Prawning!

i joined jon and his cute friends from poly for prawning last night! it was such a wonderful experience. i hardly do such... 'not so clean' activities. haha. we went to this prawning farm (do you call it prawning farm even?) at Bishan (601 Sin Ming Ave) and the place SURE was CROWDED! there were like 8 of us and there weren't any visible space for such a big group but we very thickskinly squeezed ourselves at some side of the pond area, beside this damn skillful uncle (ok TW calls him Ah Pek). we dragged a lot of chairs to our side and some how or rather blocked up the walk away a bit but do we reallly care? not, so much. haha. Then! we started catching our prawnssss!

we had 2 rods and shared amongst each other. MAN it was FUN! but since it was so crowded our line keeps getting tangled with other people's bait and hooks and such. at first we only caught like, 4 (like really slowly) and watched the damn skillful uncle catching the prawns like every other minute! so demoralised! when we catch like one, we were all like, YAY! SO BIG or YAY! SO CUTE! but the uncle sitting beside us have like no feeling like that. he had lke 2 rods and some other special bait. season one this uncle. respect.

anyways, i think i caught a total of 4 prawns? jon caught like 5 or 6? huiting caught like 3 or 4 too, cos she only prawned for awhile. not bad for a first timer! I think HJ caught like, 4? :) the rest of the catch, credits goes to TW. he is the pro-master! At the end of 3 hours, with total catch count at 41, we went to skewer our prawn with satay sticks then BBQ them at the pits provided. Oh yea, and we sprinkled the prawns with salt! So YUMMY. i had like, 3 prawns? there were like 6 of us at the end so i supposed everyone had about the same number. :)

but i must say, i am quite grossed out by the condition of the place. not that there is ANYTHING wrong with the place, it is a prawn pond/farm la. of cos it will be wet and dirty. but i a bit cannot stand it. i know it is just me, and my hygiene problems, nothing pretty much to do with the place. everyone seems to be enjoying themselves! haha. Leroy very kindly gave most of us a lift home and the first thing we did was to BATHE! i used like damn alot of dettol body wash sia! so freaked out about the dirtiness of the place! haha!

next time i must prawn again! and catch more PRAWNS!