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guess what?

i went fishing yesterday night and spent about 4-5 hours at Margate, fishing into the night. :)

it's a totally different experience, the fishes were different, the cold, using the rod, the night, tying the hooks myself..

back in Malaysia when i go fishing with dad, it's hot, under the sun, using fishing reels, no lures (which i think is not as good as fresh bait), never at night, and dad will do all the job for me, tying hooks, preparing baits, get the fish out of the hook, putting on sinkers... ;p

i miss dad. and che. but it was a great night yesterday!

i enjoyed myself i must say.

there wasn't much action in the evening but as night falls, simon brings out his spotlight and wooohhh...action action and action all in front of our eyes!

the mackerels come swimming into our territory and whoa, schools and schools of them. it's not really fishing if you know what i mean, it's like playing the game when we were young? the fish pond thing turns round and round and you have the rod and you try to put it into one of the fishes' mouth? remember? haha..

guess what again? we caught 25 mackerels altogether! impressive right? although it didn't need much skill.. but, still quite alot right? hehe

then... there were arrow squids! one as long as my arm and these squids are not the calamari squids, when you fish them out (or squid them out, since they're not fish ;p) and put them on the ground, they squirt water like arrows, like water guns!

then the water-rat, that looks like a beaver or otter to me, comes around and annoy us, chasing after our baits and chasing away my fish!!! grrr~! then someone did something to it and it swam away, never to come back again haha! xp

and then.....
the humongous sting ray that was as big as my size, can you imagine! swimming before our very eyes, and as if we could ever fish it up with our fragile rods and brittle lines, everyone tries to put the bait near it as it swims by.
however, i was anxiously telling them not to, explaining how my cousin's friend nearly fell off the boat when he tried to pull a sting ray up.

my, i still can't believe it. it's nothing like what i've seen before, not even at the water worlds. was it monstrous or what? hehe well, it was a pretty good live show that's foc.

there were also snorties, if you lower your line a little bit more than for the mackerels, and the snorties, we used as bait too. and oh, not forgetting the pipe fish that someone caught. no flatheads though ;)

this afternoon, shaun and pam who initiated the fishing trip, brought us nasi lemak with grilled fish, home-made sambal, curry chicken, onion-fried squids, egg and cucumber + lemonade.
and it was oh-so-good man! and it has yummyliciously made me feel blessed to be able to have authentic malaysian food this far away from home.

we were all very touched and we've agreed to invite them over for a meal sometime soon. :)

tonight i'm going for dinner again, how blessed! ^_^

God bless you too and have a superb weekend!