The one with Nemo and his unwelcome friends

I went for a "holiday" in Male recently, my maiden trip. I had great expectations hoping to have a great time. Well... remember the BITCH I had a hard time in London with, I bumped into her again. Oh my god!!! What shit luck I have...!!! As usual, she had her usual nonsenses and the whole group is so distressed by her. I really don't know what her deal is, pissing everyone off.

Well, enough of her.

Seriously, whats the big deal with Male really...

Lets start with the resort...

Maybe I was staying at a cheap, ordinary resort, its like our Singapore's Rasa Sentosa or the Siloso Beach Resort. It was really disappointing. Furthermore, there were no service at all. What's worst, during my checkout day, it was pouring. Some rooms were provided with umbrella and mine wasn't. Not only that they didn't bring me one, I had to shelter myself with a towel all the way to the checkout counter which is like a mile away!!!

The other disappointing factor was the food was only mediocre. I went for their breakfast buffet, I thought I was at some "Killiney Kopitiam". Then a friend of ours was raving abt this "Grilled Red Snapper" at another eating place which needed like 30mins to prepare. We decided to try it and it felt like an eternity until the fishes decided to turn up. By the way the cafe wasnt even crowded. The fishes that were slaughtered seemed to come from a family of 4. Michelle got the mama fish, Aileen got the sister, Lindsy got the fat daddy and I got slim junior. The fishes came in different sizes and what was more interesting was, they all cost the same. Lindsy couldn't stand daddy's BO so she wanted to exchanged her share for baby junior. It was terrible. Me and Aileen went back to the resort getting diarrhoea after that.

Getting to the beach now...

The weather wasn't that great but wasn't that bad either. I always thought the sands on Male would be whiter and smoother... WRONG! Its like any other beach sand you have in Singapore...

The only exciting part of the "holiday" I guess was when I went snorkelling. The best memories had to be the close encounter with the different marine creatures, big and small. The water was shallow for quite a distance until we reached a deep drop into the ocean. This was where we saw some of the most fascinated creatures. The drop was really deep, we didnt dare to venture further fearing of the unknown. Its like the scene from "Finding Nemo", where Nemo and friends were at the cliff when they first discovered the boat way ahead. But the curiosity got the best of me so I decided to edge alittle more.

I caught a glimpse of what looked like an enlongated silverish shadow ahead. I try to signal Aileen to take a look but the shadow disappeared quickly. Shortly after, it appeared again... 2 black-tip shark slowly slither into sight. One was as long as 3 quarter length of my body and the other alittle shorter. It seemed like the mother shark was bringing Junior out for a picnic and Junior started making its way towards us, I was really starting to freak out. I know these sharks are usually quite harmless... ARE U NUTS!!! Im not going to just stay there and find out whether they are tame or not!!! Okay okay back to the story... Junior started to circle us, I could see its eyes staring straight at us. That really wasn't a delightful feeling.

I thot to myself, swim like ur life depended on it n just leave Aileen behind for them to munch on. She should be enough for lunch... But I wasnt ready to do that. When the opportunity striked, I pulled Aileen and we swam for our lives back to shore all the while looking back making sure Junior didnt follow. I guess it was put off by our splashes from the water. They both disappeared from sight after awhile...

I was saved and glad to live for another day!!!

Well I guess these were my adventures in Male...

sign out.

The one with getting back to work

I think its like almost a month since I came back from London and other than my unpleasant experience, I had many to reminisce with. One very magical moment was to watch the Lion King Musical. It was one of my favourite movies from Disney. I will never forget the experience that I had. I was cool the way they portray the whole movie.




After London, its time for a nice relaxing 6-days holiday in HK. I was so looking forward to this bcos Kev and I havent been able to go somewhere together for awhile. We decided to quickly take a short trip to really destress ourselves. We had our fun shopping and hanging with friends but we also had our low times where we had many disagreement and fights. I was quite disappointed how it turned out actually as we really needed this break.



Ever since we were back, I did miss the good times we had when we were there, I had never really been to HK and really get a clear view of the entire city when I was there the last time. While I was there, I had one of my little silly childhood wish that came true. Though its a bad replica of it, I always wanted to go to DisneyLand (HK) with my love one. Thanks dear for making my dreams come true.




After coming back to spore, its time for the both of us to concentrate on our career again. Work for me is getting a little easier and better (I hope). Im really greatful.


My last trip, I just came back from Fukuoka, I finally got to meet a long time friend from Spore during my NS days. He got married and moved to Japan and had been doing quite well there ever since. I am very happy for him as if he would to stay in Spore, I wouldnt think he could do as well knowing to Sporean mentality. A simple example is, recently I have been trying to get into the NIE program again. To no surprise, I was rejected again.

You know why?

I didnt graduate with a local university. You mean just because you are from NTU, NUS, SMU... you are good? Stupid Idiot whoever is incharge!!! Thats discrimination!!! Look at some of the crappy teachers they produced. Worst, some of them went into it bcos of convenience. Thinking that this is the easy way out instead of finding a career out there. I didnt realise my passion for teaching until I got out of it and missed the fun times when I had with my students. The bonds and friendships that we developed. Sometime, in order to really appreciate something, you must experience loosing it first and when you finally got it back thru obstacles, you will really appreciate and enjoy the job fully.

Alrite, enough of that and back to my visit to Fukuoka, 'Kenzo' (my friend's new jap name) brought me to ANOTHER ferris wheel. I think I am having serious ferris wheel diarrhoea. Wats the craze with this really?!!?!?! It seems like a trend to have a wheel in every damn place. SHOW SOME CREATIVITY PEOPLE!!! Furthermore, I was told that Fukuoka has the second BIGGEST wheel in the world... (HUH?!?). Worst, while I was up there, all I could see was almost complete darkness!!! Although it overlook several islands nearby, there was no light or nothing to look at... it was such a boring 10mins ride back to reality. Still I do appreciate the show around. Thanks.

Next stop... MALE. I hope its nice and sunny!!!

sign out.