I'm leaving on a jet plane....

I am at changi airport in singapore, waiting to get in my plane which takes me to istambul... yeah, there is free internet everywhere at the airport, even at the gate just before boarding.... I like changi airport is the best airport in the world for sure...

Happy to go home for two weeks and look forward to see my family and all my friends. But standing here just before boarding (and with couple of glasses of wine an tequila shots from my bye bye party) I just realized that a piece of my heart is here in Singapore and will be just as good coming back as it is good now to leave.

I am full with emotions and look forward to rediscover romania (I am sure it is totally different then when I left) and to see all my friends (I am sure they have changed just I did in this one year). I wish I could stay more. You can call me on +40-766-704.885 and maybe we can catch up :):):)

I just stand near the plane and I can see the captain arranging all its stuff, so I have to rush now. I have a nice song in my mind now, it is called "Leaving on a jet plane" and a you might know already that I have got it from a nice girl. I just keep singing this song, somehow it is in my mind for the last few days...

Running now to still get space for my luggage in the overhead locker :)

Going high at 30 meters down under the surface!!!

I've seen a cool T-shirt with the "Life's a bitch, go diving!" text on it, so I rushed to catch the season's last dive trip, because I realised the "depthness" of this statement :):) The cheapest and closest option for a short weekend trip is Tioman, so I was last Saturday morning on a boat to its nice dive sites.

As it is the end of the season, the visibility was fairly bad and the weather sucked as well, however even in these conditions it was an unforgettable experience. I liked the first dive a lot, because it was at a ship wreck and I kind of like these. I managed to see a very poisonous sea snake on the wreck (one bite can kill 12 men, better swim 4 ur life) and it was fantastic to see thousands of fusiliars around me on the top of the ship. I could not see anything around me just these gold fishes and below me the deck of the ship. The picture below can give a glimpse of the sensation. These nice little creatures just float around the ship :)

The biggest sensation however for me on this trip was the fact that first time in my diving life I went down to 30 meters (around a 10 storey flat if you want to imagine how much this is). Now the interesting part is that at this depth you just get high because of the pressure and the nitrogen concentration in your body. You feel happy and light, peaceful and free. It is much better then the sensation from drinking or smoking joints because it is a pure experience. I have never felt something like that before in my life, it is just the absolut limit of happiness. Yeah, there is a way to get high even in countries where you have death penalty for drugs, hehe.

My last diving picture on the blog was with a bad hair, so here is a good one. I am sexy even under the water, muhahaha :):):):)

How random....

Just one day after buying a plane ticket with Turkish Airlines, one of their planes has been hijacked. How random... Now that's makes me really excited to fly with them... Hope all will be fine and will have an excellent flight back to Romania :)

A new level of comfort in my life

Yesterday I managed to get to a new level of comfort in my life. Since yesterday I have a cleaning lady who comes once a week and cleans the whole house. And when I say clean, I mean that everything is shining. In Singapore is fairly common to have a maid or a cleaning lady, however until now I was very reticent to the idea, because I was not feeling comfortable to have somebody to clean after me and I pay her. Sounded way too posh and “feudal”.

But now got quite busy with all sorts of things (like diving on the weekends, haha) and lazy as well (I think the laziness was the strongest argument) and just said yes. And now I have a shiny house without much effort and while she was cleaning the house, I could work and do my own stuff. That’s what I like in Singapore, you can really forget all the struggles and problems of the daily life and focus on the important things for you.

When I think of maids and cleaning ladies, I always think of those stories when the house owners have affairs with the maids and servants. So I was looking forward to meet the lady coming to us, hoping to be a hottie, haha :):):) But as expected she was just a simple Filipina foreign worker in her 30s, so the clichés with the maids won’t become true in my case fortunately, haha :):):)

I was thinking and looking back of how my levels of comforts have changed over the past years since I left my hometown back in 1999. In my first year of university I was staying in a hostel with hundreds of guys in the same room, washing my own clothes with my own hands and preparing my own food. After that my level of comfort jumped when I moved into a flat with just 4 guys, but still sharing the room with another fellow. And then it remained like that for a while, sharing rooms, washing my clothes with my hands and cooking and preparing my own food.

Another breakthrough came when I moved to Netherlands, having my own room, having washing machine, and eating in town. Moving to Singapore was the cherry on the cake, living in posh houses with swimming pool or sea view and now having a cleaning lady. :):):)

I consider myself fairly lucky if I look back and see where I started, and where my old colleagues are now. Hope that I won’t go crazy and will be able to appreciate these things. I hope that I won’t take it for granted in the future and will know what life means in less comfort as well.