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I like to take photos of these tunicates. Very colourful.

Ribbon eel.

Nudibranch mating, I deliberately chose an angle to include a third one below. But still it wasn't a very nice composed photo.

The "Pikachu" nudibranch~

From the restaurant. Taken during lunch.

Scorpion fish? Looks like a human face, ain't it?



Clockwise from top :Hazel, Shirley S, me, Shirley T.

Sunrise.






We played with these tiny hermit crabs, they were so small, but they've got quite powerful strength.


We were doing the "海带海带海带" game...

This is on Sipadan island itself, where we were having surface interval.

The oil rig turned resort Seaventure. It's a lot cheaper staying there but you'll be staying in containers... We dive below it.. such a boring dive.. Nothing to see...

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During low tide.

A view from inside the room.

There's a village on this small Mabul island. Lots of sea shells being sold.

The children are adorable.

I love the frown on this boy's face. I kept saying, this is the "National Geographic look". haha... This boy is the ONLY child who didn't get all excited when we're taking photos of him. He's very protective over his pet. I don't know if that's a chicken or what.. It's a bit bald.. but very cute.

See this house.... so pretty... so primitive but very nice.

Me~!

The children are ever so happy when they see us the visitors. "Halo! Halo!" everywhere you go. And they would be so happy if you take their photos even if they don't get to see the photos. Some did asked to see their photos in the "kotak"( "box", meaning the camera) but most didn't.



The number of children seemed to exceed that of the adults.......
It's kind of difficult to accept the fact that this IS still in Malaysia...

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This is the Mabul Water Bungalow. It's very luxurious, each room has got astro tv...

Very romantic and nice ambience.

It would be nice to stay here even without diving. Just relax and chill..

Our last day before leaving.





That's it. Our 5 days trip in Sipadan... I missed the ocean already.............. .................. ...............

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We went Kuching one day before heading back to Singapore. This is Cheng Ho's Park or something. See that statue is Cheng Ho.


ST and me. I look so damn ugly.

Buying local food. Me and Hazel.

Cat statues everywhere.

This is one of the many temples in Kuching. I'm not so interested in temples so I only post this photo.

A river in Kuching. See the sampan, it's got a man seemingly rowing it but in actual fact, the sampan runs on motor... 30sen to get you across the river.

Don't like long neck...

I realised I am "afraid" of guys with long neck…… bit scary, don’t you think? A bit of a turn-off to me.

I think guys with long neck ought NOT to keep short hair…Else.. you know… from behind it looks exactly like…

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a light bulb…




I expect guys with long neck upon seeing this will say, “Well, short girls turn me off as well.”

That’s fine, you know. Cos, in that case, we’ll have nothing to do with each other. Wahahhaaha……

Got back my Miko

I was supposed to fetch my Miko back on Wed but the caretaker wasn't available even though I've informed her about the date I'm fetching my chin. So I only got to see my Miko yesterday.

She seemed to be in good condition. She let me "sayang" (caress) her while she's in the box; unlike how she was when we were sending her to the caretaker. We "kiss"through the small opening on the box. haha... Very happy that she acknowledged me and allowed me to kiss her.

She also seemed to be happy to see me. I was worried that she won't remember me and we have to build our relationship all over again... Luckily that wasn't the case.

But today I'm going back JB. After one day she got to roam free in my room, she has to be kept in the cage for 2 days until I come back on Sunday. Poor Miko... She wanted to get out of the cage this morning.. but I didn't let her. It would be difficult to get her back in a short time. Sorry Miko.. you have to suffer for another 2 days in the cage...

Back to reality

I'm back from Sipadan... no, I should say, my body is back from Sipadan, my heart was left there. Needs at least 1-2weeks for it to crawl back...

The trip wasn't a great one. Lots of dead corals, actually, should say there're not much corals left. Tioman has a healthier reef than Sipadan... No doubt Sipadan has more pelagic fish. But coral wise, Tioman is better. The viz was about the same with Tioman, this could due to seasons... but still from the video highlights shot by an angmoh, we can see that the coral lives there are in a bad shape and that the viz is about that. Overall the viz was generally around 8m and below... Therefore it didn't give us the "WOW" effect when we dive the dropoff.

We saw hundreds of dolphins, should be spinner dolphins. Such a great feeling. But too bad I wasn't on a same boat with my buddy, couldn't share the fantastic moment with him. And we were not allowed to jump into the sea to swim with the dolphins... such a shame... even though I myself would not dare to jump in.

And Sipadan's turtles are so cute. None of them were frighten by us divers. They'd even swim towards us like we don't exist! I even had to back off during one encounter~! That turtle was eating, I swam closer and closer as it wasn't alarmed at all. It bit off chunks of corals in front of me and swam towards me~!! So cute~!! Another time I was startled when I looked to my right, as a turtle was swimming right beside me~! haha... They never ran away from us, they are just so adorable.

Other than that, nothing much memorable stuff... Will post the photos when I go back to JB.

Even though it's wasn't a great trip, it's still a trip where I can to see the ocean, get to dive the sea... so my heart wasn't willing to come back.. but it'll slowly crawl back...very slowly... ...... .......

Sipadan here I come~

This time tomorrow, I will be on my way to Tawau.

This time the day after tomorrow, I should be on the beautiful Mabul Island in Sabah.

We will be staying at Sipadan Water Village. It's not situated on Sipadan Island but Mabul. All resorts had moved out of Sipadan since what..1 or 2 years ago? as to protect Sipadan's water and marine lives. We'll still be able to dive at Sipadan though. Oh, I can't wait...

Hopefully it's alllll sunny the days we're there. I am going for a week including a day in Kuching. I shall blog again when I'm back~

I passed ~

I passed my JLPT 3 exam~~~!! so happy!!! I thought I must have failed, a lot of grammars and vocabs I've never learnt and I didn't have any sleep the night prior the exam~! ahahah....

but.... but but... I am still feeling upset and guilty about my Miko... (see previous post)...