Going boating today......

well, after having read Nat's blog (she's a jounalist who accompanied her husband on his anesthesia fellowship here in Rochester), am very impressed.

so thought I would give it a go. not that life in rochester, mn is the most exciting, but we do stuff that we normally can;t do back in Spore... like skiing, fishing... though most of the time this year, we are super busy with research, manuscript writing and our masters program lectures n exams.

we are taking a break tomorrow. vince is itching to take the boat out on some decent strip of water. he was deprived for a couple of weeks cuz we were busy preparing for our final masters exams. it was over on Tuesday, so we can breathe a little.... and get stressed with other things now!

so we r heading maybe to Lower Mississippi or St Croix river with Gene and Nat.. am looking forward to it. was feeling quite bummed after so many weeks of studying. I still have manuscripts pending and data to collect... all must be done within the month.. bummer.. still, need a break....... taking grocery shopping trips are definitely not destressing me enuff, its bordering on sad.....

here's a pict of us in fall about 2 years ago on a rented boat in the "sippi". I bagged a crappie. in singapore terms, its kinda like a "chong yu or pomfret" but they call it pan fish here. supposed to taste fresh, but we never eat them. as we r now too lay to fillet fish. and even after filletting these buggers, we can fillets no bigger than my palm. too much work lah. vince in the first pict got a bass. that fish gave him bragging rights for months to come. think its still the biggest bass we ever caught. more than 2 pounds, and he picked it up with just a worm on a bobber.

will post picts of how we do tomorrow. I don';t know if we will fish much, prob drink lotsa beer, get hassled by fly and her frisbee (that's the pooch) and have lotsa laughs with "gnat".