j a n e t

sunday was spent with my family minus my sister, plus maid at Lower Peirce Reservoir.

i kept suggesting prawning as a family activity but my mother was reluctant to pay for us to catch prawns that was in a tank.
so, she brought me to the reservoir, where it's FREE. ok but i have to admit the experience was about the same as if it were paid, only that you cant eat the prawns!


this picture's very weini-blog-esque right! anyway this is just to show how wideeee the reservoir is and how clean it looks.


my mother got excited about this, "why never bring your umbrella!!! then you can pose with it!!"

like macritchie, there were monkeys too! this one has got big balls (both literal and literature)


the balls (audacity) to come near our picnic mat!!!

anyway it stole off with a big bag of keropok later in the day! but a passerby-fisherman came by to save the day by running after the monkey to the bushes and whacking his plastic chair at the monkey and got back the lousy-bitter keropok. i was half hoping the monkey will make away with it, but my mum was screaming so much and the stranger was so nice. oh well.



i purposely wore that yellow, "couple-shirt" thing i got with jamie a loooong time ago because it matched what chloe darling was wearing.

and true enough there were random aunties who came by to see the prawns and ask whether i am the mother. so i looked at my mum and my mum just grinned and chuckled at them and i assumed they think my mum was fertile enough to bear this little "sister" of mine. and there was a look of disbelief (or was it disgust!) or was it mischief in their eyes!

ugly slippers! this is where we catch prawns.



going between the gaps of/ underneath the rocks to attract the prawns and then swiping down on them with a net!

oh and my mum wanted to play frisbee. thank god for maids!!! nobody wanted to play with her, and the maid cant reject right!! so she kept throwing and the maid kept picking. at one point, the frisbee went into the water and started carrying it away! so Hero II Of The Day, a random fisherman saved the day by reeling in the frisbee with his fishing line, much to my mum's delight.
mum to hero after she gets her frisbee, "you want some prawns to catch fish with..!?"



result of the day: 11 mini prawns which only 2 survived. coz MY DAD PUT THEM IN THE BOTTLE WITH THE MINERAL WATER still inside! wonderful...