Prawns

1326 hrs!! just woke up again.

Prawning was moderately fun. But it just appalls me to think that I can suck at things that do not exactly involve skill. So after YF yesterday, Me, Jun Wei, Doreen, My Brother Tay Ye and Ronald set off for some place for prawning. Being driven in a car, I am still clueless to where we ended up to. But it was near some golf course. (driving range). Somewhat, the scene I pictured in my head was opposite from what was presented in reality. A small pond (contrasted with the huge oceans we had for catching crabs), with borders (of course, to prevent it from literally turning into a swimming pool). It was really a trapezium shaped pond (rather weird, but yes, I've observed), and people around it's perimeter armed with rods. Now, the ambiance was so off. I was expecting the same ambiance that we had for catching crabs. The dude playing flute amidst the surging waves, and so on. The air was well "well circulated" in the semi-indoors structure. A roof over our heads and open sides, but well, the ambiance was mainly destroyed by the CHRISTMAS music they were playing at the background. We wish you a merry Christmas they said, how timely.

So we got our rods. 30 bucks for 3 hours. Really it's a daylight robbery (apart from the fact that it was probably moonlight robbery then). It's more for the experience rather than for the prawns. So we finally got started. Hooked the chicken liver bait after some mini tutorial by Jun Wei. Disgusting it was and there was this sensation akin to that when I stick my fingers up my nose on a wet day. Hooking it is another chore because it requires superhuman dexterity that somehow, (ironically), my fingers do not have. So we tossed the rods in, stare into the seemingly black water and waited.

Three minutes was all it took for me to hook my first catch. Which gave me false hopes and a false idea that prawn catching is so simple. And then, for the next one hour, I didn't hook anything up. My Brother and Doreen were having sprees. And it was so annoying because I had my bait positioned so close to them that it hurts so much to know that even prawns like to dao my bait. (which is so saddening). So I got nothing while Doreen and my brother reeled prawns up like no one's business. While I was sulking, I saw them caught to their seventh prawn. Ronald was as sad as me, he was sulking in a corner because he took an hour to catch his first prawn. But towards the end his catch was increasing. Ronald needs warm up for everything I guess.

So in the middle of all that 3 hour mad "starting into the black water with false hopes" frenzy, finally my rod which I had no hope in felt a little taut for once. And then I saw my brother reel in a super big catch. A king prawn, if there is such terminology. It was about 200 percent the size of an ordinary prawn and it had really big pincers which were, indeed, intimidating. And then I was about to sigh in disappointment because at that point it really proves that life is unfair, not till I finally saw my rod was also connected to that king prawn. A split second of pandemonium struck and then everyone realized that me and bro caught the prawn together. What a cool catch.

So the day sorta concluded with my 5 prawns, (including the king prawn which me and my brother shared) with people getting double amount of prawns that I had. Which is really saddening because it proves I have no affinity/talent for things that do not even require talent. Expensive it is, but, a good experience it served to me. It was already 0200 hrs in the morning so we drove back. Prawns are living in ice age in my freezer now.

So Friday, the long awaited Friday is now over. And now we feel obliged to embrace the Chinese New Year. And I feel so overjoyed that I can go for the Synod Camp because it's in Feb!. Yay!