Crabby Dinner

Last Sunday, Karen (my bro's better half) (seen in the picture with her sister, Alicia on the left) decided to give us a treat at the Fatty Crab Restaurant in Taman Mayang...

Was then I met Alicia's boyfriend, Mike Chiew (seen in the picture on the right, below), incidentally a PADI diving instructor... naturally, we started to exchange our diving experience... it turns out that Mike is this year's OC for the RICD (Redang Island Clean Up Day), scheduled to be held between 16th to 18th of August 2006 (Erratum: 16th to 18th of September 2006)... this event coincides with PADI's annual Project AWARE International Clean Up Day...

I promptly took to Mike's invitation to participate... basically, this is an annual exercise where approx 150 divers congregate to clean up the trash and waste lodged in the reef of the island as well as removing excess "crown-of-thorns" starfish...which eats up the coral reef...ordinarily, these creatures are innocuous, but they breed like mice and are capable of depleting the coral reef if not kept in check....

Going back to our 'crabby' feast, we had 2 servings of sweet and sour crab and 2 servings of steamed crab, plus lots of chicken wings and bread to go with the crab sauce... Overall, my mum, brother (seen in the picture on the left, below, with Karen's brother, Edmond) and me stuffed ourselves 'crabby'....


Well, the dinner with the Tan siblings certainly was interesting.. not to mention getting acquanted with yet another fellow diver, instructor rather... Looking forward to RICD... just a couple of weeks after I return from my trip to the Maldives... I rooted this idea to Yee Boon and our friend reacted with delightful approval... yet again, we will roam the waters in the South China Sea...