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Fishing With Willie

wassup — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:34:03 +0000

Once upon a time, I went fishing with Willie in the sea around Pulau Aur off Mersing. I think I went fishing with him 3 or more times and my group enjoyed every fishing trips despite having the horrendous experience of engine broke down with no land in sight. That was more than 10 years ago.

We used to charter a boat from Mersing and stayed on Pulau Dayang. Then Willie would take us to fishing spot where we would hook up bait fish to attract bigger fishing. We spent the entire day on the boat fishing with Willie.

This June, I intend to go deep sea fishing again. And I am looking for fishing kaki.

But I lost Willie’s contact. I searched for Willie using Google, no luck. Then my brother found his web page, web.singnet.com.sg/~fishww.

I called him earlier today and he remembered my name!

It was nice to be remembered. I mean he brought so many people to go fishing and he actually remembered us. He recalled vividly that trip when one member of our group forgot her passport when we were already at the Causeway.

Maybe that’s the reason why I still look for him when I wanted to go fishing in Malaysia.

Bukit Timah Nature Reserve Trekking

wassup — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:23:12 +0000

I had been to the top of Bukit Timah hill many times but today is my first trek at Bukit Timah nature reserve. We did not take the usual route but the more difficult off-the-map route which took me nearly 3 hours to complete.

This Bukit Timah trek organised by Kian Ann was more challenging than my usual 11km route around MacRitchie Reservoir. I think the trees at Bukit Timah are taller than those at MacRitchie Reservoir. And the beautiful scenery… Singapore Quarry view from Seraya Hut is stunning.

Singapore Mountain Spring Water?

This stream at Bukit Timah may well be Singapore very own mountain spring water – no NEWater added.

The kids don’t get the chance to play with such natural “longkang” water anymore.

See more of my Bukit Timah Trekking Photos at Flickr.

Going for a Walk at MacRitchie

wassup — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:31:01 +0000

Finally! After lazing around for more than a year, I am going to restart my walk at MacRitchie reservoir. I used to walk the MacRitchie trail every month in 2006-2007 and visited the MacRitchie treetop walk.

MacRitchie Reservoir Walk

Date: 10 August 2008
Time: 0830h
Venue: MacRitchie Reservoir

If you are interested to join in the walk and get to know some of the most avid trekkers in Singapore, visit the blog on Trekking Singapore and Beyond now.

For those who have not walked into the forest around MacRitchie reservoir, you may be surprised by the beauty of our very scarce nature reserve.

MacRitchie Nature Trails

MacRitchie’s Giant Millipede

[Updated: 10 Aug 2008]

It was an enjoyable walk – about 5km. The air was cool and fresh. We didn’t expect such a large group. However, it was still manageble and fun social gathering overall. We started at 8.30am sharp and finished at 10am.