Dive-Monster Rhoody

Sometimes I just wonder what is going on in peoples mind. Recently we had some stupid posts on Dumagueteinfo.com by a guy who is very obvious not a happy fellow. Many of our users were not that happy with that guy and used a function called “reputation”. His reputation level got that deep in the red that he couldn’t post anymore. 

He cried like a little kid after a wave destroys the sandcastle. He was running around and yelling everywhere: ” Rhoody is so bad, I am banned, I am banned….”

Hey Idiot, you are not banned, you just disqualified yourself…. and it was not my decision…

That Village-idiot tried to log in with different names and got caught by our filters (and the Mod-Team). The baseline  is simple. The users of DI decided that they don’t want the Village-Idiot on DI and stated that clearly in their given reputations, no matter what name he is using…

The Village-Idiot tried after that to send private mails to people, what was also not that successful
The Village-Idiot asked his friends to post his shit for him, what also did not work out..
The Village-Idiot posts on other boards with 3 different names and talks literally to himself how bad things and of course the Partners of Dumgueteinfo are…. and guess what all 3 agree to each other…

Thinking about it, I think the term Village - idiot is a bit hard….
Let’s call him Mr. Clean.

Mr. Clean earns his monthly income in helping to destroy the environment.
Mr. Clean is a racist who hates Americans and Asians.
Mr. Clean hates philippino food.
Mr. Clean hates also Philippinos and their families.
Mr. Clean hates progress and development
Mr. Clean tells everybody how “shite” everything in Dumaguete is.
Mr. Clean is the opinion that we (the DI-Team) are responsible for destroying Negros and the Philippines.
Mr. Clean chases girls behind the back of his girlfriend AND brings them down.

I actually think everybody should know at least one Village-Idiot, errrm I mean Mr. Clean, just to have a bad example and to realize how good the own life is.

cheers

Rhoody

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Mike an UPS-pilot from the States gave me a short notice call and asked about diving. He is a friend of my partner on Dumagueteinfo and visited Dumaguete to get certified as an Open Water Diver. He explained me his phobia with a near-drowning experience and that he has a phobia. Each time he has water around his nose he freaks out and panics. Being warned I could prepare myself.

As a freelancing Scuba-diving Instructor I am in the lucky position to teach small dive-classes. In this case a one-by-one course. I like challenges and to make students overcome their problems.

Mike arrived on the Cebu-Pacific flight on Wednesday afternoon. After he checked in at Coco-Grande Hotel he gave me a call and we met at Mikes Diveshop, the facility I use when teaching classes. At 5 pm he came with Lyka, his lovely girlfriend. I tried to convince her to try a Discover Scuba Program, but she didn’t wanna do it. He came with filled in knowledge-reviews and well prepared. I gave him the typical forms and paperwork and we made the schedule for the next 3 days.

Thursday morning I packed the gear and picked him and Lyka up at the Hotel. Knowing about his Problem I decided not to go to the ocean for his Open Water dives. Instead of that we went to WellBeach-Resort near to Malatapay where I wanted to finish all confined water dives in one go. After a cup of coffee we started to assemble our gear and I briefed Mike what we gonna do under water. All skills went completely fine and I saved the “partial flooded mask clearing” skill until the end of the confined water dive one. Mike did a great job on that and had no problem on the second try. While he was doing that I watched him very closely, being prepared to pull him to the surface (from 4 feet depth) if any problems occur. His self-discipline was amazing as I could see his eyes very focused and listen to his concentrated breathing. After clearing the mask a couple of times we finished some more skills and confined water dives 1, 2 and 3 were done. I was not less happy than him after surfacing and we both laughed and smiled in our lunch break.

After lunch we finished confined water dive 4 and 5 with some minor hick-ups. This dives included mask clearing and no mask swimming. At the end of the dives I took away his mask and let him swim alone in the pool without any physical control. I threw the mask in the pool and he searched for it at the deep end, replaced it and cleared it. That was the sign that he is ready for the “big pool” the next day where our plan was to have Open Water Dive 1 and 2.

The story continues tomorrow. Than you can read about “teaching Scuba diving in a Typhoon”

Thanks for now and cheers

Rhoody

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As I did survive somehow the month of January 2008 with all the parties a lot of work and quite some diving, I thought February must calm down an bit. Hmm, what dreamer I am…

The month started with 2 recovery days. After that I wanted to do a lot of public work in Dumaguete as I am the local Partner of Dumagueteinfo.com , the number one page about Dumaguete, Negros Oriental and the surrounding Islands. The public work needed to wait, as my moderator job on the Forum of DI kept me on my computer way longer then I want to.  We have 1500+ unique visitors on the page each day, some 300+ enter the Forum, some 40 are active posting everyday and 10 of them think they own DumagueteInfo. A honest piss off to this 10. We don’t need you on DI, stick your spams into a place of your body where the sun doesn’t shine….

Saying this, I met some great guys during the first 10 days. The Teach, a guy from Manchester moved to Dumaguete and is one of those guys where you can spend hours talking about each and everything without getting bored.  

Irwin Ramas Uypitching is another fantastic guy I met this days, he is the Manager of Hotel Palwa and part of a family with plenty of influence in Dumaguete. Great guy with a good sense of Humor. I am sure we meet and work together somehow in the future.

As playing guitar is one of my recreational activities, I got together with some guys and we meet occationally to Jam a bit. The only problem, all come from a different music direction and era. I am a bit tired playing music which is older than my grandparents….

Talking about old music. I just read an announcement CONNIE FRANCIS plays in Manila on 14th of february… 1 of 4 shows worldwide in 2008… my god and I will miss that. what a sad Valentines-day for me… I hope I will survive… she is probably one of the reasons why I am alive. I sent my daddy a mail and asked him if I was produced under the influence of her romantic songs. He did not answer jet.
shouldn’t she be dead already??? She must be older than the Rolling Stones together…

good folks, thats for now. I need to be a bit productive on my pages who are earning the rice on my plate…

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