One year in Singapore: September 2006

It's been a while again since my last post... I seem not to be able to post in regular intervals! Anyway, I've got so much to do presently... Two weekends ago I was at Pulau Bintan, Indonesia, which was a REALLY nice and relaxed trip. Didn't do much more than sleeping, eating and studying. The food was excellent (again): fresh fish, shrimps, clamps, squid... seafood all the way! Forget about chicken, pork and beef!

Uni IS demanding. Group projects pile up on my desk, I've got meetings almost every day. Today I had my midterm exam in Business Policy & Strategy... and it went well. I could not study as much as I wanted to because last weekend I went to Pulau Aur, Malaysia, to take my NAUI scuba-diving certificate: and... I passed! We did five dives, up to 20m, and with each dive I enjoyed it more and more. You need time to get adapted to the new environment, the pressure, the artifical air source, the equipment AND the fact that scuba-diving is not like playing tennis. But our instructor was really acting professionally and took good care of us newbies. He managed to find all sorts of underwater creatures: Nemo, morays (scary!), turtles, lobsters, a stonefish (don't know how he discovered that fellow), squid, sea needles and all sorts of very colourful fishes. It was FANTASTIC. On our 4th dive we were accompanied by a girl with an underwater camera. Hope I will get the pics soon.

This week is going to be filled with meetings, class and studying only... It is hard to keep the weekends free for travelling!

Anyway, hope everyone is alright, no news is good news! But guys, c'mon, use the comment function!

Here some pics from Pulau Aur (above sealevel) and the diving sessions @ the NUS pool (the latter are stolen from Aurélie's Blog...thank you!): More to follow when the internet is faster!