Kukup Wkend

Had a good time over the wkend. Ate so much my body started feeling funny. this is, of coz, after always eating just enuff in europe. Overate every meal. hahahah

breakfast was along the way from JB, at a place called 88. good porridge, dimsum, coffee.

lunch was at kukup town, seafood 8 course meal.

we then took a boat across the muddy waters of straits of malacca to kukup ayer masin - the kampung on the mangrove swamp. vendor(s?) came by and sold us otah, coconuts, ice cream, while we tok cock and played werewolf card games. then it was time for tea break.

actually i wasn't keen on eating anything more than greenbean soup. but i saw the curry calling out to me to add it to the beehoon. so bo pian. and i had to wash it down with another bowl of green bean soup.

after that we went out with a fishing boat to see see look look. the boat went out to empty 100m long nets, and they mainly caught hair bee, but quite a number of others got caught as well: a small pomfret, a horseshoe crab, a baby octopus, full grown orange/red/black prawns, a myriad of small fish, 1 or 2 small eels and 20 unfortunate HUGE 30cm diameter jellyfish. they die very quickly once in nets, and the fishermen didn't process jellyfish. kinda sad.

then i tried my hand at fishing. didn't hv much success getting a bite, nor holding on to the rod. was getting bored, so let others try. the only fish i saw in the muddy milo-kaukau mangrove waters was a trumpetfish which was right at the surface, but it wasn't interested in the hooked prawn that chased it (as opposed to the predator chasing the prey)

next was bbq dinner. i never had time to feel hungry. best satay i ever had - no fat meat, yet so tender i hardly needed to chew. huge prawns, usual stingray, otah, and so much more i forgot then all. i vaguely remember the usual boring stuff like chicken wings, sausages and fishballs... at most i ate only one of each.

as we were finishing, the otah vendor came by with fireworks. yay. we fooled around with rockets, spinning firecrackers, and had our own mini-ndp-in-a-can. i had so much fun i didn't bother with taking videos. hahhah

then i went fishing again. for quite a while it was boring, watching others catch some fish, setting free those that were caught by others in the afternoon and barely alive, including a trumpet fish (maybe the same one earlier). but not long after i lamented my luck was always low and my line was shortest among the guys, i got a bite!

the fight was short but tough and exhilarating. not that my mind registered it much. and soon i was waving a stingray inches away from my frens' faces. took a photo of it, but no one was going to eat it, so we decided to set it free.

easier said than done. i stepped on her stinging tail and tried to dislodge my hook from her mouth, and somehow something red and bloody looking came out from her belly. initially i thot i must hv stepped too hard and squeezed her intestines out, but one of the guys said she was giving birth. whether she pushed the baby out from panic, i dunno. i struggled with her to pull the sharp hook out of her mouth, and felt her pain. in the end someone else managed to do it. and i, her tormentor, quickly dropped her back into the sea. thankfully, she swam away.

after that, a catfish was caught by someone else, with the hook much deeper in - couldn't be seen from outside. by the time the hook was forcefully yanked from its throat, it was half dead. i kicked it into the sea, and it floated away with the current.

that was it. i had enuff of fishing. pretty soon i kept my line and went to bed. the constant thot was that if i see a stingray when i dive, i wld be estatic! and here i was torturing a pregnant one with a hook. i'm not fishing again.

next morning i woke up, found out we still had abt 3 more hrs, and went back to sleep. after a not-so-big breakfast, packed up and went for kelong visit - picked up urchin, dogfish shark and some small crab to take photos!!

across the milo kau for the last time, we reached back kukup town to hv 9 course seafood lunch. then take van to jusco - did some shopping + dinner. then with some extra ringgit, the driver dropped us all the way at city hall at 10plus.

damn relak wkend. so i wanna bring my closest frens there next time round.......
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this entry was half written exactly 1 mth ago, didn't hv time to complete it and forgot abt it until now. tired after work lah, so chop chop finished it lor. hahaha