Chinese New Year '08

Day 1: Noise & Food .

Nothign else but chat chat chat and eat eat eat!

Day 2: Fishing, Noise & Food again...

This is of course my fav part of all CNY! I always look forward to the fishing trips whenever i go back to AlorStar. There's just nothing beats spending time with my dad on trips like tat.

Some of the pics taken by my SE P910i but not very clear (i miss my SE w800i mobile's camera)

What happened?!

Got up at 3am!!! Left home at 330am to go to the fishing village where we catch our boat ride cos the low tides.

When we got to Ulu Dulang Kechil (the fishing village) it was still dark. We still have to get out of the jetty before the water is too low.

The boat man came and we loaded our things into the boat. Gosh, i forgot to take a pic of the boat we were on!

Off we went! Out in the dark ocean. Can't see a thing...hehe...we got out of the jetty til about 1km away from the kuala then we stopped and waited for the sunrise.

As soon as the sun rises we started the 45mins journey towards the open sea.

That's Gunung Jerai. One of the mountains in Kedah, besides Gunung Keriang (the one behind my house ~ check my nex post)

ME! in my jacket with the hood over my head! cos my hair was too long and was flying everywhere.

My Hero!

Those are bamboos tied with heavy rocks and thrown into the sea by the fishermen nearby. It's called toi . There are lots of toi around, all placed there by the local fishermen. Its purpose is to let the fishes make their "homes" there and for them to "play" around. It attracts them to hang around the toi so that people like us can go there and catch em! muahahaha...

This pic is actually the 5th toi that we went to. We didn't catch anything at all from the first four tois. Can you believe it? the ocean is so big and yet ZERO fishes are being caught! haih...

At last! some fishes.

My first catch was this BIGGG!!! hahaha...well, not exactly hehehe...actually we caught about 60 of em...similar sizes to that...but of course a few bigger ones...just a wee bit bigger...haha..

The catch of the day!

Blazing HOT in mid day! of course sudah sun burn la...face all peeling...hehe...

My dad taking a nap in the afternoon about 2pm. super hot! I slept for about 2 hours before starting to fish again. It's super nice to sleep in the boat with the waves rocking it...feels like i'm in a cradle again...hehe...

One of the bait (was a live ikan kembung!)kept in the a tong after we caught it from the toi. We catch our live bait and use it to get the bigger fish. The bigger fishes that were in season were the barracudas (in hokkien - bekka, in BM - tenggiri) Worth a lot of money if sell it and it makes great curry as well...

This left over was most likely eaten by a small barracuda. Cos if it's a big one it will swallow it whole...it won't just take a small bite and tatas...hehe...

Mr Boat man!

 

About 3pm, we left to go closer to an island nearby to continue fishing. Fishes here are those that hide in the rocks.

We left back to the fishing village about 330pm.

Ulu Dulang Kechil's fishing village.

Other boats

hey there...mr fishhhh...

Well tats it folks...now it's eating time. we brought some Maggi Mee but didnt manage to eat in the sea...hehe was too busy getting fishes out of our hooks...btw, the boat has got a portable stove for people to cook if want to...so, now we were on our way to eat Laksa Teluk Kechai! wOOt! bestnya!

What happened to all the fishes?!

We BBQ and ate them at night!!! hahaha...

 

Day 3: Peace & Quiet at last!