Fishing with Ginway

Had fishing with Ginway 2 weeks back, since he was complaining of boredom at home. On the train, I realised I forgot to bring an icebox and a knife. Met Alvin Ong at Bedok MRT and Ginway at the interchange. Ginway scolded me for being a free-loader, unlike Eddie Cai who was one a few hrs before. Even Kunting had brought some stuffs (well, actually forced to buy by Ginway) excluding his physics tomes. Had a long stroll to the jetty, when Ginway realised he forgot to bring fishing hooks. -.-'

Passed the time waiting for Ginway by eating his rations of potato chips. Alvin Ong tried to extend the fishing net by adding 2 wooden poles to it, which was useless in the end. Yeofeng came later to enjoy the breeze, and left feeling obviously bored.

Tried to have magi (crap, how to spell?) mee on the jetty by doing it the scouts way. It failed terribly. Even though we had Alvin Ong's scouting experience, we wasted half a box of matchsticks and spoilt a lighter due to strong winds. Our fishing adventure also started out quite horrendously, with the four of us trying to put the hooks, bait, weights and rod to form a proper fishing rod. In the end, we had to eat our pride and ask an old man to fix up our rod. Looks can be deceiving. Though he appeared knowledgeable, the only audible things he warbled was "Fix it the Apollo way". He tried to fix it, then left hurriedly back to his fishing spot, leaving us back to square 1. Never heard of Apollo way before. Ginway obviously looked pissed and consulted another young man, whose actions talked louder than his words.

According to Eddie Cai, the highest tide should come around 9pm. We sat at the furthest right corner of the jetty at East Coast, witnessing people coming and leaving until only some gangsters(gulp, i think) and us were left. Good thing we had Alvin Ong and Eddie Cai. Talked trash throughout the night, until there's no energy left in us to talk. (By the way, the old man with his wife had a much more decent looking net than us, one that can actually touch the sea). Threw away the disgusting fish back to the sea, the hard rubbery dead fish that was given to us as a consolation prize from the old man of our fishless night. Get scolded again by Gin Way, for losing his only fishing rod when I valiantly attempted to fish some major catch, only to find out that the hooks get stuck to the jetty legs. Meanwhile, Alvin and Eddie were making a mockery of Ginway, of how Ginway said that there were many sotongs to be caught.

At the end of the unfruitful night, we trudged towards the nearest toilet, had a washup before dozing off at a table. Left at around 6am, as Ginway had to pack up for his physics makeup lesson in a few hours time. Alvin, Eddie and I had a hearty breakfast at Parkway Macs before splitting off in different ways.