kenneth&jinghua's - 29apr12

just attended a church wedding of princess' ex-colleague wedding. =)
everything was pretty much like a normal wedding...

.. the happy father walks in the blushing bride. =))

exchange of vow.. 

sermon...

what was special was the first dance.

apparently the couple met during a dance class and had compete in many competitions together.

when it was time to welcome back the couple, they both came waltzing in. 

the most romantic welcome back i ever seen. =)

may the Lord keep you both much in love, today and always! ♥

opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison

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sometimes i feel we are so "focused" on what and where we want to be, we miss the doors of opportunity. we dont even realised that they are opened for us. instead we treat it as another obstacle and avoid it.

my colleague has been complaining to me that i always think other people is in a better situation than me. but i am only merely telling her what i would do in that situation - to make the best of everything and practice positive thinking.

i honestly think that every piece of work is an opportunity just whether we want it anotz. i also truly believe that things are difficult/complex because we have not found the simpler way to think about it.

dont any of you think of it like that too?

lil zhiting has learnt to make the 喜怒哀乐 face. 

but today she only want to do the 怒 face. 

so cheeky.

the ugliest photo of me ever...

TADA! the ugliest photo i will ever post of myself. ^__^

well some of you might already know that i went diving over the weekend and like i confessed in an earlier post, i gave up. but i still went to tioman and the instructor, A, took me for a 10 minutes discovery dive. 

so the boat took us - 3 students (dan, BH and me) and A to a floating platform. since dan was the only one who completed the pool session, A took him down to the waters to complete his lesson while me and BH watch and waited. after 20 mins it was finally my turn. 

so i gear up and check all my equipments and did a giant stride entry.. one of my fins dropped out.. kuakuakua.. so after frantically saving the fin and putting them back on, i was ready to descend. 

since it was a discovery dive, the instructor would be doing everything for me except for mask clearing, breathe and dive for me. sounds pretty simple but i am scared like hell.

there was a rope tied to the platform to assist newbies to descend. every 2 pulls i have to equalise myself. and after equalising, A would handsign to ask if i am ok. in return i will show him the ok sign. 

pic taken from here. 

after numerous pulls and still not reaching the bottom. i looked down and still do not see the bottom. fear seeped in. suddenly i have an irrational fear of being in the water. so when A asked if i am ok, i showed him the thumbs up sign - i want to go up. 

thinking that i might have mixed up my signs, he showed me the thumbs down sign - go down. and then i thumbs up again. so we ascend by one pull and i equalised. but i was still feeling uncomfortable around the mask area and showed him the thumbs up sign again. A being A, wont give up without a last fight, showed me the thumbs down sign again. lol. too bad, i really just want to get out of the water at that point of time and with 2 kicks of the fins we were at the surface already. =S

ok, i admit i really felt silly at that point of time - i am only at shallow part of the water only........ lol

once reaching the surface, 

i said : huh, i am so near the surface arh!?

A : yah! you are only at 2 metres only! 

embarrassed much : i pull so much already still at 2 metres?!

A : yah! so you want to go down again anots?

embarrassed + silly : ok.

see, have been typing so much and i am still at the surface of the water.. geez... 

so after adjusting my mask, we descend again. 

on the journey down, i had thoughts of giving up. but i 咬紧牙根 and trusted A and myself that i will surely make it back up. after what felt like forever we reached the bottom. 

the feeling was surreal. after years of talking about it, i am finally underwater - listening to the breathing and bubbles noise, watching little fishes busy with their day right in front of my eyes. the feeling was nice. so nice that i forgot to breathe. so smart. 

after awhile being awe by the little creatures, my stupid brain reminded me where i was - 8 metres underwater. fear crept in again. 

A was busy showing me all the hidden creatures and i was busy breathing in hard and breathing out slowly and lesser than i breath in - so i wont hit bottom like during pool session.. O_o 

after this near death delightful discovery dive, many people kept asking if i would go continue to take the license for it. my answer : not in the near future. 

i am really too scare for this sport. but what might keep me going are the fishes with big eyes hiding behind a rock. they are the cutest thing i ever saw. thank you fishes for making my first dive such a memorable one. 

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dan asked princess to take photo of him and their other collecgues. diamond came along and tapped the self take icon and we end up taking photos of the 3 of us while dan and others are still posing for photo.. lol.. 

more ppl came "to see jk take photo"

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