Am I missed?

Since I have some time on my hands now, I decided to go back to my archives and start writing where I left off..

I realised I haven't wrote anything much about my diving adventures.. In fact I've had 23 dives in 6 months, completing my Open Water, Advanced Open Water and Enriched Air 40%.. I've done wreck dives, drift dives, cave dives.. Attempted night diving but water conditions wasn't on our side on the 2 attempts.. So in May I will go back and do another 6 dives or so which will include night dives..

I enjoyed diving a lot - should've picked up the hobby long ago but I kept putting it off due to the time.. I am glad I did it.. and I will keep diving until I get my Divemaster..

I have dived locally as well as in Bali and Phuket - which are excellent dive spots as well.. I am not able to go to Semporna, Sipadan or even Palawan yet, but I will do so when the time is right..

Anyone else dive? Give me a heads up, maybe we can plan dives together!

This was taken in my Phuket accommodation in January 2020
when I was jobless and went for 9 dives in Phuket.

Coping?

How is everyone coping at home during this lockdown?

I've seen crazy stuffs on IG such as story mentions on drawings upon drawings, or the "algorithm play" whatever that thing is..

While I understand these are just pure crazy things people do to pass time, the fact that it makes me skip through your IG stories without even me giving another look, sorry, you lost me there, I'm not even scrolling.. some had like so many that it doesn't seem to reach the end, so I just swipe and move on..

But if there's some interesting photos, then I don't mind giving it a second look...

I was bored, yep, just like everyone else..

Comments on my posts

First of all, take this as an apology from me to all of you.

As a matter of fact, I was wondering why there is no comments to my posts, but actually they were all in the "awaiting moderation" tab! And I conveniently forgotten to check that tab...

So yeah, I have published all the comments I've gotten, and I will take my time to respond to each comment from now on.

Last but not least, thank you for keeping on reading over the years despite the dwindling number of posts recently, I have plenty to write but work took the better half of me.

Malaysia oh Malaysia

If what the political noises tonight comes true tomorrow,  it is taking us the rakyat for a ride, a blatant rude betrayal even Anwar Ibrahim himself admits its a stab in his back, and making a mockery out of those overseas who battled the odds to make their votes count during the 14th general election.

I see it as a disgust coup and I would have preferred a snap general election to a backdoor illegitimate immoral government.

I would still vote for Pakatan Harapan or whatever it will be called tomorrow.

Indeed, one can't change the spots on a leopard. And the leopard has now shown its true colours.

Welcome 2020

I almost forgot about this!

But recently some guys reminded me that they still read my blog, and need some "answers" or "closures" as to what happened to other bloggers of the early 2000s.. A lot of them stopped writing around the time Facebook came about..

Looking back, I have been writing for about 17 years now.. It all started when I moved to Singapore in 2003.. I needed an outlet to vent about my life about being alone in a foreign country and things like that..

Throughout the years, I am glad how this blog helped some of you come out, how this blog gave you hope to that being gay is fabulous, how this blog lets you know that you are not alone..

Perhaps the style of writing has also evolved much.. it used to be a lot about bitching about life and venting about life's inadequacies.. then somehow it turned into a soft-core porn-ish photoblog.. and then later in recent years it's about my travel shenanigans..

But I am still around, still writing.. In fact I still love writing.. Although you can now follow me in my Instagram (I post more there than here, in fact!), so feel free!


Lastly, welcome to 2020 and another year of blogging!