Sharpion's Dream

Was quite determined to get things right today. Sarah din follow me on the dive so i could really concentrate on my diving. Tried to being my cam down but it was a bit foggy so i didn't in case it was leaking. To sum up the 3 dives, it was really good. Had no problems and felt good, learnt a lot of things and best of all, managed to swim in a school of baracuda! Did not have any headaches as i kept very hydrated and kept breathing. Overall the diving felt really good. Came back, was not tired or feeling bad. Draft entry.

Ok the day of intensive diving. Din really get much sleep the night before as mentioned earlier. 1st dive started out a bit shaky with me and Sarah both having problems equalizing our ears. Eventually was able to go down but was hurting. The dive masters were taking good care of us esp. Sarah so it was good. We had our own dedicated divemaster with us. 2nd dive had relatively less problems going down but it was still a bit wierd. I kept getting headaches coming up coz of lack of water and breath holding la etc. Saw a huge sleeping turtle which was nice. Always got up having a bad headache and having to sleep it off. On the 3rd dive, i was not actually feeling good with headache etc. but still decided to go down to settle things. Was quite bad, felt bad underwater and when i got up headache was really splitting. Slept all the way back to shore...got back on land and went to sleep. Woke up for dinner feeling a bit better...spent the night playing pool etc. This is just a quick update, wi...

The plane ride there was in a very very small plane (A319). There was no in flight entertainment worth mentioning. Good point was that the plane was quite empty so we managed to change seats to this really nice place where i could stretch my legs and recline all the way. Upon reaching Manado, we passed immigration quite quickly. Was suprised and happy to see that the resort had sent people to standy for us even at the baggage collection area. The airport is really small with only 1 baggage carousel. After that, we din even have to push our own trolley and were immediately escorted to our waiting vehicles. There were 2 vehicles but we just immediately went onboard the nearest van. This was a mistake as the aircon was really hot and we were stuck in terrible traffic for around 45mins. The traffic conditions are similar to phillippines or thailand...very congested and disorder. Interestingly they had traffic lights with counters (for green also). Another interesting thing is that their ca...

Finally after months of waiting for this stick i finally got it! Was really undecided whether to get this one or its 'double the price' brother the Tournament Edition one. In the end, I opted to get this one and mod the buttons. From the numerous reviews i've read online, that kinda makes it pretty similar already (for my needs). So i found this nice guy online who sold me 6 Sanwa Dark Hai buttons and very carefully went to pry open my brand new joystick. Note that I have NOT done this before and it was scary to try to mod something brand new and so expensive. However the good build of the arcade stick, the good tutorials online all made it a breeze. Even a super first timer noob like me could swap all 6 buttons out in about 30mins. After that the controller really felt very good and responsive. Truthfully not THAT much different from the previous buttons but i guess psychologically it felt tons better ;) More importantly, i saved a ton of money doing it this way and its l...

Recently bought a pair of homeplugs for my dad as well as to try the technology. This is the Aztech 105e 85mbps one. In my home I'm gettng an average of 70-85mbps on my 100mbps plan (depending on time) from my router (either direct connection or wireless N). When i tried the homeplug in my living room, the results were only 8mbps ! Pretty much similar throughout all rooms in my house except in the kitchen where it dropped to 5mbps . When i plugged the other homeplug in the same powerbrick as the first one (literally side by side), the speed jumped to about 20mbps (still quite sad...). Probably need to tweak the connections by directly connecting to the wall instead of using powerbricks. Explains why the newer models offer the AC through function where you can plug something on it. Not sure how much that would change the connection but am not confident it will make that much a jump anyway so im sticking with what i have - an ugly wire running from my room to my living room. On t...

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If you read my previous posts, you'll already know that i've bought a GPS some time ago. While using the GPS is really great and useful as expect, it was really more dangerous than i expected it to be. Within 3 months of having the GPS, i've gotten into 2 car accidents! This is really strange as i've been driving for 13 years with NO accidents (with the exception of 1 person banging me). As i have always been proud of my driving, it really made me reflective. After thinking long and hard about this i realized that while the GPS does not distract you during critical moments while you are driving, it completely ruins your 'sense surround' of the road situation. This sets up the accident rather than being the immediate cause of it. For instance, even when completely stopped at a traffic light, you refer to your GPS, you are NOT paying attention to a bike, car, pedestrian that could be doing weird stuff around you. Later when you move off, you are almost completely ...

Got a new addition to our family, we call her 'Uni'. After long months of research into netbooks, i finally went to get one. Her technical name is Asus 1008HA "Seashell". Won't bore you with technical geeky details but basically shes the prettiest though not the most powerful and feature packed of the netbook lineups. Now she follows me to work everyday, fitting snugly in my briefcase. Already having a notebook at home, some may wonder why i need another netbook for? Simple, its even MORE convenient...shes so small that she can sit on my stomach (which isn't very small) when im on the bed and i can watch my shows etc. Already got to show her off to some clients heh. Heres a vid if u care: She's really awesome!

Heard this from a few older generation sources already. They mentioned that if a mosquito bites a crab on it's eyes, the crab will die. How true is this? I've tried searching on the internet for this but was unable to find anything. Posted this on Yahoo Answers already. Anyone know pls comment, thanks!

This long weekend was very fruitful. Did quite a lot of 'geeky updates': Ultimate Broadband: Finally bit the bullet and upgraded my setup to 100MBPS. Had to upgrade my notebook wireless to 802.11N to get the super fast speeds as well. Realized my room PC needs a new Ethernet card too as it can only get half the speed. No upgrades required with the PS3. Took a lot more configuring than expected (almost the whole weekend). Needed to get a new modem too to handle the speed. Hubstation Don't know why i have never done it before but i finally upgraded my set top box to the hubstation one...had lots of fun immediately fast forwarding past commercials etc. May even get one more for my room. Universal Remote Finally bought the Logitech Harmony 525 controller. Initially wanted it but it cost too much. Now the price was slashed into half so went to get it. Didn't realize it was so powerful and needed so much effort to set up. In fact im not even properly set up yet. Very high lea...

Here are some fun ideas to do in a mall if you find yourself bored: Dart suspiciously around the store humming the mission impossible theme song. Hide in a clothing rack and yell, "Pick me! Pick me!" Go into a fitting room and loudly complain why they don't have toilet paper. Take boxes of condoms and randomly put them into people's trolleys when they are not looking.

Ok i don't really think i have a fantastic sense of taste but one thing is for sure is that i have eaten lots of ice cream...chocolate to be exact. Anyway, based on an online referral, i found this place near my office that sells super nice ice cream (tried chocolate only)! Wanted to try their baileys but it was out of stock. The ice cream also quite resonable at $3 for a scoop. Anyway the people are really friendly there and its a kinda relaxed atmosphere...will definitely be h eading htere more often. Anyway here are some pics of the place. Menu Outside Shot Sigh this place is going to be responsible for more KGs of weight... You can visit their website for more details here .

Its been quite some time since I've updated my doings. So here it is in no particular order what I'm busy with now: 1. Car - still getting used to the new car. Made some really silly mistakes with it like leaving it on and walking away etc. But so far, really happy with it. 2. Cooking - getting more intrigued by cooking perhaps coz i watched Yakitake Japan. Will try to cook the nonya dish Buah Keluak soon. 3. GPS - quite linked to the car, have bought myself the Garmin Nuvi 255W. More difficult than it seems to really get a handle on this coz there is more than meets the eye. Am trying to plug myself into the community of mappers. 4. Discus - yes the fish, have gotten slightly more interested in them but overall still not really there yet. 5. Shrimp Tank - currently doing more with the shrimp tank at home, have recently bought some yamotos to eat up the hair moss and am doing daily snail maintenance with them. their numbers have grown from 50 to about 100 now and exponentially...

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