Prawning Feast Fest!

I’ve heard of the term, ‘prawning’ lots of times. In fact, my sister has done it many times herself. It ‘destresses’ her, she says. So we arranged to do it last weekend. It was quite a big group of 6 adults and one child. Jasmine, Ken and Marcus their son; Justine, Jasmine’s sister (our wedding MC), Min and Andy, Julien and I.

I have never fished in my life before, so when they gave us this pot of live worms, I didn’t know what to do with it. Min, being the prawning veteran that she is already, tore up the worms into little pieces with her bare hands. EEEEEEEW! I couldn’t. I just get too squirmy.

So anyway, we paid $26 for 2 hours, and caught a total of 48 shrimps! They’re huge ones too. Apparently they’re not like fish where they just bite into the bait. The prawns first hold on to the bait and then swim around a little to a place they feel is safe, before they bite into the bait. So we let them take the bait and follow them around as they swim and wait for the bite before we pull them up.

I had a lot of fun overall. What did we do with the shrimps?

We went to the hawker nearby, ordered claypot noodles with shrimp, rice noodles with shrimp, and steamed garlic shrimp, but gave him our bag of prawns. What a feast!!! Your own catch always tastes better.

Very satisfying indeed.

Idiosyncrasies

Idiosyncrasies, we all have them. Even cats I realised.

Panda has this odd love for my facial cotton tissue bag. I don't know why. It's like his favourite play thing at the moment. I disapprove of course, since it's used to wipe my face, and it ain't nice wiping your face with cotton that's been dragged all over the floor smelling of cat drool. He knows it the little sneak! First time, I let him at it, and he really went all out on that poor little bag.

Second time he knew I was watching, so he took a different route/approach to sneak himself to get to the bag. I have videos of this but I can't seem to load them up.

Third time I caught him, and that was it. This time he had taken the route BEHIND the curtains where he thought I wouldn't see him. He was so busted. Tattered but still salvageable this facial tissue bag goes into the drawer where his little paws can't get to. I'd have to be careful though. They KNOW how to open drawers when you don't close them proper. I found mouse one morning sleeping his head off in one of our drawers. Apparently, either Julien or I had taken something out of it the night before and forgot to fully close it so there was a tiny gap. Mouse had conveniently opened the drawer, and climbed in for a snooze.

When Four Friends Get Together

It all started with an arrangement for dinner together. Julien, well being Julien, decided he should have his hair done like that for the rest of the meal.

This gave Jimme and Yihmay inspiration for a funny face. Then Yihmay asked me to give it a go.

So I did.

Suddenly everyone else wanted to try.

Then Jimme recommended a photo taking method with flash that captures fast moving objects at an instant. He showed us how it was done by vibrating his lips.

His picture turned out so well that we all decided to give it a go.

Then we decided to have a competition. On who can do the funniest face. We did this by capturing our profiles while shaking our heads really fast from left to right.

Yihmay: Not Funny

Me: Trying Too Hard

Jimme: Getting there


But guess who won hands down??!!!




JULIEN: WINNER !!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR MAKING DINNER SO PLEASURABLY MEMORABLE!!!!