Janey On Journey
A journey of a girl finding her happiness and she's currently head over heels for DIVING.
Saturday, 6 June 2015
Hello.. Remember me?
Saturday, 1 November 2014
I'm back!
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Hey Janey, what happened?
Saturday, 5 July 2014
Hey! Which Way To Pulau Tiga??
Jane
Saturday, 14 June 2014
Dive... Dive.... and more Dive......and DIVE MASTER!
You probably wonder where have I been these past few weeks, without any updates or entries. Well apart from being busy diving almost EVERYDAY now, I'm also busy working as a volunteer at Pulau Tiga. Yes, you ready is right, I'm currently volunteering for Pulau Tiga for three months. Ahaaaaa. I guess you're wondering why I suddenly volunteers here, don't you?
Well, I'm currently taking the course to become a Dive Master, yes DIVE MASTER baby and in order to become one, I need to have an Advanced Open Water license, Rescue Diver license, an Emergency First Response (EFR) and finally to have at least 60 dives to be able to certified as a proud DIVE MASTER (DM). So you can imagine how busy I am with diving now.
There reason for volunteering is to ensure I get the cheapest rate for my course and well for sure, for my accommodation and FOODS too! Doing a volunteering means I have to obliges to the company's rules and regulations but the fun part is I'm also trained on how to run a resort/lodging and diving station.
When I don't have any diving practice, I'll be assisting Kenny for Discover Scuba Diving (DSD). Sometimes I assist him and Julius for boat diving too (I'm lucky, I know) and I love it. Julius always say I'm a hyper diver. When I first dive in 14 meter depth, I tend to lose my mind and heads for the blue but now, Julius noticed the pattern had changed, I love chasing after fishes. Julius famous remarks about me are;
1. Sometimes she's diving below you parallel to the sea floor and when you look down she's already gone and diving above you.
2. Sometimes she's on your left and when you turn around she's already on your right.
3. She's just so comfortable in the water and on busy days, you want to prevent her from entering the water because once she's wet, it's really hard to make her leave the water. She'll only show up during lunch time and rested for a while before joyously heading back to the water and you'll have to give her a time out or she'll probably won't leave the water." He kept telling people about this and how I overcome my aquaphobia. Funniest part? I still can't swim at all.
Yes, still can't swim but I'm good to go once you give me my gears. I can stay in the water for hours practicing my skin diving skill as long as I have my mask, fins and snorkels. I haven't been able to fight the fear of not being able to float back if I jump from the jetty and I'm always feel jelly when I saw them jumping from the jetty. Oh talking bout the jetty, I saw one trunk fish yesterday and it swam along side the barnacles and it was big, trunks is definitely one of my favorite fish!
Anyway, I had assisted Kenny for at least 5 DSD so far and sometimes I'll do some filming on my GoPro. Being able to watch new divers being brief for the first time is always my favorite part. It's a refresher for me every time and sometimes, I'll do share my experiences to the new divers. Oh, I can't wait till the day I become a certified one.
Till the next post..
Lots of love (with tons of sea salt)
Jane.
Monday, 26 May 2014
First lesson!
I started my first day diving with Kenny, the Dive Master. He's brilliant, the only thing is, I can't find my momentum to be serious with him and I ended up laughing all the time and we have to abort all the lessons he's giving me. It was hilarious because it was my first time being underwater and everything he did tickles every inch of my brain, trust me, I was laughing the moment we enter the water. I mean come on, I didn't know water and mask can change the way you look, when I look at Kenny it makes me think, "if he's face is that funny, how 'bout mine?" and I'll stand up right away laughing and swallowing sea water. This is silly you may say but I start laughing the moment the question hit my brain and this happened about 6 times before Kenny start giving me warning to be serious. It was after 2PM when we started the lesson on "Regulator Clearing", "Regulator Recovery" and also "Mask Clearing" and ended up aborting everything at 3 something, because yes thanks to Kenny's funny face. Haha!
Kenny (Dive Master) and me after a swimming lesson. Oh please ignore his bare nipple. |
The only downturn was, after we aborted the "failed" skill sets lesson, I had serious migraine attack and I spent the whole evening stuck in the room all alone. It almost put halt on my diving interest but thank God, with Julius the OWSI, my proper and serious finally rolling in. Although I was really scared (I heard Julius is quite the serious type) I can't contained my excitement. Really!
Julius trying on my spectacles. You look great Teacher! |
First skill set is, to do a "REGULATOR CLEARING". This is an easy one, all you have to do is to take your regulator out of you mouth and hold your breath while releasing small bubbles for few seconds while making sure your reg is pointing down and breath through it again when the DM or OWSI signals you to do so. Easy right?
Second is the easy breezy skill. "REGULATOR RECOVERY". Why it calls recovery? Well sometimes when you're diving, you'll encounters lots of the unexpected such as a reckless diver who can't keep their hands to themselves and knocked your reg out, or you might swim to close to another diver and he/she accidentally kicked your reg away from your mouth so you'll know how to do your REGULATOR RECOVERY right away.
And last but not lease is the MASK CLEARING!! THIS IS HARD.. This skill set requires you to do a mask cleaning from fogging. Why fogging, you may ask. According to Mr. Google, the air inside a mask's face pocket is warmed by your face. While its glass faceplate is cooled by the water. The layer of warm air that comes in contact with the faceplate becomes cooler, and the resulting condensation on the inside of the glass forms that annoying fog (eheem, this is my exact same answer actually).
Yes, that a funny video. I'm embarrassed too. That was the " Regulator Recovery" and I kept on doing mistakes. Grrr, embarrassing much. Since Kenny wasn't around to the filming for my few other lessons, I will just jumped to "Free Flow" skill. Free-flow was an easy bits and I passed it without much hassle (just kick me if I can't even do free-flow).
I think that's all for today's post. I will post more tomorrow. I have too much to share, it makes my brain jammed which story to post first. Just stay tune with me. Let us uncover the sea universe together. Why don't all of us become divers? It's amazing. It will blow your mind. I mean it cause I love it.
Till then, lots of love (with bags of sea salt)
Jane
Saturday, 24 May 2014
Month of silence.
The place I hangout a lot! |
This is peacefulness at its finest. |
PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE MONKEY'S (unless you're a monkey too) |
Left pic wasn't taken in Tiga but middle and right pic are. |