A Mud Fish is what we call it here in English but we call it in two local Tagalog names of "Bulig" <BOO-LEEG> or "Dalag" <DAA-LAG> and it is one of the fishes that I like to eat. I can eat a ton of rice with it because of its distinct taste and texture. I only want it as broiled over a hot coal but it depends on how it was broiled because my father does a bad job often when broiling fish, he doesn't want the scale to get blackened by the hot coal so the fish ends up soggy.
My friend that gave me some rice before and some eels told me that when he manages to catch the said mudfish which actually is a snakehead fish with electric shock method, a method by which the fishes are caught by stunning them with electrodes that is attached to a lead acid battery pack that is carried on the back.
The time that my friend told me that he will give me some of those mudfishes (provided that when he catches them first) he will drive-by the house to hand me some.
I am just sad that we can never hang around together anymore because of my annoying condition. We made lasting memories together with some of our friends when we went to their rice field's savanna-marshland part of property to spear some fish and hopefully down some wild duck and Heron but we only manage to catch some fish and the fishes that he personally caught by stunning which we ate there too.
Those moments were no longer preceded after my body went downward spiral with its strength until I just went homebound and now bedbound. I must say it was quite frustrating but I am trying to cope still. Little things like this that brings fond memories with my friends gives me a good feeling inside.
Thank goodness for my spirituality I no longer try to miss these "carnal" things that are temporary and focus on the things that are perpetual which is a place in heaven where things will be different, no more tears, misery, fright, worries, sadness, and grief and will get replaced with happiness, comfort, joy and all the good things that I missed here on earth. To God be the glory.