A little about flying ups I mean diving

I dont think I have made a post about diving yet which is actually a bit strange considering that this is the only thing in my life I would actually call a hobby. For many years I have been avoiding that question "what are your hobbies?" because I found it embarrasing that I didnt have a single one. At least not REAL hobbies like horse back riding or soccer or cars or anything that normally get people to spend all their pocket money on the thing - or get them to fly up under the roof if you accidently (in lack of knowledge on the subjecct) say something wrong.
Okok, I could have said music and reading books and movies but every normal teenager would add that to the list and it was not like I made the music, movies or the books myself or anything. I just enjoy it passively and wouldnt care to use all my pocket money on.

But diving... that can get me up under the roof if people says or does something wrong and I would spend all my pocket money on it. Actually I am spending all my money on it...

Oh yeah,.... and then I can look at another world I dont see in my normal life. Its another world down there one were humans are only visitors. So many weird and funny creatures to study.

Slipper lobster

Stonefish

Hermit crab with two anemones as 'shelter'

Humphead parrot fish

Mimic octopus

Decorator crap

Lions, dogs, girafs, monkeys.. they are all old news! A Slipper lobster crawling trying to look like the rock it crawls on, or the mimic octopus who will imitate the animals around it by using its arm to make new shapes or the humphead parrot fish who eats the hard corals and looks like it banged its head against it too many times, if you know what I mean.

So whats so cool about it?
You know when you were a kid and you were playing the superhero game with your friends where you create your own superhero and for one afternoon puts yourself in the shoes of your new alter ego and fly above the roofs and shoot bad guys with your laser super soaker-kill-o-zap and see through walls and thus know that your friend's mom just made a huge chocolate cake?
My superhero alterego could fly, thats was my biggest wish - to fly. Not be able to lift cars, read minds or see through walls but only to fly. And you know what? Diving is like flying.
There you have it. Thats why I love it.. I fly under water, I adjust my hight with my breath, fly up and down only by breathing (its like navigate by the power of mind), I even fly upside down without getting dizzy. And if there is a current I dont even have to move my legs to fly, I just put my mind to where i wanna go and let the current take me there. How can people not love it?!?

Between End and Beginning or just in the middle of it all

I have said goodbye to the Embassy now. I am gonna miss my good colleagues and the great work environment at the office. The outcries of  "Hai-oohh" and "Come on LAaa!!" and "Juliiie, do me a favourrrr - Juliieeeee coooome". The work is really being done in the office. Chineese/Danish efficiency and "direct-ness".

Next is setting up the structure for my thesis and get into the work - all the paperwork with CBS, all the back and forth with finding thesis counsellor, student job, moving back into my apartment. Then study, work, write study, work,write for six or seven month. Kinda looking forward to it... no, totally looking forward to it actually! Looking forward to become a audio branding expert.

But before next step; the vacation void where I am neither or. "Where did you come from, where are you going?" - the two inevitable questions of backpacking life. Always somewhere between A and B.
Instead of answering "from KL, Medan, Toba, Bukit Lawang" or " to Pulau Weh, KL, DK" I should answer "from Internship at the Embassy" and "to Master Thesis student in Audio Branding".


One must be carefull with comparisons as two situations are never alike, however, here is a small comparison I find relevant; between Thailand and Malaysia I needed a month off to find myself in my new "shoes" and to get in line (so to speak) with my choises. Even then I had a hard time adjusting to and accepting the situation. Now, on the other hand - between Malaysia and Denmark - I feel ready, hungry and a bit impatient to begin the choices I have made for the next year.

This "in between" only exist in my mind because Im already started my thesis month ago in my head and now Im only waiting to physically be at the same place. I have thought about this comparison to last year and I think the conclusion is that time is never linear. Its never A, then B, the C. Things overlap, loop or jump steps.There is no such thing as an End and a new Beginning. We only chop things into steps like that to be able to grasp the complexity of time.

- Time is invented to prevent things from happen all at once. (unknown)