kick my ass

travel and diving plans and proposals for the last couple months have fallen through with alarming regularity, no thanks to the dreaded uncertainty of the taboo word, work.

diving at pulau dayang with my krabi fans. failed. backpacking through vietnam with xuemin, peiying and seb. failed. diving cum backpacking in the philippines with alda. failed. backpacking in taiwan with yq and ass, i can't rem if they asked me, but i shall assume so. failed anyway. kelong trip with the study gang. failed. diving at layang layang with weilong. failed. travel around india/taiwan with zhuomin/jo. still failed.

you know life kinda stinks when there's money that u can't spend and leave that you can't take. however beyond all these dispiriting flops arises some glee in the skies.

alda and i managed to sign up at the last minute for yet another waterfall trek with the good people of ODAC, this time to Lata Cemerong in Terengganu. a sudden call from her last wed night with an immediate response from me brimming with determination not to waste the rare long weekend over vesak day.

BUT it's only possible because the original vesak weekend plan to dive at redang/perhentien failed as you may have already guessed and we change it to a dive trip to Tioman over the following weekend. With the faithful dive gang of lingjun, xiangyi and alex minus weilong who's been diving way too much anyway.

AND there's still the long surviving trip up Mt Kinabalu in Sabah come June with dive gang minus lingjun and our breakaway plan to go dive down Sipadan or somewhere after that in order not to waste the air ticket. How can we not.. especially after splurging a bit on some dive gear. Just can't wait to get them wet.

why the sudden number of travelling, i've got no idea. though i'm immensely glad and thankful that i got invited by seemingly disparate friends to go see the world. dare i conclude that having me as company isn't that bad? .. or maybe they just need someone with a camera.

Have camera, fins, backpack and many ziplock bags. Add money, time, and life will nearly be complete.