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Miscellaneous — Natalia @ 7:05 am
Hikaru brought me to Squamish, specifically Alice Lake, to go trout fishing!! 
I haven’t been fishing since… far too long!
My Paps used to take us all the time and I thought maybe I might’ve lost my touch on hooking ‘em worms on but I guess I didn’t.
Not surprisingly, the worms in Canada are far bigger & juicier looking than the scrawny stringy worms in Malaysia.. also slimier, which made it a little harder to get them hooked on good.
It was the perfect day for fishing! It wasn’t too warm but nice & sunny 
Fishing @ Alice Lake (11th of July, 2010)
Beautiful Alice lake. This is Hikaru’s secret fishing spot!
Hika prepping the rods.
I was sooooo afraid of possibly falling in. Camera & all our other good stuff stayed behind.
Sparkling crystal waters… so pretty!!
After about an hour & the half (we kinda started a little late and the trip over took an hour..), we were done!
Hika was a little pessimistic because he says that no one ever goes fishing in the late afternoon and catches anything. According to him, fishies are asleep! He goes in the wee hours in the morning and catches 20 fishes apparently.
But since my lazy bum can’t get up earlier than 10am on my days off, there was no way in heck I could wake up early just to fish… pfft.
Which is why I was thrilled with my catches of the day!!
Catch #1: Tangled lines connect to a very old tiny hook and a very old teensy floaty thingy.
Catch #2: Even more tangled lines hooked to a pretty decent sized log. I was on a roll here.
Catch #3: I caught my very first trout!!! It was small compared to the crazy huge fishies I’d used to get fishing with my Paps but my Paps had those hard core crazy fishing gear with huge ass hooks & since worms were too puny for bait, we used chicken intestines… yum.
Catch #4: I caught my 2nd trout, wheeee!!
Granted it wasn’t 20 trouts (but what on earth are we gonna do with 20 fishies anyway??), but at least I caught something!!
(which is more than I can say about Mr. Pessimistic *hehe*)
I’m glad he took me though! I’m so pumped to go again. I told him we needed to get bigger hooks & maybe buy an inflatable boat so we can fish deeper into the lake and get the big boys!!
Too dark…
Failed again…
There’s my fishies!! Puny lil’ buggers but I’m pretty psyched to get ‘em deep fried & eating them up, MMM!! >:)
After all that, it was time for dinner!
Felt like Izakaya but went to Guu Garlic & Toratatsu recently so those were out. Kingyo & Miku are too expensive for the amount we were planning to have and well, we both worked at Hapa so out, out, and out. Thus, we visited Guu Garden to give it a second shot.
Tried it once before and didn’t quite like anything we ordered…
This time around, it definitely was a better experience!!
Dinner @ Guu Garden (the same night)
With Hikapoop.
Hika’s face is extremely punchable, I know.
Gento; the sashimi platter. Replaced tuna with more salmon because I hate tuna sashimi, yucks. So fatty! Ahi tuna on the other hand… Anyway, and there was kanpachi, scallops & amaebi (spot prawns). Love kanpachi!! All very fresh.
Bang Bang G; strips of chicken and jelly fish salad in goma dressing. Guuuuud!
Kimchi udon. Can they be any more stingier on their kimchi? Jeebus. Wasn’t very good, wouldn’t recommend it. Unless you like noodles with oodles of butter.
Tako uni wasa. Again, could they be any stingier with their uni??? Taste like the same shiznit as Hapa’s so…. I probably wouldn’t order it again. I think I prefer Guu Garlic’s or Octopus Garden’s tako wasa better.
Cream Korokke; I don’t quite enjoy eating deep fried cream so…. I left this all for Hikaru. He downed the whole thing pretty quick so if you like a ball of deep fried cream, I believe this is pretty good.
Tontoro kushi. I like this! But I couldn’t eat more than one kushi. Is there such a thing as too tasty? I think so.
I forget what this is called (another one of Hika’s choices) but it’s basically balls of taro (yam). Decent… I really like bonito flakes though!
Gindara; sablefish cooked in miso and butter. Not recommended. Again, unless you like tasteless fish with oodles of butter….
Dessert! Green tea cheese cake on top of a chocolate chop cookie. Good! Light and not too sweet (most white places desserts are too darn sweet.. it’s like diabetic-on-the-spot sweet most of the time, which is why I would more often prefer going to Jap places for desserts). Definitely would come back for this dessert.
So some hits & some misses but all in all, waaaaaaay better than our first time experience here.
Up sides are that it’s super close to Hikaru’s place in downtown + the ambience/settings/atmosphere is pretty nice!
Alrighty, should go back to concentrating on my Prof (hehe).
Over & out 
Comments (0)
Name: Miss Wishful
Brilliant! A must-see!
Satisfactory. Enjoyable.
Mediocre. Very average.
Bored to tears. Almost slept.
Functionally retarded. Left cinema.
