Fully certified now!
Woo hoo! I am a professional qualified scuba diver now! I can dive up to about 18 metres underwater and will be looking to dive when we go travelling around SE Asia. On my hit list I would like to see a turtle, a shark and a whale.
Got a video of our final dives which was pretty cool. It had us doing stupid things like dancing underwater (although of course I can't dance) and also doing kung fu fights. That was really fun, recreating Matrix styles moves etc. The DVD was bloody expensive though at 40 quid, still i guess we're tourists and this is a once in a lifetime event.
In the evening it was one of guys (Anders) from the diving group's birthday so we went out to celebrate. As part of his birthday he wanted to learn how to play snooker, so we went to the local "club" which consisted of a room with two snooker tables. We played for a bit then these locals started coming in. They were nice enough, but then one of their girlfriends turned up and started to talk about money, which was fair enough I supposed but clearly she was the one with the business brains (i.e. con the tourists) whereas the guys would have happily let us play for nothing. Also I started playing reasonably well potting a few balls, the girl went crazy asking me where i was from and stuff. As she didn't really speak English she kept calling me "Hong Kong". Well she went and told a friend who told another friend who brought this other guy in to challenge me. "Me.. you.. play. 100 bhat a game?" Not wishing to get hustled or start a fight I politely declined, plus I wasn't potting any balls anymore!
After our diving exploits in Ko Toa, we fed up of the monsoon rain and have travelled on south of the country to Hat Yai. This is a fairly well developed large town which has lots of chinese and singaporean people. Had congee and dim sum for breakkie today, was almost like being in Hong Kong. Met a friendly internet cafe owner last night who recommended a decent hotel, also turns out that his family is Hakka! He speaks really good english as he worked in the states for 10 years... working for Dunkin Donuts!
Ok, better get on with deciding where to go next!
Got a video of our final dives which was pretty cool. It had us doing stupid things like dancing underwater (although of course I can't dance) and also doing kung fu fights. That was really fun, recreating Matrix styles moves etc. The DVD was bloody expensive though at 40 quid, still i guess we're tourists and this is a once in a lifetime event.
In the evening it was one of guys (Anders) from the diving group's birthday so we went out to celebrate. As part of his birthday he wanted to learn how to play snooker, so we went to the local "club" which consisted of a room with two snooker tables. We played for a bit then these locals started coming in. They were nice enough, but then one of their girlfriends turned up and started to talk about money, which was fair enough I supposed but clearly she was the one with the business brains (i.e. con the tourists) whereas the guys would have happily let us play for nothing. Also I started playing reasonably well potting a few balls, the girl went crazy asking me where i was from and stuff. As she didn't really speak English she kept calling me "Hong Kong". Well she went and told a friend who told another friend who brought this other guy in to challenge me. "Me.. you.. play. 100 bhat a game?" Not wishing to get hustled or start a fight I politely declined, plus I wasn't potting any balls anymore!
After our diving exploits in Ko Toa, we fed up of the monsoon rain and have travelled on south of the country to Hat Yai. This is a fairly well developed large town which has lots of chinese and singaporean people. Had congee and dim sum for breakkie today, was almost like being in Hong Kong. Met a friendly internet cafe owner last night who recommended a decent hotel, also turns out that his family is Hakka! He speaks really good english as he worked in the states for 10 years... working for Dunkin Donuts!
Ok, better get on with deciding where to go next!
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