So I went to a fishing trip in what was intended to be part of my bucket list. I first heard about ‘mencandat sotong’ when I went to Kelantan about 5 years ago. It is some kind of fishing activity in Terengganu – except that it aims to catch squid instead of fish. I was told that it has its own season which runs from April to June. It is when squid are most plentiful. They are said come near…
This was a plan that came later than sooner. I had already paid my booking fee to a friend last year when the earthquake struck and all bookings had to be canceled or postponed. Mount Kinabalu was immediately closed and those 3 months that it was not available for climbing suddenly felt like forever. But then, the eagerness of coming back to Mount Kinabalu kinda intensified when I was told that the route had to be altered from the original…
So, I have just returned from a short trip home – something that I’ve been doing every year whenever May comes, probably because the Harvest Festival is a good enough reason to go back to Sabah for – apart from the fact that I am from there. But of course, above all, it’s the family. In the end, it’s the family that matters most to me no matter where I am and what I do in life urang bilang. Even…