Philip's "birthday video"

Sorry guys, forgot to put PHilip's "birthday celebration" video here. hehe.

Philip, here's your cake for you. Cake was already in our stomach, so only photo for you. hahaha....


Here's we sang happy birthday for Philip. Pardon me that I laughed like that, cos it was very funny to sing happy birthday to the video. haahaha. Click to see the video.


And this is the second video, we "demolished" Philip's cake. hehe. no lah, just get rid of the super thick cream. *unhealthy* haha.

Tioman April 08

Trip to Tioman : 26-27th April. One word to summarise our trip : rewarding!

Fantastic trip~ We did only one dive on Saturday, which we normal do 2 dives. The surge in the ocean was horrible............. The climate, weather now is really going crazy. There's usually no surge/swell at this time, but... it's so bad, we had a hard time trying to get a good focus in our photos. We don't really have a lot of fantastic photos this trip but guess what, we did only 3 dives in the 2 days we're there, and we've saw 13 different types of nudibranchs! Check this out!






Amazing right?~~~

I do not have the names though as I don't have nudibranch reference book.

It was such a great trip~ We saw sharks, barracudas, and cuttlefish mating~ and it was caught on film~! Check this out~!

And we've had so many "first time" in this trip :

-first time change driver on the way to Mersing
-first time we have a female driver
-first time we saw such bbbeautiful sun rise on the way to Mersing (haven't been able to access Alex's photos to post it here)
-first time the driver join us in breakfast makan roti prata
-first time we dive only once on Saturday
-first time we saw so many nudibranchs
-first time we saw cuttlefish mating (at least for me) and had it filmed
-first time we "celebrated" birthday without the presence of the birthday boy
hahahah..... soooo many first time right?

We recorded us singing happy birthday to Philip but it's in Alex's SD card and my card reader can't read it. So..... will have to wait before I got it and upload it to show to Philip, the birthday boy.

Click here for photos from Andy, George, Winnie, and me (Michelle). Tioman April 08 Photos

Guess the next time we go Tioman will be after our Manado trip in June. Probably end end of July or August.. Man... that's sooooooo long to go...

Tioman Mar08 Videos

Finally, I've finished editing the videos... Pardon the long wait, but I couldn't have finished it any faster... I can only do it when I'm back in JB (no computer in SG)... had been working till 2, 3am these 2 weeks.

Editing the video creates LOADS of big files (the clips).. computer not fast enough, have to wait a while every time I changed something and want to review it. As the computer is not fast enough, the playback was like, one frame one frame... I couldn't really see the effect which is set in less than 1 second. It does make a lot of difference even if it's only 0:30second.

Then dunno is it the software or what... it kept giving me problems when I was editing the sound. It kept shut off the programme.... Had to restart the programme again and again... And when I edit the clips too short, the image kept jerking.. I had to convert the files first (and there are loads of file!) then only I can edit it............................. very time consuming because of this.

Also, because of the same reason (comp not fast enough), pardon the little mistakes here and there. If I check everything thoroughly as much as I would like to, you probably have to wait for another week. Quite unhappy about the mistakes though, some part music too loud, can't hear the person in the video talking, some words missing, etc...

Not a lot of underwater clips though.... not much was taken..... makes editing and script writing a bit difficult cos the underwater scenes are too short.

Anyway, here are the videos. Remember to turn on the volume~! else please watch the video some other time when you can turn on the volume. P.S. I've made the video as something like a travel show/ diving guide. Hope you enjoy it. Do give some comment~

Part I
Pardon some little mistakes here and there... kind of rush the video out.


Part II
Diving scenes, corals, turtles, cuttlefish. The part were Andy was talking to Ivan.. music too loud.. I've edited it in the beginning but still.. :( end up like this.


Part III
Scenes of Reeno's birthday celebration and surface interval at Pulau Tulai.


Part IV
Diving scenes with barracuda, turtles, titan and scenes before going home. The part where Gab was talking after the dive... after I converted the video, the talking and the image do not match.... faint.... nothing I can do about it...


Do forward these to your friends and let them see your holiday~ Direct link to our videos Diving Video.

Tioman Mar 08

Tioman diving season started again and we can't wait to go there~ and there we were, on the 2nd weekend of March. This time, we have a big group~! Unfornatuly George has fallen sick and he and Tiffany couldn't go with us.

All of us here, waiting for our breakfast, from left corner clockwise : Alex, Frankie, Gabriel, me Lilo, Julien, Mila, Ivan, Andy, Sally, Fred, Catherine, Laura, JunWei, Jonathan, Andy Lee, Philip... ee? Where's Winnie? went to the toilet perhaps. Joining us for the first time were Julien, Harold, Andy Lee, Jonathan and Jun Wei. Hope you guys had a great time :)

The weather and water was surprisingly cold... It was due to the El Nino thing. El Nino and La Nino are different? Lazy to read about it... Anyway, because of this, it had been raining for a couple of weeks, as if it's still rainy season. While we're there we had like, 30-40% of sunny times... better than none I guess. But the visibility was bad, bad bad bad... And the sea was choppy. On the way back to Mersing, ferry had to go sooooo slow... I had never seen such big waves during diving season months....

This is a photo from Alex. What is the orange thing?? Who's it at the back? JunWei? I think so.

Nice blue background~

What's this? Soft coral?

Alex's favourite shot of the trip. This is... blenny, right? How come it's out of its house..

This is sea lice... about 5mm, said Andy. Can't see clearly...

Andy in action.

These little clownfish are so cute. Due to the wind/waves, there's surge in the sea, quite badly, makes photo taking sooooo difficult. You'll find your subject swaying left...swaying right...... and photos all turn out blur.....

Winnie was using new Panasonic camera this trip~ can't wait to see her photos. And some others are buying Panasonic as well~!

This is a photo from Gabriel. Look at its "antenna".

Aiks! One's doing all the hardwork studying, one doing all the drinking?? hahaha.....

During day time, little moray eel came out investigating.

My own favourite shot of the trip. Check out its "antenna", looks like somebody has taken a bit on it.

HUUUGGGEEE sea fan~! but it's broken a bit. Gabriel in the background.

Having steamboat dinner~ from left, Gabriel, Ivan, Mila, Jonathan, Andy Lee.

Freddie, Catherine, Alex.

Frankie, Andy Lee, Philip.

Ee... Why is everybody so tired..? Too much nitrogen?

Julien and Harold, chilling, after their exam finished.

Their friend Patrick, joined us on Saturday. Too short a time for him to take up a course like Julien and Harold did.

Everybody except Julien and Harold as they went out diving earlier than us. From back row, clockwise, Reeno, Gabriel, Andy Lee, Freddie, Laura, Frankie, Alex, Winnie, Andy, me Lilo, Mila, Ivan, Jonathan and Philip. Ee.. where's Jun Wei? Somewhere around taking photos I guess.
We saw quite many interesting marine animals, HUGE baraccudas, cuttlefish laying eggs, turtles, shark, etc.. but it wasn't "shiok" enough, as the water was cold, and vis was bad. Hopefully the weather get back to normal soon~!

Go here: Photos of Tioman Mar 08 to see all photos of mine, Gab's and Alex's.

I will be editing the video clips taken into videos. Watch out for it soon~!

Videos of Similan

Have a look at the videos of our trip to Similan~ Video shot mainly by Gabriel, edited by me (Michelle). Please give me comments of the editing and music~ (Do note that these videos were taken using digicam video function, no red filter nor lightings. Therefore the colours are not good.) Part 2 and 3 are most interesting.

Part one (9:03min) - intro of friends and the journey from Spore budget terminal to jetty to our liveaboard : The Excalibur.


Part two (9:20min) - underwater footage, sneak up on divers taking a nap and interesting turtles that kept coming back for food. Oh, and Andy being pushed into the water~


Part three (8:09min) - scene before a night dive (the one which Tiffany said after the dive "Nobody 'hiu' me...!!" and underwater footage with interesting octopus (notice the fish beside which kept followed the octopus~).

And I deliberately delayed the start of the music so that the part of music which started to sound "exciting" coincide with the many little fishes coming in.
Also, there's one part showing tiny fishes being cornered among the rocks and many predator fishes came to join the feast.


Part four (6:26min) - photos of Andy's birthday celebration, end Tiffany "wanting" to take her weights home , scenes of returning journey, scenes in shopping mall and don't miss out the ending, which I thought was pretty good. hehe.