Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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fishing
the fishing bug has snagged me. all of a sudden, i decided to buy a set of fishing tools and explore the coast of penang island. my enthusiasm was also shared by u-jean. seeing a bunch of people just fishing off queensbay did make me wonder how it felt like to snag a fish. i remembered a long time ago my dad bought for my sister and i a retractable fishing rod, and we went fishing with our youth group, at a fish farm. the first sight that greeted me was sacks and sacks of chicken guts, heads and liver. and a shed with a huge machine. later i found out that the keepers would take these sacks of chicken whatevers, grind it through the huge machine, and feed it to the fish in mushy mushy bitsy pieces. ewww.... and im gonna fish there. but anyway, not that im gonna eat the fish i catch, that is if i manage to catch any. i was just thrilled on my first fishing trip. i did catch a fish, my dad helped me to reel it up. but from that trip, all i remembered about fishing now is how to reel the line in, the rest i have already forgotten.
since it was u-jean's birthday on 14 june, i decided to treat her to a fishing trip at teluk tempoyak, at batu maung. i reasoned that the fish from that area can be eaten because there are 2 seafood restaurants there, and i've eaten in one of them once. and the person who brought me there told me that the seafood there was fresh from the sea. anyway, we had to walk this long jetty to reach a rectangular platform which juts out at sea. we met a few fishing friends there, one of them is Muneh. seeing that we were so mentah in fishing, line also cannot cast properly, and wrongly at first, they decided to give us a crash course and tip us on how to do it the right way. after a while, we got the hang of it and they started ejeking us whenever we cast the line: "eh, dah terror lar!". interesting thing was, we caught a fish, but it was a line reeled around a plastic bottle that did the trick. the rod did not reap any fish on that day. anyway, our birthday girl caught that sole fish with the plastic bottle. so, happy birthday ujean! your present is a fish!
we went a second time last sunday, and this time we were prepared with our tools and stuff. it was more fruitful this time as we managed to get 3 fish that can be eaten, 2 puffer fish and a crab. we stayed till about 8pm, it was fun as the tides were high and we had the same company we had when we went there the first time. haha! every week now i look forward to fishing, staring out into sea and feel the excitement of having the fish hook itself onto our bait. the pleasure comes in the reeling part.
but of course, the best part i enjoyed was.. dissecting and cleaning the fish. brings back memories of me dissecting my rat during form6. call me a sadist and heartless person. but i enjoyed it. savouring the sight of my dissected producted. hahahaha!!!
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