HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

Dear Friends and Associates,

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all a Happy New Year 2009 with lot's of prosperity and wealth.

Best wishes from 

Myth Asia Team

Prize giving ceremony Terenganu Seashuttlebug

Friends and associates,

We have the winner for the Terengganu Seashuttlebug held in Perhentian Island in August 21st - 24th, 2008.

There 2 category up for competition, International and Malaysian. The winners are

International Category - Mr Lam Wee Chee from Hong Kong

Malaysia Category        - Mr Roslin 

The event was organized by CoRal Malaysia.

We look forward to 2009 with more prizes and more participants.

Prize award ceremony for SeaShuttlebug and Exhibition

Hello friends and fishes,

CoRal Malaysia together with Terengganu State promotion board will be awarding the winners for the Seashuttlebug photo contest for underwater and land category.

The details are as follows :- 

Venue                  : MATIC , Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur (behind Saloma rest)

Date                     : 12th December 2008

Time                    : 7:30pm

Remarks             : Prize giving and opening of photo exhibition by Tourism Minister, Datuk                                          Azalina Othman

Please dress in smart ! 

See you there ...

Borneo Divers - Kids Scuba Camp 30/11/2008-1/12/008

Borneo Divers and its subsidiary Borneo Divers Training Institute, have taken another step forward in bringing in a new product which focuses on family ties `Kids Scuba Camp’.

This program will also promote Kota Kinabalu and Sabah as an ideal family diving destination particularly Tunku Abdul Rahman Park.

65 children and parents from Selangor together with 19 press and TV crews have taken part in the Kids Scuba Camp that will be held on the 30th November and 1st of December 2008 in Mamutik Island in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park off Kota Kinabalu. The objective of this program is to promote family unity, responsibility and diving education.

These families will go through series of fun filled activities which will involve scuba diving for children from 8 years to 12 years old in the pristine shallow water Mamutik Island could offer and Boat Diving with parents for Certified Jr. Open Water Diver. Families will also have the opportunity to try out the SeaDoo Divers Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) during the 2 days program.


SeaDoo Divers Propulsion vehicle (DPV) is an easy light weight battery operated machine ( close to soundless) that is safe and easy to operate and it is a practical piece of equipment which can be used for snorkelling or diving. Introduction course as well as certification program are available and can only be obtained through only our subsidiary Borneo Divers Training Institute.


Apart from scuba diving, children and parents will jointly participate in local games such as “Main Gala” and “Main Kingking”. These games also give an insight on the traditional games of thus promoting cultural Sabah. Also organised are quizzes based on Marine Life and Diving Theory where winners will win exciting prizes such as Dive Watches, Scuba Gears and Dive Packages.

The Value of this Kids Scuba Camp program is to instil the importance of reef protection through diving education. Programs such as this will give birth to a new generation of young divers who are caring and responsible. These generations of divers will become the future educators of our aquatic realm to help overcome the degradation of our reefs and ocean environment.

Thank you …. Tourism Malaysia, Sabah Tourism Board, Sabah Parks, Sutera Harbour Golf and Country Club, Le Meridian Hotel and the many sponsors in this program.

Special thank to En. Syed Abd Rahman Syed Hassan and Puan Nadia Ahmad of KIDS SCUBA "Underwater Adventure For Kids".

Shark feeding in Payar Island

Our friend was in Payar Island last week doing snorkeling with her family and friends however this act encouraged by the local operator was not encouraging to the environment and marine life at all. Infact the shark may mistaken the toe or feet as food/meat; anyone there may be a 'victim' later on. Have anyone think of that ? And once it has beaten, the actions will be to kill the shark who did it ! But who in the first place instill the act and encourage the act ?

Feeding any fishes be it shark, moray eel or damsel or animal on land is against the cycle of natural habitant. Animals should find their own food rather then be fed upon. Animals should not depends on feeding they should be out there 'hunting' for their food. Fishes don't survive eating bread or snacks like prawn crackers or cheezels; FISH live on planktons and algaes. HUMAN, you and me, eats bread and snacks ! Try imagine if we eat the plankton and algaes, how can our stomach take the 'food' ??

A lot of snokelers are ignorant and unaware of such however local operators should be more careful and take up the responsibility to care for their very own livelihood. If the fishes and environment are destroy due to these effects, their bread and butter will be affected directly. For short term gain of making  'hu ha' for snorkelers who will leave the site after a day trip, the local operator do not realise that their very own act will affect their future. We have to be responsible for our future so that our children and generations to come will get to see what is Nemo or how does a shark looks like !

By feeding these fishes, they lose their natural hunting instinct and will not be able to survive on their own. If you keep feeding your child with food, how are they going to survive the outside world ?? 

Sustainability and responsible tourism should be practice by every operator who are dealing with environment / nature tourism ! In actual fact it should be for all, everyone of us who are a part of this planet we need to care for the 'home' we live on.

Have you ever feed the fishes in the marine park before ?

Good Tips for You!

The Underwater Environment

A person who is physically fit may not be necessary fit to dive. The underwater environment is stressful to the cardiovascular and respiratory system

• As the depth increase, the air that is breath gets denser. More effort is needed to breathe in and out. The heart would also need to work harder by pumping at a greater strength than what it is normally used to.

• The dense cool air under pressure can also cause problems to the sinuses and to the lungs especially those that have a history of asthma ( even childhood asthma ) or rhinitis ( running nose ). Some of these problems can be life threatening e.g.

Pulmonary barotrauma
Cerebral air gas embolism
Sinus barotrauma
Aural barotrauma

• The underwater environment presents the diver with a weightless environment, up and down can be difficult to discern, sounds and vision are distorted, added to this is the disorientating effects of nitrogen narcosis.

• As such the underwater environment can be disorientating particularly at night. And to someone who is anxious, it can be particularly worrisome.

• A proper medical screening and education is able to allay the fears of the new diver and increase his enjoyment and appreciation of diving and make him want to come back for more!!!

Bintang Flores, Komodo Indonesia 1/11/08-6/11/08

hello again,

Recently Jenny just came back from a diving trip with a bunch of funny divers

and the best divemonster in the whole of Indonesia (from Sulaweis to Komodo reaching out to Raja Ampat) to Bintang Flores.

Bintang Flores, the only starred hotel in the whole of Flores. Bintang Flores provides you with the warm bed and hot shower after a full day diving.

The restaurant serve tasty meals and no worry that you are not connected, hotel have the fastest speed of internet in the whole of Labuan Bajo (with a very reasonable rate)

The reception is cozy and tastily designed. Poolside and beachfront is just less then 10m away.

Diving in Komodo is mostly current / drift dive with high chances of manta ray, dolphin and dugong. Visibility is always good !

Of course not to forget the Komodo dragon itself. There are 2 islands National Park where we can visits, Komodo Island and Rinca Island.

Diving in Komodo is virgin ! Corals are very healthy and fishes are plenty ! All come in schools .. rather then pairs !

Myth SDI UEA program in Tioman 24/10/08-27/10/08

Hello friends and fishes,

Myth successfully co-organise the world's first SDI Underwater Environmental Awareness program in Tioman Island.

We were joined by budding singer Kit Teoh and AiFM DJ Picky and Li Kiang who had successfully graduated as SDI Open Water Diver.

Congratulations to the new divers !!

Kit taking time out to visits the kampung and played with boys !

Li Kiang very hard working doing his dive log !

Giving Kit a little support and guidance on logging his dives.

The trio paying full attention to Instructor briefing.

Taking time our after dive to clean the beach !

the trip was a success thanks to Jason and Lynn (2nd and 1st right)

The next day after the trip, we were at AiFM to do a pre-recording which will be air on the 29th Nov 2008, remember to tune in !

Awareness 4 Diving with Celebrities 29/09/2008

It is time to update you all with latest activity from MythAsia!

We actually had some promotion activities related with promotion for diving with local celebrities.

We hope to get great responses and it is a golden opportunity to teach and make community aware about the importance about protecting and saving underwater environmental.

Terengganu Go Green Seashuttlebug Photo Competiton

Location : Perhentian Island Arwana Resort.

Date : 22 - 24 August 2008

Successfully held last weekend with a total participant of 50 paxs (25 divers and 20 non divers). Over the weekend photographers submitted more then 100 of shots (land and underwater) for the competition.

And with here are the exciting and attractive photos from MythAsia for this photo competition.

We hope you will join us for next time!

Seashuttlebug Photo Competition @ Perhentian

To those who loves to dive.
To those who loves to take underwater photograph.
To those who loves to win a grand cash prize.
and To those who loves to make more friends!

Now, MythAsia Travel Network bringing you a good news!

We co-operate with our lovely friends to organize an underwater activity!

(Coral Buddies)

" CoRal Malaysia and Myth Asia jointly organised a seashuttlebug photo competition with the final leg takes place in Perhentian Island 22-24 Aug 2008. The grand prize will be RM10,000.00 for underwater photography.

(Borneo Divers & Kit)

The details of the competition can be found at www.coralmalaysia.com or contact us for more details of the trip.

Try your luck, submit the photos and let it be judge ! "

(Danny, Theresa & Clement)

For more informations please contact at:

MythAsia Travel Network Sdn Bhd
Marcus
Marketing Executive
014-6618718
www.mythasia.com
www.mythasia.blogspot.com

marcustan@mythasia.com
info@mythasia.com

An exciting journey begins from Komodo

It is nice to share something good with you all again!

Well today I am going to introduce a good place to you.





This place had been appeared in The Star newspaper and is strongly recommended by it.
It is undeniable that Indonesia's Komodo National Park has a lot of good diving point.






This area is rich not just in terrestrial flora and fauna but its marine life is equally fabulous.







As we all can see from the above pictures, the marine environment and their mysterious habits become a good attractive point to all divers.

This is because Komodo Island had been declared by UNESCO as a protected as well as historical place.

For more informations on this exciting and fun place you may contact us at:

MythAsia Travel Network Sdn Bhd
Marcus
Marketing Executive
014-6618718
marcustan@mythasia.com
info@mythasia.com

And now I shall bring you the complete news from The Star newspaper.

Let the Komodo journey begins from clicking here. <--

Myth Team @ MIDE 2008!

MythAsia Travel Network had participated actively in MIDE 2008 in Putra World Trade Centre.

Well,as what Jenny had introduced Myth team in previous article,here is the pictures of the Myth team! Come and have a look ladies and gentlemen!

Edmund,Marcus,Calvin,Jenny,Jimmy,Xiao Lin.

Jenny,MythAsia Chief Operating Officer & Calvin, MythAsia Chief Finance Officer

Jimmy, our Marketing Executive cum professional Divemaster explained very well to customer.

Marcus was introducing some of MythAsia's attractive packages to customers.

And here is some of the pictures of MIDE 2008 exhibition:


Myth team promise to provide and serve the best to our dear customers.


We are here to make more friends and we can exchange our diving experience as well as history!



MythAsia Travel Network Sdn Bhd
everyone can dive!

www.mythasia.com
www.mythasia.blogspot.com

Stop Seahorse slaughter, you can make a difference !

Stop Seahorse slaughter, you can make a difference !

When the demand stops the supply stops.

A diver will pay hundreds of ringgits to go for one dives just to se the seahorse, here it is only RM5 for a seahorse. Please help stop the demand so that the supply also stops, make a difference.

Protect the Marine environment,start from us..

This message is brought to you by:

MythAsia Travel Network Sdn Bhd
www.mythasia.com
www.mythasia.blogspot.com

Dear Fellow Bloggers

On behalf of Myth Team, I would like to welcome you to our blog. This is not gonna be any solid business sales or marketing blog, we are here to make more friends, to get to know more about the marine environments and to let you share with us our traveling experiences. The journey is going to be FUN FUN FUN

Myth Team consist of Calvin Tee or more famously known as Kum Seng to ALL his members (KSM). Calvin is an aspiring young businessman with a mind for details and figures :) the typical chinese businessman who are always on the look for improvement, looking for innovative approach to the business world. He is also very actively involve in youth movements and matters that relates to the chinese community. Overall Calvin is our finance guy !

Jimmy Ooi, our Marketing guy, is a Divemaster who had numerous years of overseas employment. He is the FUN guy to be with and the clown of the group. His eyes for the little creatures had earn him to have a list of divers on his back. He is big in size but little in heart, so don;t misunderstand him as the big bear but he's just a gentle giant .... like the whale shark is famously known :)

Petcharaluck or nickname Poo, is our lady in Bangkok. She can get the best service award, once yo are in Bangkok she will take care of you the best she can. Poo, in Thai literally mean crab, is the most diplomatic among our team and is currently learning German to further enhance her tackling German divers .. hehehehe

Marcus Tan or better known as mai kai tan or selling egg in Chinese translation, he is our IT genius who keeps this blog active and alive, the latest addition to the team .. he may be new but cannot be bully easily ! Once you see him you know who he is ... no. 7 !!!

Last but not least ... yours faithfully, Jenny W.Y. Lee as more famously known as Jenny or Jen ... I am the most decent among the group and the best and most well kept secret of all. I am the brain behind all the creation in Myth ! So be careful who you are dealing with ;p ... hahaha nah .. I am a fun loving person who loves adventure and taking risk .. risk in having a bunch of kids working with me phewww ! Well you can't envy much, this the fun part .. having new blood, new ideas and new waves !

I am everywhere in the industry, you can see me in Malaysia Sports Diving Association, CoRal Malaysia or FiNS magazine besides here in Myth. It is always my believe that we need to contribute our times to the industry, the community by spreading the word far and wide. To educate the next generation Y about marine and environment rather then only the electronic that is dominating our everyday life !

Passion and dream drives on ... come share and explore the amazing inner space with us !

Brought to You by:

MythAsia Travel Network Sdn Bhd
Jenny Lee
Chief Operating Officer

Everyone Can Dive!