Hooked

Another exciting and memorable event happened again for the adventure loving Meinhardt folks and friends. This was organized by TDM MEP staff Edwin and associates under the leadership of Mam Jenny. Here are some of the individual highlights I captured during our fishing expedition last Friday.



Ebe not only drove with his car and brought the bait for us but also willingly share his expertise in tying up the hooks in different techniques. But since he consumed time helping many us, he lost too the perfect time to catch fish for his own and instead watched all of us enjoyed the event.



Mr. Dante, with his multi hook fishing gear was able to hooked two fish in one time. With that our level of motivation shoot up, I rushed to his place.

About a minute later, this was followed with Jing’s capture of a very big fish and everybody got ecstatic taking their photo with the caught fish.

Then my turn, after consuming two prawns and my faith died down, with the last piece of bait I have, luckily, I was able also to capture my own, history’s first. Mam Jenny was able to got video of my first catch of this small fish which later I pitied and return to the sea. But not long enough when I have adjusted I was able to capture two more in span of our remaining hours, this time much bigger in sizes.




I saw Nelson afar, he was also able to get some numbers. Allan and his family have some fun, bonding and fellowship together with Donald who in that time perfecting to fix the bait on the hook. Mike got so busy with the catch of somebody I think, including my fried fish breakfast, hehe. May prepared her group breakfast also supporting some fishermen and Jovy’s girlfriend too busy taking some nice shots.



Roger caught the most i think but told me that they are all small.

Edwin was busy telling everybody to return to the sea the fish we captured.

Mariz, who initially just enjoyed the sun and sight, later caught some also in span of I think 30 minutes.

Mam Jenny and her determined husband Sir Simon caught some too.

I got also a glimpse of Saeed and his pregnant wife, they too have a nice time together. Maybe this early, they are exposing their unborn child to love the sea.

Then when its time to pack up, smiling Jovy have fun playing with the fish still in the water, he lead them to have a synchronize swim using his fishing gear sink tapping the water. He enjoyed it very much.

To wrap things up, a lucky guy, Hermie was able to caught hammour, a big one.



Then we return to our cars using the same rocky path we cross earlier leaving persistent Sakeel behind trying his own luck.

We got hooked I think by the fish not the other way around, we’ve got to return.

Kiko slamdancing

Here's the YouTube video "Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2007", with Kiko doing the slamdance. He comes in at 1:10. Hanep.



"Bungguan iyan", sabi ni Kiko. "Nagsimula sa mga punk rock concerts noong araw. Ok sa Pilipinas kasi mas maliit sa akin ang mga nakakabunggo ko. Dito, malalaki ang mga tao. Nasira nga ang salamin ko at nagkasugat ako sa noo."

Desert camping

I joined a group of mechanical and electrical engineers with their friends and families on a camping trip yesterday. The convoy took around 2 hours to get to the campsite in a desert which seems to be in Sharjah territory.

Ebe, Dante and I arrived around an hour later because we got lost in conversation and lost the convoy. We were ahead of everyone but we didn’t know and were still traveling along Hatta road when we received welcome messages from the Oman Mobile Network in our cellphones. Oops …

The campsite was perfect. It was at the foot of the limestone range of Jebel Fayah, with rocky outcrops at the west, south and east sides. At the north was a sea of sand and, a few kilometers away, Jebel Maleihah or Fossil Rock. Simon and Jenny discovered the campsite in their earlier off-road trips.



We sat around the campfire and talked and sang songs and shared food and drinks. It was fun all the way from dusk to bedtime.

Bedtime was 10:30pm for most campers and an hour later for Nelson, Hermie, Shakeel and Saeed. For me it was midnight and various times thereafter. I was in and out of bed for hours. I don’t think it was because of Dante’s snoring that I could not sleep, or the sound of a passing airplane every 20 minutes or so, or the silent conversation of Aley and his two boys, who stayed by the campfire well past midnight. Maybe it was just the new bed syndrome.

In the morning, Shakeel served hot tea while Ebe distributed hot dogs and Edwin, warm cooked-in-the-shell eggs. Cool.



We packed up, cleaned the area and left around 10:00am. We stopped over at a quad cycle place along Hatta road. At noontime, we were on our way home. A bit tired and sleepy but feeling good ...