"dysfuctionally inspired"

Sunday, April 20



    hey everybody! i have sucessfully completed my first Tandem Skydive with Brisbane Skydiving Centre! damn cool! damn awesome! wooooo hoooo!

    we set off at 815am with them picking us up with two other canadian siblings that's joining us, the 45mins journey to willowbank will just mean that i can catch up more sleep. -_- .when we got all sitted and filling up the necessary forms, we were bugged by a whole lotta houseflies that especially loved to terrorize el (i thought seeing her brushing them off her ears like a monkey was funny.), haha.

    so!

    we were all set and readily geared up waiting estatically for the intructors to go through the procedures detailedly with us. we had to keep arms crossed blah blah blah, tapping on our shoulder means blah blah blah, when all in all, i was fighting back the thought that im afraid of heights. *gulp* . "so we will be 12500ft above the gound.......", and the rest of it did not get into my head even when i tried so hard to read his lips and catching what the intructor had to say. alright, i must concentrate, must concentrate.

    the six of us had to be cramped into a very limited space in the SKYLANE VH-BOH laying back on one another and when it reached the clouds, i was totally mesmorized by the sea of the white floating clouds. i was trembling so hard (correction: not becoz of the fear, but i was freezing cold), but when i looked down i felt all numbed (erm ok, this time round, the fear had got me.). finally when they lifted the sliding grill, i know its time to face the challenge. oh gawd.

    "now cross ur arms and keep it close to your chest!", i do as i was told. "now let your feet ----!" ,huh? was it down or up? i tried to listen hard but my ears were blocked and he pointed to let my feet down so that i cant back out and decided to push myself back while he pushed forward.

    the rest of it, was heaven. i wanted to shout for joy, scream and yell as hard but i really cant hear myself (but i heard him from the back (?) ). he pulled for the parachute very early so that we can enjoy the view slowly and i thought everything below didn't look real as they were tiny as my finger tips. i like the feeling when you're up. i somehow hope i could just stay there and stop time. i was high up and i wish i had my camera with me (i didn't get the video and photo package as we didn't think it was necessary), but we took pics before and after the jump though. :)

    i will definetely do it again if i have the 2nd chance. no doubts about it. i love it.
posted by fries @ 3:44:00 PM
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