Yay!!! caught me first barramundi, I think it is a barramundi.. :)

locally it is known as Selunsung, this one probably about 1.5 feet and weigh maybe about 1kg or somewhere there

Anyway, my camera date is off again :(

It should have been 23rd September 2005. Oh well.. at least it can still take picture


Okay, the picture below is a bit funny, my dad snagged a male crab which in turn hold on to a female crab :)











Below is the close up picture of the two crabs with our prawn baits that we use for fishing

Picture on the left is my dad with the only catch of the day.

Today was a good day, the weather is a bit cloudy so quite nice to fish, the tide is okaish only about 0.9 metres out of the possible highest tide of 2.0 metres for Kota Kinabalu.

My older brother Nico and me reached the bay about 3.30pm. As you can see my dad is wearing a very nice shirt and pants, the moment he heard that my brother and me went fishing, he straight away called me and say he will be joining us after church, he arrived shortly with my sissy, I think it was about 4pm.

Shortly after that, he caught the Threadfin Trevally and although I didnt get a single fish worth keeping I had fun.


Picture on the right is the picture of my lovely little sissy, Jessica. She sat there and watched us fish and helped us to take the live prawn bait.

Hmmm looks like this blog is turning more like a fishing blog.

My chilli project is moving pretty slow, the Chocolate Habenero seed that I planted just germinated today. So I am looking forward to the chilli growing.

Meh.. maybe when I have something good to talk about my chilli project I add something till then I guess this blog will be somewhat a fishing blog :D

Hmmmm I just realised today is September 11, I remembered when that dispicable act of cowardice happened, I was shocked and at the same time angry. While I am here able to spend time with my family there are many that cant anymore because of a coward action by a group of stupid dumb ass misguided religious fanatics. My thoughts and prayers today goes to those that lost thier loved ones during 911 incident.

This picture of my brother Nico and the fishes that we caught. He came back from Brunei this weekend and I brought him out to go fish at the place that I found recently.

We fished from 4pm till about 6pm, not bad for 2 hours of fishing for Kota Kinabalu standard. Most time, I fished whole day and get totally nothing worth bringing home. Today we caught two nice fish.

One is a Treadfin Trevally on his left and the other one is... hmmmm I dunno, some rock fish? There are heaps of those fish around but most of them are the size of 2-3 fingers which are not worth keeping and better off released back to grow.

It was raining quite heavily in the morning but the tide was also quite low in the morning so we cant really fish anyway. I actually had a bit of reservation on whether we will get anything today because from previous experience, after any downpour the fishes are not really keen on bitting. The tide is the highest at about 4pm so we reached there with the highest tide possible for that day which is 1.1 metres.

The downpour in the morning flooded all my chilli trees pot so I had to like spend whole morning repotting my chilli trees.

Woke up late today and had to take half-day off, went out to see my dad fish at the place that I told him I caught the nice fish the other day. :)

And he caught one!!! The picture on the left is the fishy with me of course being the one to claim it. My dad is camera shy ;) so someone have to do the dirty work.

One last fish picture on the cutting board. This fish is called Golden Trevally, my dad use live prawn to catch it.



Oh well almost time to go to work, I had to take shower and prepare for work.

My sick chilli tree is still alive not so sure for how long it will last

Today is a mixture of good and bad

The Bad News
the bad part of today is I notice one of my chilli tree is shedding leaves, it does not look like a natural thingy. It could be dying or sick or diseased.

Anyway on the right is the picture of the chilli tree.

All the other 3 trees are okay except for this one. It can't be due to lack of nutrient because I put some fertilizer last week.

Too much water? maybe...

Too little sun? maybe too... :(

Could it be the worm that i put there? can't be... I think..

Oh yeah talking about that earthworms, I notice that they are already started doing their work. See the soil that is slightly darker in color in the picture beow. That is their mojo that they excrete by recycling all the organic waste in the soil.















The Good News

The good news for today is, I went fishing and caught meself a decent size fishy :D, yay for me...

The local name for the fish here is Ikan Cermin, or translated directly to English is Mirror Fish. As you can see the skin of the fish is pretty shiny, which is why I supposed the local here gave them that name.

Anyway another picture of the fishy, placed on a cutting board with a 12 inches ruler next to it. I think the english name for that fishy is threadfin trevally, which got the name due to its thread like fin, which normally disappear once the fish is like mature.

I think this one must have been like a Juvenile fishy.