Lawrence Sim's birthday falls on 21 Oct 2009. His event staff, Carol Ho and one of the boater, Eric Cheong jointly organised this kelong get together trip for him. We met at SAFYC Sembawang Clubhouse on 24 Oct 09 to take a ride on Eric Cheong boat to the kelong.
Once everyone arrived, or rather the maximum capacity of the boat was reached, we set off to the kelong with the first batch onboard. Eric and myself came back to the Clubhouse immediately after dropping the first batch at the kelong to ferry more guests over to the kelong, including Mr Sim.
Once everyone had arrived, we started BBQ all the good food we had brought along as well as the freshest seafood you can ever find, provided by the kelong.
Oysters and Mussels fresh from the kelong...
Half way through the BBQ session, it was the kelong harvest time, the net was hauled up and everyone crowd around to see what prize it's going to bring up....
The BBQ session continues after that and knowing that it was Lawrence Sim's birthday recently, the biggest catch was presented to him.
More boaters came along to the kelong for the BBQ while the first group who had eaten their fill, roam around the kelong and interact with each other. After the second group had taken their fair share of food, it's the singing of birthday song and cutting of cake for Lawrence.
After the cake cutting and having a taste of the delicious cake, some went back to mainland and went home, while the rest stayed on and chat and played mahjong till the next morning... ;p
It is something different that I had never experience before, simple kelong yet so much to explore and experience. I wouldn't mind going back to the kelong in future and spend another peaceful day on it...
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