One year of studies at the National University of Singapore...and some travelling in South-East Asia!

Monday, September 18, 2006

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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!




Pulau Aur Sky - Members of my dive group - Pulau
Aur dawn.






Gear on and ready to do the backflip from the boat...

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I hear you about the group projects! I am in a group with 10 people in my Managerial Organization class with Professor Newell who is an adjunct professor from ... guess where? Royal Holloway! My group is all juniors, so they are pretty good about getting stuff done. We have weekly deadlines, too, so it is harder to fall off track than it was last semester in England. I have an exam this Wednesday (yuck!), but yours sounds much more challenging. You sound like you are having an INCREDIBLE time over there. I love seeing all the places you are and hearing your stories (in English, of course, because the German-English translator made everything sound funny for your first few blogs). I have never been scuba diving but your account of it sounds amazing. I just don't know if I would be scared under water for so long. Thank you for sharing your stories!

:) Jenn

8:41 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ranzig alter rattentreiber,

ich vernehme zu viele happy-world-romantische-sonenuntergangs-lange-haare-menschen-stories....wird eigentlich auch gesoffen bei den kollegen vor ort? was ist mit chinesischen köstlichkeiten wie reisschnaps ala buchenhaus, wo selbst der urin blasen schlägt?

bleib dreckig und ramm dir einen rein!

da worlds greatest franzig

8:32 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

stealer!!!!!

4:56 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

C'est La Vie~~Cool

11:56 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Interesting hobby!

You may practice it diving in the greek sea bottoms, as well.

Best regards,

Anthoula

7:36 AM

 

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