the 2 F's! ironic day!

Last weekend was one of the best moments of my life. Starting on Friday nite, after my Power Group ( PG), I tasted my first experience of futsal! Awesome! I never did like football, but I really am hooked to futsal. Going this coming Friday again:P Never thought that 10 people, mainly guys, stuck together in a small cage like area, after a single ball could be an attraction. I'm a believer!! I met new people, and that adds to why I'm beginning to love the game. Trying to broaden my circle of friends.

After coming back from futsal around 2 am in the morning, I woke up the next day at 11. Prior to this, 4 guys, myself included, had this crazy idea of going fishing. I mean, that's really nuts! Who goes fishing nowdays? Anyways, we decided a few weeks before that we were all set for fishing someday. After a few postponements, we decided that we'll go fishing this Saturday, the day after my first futsal experience. 3 out of the 4 of us ( the Fish Gang ), were up playing futsal. So, imagine a few days of exam, plus all the meetings and working out, we definitely needed sleep. There was no way we were gonna get up at 6am on Saturday to go fishing. Nutz! The initial plan was to be up by 6 and leave ASAP.

However, we woke up and got ready. By that time, it was already 12pm. What to fish now? I think all the fish would be napping now. But, we, the Fish Gang were determined. We had nothing...not a single fishing equipment, except our bare hands. That's how ameteur-ish we were. Naive and dumb. The four of us : Me, Alvin, Josh and Chee Yong. We did leave Cyber at 12, for lunch first. Late already, but still thinking of food:P

We told ourselves that Tesco had everything we would want for our fishing trip. The sun was being nice, it was a nice day to fish. With great enthusiasm, we entered the ever-providing Tesco...to find...crap! they don't have any fishing equipments! They had camping stuff...but no...not fishing. So dumb! For once, I personally felt that Tesco sucked! Served us rite for putting our hope here.

So, we went to Tesco's rival, Jusco, just down the road. And we found all we needed! Hehe! The sun was still shining nicely. It was still a good day to fish. Our excitement was dampened, by the price of the rods and the reels. Yes, the reels don't come with the friggin' rods. And mind you, the reels are even more expansive than the rods. Joshua said he has a strong feeling that Jusco had been keeping the fishing stuff there for a few years, with no one having interest in them, and one day, out of the blue, 4 punks suddenly appear with apparent interest for them. Weird! Anyways, we kept the salesgirl in charge of the fishing rack waiting on us while we tried to mix and match between the rods and the reel. My rod was the 2nd cheapest : RM 22. My reel was the cheapest : RM 32. Eventhough it was such a hefty price to pay for a 'one-time-spur-of-the-moment-that-we-don't-even-know-if-it-will-last' moment, we decided to get on with the buying. we thought, after travelling all this way and going through all this and not buy any rods, that would just be too major stupid. We thought, that even if we never ever went fishing again, we could at least use the rod to fish chicks or something. Or at least until someone comes up with a brighter idea:P That's it. We just bought it!

We looked kinda funny. 4 guys walking around Jusco with rods and all that fishing gear. Tourist might think there was a fishing fest going on in IOI mall:P To add to the scenario, the price tags were still adorning the rods and reels. How ah-beng could we get? Now, we had to think of bait...and Alvin being the wise guy, who couldn't get chicken innards from the Jusco supermarket, decided to get chicken fillet! Like what the heck? We're going fishing, not a bbq. As if the fish were gonna eat chicken fillet. sighz. but what do do, that's the closest to bait. Joshua had to open his mouth and say that if it rains......

When we decided to leave Jusco around 4, and we have a prophet amongst us!!! For lo and behold, it was RAINING!!! it wasn't just drizzle! It was cows and buffalos! What a downpour! Since we planned to fish at Shah Alam, we decided to go on ahead. Maybe it wasn't raining in Shah Alam. Who knows? We prayed. Chee Yong said it was just 15 mins away. But after driving so long, we knew we were conned. We took 30 mins to reach there.

And thank God! The rain stopped just as we reached the place. We were elated. We were excited and ready to catch us some fish!! WE unloaded the car, like a bung of ah-bengs! Imagine, still 4 guys looking like we've been given a second chance to live, walking with all that stuff, and price tags still there, with wide grins on our smirky face. We walked towards the entrance of the park...and BANG!!! it hit us! The park closes at 4.30 pm, and here we were, at 4.35!!! What the heck!! Argh!!!

What a day of irony. We ended up at the fishing pond in USJ. By the time we got there, it was 5pm. I had to leave. So, the rest of the guys fished for prawns at the pond, while I had to go. So much for all the rods and the works.

Now the rod just hangs on my room wall as if it were a prized catch:P What a day of irony!

But I believed that my fishing days are not over yet. There will be more fishing trips to come:P and also futsal....bah!