Batrisha binti Ahmad Jamal Omar, is 5-months old. Yesterday, I attended her “cukur jambul” ceremony at her maternal grandparents’ house in Subang Jaya.

You can see more of her HERE.

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Snafu Back Offshore

Today, SnafuDeDiver has gone back offshore on board a barge. For those who asked if the barge is bigger than the MV Kaleebso, have a look at the pic above.

So Snafu is back to watching young Indian engineers unzipping their seniors’ fly.

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This Is A Good Internet Development Company

A Day In The Life Of Aziz Hurzook

Okay, you may ask who the f*** is Aziz Hurzook. Well, click on the link and you will know! He co-founded a company called PERSONUS, in Toronto, Canada.

He, Jacob, and Peter Jones (former President of Apple Canada). I don’t see any other names.

Thank you to an employee of the nation’s most-favoured tri-national company for pointing this out.

I also saw something on the North Californian District Court’s Bankruptcy list. But that’s another story.

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Dulu, Kini dan Selamanya…

I just want to see how different I look through the years…so here we go:

16/26/40
This is me at 16, then 26, then 40 years old.

And look at this guy below…David Arumugam of Alleycats. He is what I call “Dulu, Kini dan Selamanya” (Then, Now and Forever).

His hairstyle never changes...

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Where In The World Have I Been?

The world as some see it...

Where have I been in my 40 years in life other than Malaysia?

Singapore
Thailand – Sadao, Padang Besar, Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani, Songkhla, Hat Yai, Satun, Langu, Chalung, Pakbara, Koh Lipe, Koh Adang, Phuket, Cha-Am, Hua Hin, Krungthep Mahanakorn, Pattaya, Samu Prakarn, Khon Kaen, Udon Thani, Aranyaprathet, Phayao, Chaiyaphum, Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Doi Inthanon.
Indonesia – Medan, Rupat, Dumai, Bengkalis, Bali, Bandung, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Philippines – Manila, Clark, Angeles.
Cambodia – Phnom Penh, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Pouthisat, Sisophon.
Myanmar – Yangon, Ta-kaw.
China – Hong Kong SAR.
Korea -Seoul.
Japan – Okinawa.
USA – O’ahu, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Chico, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Henderson, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, St Louis, Miami, Orlando, New York.
UK – London, Brighton, Southampton, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckingham, Luton, Amersham, Hemel Hampstead, Tring, Winslow, Watford, Steeple Claydon, Aylesbury, Northampton, Bedford, Oxford, Birmingham, Manchester, York, Lake District (Windemere), Reading, Eton, Windsor, Silverstone, Cambridge, Bournemouth, Dorchester, Poole, Haywards Heath, Dorset, Weymouth.
Netherlands – Amsterdam.
Germany – Frankfurt.
France – Paris, Ferney-Voltaire.
Russia – Moskva, Zhukovsky, Sheremetyevo, Chekov, Volosovo, Khatanga, Sredney.
The North Pole.
Switzerland – Zurich, Geneve.
Turkey – Istanbul.
Croatia – Split.
Saudi Arabia – Makkatul Mukarramah, Madinatul Munawwarah, Jiddah.
United Arab Emirates – Dubai.
Somalia – Mogadishu.
South Africa – Kaap Stadt, Gauteng.
Pakistan – Karachi.
India – Mumbai, Chennai.
Sri Lanka – Colombo.

All that, plus minus 3-4.