Keith Koo Xingjian's Blog

Back From Kelong

Finally Back from kelong! Fun but tiring trip! The moment I step into the lands of Singapore I felt like home ~

Day 1

I didn't sleep the night before because we are meeting at 6.15am, and if i sleep, I will not be able to wake up for sure... I reach Kranji MRT early and grab some breakfast after meeting up with Kevin. Then yenkai brought a friend along and introduce to us, and his name is JC (junchin). After everyone meets up and we board the van that drives us all the way to the jetty in Malaysia. It took some time before we reach there, and of course, I spent some time sleeping on the van. Then we reach the jetty, board the boat and move to the kelong...

After we settled down, Most of them went fishing and I was there just enjoying the view of the sea. Not long later, lunch was served. Guess Wad, the lunch was a WOW! 1 fish, 1 sotong, 1 veggie and 1 soup !

Then as the day moves along we went for island hopping, which the boat sends us to a island where the water is clear and the beach is made up of fine sand, and there doesn't seems to be people living there... We swam for awhile, den proceeded to pick up some seashells. But honestly, that island was quite eerie as there were so many houses on the island, but most of them are not occupied.

We went back and showered and dinner was even better than lunch... Crab, prawn, fish, veggie and soup!! Den I went for a nap while the rest continues to fish, and someone actually use soap to play a prank on me lar!
Woke up, ate supper, and played majong with alex, den went to sleep again.

Day 2

It was more or less the same as first day, but we went snookering on day 2. We were able to see those magnificent corals and reefs and in fact, it was quite scary when you see them covering the whole patch of the sea. It is like you were going to get eaten by them and there were also lots of fishes around them, as well as sea urchins!!!
Same thing, went back shower den later in the night after dinner, we started off to gamble abit. After that, I resume to play majong again!

Day 3

It was time to go home today, so we packed up and get ready. Before we packed up, them were fishing, taking pictures and I was basically slacking around. And den comes the funny part, they went off jumping into the sea from the kelong and I was mad enough to join them in their jumping. But that was really a great experience as you won't get to try it many times in your life. And off we go travelling back home.

( P.S. Junchin is really a great photographer and a great fisherman!!! )