Beetle as Pets

A reporter from a local magazine for pet lovers has interviewed me again on the beetle issue...... and this is for the February edition........ A total of 5 pages article write up about collecting and keeping as pets,...... Eh!?? It wrote saying that I am an expert who providing the know how in collecting and keeping live beetles...... Since when did I become an expert on oncology??.......... He He He!

Eel Fishing

"Let's go Eel fishing!"...... said Takeshi, What?! My last eel fishing was during my childhood time many many years ago..........

So, we went up to North Sekinchan for Eel fishing at paddy fields.........First we have to look for harvested paddy stalks,..... and for easy locating the eel nesting hole.......Some scenery shots at the paddy field.....

Our Eel fishing master Hoe, refreshing my mind on how to locate and lure the eel out from it's nesting hole.......After I have landed 3 Eels with a fresh cut chicken meat....... I even tried this half cut Berkley Gulp,........ and it was not too bad at all.........

Here is another Eel hole....... You just need to shake the lure a little bit at it's opening...... and wait.......

The Eel can't resist the tempting shake at it's front door and decided to take a bite........

You see! Here's how you catch an Eel....... He He Heh!!

Oh! Master Hoe......... landed another one..........

By noon, we had caught more than 20 Eels.....and headed back home.....

Eel is a delicacy in South East Asia,...... we had it fried in Spicy Chinese Soya Source.......
And Japanese Tempura style....... and it was finger licking good indeed!!!......

A Short Day Fishing Around Pangkor Island

With the misses all happily enjoying themselves by the poolside with the kids at Lumut Swiss Garden Resort........Early morning, awaiting for our fishing boat........As usual, the boatman is always late. With nothing else to do, we loitered and fingered with our next best companion - the i-Phone........Late for 30 minutes,........ our boatman finally came for us guys for a day fishing trip around the island smiling like nothing had happen........... Well, this always happens in Malaysia...... Sighhh!!

Everyone eagerly scrambled on board the 2x200Hp 4-stroke Yamaha Outboard Engine powered vessel which can easily hit a good speed of 40 knots on such a fine day.........

And off we went......

Seems like good weather ahead of us......

Enjoying the ride.......

We anchored at this spot suggested by the boatman.......

Some hours past by but nothing came out of the water...... The water is too chocky for a good catch here due to the the heavy rain fall a day before. We decided to move to more clean waters.......

....And YES, Dennis' first hit - a 700g whopper easily.

.... And the hits keep on coming.....

Everyone trying to out do each other........

Double STRIKE! Yippy!!!

And this is mine for dinner........ Heh heh heh!

......Can't wait for dinner tonight!

After a while of frenzy squid jigging, we headed off to another spot to try our luck........

Calm clean waters awaits us......

.....And this is the SPOT!

Luck continued for Dennis, again he had the first strike.......

Some of the catches for the day......My turn to get a small Queen Fish............. Yeah!

More catches................ And dinner that night was wonderful...... broiled baby octopuss and........... catches of the day ended up as mouth watering dishes.....

Deep fried small Queen Fish...... Ummmm...Yummy! Yummy!!.....and big sized claw mud crab dinner.........