Saturday, July 30, 2011

I woke up feeling rather wasted. i did not go and drink. I am not the sort that enjoys the company of alcohols , i simply love to use it instead. ahhem. Anyway, read in between the lines and you'd understand .

Truth is , i went fishing with ah lai's cousin, he is a nice chap. I like talking to him, but like some other people i know, he always like to have the winning end in terms of argument or point of view. I dont find that irritating , just amusing why some people are so adamant about views.

yesterday is really zero fighter man, no bite cept for catfishes. I dont take catfish as a real fish. I dont like it at all. Many people say that once a cat fish bites your hook/bait, you gotta change the rig because catfish has a certan slim and other fishes wont like it. how true that is , i wonder.

Anyway , back to my first comment on me feeling wasted.. I fished the entire night , and into the morning and i didnt get anything, on top of that , i wasted time , and energy . I also have to take into consideration about transport in the morning for sometimes when i cant take it , i take a cab back home from Bedok and the trip itself will cost about $22 dollars.

Let me do some calculations:

Live prawns: 12
Dead Prawns: 3
Water : 1.15
Food : 6.50
If Edwin (lai's cousin) didnt give me a ride down : Taxi 22
Taxi back home : 22

Rough total spent for a 1 day fishing expedition : $66.65
And totals hours spent : 7 hours.

Tell me am i wasting my time or should i plan it in such a way where i go when the tide is upcoming and leave when the tide is gone ?

When i was younger i am sure i wouldnt have gone into fishing , it is clearly a money sucking sport/game what ever u call it. I was so much more objective driven when i was in poly days . What happened to that me ? ):

Remember abt me wanting to get the bike license ? Till now i've only went for 1 lesson . And the CAAS paper ? I failed the first one and i didnt dare to retake . Also the bomb stand for GSE, i also was so enthu in the first place and now, it is nowhere . I need to put my life in place and put things right.

First thing i can do is to pack . Start packing my stuff - fishing, biking, archery. I have so many archery stuff which i dont even do it now. Its been left in a corner to collect dust. I feel so sad to see it there. Time to give/sell it away. Looking at how much i've spent into the sport, i feel a little heartache parting with it. sigh... but what have to go has to.

Posted by dear benji at 9:45 PM