050507 *grin* part 2

there's something very wrong with my blogger. all my icons for alignment, font colour etc are all dead. and i can't edit previous posts and thus have to start a new post for part 2... sorry all... so if you want to read it from scratch read "050507 *grin*" first then part 2, part 3 etc.... depending on how many posts it takes to finish this.

ok, so after feeding the turtles and we were heading back to the car, he handed me clue #3.

Clue #3

"Darling, I have a request... For example..."

Background to clue #3
We had dinner on 2 May, the day he finished his last exam. During dinner, he basically asked me this request... He hoped that I'd be more enthusiastic and supportive of his hobbies, namely fish at the moment. Like how going to Qianhu twice in a couple of months wasn't that much. so i agreed. in a relationship it's all abt giving and taking. xiang has been abt the sweetest guy always giving in to my crazes like Counter Strike, bowling, pool etc... not because he likes them but because he loves me so he does them with me as he knows i like these activities. so i figured hearing him talk abt fish and going to do 'fish stuff' with him is only fair and cos i love him too, want him to be happy too!

deeper background, while i have a wonderful memory abt things and faces I've seen, i seldom remember exact conversations like xiang does. so when that phrase appeared as the clue i said "Qianhu?" he was pretty sad that i guessed it so easily cos he had envisioned me having problems with that clue.

lol... but i had pretty much guessed when told that the general rule of the day would be places that mean something to us, that we'd end up at qianhu somehow. this was the place he and his dad dragged me to earlier this year to make the birthday surprise party happen! heehee... and we spent 2nd jan there too buying fish for my house's tank!

now the problem... i needed to navigate him via the street directory there! BUT i didn't know where on earth Qianhu was! i only knew we took a shuttle from choa chu kang! of cos xiang helped a lot by quipping "so now don't you regret not taking note of the route the shuttle bus took?" thanks!!! :P

so i flipped to choa chu kang way... map 41... looked all around it, no qianhu in sight. decided to follow the map upwards... searched... no qianhu... went back to map 41 joined downwards... NO qianhu!!!! whine whine whine... so finally flipped the page to map 40... and tada!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there it was sitting just there! right splat in the middle of the map and the place is pretty ulu so not much else there!

but knowing where it was and knowing how to get there were completely two different things. but i vaguely remember being able to travel by upp bukit timah cos i had to drive there to visit one of my org's centres some time in jan.... so off we went with xiang cooperating nicely knowing when to filter into which lanes and exiting where etc... heehee... whining helps! lol...

just as we turned into jalan lekar, i told him "i'm NOT going to put my feet in the fish spa!" and he gave me his usual shrug and "maybe"

parked and i got my next task.

Task #3

Either: a) Catch 20 fish in the "longkang fishing" b) Go through 1 "fish spa" session

Needless to say i chose a. heehee...

Now it was really tricky. cos one the net was bright pink! two the net was so shallow! three there were kids trying to catch fish as well! four there are many places for the fish to swim to!

ironically the fishes easiest to spot were the white ones, but they were the fastest. so those i caught out of the 20, 17 were dark ones mostly black... only three were coloured... at fish no. 19, xiang offered to let me stop! but i was just one miserable little longkang fish away, so i refused and continued waving the little net around till i caught my 20th fishy! muahahahaha! *brong brong brong*

technically i could have had the fish bagged and brought home but they all looked so ugly and some half dead... suspect one of them even died in my lil tank... so i gave the three coloured ones away to a nearby grandma trying to fish for her grandson (one of those who scared the fishies senseless with his frantic waving of his red net) and let the rest go free back into the fake longkang.

with that i caught clue #4...

to be continued... muahahhahahhahaha.... stay tuned folks!