It has been seven months since the last time I went diving, it has been nine month since the last time I dived overseas, it has been one year since the last time I dived long/one week trip.
The anxiety has built up high, especially during these few days where there are abundant dive magazines around the house. A friend is being nice and he suddenly bought us few magazines that contain special feature of pictures taken with fish-eye lens and of course other pictures that made me droooooolll…
As I have new friend who is interested in wild life, I will bring her the diving dvd that I bought, so when I finally found it, I was stupid and watched it again. Argh, it’s like..like being fed something that will kill you if you eat it because you can’t eat it. Somethiiiing like that.
This DVD was made by a guy we met in Mabul. I think he sort of staying there and earn a living by doing underwater filming around the Sipadan and Mabul. In 2005 when we stayed in Mabul, it was an island that flourish after Sipadan island was closed for tourist. A typical dive resort, divers stay in bungalows and there is a big gathering area for meals and entertainment like library, pool table and the only TV in the island was located in that very room.
The activity in the island is nothing but diving, eating and sleeping. At night after the meal we would gather in the area for a while before we knocked off at the latest..uhmmm..nine o’clock… seaside wind make you sleepy, I swear. So there was not many things to do. This guy will play his DVD footage for marketing purpose. It’s a really nice DVD for somebody who doesn’t work for those cables like National Geographic etc.
He was actually available for charter also. So we could hire him for doing group filming. By majority of us were just holding our freshly made advance card, so we were not confident yet. But we happened to share the same boat with him and a group of Japanese who hired him. I think he is very committed to his passion of filming, and it’s a bloody interesting job to do also. After the morning dive, when we made a surface interval at Sipadan island, two turtles were mating, floating on the water surface between boats. He just grabbed his video and jumped down to catch the rare opportunity.
Looking at the DVD again, it reminds me of the time…
It’s killing me.! It’s killing me more because the quickest time we will be able to dive again will be more than six months away. Quitting job, no money. New job, no leave, that sort of thing. And I have promised, and I swear to it that I won’t dive before I bring mom and dad for holiday first. Been delaying that for more than a year… so it might be next year before we touch water again………huaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…….
