How I celebrated my New Year

This year is rather special, I celebrated new year on the sea :) . Darling and I drove to Msia to a Kelong off Sibu Islands. Initially we were worried that there wld still be floods at Kota Tinggi, luckily the water subsided as claimed by the papers.

3 days on the kelong, doing nothing but eat, sleep, fish, laze around...the tranquility of the place made me felt that days seemed longer than it was in the cities. The breeze blowing in the face, numbing every part of the body. I relished the simple pleasure of casual chitchats with the fishing kakis. Not forgetting the adraline rush of having a fish hooked up when minutes went by.

Lessons can be learnt too: sometimes I was not patient enough or maybe my skills was not good enough to ensure that the fish really took the bite, halfway thru winding the reel, some of the biggest fish managed to struggle off the hook. Haiz, cld feel a sense of disappointment. But quickly I recovered and drop the hook for another catch. The second time round, I made sure that I paid enough attention to the fish taking the bite and waited long enough before hookup again. Most of the time, I am rewarded with another slightly smaller catch if not a bigger fish again...thus, we should never be dishearten whenever we met with obstacles or failed in our task, learnt the lessons and get back into it, u wll never know what you will get, it cld be even better that what you have lost.

Lazing around in an area of not more than 5000sqft might seem boring to most of us. But it is a good time to rest, reflect on the past year and decide whats going forward in the year ahead.

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