Big Thanks to everyone

This is my second post on Thanks Giving. On this merry weekend, I would like to give Thanks to the following people for the following reasons.

1. First and foremost, I would like to give Thanks to all mighty God for giving me this life and experience all the sweetness, bitterness, sadness, joy of life. We only have one chance and this is the chance that i firmly grasp in my hand and appreciate every single second of it.
2. I would like to give Thanks to my lovely life companion. After working and wondering overseas for a long time, I understand and appreciate the feeling of having someone in your arms to take care of and Love of. It does not matter whether we are going through hard times, happy hours or plain simple life time, as long as we are together at heart. For that, I give Thanks to God and appreciate every minute of it.
3. I would like to give Thanks to our family, my mum and dad (for bringing me into this life), my bro, Cathy's parents, big sisters, big brother and all the members of the family. These are the people that I care most about and would lend a helping hand when it is necessary.
4. I would like to give Thanks to our friends, Jo, Nic, Iza, Om, Sreem, Indran, Hippo and Freeza, Derek, Ting Feng, (my long lost high school friends), Siu Ho, Derek Cheng, Thai Son, Eric Ma, Wing Ho, Yuan and the rest WLS team, Hun, Kah Choon, CC Pan and all of our companions at different stages of life. Without them, i think our life would be pretty uneventful.
5. Lastly, I would like to give Thanks to everything / everyone in this world. No doubt, our country (not only our country) has a lot of politic jokers in the parliament, "mat rempits" on the street, and so on. We should appreciate that we can still have a "Teh tarik" with our friends at mamak stall to watch Liverpool vs. Manchester United soccer games. You will know that is such a priviledge when you read the world news..

In this weekend, let us all pray and remember to appreciate everything in life as we only have one chance and that chance in life is firmly in our grasp.

Yours sincerely,
BigTr33

Thanks Giving

Thanks Giving is coming on next week. To the folks in US, it is just like Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner whereby everyone is going back home to get together with family members and try to catch up with all the happenings within the family. This is much needed comfort feeling in the midst of dreaded world wide recession / economy slump that we are in.

Even weeks before Black Friday, there are so much sales going around to assert their best effort in luring the customers to spend their money in the stores. I am still looking for some nice deals in the town. Hopefully I can find some nice slick deals :D

Alright, let me know if you want some cool stuff here. Haha ...

Take care everybody.

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33

November

It has been a really busy week. Keep preparing for work... like a never ending story. In conjunction with some competition, somehow we need to stay back for awhile and that's how I caught in a Friday Jam at the bridge again heading back home.

Recap what I've done this week... hmm busy recording some Radio ad for my work. Thank god I've this phone.

Many times going to my house to check out if the renovation is completed or not. *sigh~ still very slow in progress. Well, that's because we want to save bit by bit that's why we practically need to follow-up and even do the curtain runway our own. :D

Maybe it was too stressful recently that my lips suddenly popup 2 big ulcers :-s and I accidentally bite on it. >.< *crazily painful ok! My lips swollen the whole night and even doc laughed at me when I described how badly I bite on it while eating. Doctor said I shall take some rest because most of the ulcer cause by stress and the hot weather as well :( Anyway, the medicine that doctor gave was pretty good. I'll surely get this next time.














The ulcer medicine. At first glance on the label, i thought it stated "ACID", and I confirmed with the nurse twice is it edible? haha I think I really too paranoid at that time.



Picture below is the puppy that mom just adopted recently. He is camera shy too. (I added in the tagline, hehe)



OK. Need to get ready for next week's work. =.="

Cheers,
Lit'Bird

Soup for thought :)

A bowl soup is like symphony in tune, pleasant music to your ears :) except a soup is comfort to your stomach, taste, smell and sight.

This weekend, the weather is quite chill (it is autumn season in US). I was thinking to have some home cook ABC soup. So here is my recipe, haha .....

1. The main ingredients are potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, red onion, a few cloves of garlic, fresh corns and meat (such as chicken thighs or pork spare ribs).
2. First of all, prepare all these ingredients. Then, boil up a pot of hot water and place the fresh meat into the pot. Boil the meat with water in the pot for a few minutes and then pour out the water and place another pot of water into the pot. This is because we want to extract the excess oil / grease from the meat and not mix with our soup.
3. Then place the fresh corns, potatoes, meat and carrots into the pot of hot water and let it boil for 15 minutes until the potatoes turn soft.
4. Then place red onions, garlic and tomatoes into the pot and boil it for 20 minutes to make sure everything is cooked and flavor of the ingredients seeps out to the soup.
5. Then turn down to low heat and let the soup simmers.

There you go, a nice bowl of soup in cold days. Nothing is better than sharing the soup with your love ones :)

Take care everybody.

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33

Curiosity

Curiosity Look, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

One of a Saturday, our colleague decided to bring their baby to office and there was our so call department family day. :P

He is Al Arees. The youngest baby among all.

Baby photo shooting is challenging as the baby might not comfortable with your bulky DSLR. Often, they will give some strange expression but it can be overcome by their parents who keep making fun with them.

When there is a day you feel down, browsing baby photograph will definately cheer you up because they give you the most sincere and honest look. :D

Cheers with Love,
Lit'Bird
* more baby photos at www.flickr.com/cathy_yong/

My Weekend

Mom & Sis were so excited over these lit' chinese cake. It tastes great indeed!

Yummy! These cakes are with peanut & coconut flavor.

The volunteer was busy making Vegi-hamburger. Well, look at the "bread-mountain" she seems to have lot more to go... :D

At the point while I was waiting for my food, my itchy finger trying to capture some silhouette photos of this aunty. Looks like she was complaining about something.

I miss weekend (while I don't have class) and now.. a long weekdays is awaiting. :-s

Dragging myself to work today. hahaha.

Cheers,

Lit' Bird

Snippets

It has been a while since I last updated this blog. First of all, we would like to wish all our Hindu friends "Happy Deepavali".

Looking at the calendar on my table, there are five more weeks to go before i come back home once again. It has been a long trip and adventure. I didn't expect that there are so many changes here in US within 6 months time. My manager in US resigned, US economy land slide, crude oil climbs to record high ($140 per barrel) ...

All the changes that is happening right now will only make me appreciate more on life and the people that i care most about :)

Anyway, our house renovation will be completed soon. May be once it has been completed, we will upload some photos here.

Take care everybody :)

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33