This is the 12th week of my academic semester already. Wow, that's fast! Next week will be the last week of academic lectures and we will enter into June, the whole period of end semestral examinations. Still have a couple of assignments to complete before June though, but am already used to the work flow here. Just a little strange that just when I am getting used to it, the exams are coming. ;)
The days are getting colder (Don't know how many times I have said that already) and most of the time, when the alarm (Courtesy of Siang Yew) sounds, I just feel like rolling over my bed and continue sleeping. (Of course, after muting the alarm first) After your body heat has warmed the sheets and pillow, you wouldn't want to get out anymore. =P People in Singapore would love the weather here now, but one must consider that one would only appreciate cold weather if you just arrived from a much warmer place. If you had been here for the past few months and had acclimatised to the weather here, you wouldn't be too thankful of the cold weather. ;)
When I was younger, I often thought it would be so great if I could just get into a university to study. I used to think that university students are so awesome and all-knowing. Well, now that I am here, that feeling has sort of changed. Is it because I am finally one of them that I have such thoughts? Perhaps, but now I am more impressed by some of the professors in the university, their knowledge, their remarkable acumen in their research and of course by some of their credentials.
Am going to go to Port Lincoln after my exams end on the 24th of June! It is near Adelaide, South Australia. Have an appointment with some great white sharks on the 29th of June, Monday! Going for a cage diving trip and I am quite looking forward to it, extra motivation for examinations. Well, to those who think that it is dangerous and to those who are hoping that I get eaten up by the shark or something [Russell, I know you are thinking it if you are reading this. ;)], let me assure you that it is completely safe. Divers (Technically speaking, it is not even diving) would enter a cage on a boat, and shut themselves in. Then the cage would be lowered by a cable to just below the surface. As no diving certification is required for this event, I don't think we would be lowered very deep. And of course, some of you would qualm at the fact that the sharks can break through the cage (Like in Jaws), well, the operator that we (Eby and I are going for this) booked with have been operating for 18 years. If there is a high risk or high incidents of tourist accidents, I don't think they would have lasted that long. ;) Furthermore, we are not even going that deep, only 2-4 feet (That's 1.3m maximum!) so I see no reason for any fear. And great white sharks only attack humans who swim on the surface because they look like seals. In this instance, they can see my 4 limbs flailing away, so I don't think they would have any incentive to attack.
Hehe. I seem to be an advocate of diving (Cage or otherwise) nowadays. Well, it it just that quite a few people in my life seem to think that I am in mortal peril whenever I go SCUBA diving, that I feel a need to explain that it is of no danger at all (Unless I dive when I am sick/drunk or didn't follow the safety rules) and that sharks don't attack every humans in sight. In fact, humans are probably the worst meal a shark can ever taste, because their normal diet are so much fatter than us! (Unless you are talking about herbivorous sharks) And statistically speaking, I am more likely to get into a motor accident than in a diving accident!
Okay, I guess that is enough said about the topic. SSee you again some other time! ;)
haha. were you listening to "staying alive" when you typed this?
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