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My god! Hello everyone..have you missed me???
(photos at www.flickr.com/photos/jilllucas)
Right, well...first things first....this is a three-locations-in-one-blog! Koh-Tao, Malaysia and Singapore!
Koh Tao - What a waste of time! hahaha. and i'll tell you why... I had a weeks diving course booked. Was really looking forward to it. Never done diving before and I was really excited and somewhat nervous......
Now bear in mind that I am a complete novice at this...never done it before in my life. So, the first day and a half was theory, which was cool, if somewhat making the idea of diving, a little bit more scary! hahaha.
Then, on my first dive, with one other diver who had done lots of diving before, we got all suited up, got on a boat and the instructor made me fall BACKWARDS OFF OF THE BOAT, INTO DEEP WATER AND SWIM BACK 70M TO THE SHORE!! I cannot tell you how scary it was! Maybe i'm a wuss, but I care not! I had no idea how all the gear was going to feel, how it would support me, how to swim in it properly etc etc. and it took me a good 5 minutes to actually fall backwards off of the boat! Funny that, you'd have thunk it would been a piece of cake! NOT! That was probably the best part, but as soon as i was in the water I felt so damn uncomfortable. I got really emotional and had to really control myself so that I wouldn't cry in my mask and drown on the swim back to the shore! I was not happy with my instructor let me tell you! You DO NOT take a complete novice out that way! Normally, you would take them in shallow water or a pool first so they can get used to how th equipment feels!!! ggrrrr!!!
So needless to say, I couldn't follow many of the skills that he was trying to teach me in the shallow water so I let him go off with the other guy and I just swam (or 'bobbed;' really) with the little fish eating my thighs again!!!
Now, this island only caters for diving people really so there is NOTHING else to do apart from eat, drink, swim and sunbathe and theres only so much you can do of that in one week!! it was over my birthday as-well, so i felt a little glum and bored! Stop whinging I hear you all say!.....Well 'poo to you'! hahaha. I'm just being honest!
Enough of that......Malaysia....Not a bad place...I had a tour booked andit was rather odd, but I got to see the kings palace (oooooh, I hear you all say! nowhere near as grand as Buckingham!) Saw some very cool architecture, that was built by the British! Go us! heheheeh
Batu Caves was rather cool, bloomin monkeys everywhere and the outside of it looks amazing.
Oh yes, on my last day. the tour took me to a theme park!!! hahahaha. now, for those of you who know me well, my stomach doesn't hold up too well on any big rides..so i did a few baby ones instead! hahahaha. I did try again to see if my stomach was any stronger...You know the ride that you side on a seat on the end of a long chain...everyone in a circle...and then spin you round?? Well, i tried that and all I can say is that it's lucky that it only went round 5 or 6 times!!! My god I am a wuss (as my mother would say! hehehe)
And my last stop before Australia was Singapore... I was staying in an Indian quarter (again, for those of you that know me...I do not like Indian food, so let's just say i lived off 'Subways' for those few days!!) and saw a very cool fire show and night safari. I would have liked to have seen all the animals in the sdaylight too, but seeing them at night, gave it such an extra-ordinary feel. Like we were all voyeurs! oooh! The photos are pretty rubbish but have a look coz you can just make out a zebra!
Oooohh, girlies..check out the pics of the fire throwers! What a fine specimen of a man....erm..i mean a falme-thrower at work! hehehehe
Mum, have a look at the orchid pics! They are beautiful!
Also, saw some lovely flutterbyes and icky insects! hahaha and the best was the underwater world and then taking a cable car to watch a show on the beach in the evening. Now, I wouldn't do it at home, so why i sat outside in the rain, in Singapore, to watch a silly kids show (but the water fireworks were very cool!) I shall never know!
Blimey, this is an essay here! Well, I am now in the land of Oz and looking forward to doing lots of expensive stuff!!
Hope everyone is well and happy!
Signing off for now,
Me xxxxxxx
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