A back breaking Catch report from sabah

It was another good fishing trip from KK and from the title u will know why. Everyone back and arm was aching after battling with the Japanese red, kersi bali and white fish. I was surprised by the average size we bought up. All of them are ard 3-5kg range and they really fight hard and fight all the way from a depth of 120m.

Overall we caught many good eating fish like coral trout, roaster fish, pearl bass ( the boatman said it cost $60/kg),ang kuah etc. However no monster was landed but we lost 3 big ones, one was a cobia at least 12kg lost at the boat side, one to the structure and the last one just took off like a bullet train and we managed to burst the leader after it took 300m of line.

Here is a brief summary of the trip…….

Day 1
I started off with a bang as I landed 2 coral trout ( 2kg and 1kg), after which I was super unlucky as I did not managed to land any decent fish until the next day afternoon. The bite rate was slow and even the table size grouper and kee fish is also not cooperating. Night fishing was as bad. No mack no fish bigger than 2 kg was landed. After 4 am, even the small fish is not biting too.

Day 2
Ard 6am the bite started to come in, we managed to land quite a number of job fish and long nose emperor all ard 2-3kg. But the bite stop after an hour. The boat man keep changing spot but we still only managed a few table size fish.

Then he decided to head to a deeper spot ard 120-130m and there was where we hit the jackpot. The kersi bali was all ard 3-5kg and the bite was quite constant every few min some one will land one. The crew managed to bring up an amberjack ard 9kg. So I decided to try for amberjack so I hooked a table size kersi bali and waited for the bite. The bite came but there was no amberjack but an even bigger kersi bali.

As night fall, we managed to catch a lot of sotong and we use them as bait. Then the real action begin, double and triple hookup was common as the we brought up one after another white fish and Japanese red all ard 3-5kg. They really give us a good run for our money, taking line out constantly thru out the fight. By midnight, everyone don’t dare to put their line down as they are too tire to fight anyone fish. I was still enjoying myself fighting them. But they decided to head back to shore…..SIAN!!!!!!!!

LL no choice have to follow the majority…..

But I was tired too but enjoying every moment cos it is rare chance to encounter such big school of big fish…

Overall catch
White fish at least 90pics
Kersi bali ard 20 odd
Japanese red ard 15
Coral trout ard 15
Long nose emperor 10
Bone fish 2( super rare to find such fish is deep water)
Pearl bass 15
Many other coral fish like kee fish, grouper, ang kuah, mangrove jack job fish,….

Total weight est more than 600kg….

Enjoy the pics…..

i love u kathie...

Is vitaMIN good for me ? haha!!!!

Dear blog,

Huh… had not updated anything so far. It is not that I am busy but just don’t feel like updating anything. I guess I am still in a state of making the correct decision but hahaha!!!! I still have not decided. Anyway the title has no link to my posting haha only someone will know wat is means haha!!!!

Anyway I will update in short the entire happening events that took place over the last few weeks.

Let me start off with the camping trip to kota tinggi. It was supposed to be a fishing trip to hunt down huge huruan but in the end it turns more to be a camping trip. I had fun building fire and setting up tent, cooking with solid fuel and eating from the mass tin. It brings back good memories of my army days.

Another highlight was buying a golden retriever puppy for my mum. It was her birthday gift and I must thank Andrew for sharing it with me. Her name is Kathie but I always call her kate haha!!! She very cute and tame, my mum just love her. Not only my mum loves her, my whole family just loved her. I guess she is the queen now in my house. I will post her pics in other posting....

Last but not the least; I must thank someone who made my day by just talking to her online every morning. I enjoyed just her company and just feel very comfortable with her. Yup I once fell for her but I got a feeling I am falling for her again. Huh I don’t whether it is a right thing. As both of us just got out of a relationship and I guess it will be good to just give each other more time. I guess if she is really for me then only time can tell.

So for now I will just enjoy myself with the many fishing trip that awaits me YEAH!!!



Cheers
Getting happier each day, I love u…..kate…..

fishing king reigns....

Dear blog,

Weekend was good as I managed to hit top form during my last fishing trip. I guess my fishing form is slow coming back again. During recent southern island fishing trip, I caught the most and also the biggest too. However the overall catch was not very impressive but just average.

This is the overall catch:
2 Golden Snapper aka ACK ( 3kg, 1kg)
1 sweetlip aka Kaci (1kg)
1 stripped snapper aka timun (1kg)
3 deep sea bass
1 spotted stingray

However last Saturday night was also another interesting affair. I managed to meet up my good old friend and we watched a super complex movie, V for Vendetta. Wow this show really forces me to think hard in order to understand what the hell is going on. I miss such movie as I had not watched such abstract movie for a long time. But the company was great even though we only spent a few hours together. I will be looking forward to another date with her again. Hahaha my so call cai hehehe you ji hui…

Just had my last JCRC meeting last night, finally I can let my guys focus on their studies now. But I guess there will not be any rest for me as I still have the HAS to worry, JHOC event to settle, Rec list to compile and of cos my IA. Guess it will be a busy period for me as everyone is busy preparing for their exam and I am the only one with no exam worries. No worries man, that is the president job to oversee everything. I guess my days are numbered. Within months it will our FOC and DnD. After which I will be handing over my baton to another person. What life is after handing over? Will I be happy or sad? Will I be relieved or worried? Will I be bored? All these questions suddenly run thru my mind. Reigns


I love fishing…..

dream come true

Dear blog,

It was night to remember as I managed to fulfill my dream. My dream of organizing a join hall event initialized by hall 2 every year was fulfilled this year. For the last 2 years when I was a social sec and pres, I chaired and organized NTU very first night blazer or Pasar Malam. The first time we managed to get hall 1, 2 and 6 to joining organized this event and the turn out was pretty good. We had around 18 stalls and the turnout was very good. The second time was event better as with a few more halls joined us. We managed to get ard 25 stalls. However the main objective of bringing our residents closer together thru interaction was achieved and I guess everyone enjoyed the food and the shopping.

This year I was tired of organizing and decided to hand over this job to my cultural sec to organize a join hall cultural night. No doubt it was a tough job for peiqi but I guess she did a great job with the help of hall 1 cultural sec and both cultural group too. They managed to impress everyone that there are so many talented people in hall.

I managed to fulfill my dreams and also the dreams of the last few president of hall 2. I guess when I step down next semester; it will be surely satisfying as I know I had accomplished something that many ex hall 2 pres had dreamt of doing it, bringing the halls closer together.

3 cheers for hall 2!!!!!

My first singing experience

Dear blog,

I was happily doing my work at my desk and suddenly something struck me. This something comes in waves. Yup sound waves from the radio, it knew where to find the weakest part of my body, my heart. It did strike and it struck so hard that I decided to post my feelings.

When it struck me, I started to think of last year MAF. I still can remember I dragged her to sing with me and it was super last minute as we only practiced the night before. When it was reaching our turn to sing, I went back to my room to look for her. Indeed both of us were nervous esp me as it was the first time for myself to sing in front of such a big crowd. When we were walking back, the whole crowd was cheering and calling for us. Super embarrassing man!

Anyway we went on stage and sang our song. The song we sang at that time truely show how we felt for each other and when both of us were singing it was from our hearts. We sang this song for each other and we sang this song for us as it represents how we feel about each other. Those will the times……………………………….

Will those times we had enjoying each other be just history or will this history repeat itself but with another ending.

Anyway as expected we did not win anything but I guess I had fun and it was a good experience. But one thing for sure I know, I am not born to sing hehehe!!!!

I decided to post this song in English hahaha took me awhile to translate it.



Choose

Male: In the windy days, we smile and look at the falling flowers.

Female: In the snowy season, we toast to the moon.

Male: Such a feeling.

Female: Such a journey.

Together: We went through it together.

Female: I wish you can love me until the land becomes old and the sky becomes desolated.

Male: I wish you can accompany me to the cape and the ends of the world.

Together: Even if I have to start everything all over again, I will not change my decision.

Together: I have chosen you. You have chosen me.

Female: I certainly will love you loyally.

Male: I certainly will accompany you until the seas are dry and the rocks are crumbled.

Together: Even if I return to the beginning, this is still my only decision.

Together: I have chosen you. You have chosen me. This is our choice.

Male: We went through the spring and fall.

Female: We see of today and tomorrow again.

Male: Day after day.

Female: Month after month. Year after year.

Together: Our heart will not change.

Together: I certainly will love you loyally.

Together: I certainly will accompany you until the seas are dry and the rocks are crumbled.

Together: Even if I return to the beginning, this is still my only decision.




I had chosen my path wats urs………

Well done 22nd JCRC...

Dear blog,

Hall dinner was great but I don’t know whether I should be disappointed or sad. The venue was great and the food was superb. But we did not expect the turnout to be so good. We can only have 12 tables of 12 chairs in the ball room and we added another 20 chairs just in case. However which these amount of chairs were still not enough for everyone, we tried together with the management to solve this problem but there were limitation in how much we can do. The club house ran out of chairs. In the end most of our JCRC do not have a chair.

However I am extremely please with this event. It is not because the turn was good or the food was superb. But it was the effort I saw from my JCRC that made this event a success. Everyone from the starting of the planning to the preparation and on the actual day itself knew what need to done and all of them took their initiative. The videos were the best and I guess Shiwei really work hard to bring to us such touching videos.

Finally my term is ending soon, what it be like one year from now. Will there still be a hall dinner, will the respond be as good, and will there be even a JCRC. All these uncertainties will be the biggest challenge to the next com. But rests assure the next pres that I will be here to help cos hall 2 spirit is always in my heart.


Thanks 22nd JCRC and Hall 2 ROCKS!!!

Catch report from jurong island

I was called upon to organize a fishing trip for my friend’s friends and they are all new to fishing. I quickly suggest to them to try day fishing off tekong area as the catch was pretty good over the past few weeks. But all of them prefer to fish at night so there is only one option which is to fish ard southern island or off Jurong Island near the near firing area.

The night they chose was a tough and challenging one as the current is very strong from evening to the next day early morning. So I guess I have to dig up all my heavy tackle for them. We managed to buy 2kg of kelong sotong which in the end we used only half a kg.

Finding the correct boat was tough as it is hard to find a boat to fit 9 ppl in it. Finally one of my friend managed to get a boat at from pandan river and I cant remember his name, it is a malay boatman.

Anyway we met up in the evening and headed out to our first spot off tuas reclaim land breakwaters as we can’t fish in the open channel as the current was still very strong. The water is pretty calm and we managed to get more than 30 pics of sotong. All of them had fun catching them too. I had only 4 heavy rods and decided to lend my rods to them and I will settle for handline.

We spent the whole night ard the breakwaters and managed only 3 ack ard 1kg. However nothing was landed on rods, all on handline only. 2 by the capt and one by me. Ard 5am we decided to move out to the open waters near the live firing area. I got a big bite shortly after we anchored but I loss the fish as I did not set the hook properly. Mins later the capt bought up 1 ack ard 3kg. Wat a waste!!!! I hooked up another fresh sotong and was praying hard to God for another chance. True enough the bite came and the fish is on. After putting out a good fight on my handline, a 3kg plus ack was hauled up, this woke everyone and everyone started to fish. However dog fish decided to pay some of us a visit.

Suddenly one of my friends was hooked onto a monster that was peeling his line in an alarming rate. I knew was something real big as my charter special will only get bullied if the fish is above 10kg. The way the fish fight don’t seems to be a ray but looks more like a chermin to me as it keeps on making strong runs. Finally after 20 min of fight, we saw some colour, it was sliver but alittle longish so chermin is out. Could it be threadfin? Hahaha… it was a duri aka marine catfish. This is the biggest marine catfish I seen so far. I est it ard 12-14kg.

Anyone have any other guess?

Overall catch
Ack 5 ( 3 1kg, 2 3kg) all on handline
Duri 12kg
A few kelong chi, dog fish

I guess the most traditional method maybe the best method after all.

On the whole with such a strong current night we still managed to bring out a number of decent catch, I feel it is a good outing. I guess my friends had a great time talking cock, catch sotong and witnessing big fishes been caught. I really enjoy the company and I hope I had slowly poisoned them with some fishing’s drugs. One day they will be like us been addicted to fishing hehhe!!!

My DC is finally back after it died on me last week. I will upload the pics soon. cheers Samuel

finally....

Dear blog,

My weekend cant get any better. It started off with an over night fishing trip off southern island. It started off badly as we were late due to some last min cock up and miscommunication but it was back on track the moment we landed our first fish. That night was interesting as most of our fish we caught were using kelong sotong instead of the always reliable live sotong. Anyway my good buddy was in top form as he landed the most fish and also the biggest too, 13kg leopard ray. I will try to post some pic after I get my digital camera fixed.

The next highlight was on sat evening when my team finally won our first game after losing 2 games in a row. However what made my day was that I finally got my confident back. I was scoring and getting the rebound that I used to be and playing with more composure now. Finally after screwing up some games, I found some confident back. Just hope I keep up my play style and continue to win the remaining 11 games in division B basketball league.

She msg me again. She said that she don’t bear to let me go but she is still confused about what she wants. Haiz. I told myself so many time that I have to move on and forget abt the past. But every time she msg me I will suddenly feel that there is some hope. Some hope that ‘the day’ will come, ‘the day’ that I waited for so long. But she always never concluded after msging me and left me hanging there. So many times she did it to me, and yet why am I still waiting for her. Why why why……..

Every time she msg me, I will be so happy as I know she still thinks of me. But every time she does that, I will keep telling myself that ‘the day’ may happen. How can I ever move on? I need to be decisive and make up my mind fast. But my heart is so weak and soft. How can I get over so one I once love so much?

I did ask her abt what she really wants. A guy will love you always and will be willing to give up and leave everything behind just for her or a guys who she thinks will last and give her what she think she really wants. But what do she really want? Big house or fast car or loving family and husband or what?

I told myself so many times that life goes and I should not get some affected by this matter. But the last 3 months was the most miserable time of my life. This is the song of the moment.

How do I
Get through one night without you
If I had to live without you
What kind of life would that be?
Oh I need you in my arms
Need you to hold
Your my world my heart my soul
If you ever leave
Baby you'd take away everything good in my Life.

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And tell me now
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever, ever survive?
How do I
How do I
O how do I live?.

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Without you
There'd be no sun in my sky
There would be no love in my life
There would be no world left for me
And I
Baby I don't know what I would do
I would be lost if I lost you
If you ever leave
Baby you would take away everything real in My life

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And tell me now
How do I live without you
I want to know
How do I breathe without you
If you ever go
How do I ever ever survive?
How do I
How do I
O how do I live?...

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Please tell me baby..

How do I go on?