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This is a diary of sorts... Mostly about life with my kids.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Kelong Trip
TT and my BIL Mel, made an overnight fishing trip (Fri-Sat) to a kelong near the Sibu Islands off the coast of west Johor. From the jetty they took a speedboat to one of the kelongs located in the middle of the sea.
I've been there before once while I was 6 months pregnant with Isaac in June 2004. Yeah, a heavily pregnant woman riding on a speedboat! This is a pic of me fishing then! Looks like I caught something! Actually it's the first time for me doing something like this. Using a string of about 4 baitless hooks, me & my sis managed to catch a good number of small fish so that the guys can use them as bait for larger catches. The guys enjoy going there for fishing. So my sister and I magnanimously allowed them to go for the fishing trip themselves. Fortunately, Isaac didn't miss TT too much for that one night and didn't give me any trouble while I was putting him to bed. They went there in the hope of catching a good number of ikan parang, which was supposed to be in season. In the end, Mel managed to catch only one ikan parang, while TT caught a respectable-sized unidentified fish (see pic) which we steamed and ate for dinner on Saturday when they returned. The rest of the catch consisted of smaller fish like ikan kuning.
I'm a working mum with 2 school-going kids, a girl & a boy. I have been married since 1999 but we've only become a complete Catholic family recently after my hubby was baptised in 2011 during Easter. We enjoy local food and especially love a good cuppa teh tarik. I write technical documentation and copytext for a living. Since the arrival of my daughter in 2001, I am predominantly preoccupied with the kids. I like to draw cartoons and if I could, I would love to pursue the many other interests I have. Unfortunately, my secondary preoccupation now is organising the mess my main preoccupations are making, which leaves me very little time for other preoccupations...
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