Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 7:30 PM
"prawning!"


I have always loved adventure and exploring new and exciting things! So many things that I look forward to! Such as bungee jumping, sitting the world's largest roller coaster, mountain climbing, backpacking.. Basically, I want to try everything and anything all around the world at least ONCE. (:

And of course, I wouldn't want to go alone, but likely to go with 1 to 3 good friends, so that the trip won't be so silent. Where people is, fun is! Now, who are the likely trip-buddies? I mean, obviously if you want to do high-risk stuff, you won't ask those who hate it to go along right? They might probably faint from screaming. From past experience to Genting Highlands, one least likely candidate to go on such trips with me would be my dearest shepherd, chengKEE! Not that she is not fun to be with, in fact she is VERY FUN(NY), but thinking of doing bungee jumping, parachuting, hot-air ballooning with her.. is quite a freak show! HAHAHAHA! No offence, you know you're fearful of such things right!

BUTTTTTTTTTTT, guess what? We just had one of my most memorable, exciting and adventurous shepherding ever! I know, can't believe it right, with ChengKEE?! HAHA!

What we did - PRAWNING.

What is prawning? It's like fishing. But instead of fish getting caught on the hook, prawns go up the hook instead! So prawning is fishing for prawns.

The species of tiger prawns we caught:




Quoted from Cheng's blog:
"Can you imagine with me? Walking for half an hour (to somewhere where we don’t even know where we were heading), it was all dark, we have to by-pass a dead pathway that has nothing BUT some insect’s sound in the night. I was scared to the the extent of holding unto blackie’s hands and it was so quiet that i had to whisper to communicate with her. We went from places to places to find that farm, we met stray dogs barking and following us, endless mosquitoes bites. "

It's really coooool to walk in dark alleys, not knowing where you will end up, but just follow seemingly endless road ahead, knowing you won't get lost on this red dot. I may sound perverse, but I love the silence thats occassionally broken by the barks of dogs and chirping of crickets, especially walking side by side with your spiritual 'parent'. I would consider this as uniquely rare quality time. I don't realise how many mosquito bites I got bitten, because I can't differentiate them from my already rashed up limbs. HAHA!

This outing was kind of pre-planned, yet last minute as well. We have always wanted to go prawning since nong-nong-time-ago, but never got the chance! Only that afternoon, realising that both are free, and Cheng really sounds desperate for it (HAHA!), we decided to go ahead with the idea just that fateful night. How impromptu! Exciting!

More quoted from Cheng's blog:
"I think my sheep is smart cos we only spent 26 dollars altogether! Catching prawns are so FUNNNN and our experience over there was like a commotion for the others who are fishing and all. Example(s):

1. Florence tried to “copy” how the Indian man catch the prawn without getting bitten by putting 2 slippers on top of the prawn’s “kiup-er”, but little did we know that in the end, the prawn’s kiup-er caught florence’s slipper. HAHAHAHA. It was really funny!!!!!

2. When blackie caught another prawn, she swing the rod and guess what, the prawn used its kiup-er to hang itself on the lamp post and refused to come down!"

HAHAHA. Thanks Cheng, I know I'm alittle smarter than you. Whee.

Other stupid things are like when the Indian man tried to help us remove the prawn from the hook, it took me awhile to realise the rod I was carrying on was resting on the Indian man's head... so stupid! And we were making the most noise there, like 2 mad women, who never saw prawns in their lives. HAHA! This ChengKee ah, keeppp on apologising whenever the prawns got away. It's not your fault! But poor thing, after awhile we see prawns floating. They died. I believe those are the ones that we managed to hook, but they successfully got away, but still, die in the end. Probably due to loss of "prawn blood".

Here's photos I grabbed from Cheng's Blog.. See how happy we were!



I think overall we did acceptably well. Though it's a mere number of 8 prawns within a time span of 3 whole hours, good job to us! Hey, it's Cheng's first time giving a shot at this! *Clap Clap* Thank God for the boss who drived us out of the deserted place to the nearest bus stop. How sweet and helpful of him to do that.
Cheng, THANKS for the awesome night. I think we rock big time! HAHA!
Prawning, anyone?(:





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Hello! I'm Florence, a Communications and Media Management student in Temasek Poly. Serving in the youth ministry of Hope Church Singapore. I love to sing, play sports and do administrative work!


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