Breaking News: 12 April 2009

7 youths from Blessed Grace Church was found fishing at East Coast park today... The reporter can't understand what they are thinking as they catch the fish and released them at the end of it... Investigation in process, Please wait for reporter sherwynn to update us on this case...

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Thank you, Reporter Andrew. Now back to the scene. Seven youths of Blessed Grace church were found fishing at the jetty at East Coast park. They had seemingly organised a fishing trip on this day. The onsite people are Aloysius, Serene, Matthew, Marcus, Nicholas Chua, reporter Andrew and myself. They started fishing in the early afternoon and ended late at night, around eight. When I got to the site, they were already casting off the lines, waiting for an unsuspecting prey to hook onto their line. Their ammo (chum/bait) was a loaf of bread. there was only six rod when i went there, so Aloysius and I went to get one more of them weapons(rods). When we reached the place of our artillery store(Marine Parade there) , we went to find out the rod weapon parts and found it. They did not let us off free, but at least the price was ok($69 for the whole thing, INCLUDING weights). We then scoured the rest of the place before leaving with a better ammunition than the loaves: prawns. After all these, we went back to HQ to find out that no one had caught a fish yet. I started to learn the basics of chumming and loading up to cast. the first cast was a total failure, I would say. the second cast was no better. My line crossed Serene's line, only with a difference: there was the FIRST fish of the day. All of us were soo happy that we did not realise the fish was dying. Good thing that Uncle Ah Chui was there to unhook it and let it survive.

After the first fish, much morale was raised and they started casting off again, except for Marcus. Where is he anyway? He caught the second fish! Only with a snag. the fish was not ensnared, Marcus pulled it out by its gut. Don't worry, he only did what a Marcus would do: scream around and keep saying sorry to the fish(lol). When interviewed, he told a story of the fish. the story goes like(If I can remember everyhing): The fish was swimming with its mum. Suddenly a piece of prawn dropped by its side. "Look! Prawn meat! but I'm not hungry... Hey... What the... There's a hook at my gut!!! Mum, help!!! AHHHHH!!! MUMMY!!!" *Gets dragged up to the shore to Marcus*. And that's the end of the little tale by Marcus. Good thing the fish survived, but it still died in the end. Poor fish...

We were still casting off our lines, and another one was caught! Well I'm not boasting, but its my me again. This time the fish survived long enough for Andrew to take a photo of it on the line and me ^^. the fish survived as well. Soon after Matthew pulled out a catfish. Poisonous little critter that was. Good thing no one was stung. As usual, it managed to survive. Approaching evening, many wranglers packed up and went home, but we stayed and pressed on. They looked on us and decided to give us their baits. The funny thing is, we ended up with more bait then when we first came.

Next catch was by Nicholas. but this catch was'n a fish. It was a sea slug. we were all stunned for a moment, but when he came running to us, of course, the natural reaction was to run. For some, it was scream and run at the same time(I don't thing I want to say names, it won't be too nice). they were trying to unhook the slug when Aloy just cut the line. the slug slithered on the floor and some were screaming around. Then one of us (I forgot who) used the foam box lid to flick the slug back. The next catch of fish was by Matthew again, this time it was a BIG one. Not HUGE, but big alright.at that time it was already late in the evening. we went casting off again. the second sea slug was caught by Serene and Matthew? Or is it Marcus? I'm not too sure. Still, we cut the line again and this time, the slug was not so fortunate. It came to a horrible demise. Though it is disgusting, I still feel sorry for it. I wasn't long before we packed up camp and leave for one thing: dinner(Okay I admit it was too dark to fish, but hey, why do they have night fishing? Ah well...).

Serene went home first. We were on our way to Mac when Marcus found a bird on the ground. Apparently it was injured. Poor birdy... Again Marcus played a role of a hero and got the bird out befor a cat could get it. Yay! But the bird did not like him(I wonder why...). Then he changed to the role of the BAD guy and meowed at the bird. well, he got a shocked then the bird sticked out its head and sqwaked at him (spelling not too sure). Well, it was very much suprising. we then headed on to Mac, after we stored it in a proper box used for hamsters. We planned that everytime the bird chirps, we would pretend that it was someone's phone. Well, it worked wonders.(Yeah, right) Skipping all the details, that was the whole day, with only two casualties (the fish and the sea slug). That is all for today. We hope you tune in next time to Breaking News.

Reported by: Sherwynn

Photographer: Andrew

The One behind the scheme: I don't know