For honour and glory ☜|☞

As my date to enlistment draws nearer, I just can't find enough time to write a decent blog post any more. Probably, this will be the last of Jc's blog post on this blog . If you noticed, I don't even have time to blog for the rest of my thailand trip. My time is spent going out with my mates ,fishing, going out with the girl and working too.The goal is to spend my remaining time before ns as fulfilling as possible and I guess I managed to fufill that already.


I think Ns would be significant milestone in my life as I think that it marks a conclusion to my teenage life and the beginning of adulthood for me. The thought of me with a shave head and rushing through the jungles of brunei with a rifle is still not exactly imaginable yet for myself. Probably after I'm done with the cdo training, I'll rid myself of this naive mindset and probably develop an ego to suit the experience .

I'm gonna miss the bunch of people who were always by my side during this confinement period .


Elly the girl I'm going to miss too much.

I know you've been tolerating my temperament and having not enough time to spend with you lately . Trust me even though I'm sad when I'm pissed and all, I'll feel worse when you become depressed over my emotion breakdowns. You are the person i can pour most of my true feelings to and probably, you are the person who have seen me in my worst state. If I Knew ns would come so soon I would have told you all these words slowly and dearly everyday. I've said perhaps for thousand of times , over the phone, text messages, in your face, on a card, on msn and probably through another person but I'm gonna say it to you for the first time on this blog as directly as this. I love you.



Ernest my would be best man for the wedding.



Fucker ,see la, fail napfa purposely la , extra 2 mths la.. Laugh at you~ what do you think you are trying to do when you said all those gay words at the bust stop the day before.. trying to make me cry is it! Well, I'ld give you credit for that, Its quite a good shot. Damn, I don't know what I'ld be if i don't get those not so advisable to listen to advices man. I'ld also say that although I seem to be ordering you around and treating you like shit... you are still my best candidate for the position of my best man eh .. and don't worry, I'll try to get a suitable bridesmaid accordingly to the preferences you gave me~!



The mates louis and GArY..



Don't ask me why you guys don't get the special privilege of being labeled as a category . Ay, from the talk cock sessions at fc 6 , to the disturbing the leader and dj pang session, I'ld miss all those man. Especially drinking sessions with gary talking shet after hes drunk and ernest rolling all over the place. Jeeze, don't worry dudes, after the pop .. we'll hang out together with the leader and dj pang and make fun of them ~



The peeps from the darlings..



Probably some of you wouldn't care about my state now, but ay, I still care about the bulk of you as i read through your blogs and rants about your daily life. Expressing concern would be luxury for me probably because i don't wanna make myself seem to be there only for awhile.. if thats the case , i rather not be there at all.. if you get what i mean. With that , probably i've drifted away from the hearts of you guys but I'm sure you guys would always remain close to my heart,, I'ld always feel at home when I'm hanging out with the bunch of you , even though we've not met for a long time.. haha so i guess, I'm leaving home again this time?



To miss Guo .. the zhi~



Lol, Aiya, where have you and i been la. i don't knw why I see online everyt ime i nvr go double click on you and talk to you la.. Probably Im' more busy browsing through my fishing kaki and watching youtube or something la. BUT , that don't make you less significant with contrast to them. Well, judging from everything, I guess you're doing fine ( as of 6/7/2008 10:44:36 PM) so ahah, all the best with you and you !BING~ jeeze, the name .. the name.. =/



To the people I've missed out..



I'm sorry there are jsut too many for me to type it all out, but I'll definitely remember all of you and the memories we had together. Too bad we could carve deeper ones...



Ay, with that I guess I'm pretty much ready to serve already. I think I'll make it a point to



serve my ns as happily as I could

move up to the rank as high as possible

spend enough time with the people i cared

do this shet for honour and glory.



All the best for me , and I'ld like to thank all the readers who had been reading this blog up till now .. the 516th post.. phew...

Pattaylicious

For the first couple of days of the tour , I had my trusty Dslr with me until it ran out of battery on the second day. Due to my own carelessness I've forgotten to bring along my battery charger so I got to resort to Marcus's 2mp hand phone camera to capture graphics to sugar coat the logs. Luckily I've contacted some of the fellow photographers whom join us on this trip who were kind enough to spare me their photos for my blog post and for that ,I owe a big thank you to them. With that in mind, it would pretty much explain why the posts are coming in so slowly because I've got loads of compilation and editing to do , and the 2mp camera didn't produce photographs that i deemed nice so i had to put more work on photo shop to make up for it.

Well, that being that , I'll move on to today's post~!

Thailand is well known for their wide variety of food which are both delicious and very affordable.

Their flavours were often mainly sweet or spicy or both . Although most of their dishes are available already in Singapore , you could only get the most authentic dishes from the country it self.

The tour package includes our meals and its always extremely sumptuous. We were either eating buffet all the time or our meals would be often an over kill.For example, this is a typical lunch over at pattaya..

If you think thats it, you're so darn wrong. Thats only the main dish , the rest of the steamed fishes , mussels, clams, veges , tom yum soup practically left us hands tucked while eating the imbal mountain of food. As we're situated next to the beach, our meals consisted heavily on seafood based dishes.

How ever, with that in mind, the hotel we lodged in would always often us a change in variety of food for their buffets. The buffets was something that Me and Marcus would look forward to alot in Singapore before the Thailand trip due to our insatiable appetite , however, we kinda got turned off by the idea of unlimited food by the end of the trip. I actually got tired of getting up and down the table to get myself some juice at some point that I started using my water bottle instead.

Booze over at thailand is freaking cheap at about 1.20 sgd for a bottle . I fell in love with these particular brand SINGHA which taste so much better then the rest .

As we engaged in pretty much night activities there, I also had a fair range of energy drinks to do a taste test and so far , I find that this particular brand caught my eye.Muggers out there who needs an energy boost, this will be a good one.

Another thing that gave plus points to the tour's accommodation is that the tour guides always brings and encourage us to have spa and thai massage . The price of a spa package which includes a herbal sauna and steam sauna session as well as a jacuzzi session and a thai oil massage session cost 500 bath of which, we all get to have a package free as part of the tour . To add on, the price of a simple thai massage is roughly around 190 to 250 bath per hour session thus ,its not difficult to understand why the tour guide encourages us so much to go for the massage.

After this trip, I feel like an abominable piece of lard walking around the house. Geeze, time to train up~!

Prologue:The trip to pattaya

June saw me in a more solemn light as my time to serve in NS draws nearer. The thought of the government robbing me of my life sucks . No matter how much I tried to be an optimist about Ns , I just couldn't take my head of the thought of the lack of freedom. My mum then suggested a trip to thailand before I go for Ns. Well, its been eons since I've went overseas with my family thus I thought this would be a good time.Perhaps the last time I could go with them till a very long time.

The trip was fun and I've made lots of friends and learnt a good wealth of knowledge from the trip . I'll continue blogging and posting more pictures of my trip through out the next few days so keep you eyes peeled ppl!

Remaining pictures from fatt the kelong

I passed my cameras around the crew and some of the pictures they've took are simply too remarkable to be missed out . So here goes...

Freakish weather that broke out suddenly . Strong gales, rough seas, dark skies.. Looks menacing and something you won't get to experience in singapore.

Wei sheng preparing his bait . The both of them , wei sheng and ct had been diligently working hard and fishing through out the trip despite the fact they haven't really fished much before. Surprisingly they are both keen learners and the trip sparked the both of them to get their own fishing tackles.

Jy with his fanciful post which seemed to point to his Hershly kisses. Zzz, I'm so gonna stick with my MnMs...

This is actually emitted from the 1 meter long todak I caught. I got no idea what it was but its agreed by the fellows that its fish sperm. Well, at least its of the same color..

White spotted grouper. This is one of the pet fishes reared at the kelong, its supposed to be an endangered species and it fetches high prices in the market.

Doesn't this picture remind you of a scene in alien vs predator?

Mahjong is available at the kelong at a minimal rental fee of 15 rm per table. I don't understand why people go all the way to play mahjong there though. Probably it feels different playing mahjong under the stars..

The fish less nights.. Ay, this picture is indeed demoralising for all anglers i guess. Still rods, lined up against each other in the dark. ~ depressing...

Kai.. PLease do not do something like that to me if we happened to be in the same bunk at sotc..I'll freak man~!Booze was relatively cheap up north. This two bottles only cost around 20 odd rm , which is like a fraction the price you pay in Singapore for something like that..

My trust worthy and old tica stream star paired with my noodle rod for the todaks. Love the new red line =)
And this is the surf rod william gave it to me. Love its sexy sleekness and its light weight.. Yenkai, stretching his legs while sleeping and while doing that showing off his well grown pubic hair on the shins.. Soon, packing up for the journey back home. I'll be having appointments with him for the next couple of weeks for toman hunting.

And here we've come to the last pic of the whole series. Please be mentally prepared for the greatness of the picture.. here goes....


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The ultimate greatness .. from team singha beer.. we have Mr SCT winner of the 2008 sibu kelong beauty pageant~~~~~~~

Fatt the kelong.. part 2

So , as I continued to fish for todaks, i realised that my puny little kunings aren't flying far enough out due to their petite build. In a desperate attempt, I used a palm sized kuning and I casted it out as far as possible.

Luckily, the wind was blowing towards the direction where i was casting, so it brought the bait furthur out. Satisfied with the distance I've casted, I placed my rod on my rod holder and let the current drift my bait out. Ernest was beside me and we're starting a conversation when line started flying out from my open bail . I held on to my trained composure as i waited for the fish to swallow the bait fish. After 30 seconds I decided that it was enough wait and I closed my bail and waited for the fish to make its final run and striked. The strike connected and the fish was on. Line was constantly pouring out of my reel as the nemesis on the other end charged off with its twin powered turbo engine at full blast. As i desperately tried to regain line into my barren spool,the lunch bell went off. Damn.bad timing.. Ernest although complaining that lunch is waiting stayed on to watch the fight and later on gave me support by helping me gaff the fish up. By the time the fish was nearer to the kelong, there was an incoming boat to the kelong. To make matters worst.. the fish swam towards the direction of the boat . I decided to take the chances and tighten my drag and forced the fish back to the correct course. Which it did. Soon, the todak came into the gaffing range for ernest to gaff it up . While on the way back to our ice box, ernest was saying that the fish is smaller then the rest and all. I didn't think so and i took out my measuring scale and measured.

It was a freaking 1 meter long todak and it weighed around 2 kg! Get a load of that. The todak frenzy continued as i landed more of the latter using the same method. All of them are liked sizes too. Soon complained that i should end the todak frenzy which eventually I did as i thought about the limited space we have in our ice boxes. I later regretted that decision though as I got to know that the crew wanted to bring more todaks back home.

Night came and we continued eging again. This time round, every body had a fair share of squid as each of us caught at least one squid. After which, the peeps began setting up the bq pit yk brought along.

Our determination to get big fishes at night at the kelong went to the drain . The fishes just won't bite our baits even with the fresh squid that was presented to them , we still yield no bites.It was all down to the wrong fishing season, current and just plain o' lack of luck I guess..

The night's catches for the squid section was pretty decent though, we ended up with more the 30 over squid . After degutting the fish, I've decided to end the night and turn in.

The following day saw jy waking me up early to fish. He went jigging and got himself some more bait fishes including some godzilla sized tambans . He even got a whiting. For my side I tried todaks again however , for some freakish reason, all our bait fishes died over night and I'm only left with the small one's Jy jigged up . I did managed to get a couple of small todaks though and that kinda summed up the whole trip.

The bunch of us were quite dissappointed with the catch rate though. The usual bjt peeps were hoping for bigger catches then what we have . For that, i express my apology because I didn't managed to fore see that the seasonal timing wasn't right for the big fishes to bite. Despite that, I hope all were able to enjoy the trip as much as I do , I felt that its one of my best fishing trips in terms of the company.Hopefully we'll get to fish together again soon.. lastly, tight lines~

Let these lyrics be my voice and relieve the pain that runs in my veins..

This is one of my all time favourite song from one of my favourite bands.
Its nostalgic and I guess it'ld help me pass through this emotional period of my life.
I don't have and don't wanna to talk to any one about it...
Listen to my cries and my pain from the song..
Let these lyrics be my voice and relieve the pain that runs in my veins..

Fatt the kelong.. part 1

With adequate planning, and a group of 7 enthuiasts,dawn of may 4th 2008 saw a bunch of people making their way to the Sibu island's on a fishing trip. Out of the the 4 kelongs , Ah fatt kelong was selected as our place of stay due to its large space and the fact that its the nearest to the open sea. Spirits were high and the strangers in the group soon became good friends who would look out for each other during the trip.

With our efficient driver , Mr wong, we had enough time to for break fast over at a humble ba kut teh stall over at kota tinggi and still reach the jetty 20 mins before the boat departs.We brought along heavy arsenal for the trip and it was quite a chore carrying it around.

After paying the jetty taxes, we hop on to the ah fatt kelong's ferry to the kelong itself. The water turned from jade green to a clear turquois color which heighten the mood of the group as many of us haven't seen such blue waters before in any of our fishing trips.

We reached the kelong at around 10 a.m and we immediately we setup our tackles for fishing . While a few of us started jigging for bait fishes, the rest were busy setting up our live well . We had a problem with the location of the ac supply due to fact that the wires to our pumps were too short. However, upon plenty of adjustment , we managed to get the pumps connected and we had a fully functional live well.

The kelong had this sign which reminds visitors to throw any unwanted fishes back into the sea. I think this is a good attempt to preserve the waters around the kelong . Hopefully, we can have something like that in singapore as well.

We didn't really caught any big fishes during the first day how ever, we did managed to get a nice bunch of bait fishes and seklahs in our live well. The seklah provided quite some entertainment on light tackle, pull too hard your lead line will break , don't pull hard enough, the fish will go for refuge into the kelong stilts, use too heavy a poundage for the lead line, the seklahs won't take your jig...

Soon night fall and we started eging . Squids were plentiful at the kelong and we could see packs of 6-10 squids swimming together hunting down small fishes and nai niu har(some kinda shrimp) . The bigger ones would be wary of our jigs however, the small ones would chase down the jigs like theres no tommorrow.

The fishes didn't really took our baits even though fresh squids were used. Some malaysian uncles there were telling us that we came at the wrong time of the year for big fishes. They suggested that the monsoon period would produce better catches at the kelong and furthur more, with the jelly fish infestation , it made it even harder to fish.

I didn't had any luck fishing for todaks the first day as there wasn't any current at the kelong, so , when i woke up the next day and saw that the jelly fishes are drifting at a more gradual speed, i set up my noodle rod and began fishing for todaks. I realise that the stronger currents are furthur away from the kelong and I need to cast furthur out that. The running float was a hindered the casting distance so i removed it from the rig and managed a better distance. Surprisingly, the todaks are not as keen to take tambans as kunings. Infact,the bait fishes around the kelong consisted of alot more kunings then tambans , probably thats why.