We have been so preoccupied with our work lately that we have not been using our fishing rods for quite a while. After lunch on Saturday, Croaky suggested we revisit our prawning spot at Ponggol to “try our luck again”.

To be honest, my memory of our first prawning experience was not a happy one. The lady assistant returned a mock expression when we reported that we had not caught a single prawn after the one hour session. And it was really just us! The experienced young boys opposite us at the pool were catching huge (and juicy) mantis prawns every 3 – 5 minutes. And there we were, drooling at the sight of the bucket of prawns they had.

And so we went with an open mind. Nevermind if we did not catch anything. It was fun watching other people count their catch.

This was the view taken from my seat at a corner of the pond. The area was relatively small compared to the fishing ponds at Pasir Ris. Small but concentrated, if you’d say. Just imagine every inch of the pond was a mantis prawn lay in waiting to bite your bait!

And Mr Croaky sitting patiently for the prawns to bite. The rods, hooks and the bait (a small saucer with chicken liver) were provided for upon payment.

Our very first prawn caught. I could feel it wriggling in my hands while Croaky attempted to remove the hook from its mouth. But in the end, I was the one who had to remove the hook as Croaky freaked out at the struggling prawn.

Our two catches for the one hour session. The bigger prawn came shortly after our very first catch and took us by surprise. Croaky was flunging the fishing rod in mid-air and I could hear a man sitting nearby screaming as he tried to dodge the flying prawn.

The two crustaceans had a rather tragic end. They were suffocated to death in our car while we were having dinner to celebrate our first prawning success at Ajisen Ramen. Croaky was telling me not to cook the dead prawns as he was worried about food poisoning and such.

But they appeared delicious after being baked at 200 degrees celsius in the oven for a whole ten minutes. In fact, the meat was rather springy and tasty! Just like lobster meat.

We’d go prawning again soon!

This is one of my favourite soup! And it is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

Just put all the ingredients in 1 litre of water and switch on the slow cooker for 8 hours.
The soup base tastes a bit like chicken feet peanut soup.
It’s always nice to add soup to the table, after a long tiring day at work.

For some reason, the previous layout design has some major compatibility issues with firefox and internet explorer 8.0. A friend commented that the words are blocked and unreadable on her screen.

I am using Internet Explorer 6.0 and the site looked normal. But when I viewed the site with Firefox, the google ads actually appeared on the left hand side of the screen, floating like a zombie in the middle of nowhere!

Also the grey coloured mat tiles looked perfectly okay on my standard size laptop monitor. I have realised it looked a bit funny when viewed using a high res computer at a friend’s house.

I decided to switch back to the default theme and modify whatever I can. For those who are unfamiliar with Wordpress, we have two themes pre-installed (default and classic). The one which I was using was an additional skin which I have downloaded from somewhere and did some tweaking.

Hopefully, this solves the problem once and for all. Who knows when Internet Explorer comes up with a version 9 and my website becomes completely un-viewable!