We learn to blow bubbles

After the tragedy we faced last year, I suppose we've recovered. Sufficiently. I don't think our lives will ever be the same again, and this will define how we live our lives out in the near future, at least.

On a brighter note, I did go and achieve one life-long dream - SCUBA DIVING ! This happened in August 2009, and it was GREAT fun!

 Redang is truly a beautiful place with lovely white beaches, clear water like glass, and totally relaxed - recommended for your island getaway!

Leisure Divers at Redang Reef Resort. Great place to go snorkelling right off the rocks to the left. Also, at night, one of the attractions is the bio-luminescent blue-green algae on the sands of the beach here - really unique!

Dive course - read the manuals and watch the DVD - yawnnnn.. i'm sure i nodded off once or twice during the presentation!

First time out learning all the pros and cons - the start of an adventure!

That's me in full gear. Heavy, this stuff.

And after all the 'hard' work - certified diver! This is the Project Aware version - made a contribution for marine conservation, read more about them from the link there. Hope my AUD30 went to good use.

And so, that was the month of August, 2009... have gone to other places to dive after that, will put up more pics later. 

Happy day to you all!

where do i begin...

it's been the worst 2 weeks of my life.

what can i say. from the euphoria and happiness that was the arrival of Kim.

to the depths that we've gone to following her return to the arms of the good lord who, we would like to believe, 'loaned' her to us for the past two lovely months.

this IS the ultimate high and ensuing low.

unfortunately, we must live on.

another pic of Kim and i...

today is the day we all head for home, so it's pretty exciting. did a little cleaning up and furniture rearranging to cater for the lil' one.

speaking of home, it was on the evening news! to be specific, the shophouses leading to my place.

when i was driving away earlier, i saw a bunch of cops (with guns) together with a lot of people, so my first thought was that someone had gotten drunk and killed his wife or something domestic like that.

apparently, loan-sharks had been using an apartment to lock up their debtors, basically kidnap and imprisonment, to get their debtors' family members to pay up. gruesome, right outta a movie, but true...

that area i live in now is like the Wild Wild West of this 'First-World' country we live in, y'all...