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Saturday, January 23, 2010
A moment spent alone doing something you enjoyed
I have several hobbies such as playing music, fishing and table tennis, though sometimes I have not enough time to do all my hobbies. Occasionally, I get to go for table tennis and playing music but I am usually too busy with homework that I do not have the time to do so. The hobby that I can enjoy the most would be fishing as it can calm down the nerves and stress after a hectic week. The place that I usually like to go for fishing is Pasir Ris Park as it is legal and it is usually not so filled with people.
I usually come at 9am as it is the time where I can catch the most fish or occasionally, prawns and crabs which I, being a kind hearted soul, would normally throw them back into the water as they were not edible rather than leave them on the shore to torture themJ. One day, on Sunday morning, my friends "predicted" that I would have no fish to catch that day. As I was not a superstitious person, I was determined to prove them wrong and decided to bring back my fish (es) to show them. (This was not my usual practice as I fish for fun and usually throw the fishes back into the water).
So I set out and started to fish, strangely the fishes did not appear as quickly as last time but I saw other people having good day fishing, it seemed that the fishes or seafood just did not want to be caught by me. As the day dragged on, my face became directly proportionately longer with the shadows. I decided that I would just try 1 more time. So I threw the line and immediately got a bite, so I fought the fish and finally landed it. It was a big whopper my friends would be silent……..HAHAHA…... I could feel the wind blowing through my hair and I felt relaxed……………….
Everybody was left, I was alone and I enjoyed this moment of mixture of relaxation and satisfaction. Later when I showed my friends the whopper, they said that it was just a bluff, trying to discourage me. After that I threw the fish back into the water (It was still alive because I put it in a pail with water from the river). Actually, what I felt happy about was not that I caught a whopper, but I had a good hobby helps me to relax and train my patience. It was indeed the special moment that I spent doing something I enjoyed alone.