Pre-diving

its two hours before I head to Dayang for my first proper diving trip. how exciting. the entire week's theory and pool sessions have been building up to this. mmmm white sands. mmmm fish and coral. mmmm bikini chicks. I wonder if that seeming stewardess in those ultra trendy cute bikinis from the pool sessions is going to dayang tonight as well?? heh. okay viewing pleasures aside, this week's venture into diving has been nothing short of rewarding. Stanley from Big Bubble's scary as hell but I like him. He's spent a good part of his life pursuing his passion, travelling all over the world to dive and I'm pretty sure he doesn't regret a single bit of it. I'm dead envious. I want to look back someday and be able to say the same for myself. For a start, I'm glad I'm finally working down my Post-It list from two years ago. I drew it up when I first came back from college in 2003. This is what it looks like:

TO DO IN SINGAPORE:
Fishing Trip
Learn how to ride motorcycle
Scuba Cert
Rock Climbing Gym
Biking Trails/ Night Cycling
WRITE WRITE WRITE

heh. let's see, we did that fishing trip to the kelong end of last year so the first one's done. SAF bike course covers the second one, so now I can ride illegally without a license when I visit dodgy Third World countries. Will be halfway through the third after this weekend (I think I'll consider myself completely done only after getting Advanced Open Water). Still struggling with my inner demons for the fourth--should I go it alone once more or wait til I find kakis before I confront the daunting climbing walls again?? Checked out some biking trails last year but have yet to embark on the mother of them all--Bukit Timah, I'm sure I'll do it sometime soon though. As for the last (all in caps, mind you), this blog accounts for that, I suppose. yippee. I think I'll draw up a new list. Here's a prelim draft:

TO DO:
Master windsurfing with hard sails and funboards
Go to Vietnam Full Moon Beach!
Run at least twice a week
Climbing (argh!!!)
Go to Krabi
Conquer Kinabalu
Play tennis regularly
Another fishing trip (deepsea on a boat this time!)
Dive at Sipadan and/or Manado
READ READ READ
WRITE WRITE WRITE!
* Find a girlfriend who looks fabulous in a bikini

This new draft list looks pretty daunting. I think it looks good, it should keep me busy for the next three years (until I get posted overseas). I put the last one in asterisks because it borders on fantasy. The key word is 'borders'. hoo-ah.