My Tioman Honeymoon - where i started thinking of learning to swim

If you've read my blog earlier, i mentioned my Tioman Island trip when i talked about why i wanted to learn to swim. Please understand that this was 6 years ago, i look much better now :) I looked for these pics in the albums as the digital copy has long gone, and scanned them for your viewing pleasure. And yes, i didn't tell my wife about it.

My wife really loves the water, she can't wait to get on the boat!

Hmm, where is this boat.

All smiles.

On our way.

This was where we practiced.

This was where we snorkeled!

All done, until next time.

Wow, 6 years ago.

Sorry there aren't better pics. Had much less money then, some more just got married. No pics underwater, the pic quality was also not so good. We really enjoyed ourselves, but i would have enjoyed more if i could swim, giving me more confidence to explore the area. Also they didnt have the snorkel mask with optical power, so a bit blurry too. Other than that, didnt bring proper swimming attire. Will be more prepared next time, after all, it has already been 6 years!

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My prescription/optical swimming goggles have arrived!!

Its finally here, the swimming goggles I ordered from China. Actually it arrived earlier than expected, the last time I ordered something overseas on ebay it took two weeks to arrive. This time it only took a week. In my quest to learn swimming by myself I realized the importance of wearing swimming goggles. I started with a normal goggle, not just that, the cheapest one I could find to fit an adult. I wear glasses, quite high optical power too, so though a normal swimming goggle was enough to stop the irritation, it wasn’t very exciting to look around underwater and see blurry images. When I asked about prescription swimming goggles at a nearby sports/swimming accessories store they told me it was around RM90+ (about 30 dollars) and I just had to look for somewhere cheaper. The internet as always is a good place to look, and I found one for less than half that price (RM41 plus postage) on ebay.


I tested the correct prescription that I needed at the local store. Yes, act like want to buy only, hehe. They will let you test as the power (they call them diopters) ranges at least from -1 to -10 for myopics (near sightedness) and somewhere I found +1 to +8 prescription swimming goggles for those with far sightedness. You can actually get the ones where you can have different diopters for each eye, but I didn’t find out more about those and how they are priced. They gave me this set of goggle lenses for me to test and I found out -8 suits me best. After enquiring about the price, I said thank you, I will think about it, went home and ordered the correct one from ebay.

Comes with a nice casing

Looks just like any other swimming goggles

Yep, -8.00 old man's swimming goggles

Well I will have stop here as I haven’t had the chance to try them out in the pool yet. Looking forward to my next ‘learning to swim by yourself’ lesson. Tried it on and it looked like I was wearing my glasses. Can’t comment much about quality as this is only my second pair of swimming goggles, and my first one was dirt cheap. So far most of the goggles I saw, including the ones I bought had uv protection and anti fog, they also have different size nose bridge. I’ll write up something on the choice and types of swimming goggles, or if I’m lazy I’ll post a link. Also waiting for another ‘gadget’ I ordered online related to me wanting to learn to swim. Hope to post that up soon too.