Feb 3, 2007

Live-a-board, life on boat..

"I'm lying on the deck of the vessel,
closing my eye and facing the ocean; over the day we were studying her life and herself in a bright, scientific way;
under the starry night now I'm all alone,
no more a scientist but a little child she embrace,
indulging myself in her gentle sway... "

I was 19 when I wrote this in my "I-am-such-a-(eat-sh*t)-teenage-innocent" diary. This little paragraph entitled 'One of my dream', listed together with the rest of my innocent 'I-believe-I-can-fly' type of day-dreams.

C'mon for god's sake, it is such a shame to have this sh*t stuff reread and published here, but trust me, I just need to refer this back when, 6 years after that, I suddenly recalled it when I was really 'lying on the deck' of a boat 'under the starry night', and feeling the 'gentle sway' of the ocean, when I was having my 4D4N diving trip live-a-board during my last holiday.

The feeling was indescribable when you suddenly realized you ARE IN what you dreamt for. Look, this is not a simple 'dream-come-true' thingy, I felt more than that... .. it was like 'I-wrote-it-once-in my-diary' type of excitement, certainly much much more more more than 'I-'ve-ever-had-a-dream-come-true' stupid stuff....

Whatever.

Here we go. My life living 4D4N on a dive boat, in the middle of Andaman Sea, west coast of Thailand. The dive sites are located in Similan Islands National Park, and no mystery: 'Similan' is exactly our 'Sembilan' -- Similan Islands simply means nine islands they have all together in the national park.

..and since this is a dive trip, my life on boat is really simple. As our time table indicated, basically we dived early in the morning, came out of the water, breakfast, rest, sleep; then dive again, then came out of the water, lunch, rest, sleep; then dive, out water, tea-break, rest, sleep; dive, out, dinner, rest, sleep --- and the life cycle went on.

Sleeping was particularly important and taking up most of our time on boat during the first 2 days. Initially I blamed on the 'gentle sway' of the boat, but then I figured out it was because everytime we dived deep down, we were 'intruded' by saturated nitrogen gas in our blood and that made us sleeeeeepy.

Anyway, the resting part took over the sleeping time when all of us started to live with those nitrogen. We do some homeworks (yup, divers have homeworks to do), play chess, edit underwater pictures, study marine lives, play guitar, watch movie, mingle, learn foreign languages etc while we were resting.

The life on boat is such a leisure as we only found ourselves active and busy underwater. We even did not care about knowing what's going on out there. Live-a-board is a perfect way to cut-off from reality, and the cut-off becomes even complete when you jump off the boat and dive right in, straight to the ocean floor.

... and there's something clinking my mind after this trip. When you really ignore how today's world is shaped by all the 'ambitious' world leaders out there, when you really just shut your ear from listening to all the polluted news sending through any kind of mass media, having a common life on a boat with Germans, Thais, Japanese, Malaysians, Swedish, Finnish, Spaniard, and Australian, you'll feel that we are just a same species called Homo Sapiens, nationality and cultural sensitivity simply mean nothing. (...and yes, variation in languages only help to generate funnier and funnier spontaneous jokes).

17 comments:

Senyum Sokmo said...

Hello Bro...

We're definitely trying our best to provide infos on behind the scenes "footage"....hopefully more of that once faizal's career is on a stable platform...

Mu pergi cuti ker bro..:) Welcome Back.

ABPBH is one day away...do catch it yeah.

Thanks sokmolah....

Anonymous said...

Hey WOW there goes out Mr Adventurous Spidey.. now u even entering the world of underwater huh? ..c'mon show us the pictures taken underwater.. next post, ok?

Sorry long time not dropping by.

U.K.H.

Jannah said...

I want to live on a boat,
Piss on the ocean,
Adding salt into nature's washing machine,
And skinny dipping under the bright lit moon :)

Sayuti said...

ahh... gigit keyboard. gigit keyboard.

(aku jeles)

btw, ko nak datang tak family day next week?

SpidEy d'lEfty said...

To SS, really sorry for not dropping by ur space for such a long long time.. and really happy for u to have a vision on ur blogging..

U.K.H.,i like the 'Mr Adventurous Spidey' u called me.. haha.. the underwater pictures will be posted very soon.. won't make u wait too long.

Jannah, just wanna say this to u: WELCOME ON BOARD!

Sayut, ko kan baru balik dr Singapore gok? Tak yah lah jeles. Aku jeles ko hidup berbahagia di sisi bini tersayang.. hehehe.. BTW, Kitrng ade class during Family Day, so tak p kuut.. (Damn i wish i can go!)

Spider -- Mr Adventurous Spidey :>

Anonymous said...

ish...jeles btol la dengan ko...tu gambar kaki busuk sape tue..lain kali bawak aku sekali tau...huhu..so ni kira dah pro la dive..

Sayuti said...

tak pegi lagi aa beb. lagi 2 minggu. tu pon kalu jadi.

Anonymous said...

thanx for posting sumthing that i can really 'eat'..hehe..well..now ur dream come true..u'v spent ur money in a rite way..n i think one day u should take the underwater photography course.proud of u my man..

Anonymous said...

I'm impressed! Your beautiful thought is definitely a 'wake-up' call for me to explore diving world..and maybe i'm much saturated with snorkeling adventure already.I'm looking for people who wants to take diving course. Anyone??

Anonymous said...

sori sbb lame tak menjengoksss..eehehehehe.Same like other people i'm proud of my self knowing someone incredible like uuuuuuuu...ahahahahaaha..i wish i have the courage n oppurtinity like u. but i was too afraid to try..huhuhuhuhu...also hoping that i will know more people that have a very discipline routine yet a very humble n happy go lucky person like u..so that i will soon become like u guys..hehehehe..sendiri tak mau usaha..nak harap org je..ampes tol aku nih..ahahahahaha..any way keep up the good work as i will always support u..muahhhh...;p...lupe lak..kalo ade kenal mamat2 baik hati jgn lupa kenalkan kat aku..ahahahahahahahaahahhahahahahaahahahahah

SpidEy d'lEfty said...

Thank you y'all!!!!!!

To Edani, Puput, Wawa Chan, and Emy (That msterious anonymous).. I'm now overwhelmed by the supports and understanding and pujianss and motivation and whateversss from y'all..

Rase bulu roma aku dh naik habih sampai nk cabut dh.. huhuh terharu sial.. thanx thanx thanx.. muah muah muah!!


Spider, always ur man.

Anonymous said...

makin banyak shoot kau yer ah yao...
shoot kaki tu, nasib baik tumit cantik.
kot tumit pecah2, alamak x seleranya nak tengok.
p/s: kata nak masuk selalu kat fp aku... xde komen pun... ini dah tak adil ni...

Suhana Sidik said...

Shot lawa.. tetiba ada kaki busuk... Aiman, memang busuk la......
You are always wonderful with words, and experience... lots to share, lots to give... this wonderful journey you have...
take care

Anonymous said...

cool bro.. long time dun have this kind of writing in ur blog.. we dun mind the LENGTH, as KONCIL said, u always have wonderful words..

Thanks for the post..!!

Keep it up.

SpidEy d'lEfty said...

To Tuah and Koncil, FYI, the kaki is not busuk at all.. it belongs to a beautiful swedish lady named Regi, and the beautiful lady pulak belongs to her handsome Swedish husband named Steven..

Shunza, i was so worried meeting ur standard via this post.. in fact i was thinking of u when composing this post.. thanks for the close and strict monitor to my writing..


Spider

ARWEN_my said...

Wongey.. jeles... jeles... xmo kawan.. btw, i have a great news for ya..layta k...


pi Yahya's wedding kan? post da pix yeah???

Anonymous said...

wow... bestnyer leh dive. hati sonang jo yo kau jang... baguih2. pic pun cun tak hengattttt... tabik spring la kat ko... huhuhu