Had my first ever prawning experience!
I was feeling super excited about it because it's like fishing, but easier. The one and only time that I went fishing, I caught one small little fish for the entire afternoon and it's was poisonous. So I was hoping prawning would give me more sense of satisfaction.

We rented 2 rods for 3 hours each, all hoping we catch a basket full of prawns.

I'm not really fond of touching raw stuff with my bare hands, so I got Guan to do it. He was so happy touching those raw chopped up chicken hearts.

Prawning's a really slow process. We waited and waited for the prawns to bite our baits. We watched those around us dropping the prawns one by one into their baskets and we still had nothing.
Then, one little gullible prawn got tricked! It was hooked so securely onto the bait, we had a difficult time trying to unhook it without tearing its mouth.

And Guan Li thinks he's a fisherman. He was so proud of himself for catching our very first prawn.

Then the second one with long big pincers.

Mich caught the third one and took forever to unhook it from the bait. She said it was a naughty prawn. Hahahaha! James ended up removing the feelers together with the hook because the prawn was too tangled up with the fishing line.

We were so happy and satisfied for the first hour. But the second and third hour were so boring. More people came and all you see is the bobbing float on the water surface. Just one or two catches that were not ours. These prawns outsmarted us. They took the chicken hearts without getting hooked. Sucks.
Whenever I see the little float go underwater, I'd get all excited only to see the hook without any baits. If I caught all the prawns that have escaped, I'd have more than twice the amount of prawns we caught in total.

After 3 pathetic hours, that's all we have in our basket.

And now's the time where the prawn struggles the most. Well, before cooking, we have to put the satay stick through the prawn, wash it, add salt then barbeque. We spent more time putting the satay sticks through the prawns than eating them.

After all the screaming and squealing, we still haven't got a satay stick through any of the prawns. All of us were shouting how to get it through but no one dared to poke the stick through the prawns.
It's such a cruel thing to do. All of them were struggling!

Guan Li and James then came up with this super brilliant idea to hold the prawns down with whatever satay sticks they've got and got Mich to poke her stick through the poor little prawn.
Still failed. The prawn was struggling so much we just couldn't put the stick through it.
So Mich decided to be the brave one.

She chose her not-naughty-prawn.

After some squealing, she got the stick through.

She was happy about it all, except that the prawn peed on her hands.

We left the rest for the guys to do.

But some prawns just refuse to be removed from the basket.
They have strong pincers!

James had this expression throughout the whole put-the-stick-through-the-prawn process.

Guan Li just had to show us this. It was a pregnant prawn and you can see the stick through the body. Grossest thing ever.

After what seems like a million years, we got all the prawns on the satay sticks.

James was contemplating eating prawn sashimi.

But we decided it's safer to cook them before eating.

And we had our pathetic amount of yummy fresh prawns!

Guan Li caught this little small fry, which died in the basket. It was delicious still.

I'd like to go prawning again one day. This time, I'll learn to unhook the prawns from the fishing rod.