Monday, December 14, 2009

Nov-Dec 09

Everyone is seems to be on Christmas mood now, we are counting down on the eve for a nice meal at Elderwise cafe

Completion list: hehe :D

Couple of things have done for the past 6 weeks (assignment, photo..etc)

1. Weddings-R-Us portal (Assignment): Me and my groupmate proposed an e-commerce website dedicated for wedding industries. (Maybe we all are in the age of getting marry, that's why it was kind of fun in doing it.) I designed this mock up site which is more emphasis on personal touch and on ESP basis instead USP as we are selling experience. The part which make us different from the rest is the 3D customize cataloging wall. Whether or not it is workable, it is yet to testify. :P Hope our lecturer was impress with our hardwork and give us better mark. ^o^

2. E-furniture (extra-"assignment") my classmate know why... hehe. It was an "additiona" assignment which was nice to make within one or two days work. I like the color and reference site that my classmate has picked!

 3. Finalized KC & TY Weddding Album. (it wasn't that easy to squeeze in 200++ pics into 16 pages :-s) These are the few pieces that I like mainly on the background texture and combination.

4. Visit friends in Alor Star and having some flying stunts at the field. Happy to see my friend and her baby girl.. :D Only manage to snap couple of baby pictures because it was her time to sleep. You may see her pic from my fb album. Below are some shots at the paddy field.

5. Not to forget.. the food photos assignment. It was fun and tell you truth, I ate all the food that I snap. :D That day I was "loaded" to the max! Anyone out there who like to cook and make cookies/cake... call me if you need my service to snap your food pic.. and make sure I can eat it too. :D wahaha.

 

Wish to have some holidays now.......  got to wait till JUNE 2010 and want to sleep till I naturally wake up and eat my fav food!. :D

Cheers

Lit'Bird

Monday, November 30, 2009

The P-activity (Part II)

Here you go the short-listed photos from the P-activity:

One of my fav shot
Out
Candid
Looking at each other
Karyn
Stay cool
My fav shot from the BW ops

Finally we get the green light from Dylan to upload these photos. Once again, thanks everyone for volunteering in this. :D

Check out more at my flickr page

Cheers,
Lit'Bird

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The mysterious "Boss Zone"


Hey people,


I bet you must be asking what is actually "Boss Zone". Well, you will instantly understand what it means after you read this comic strip.


 
I guess you have experience the "Boss Zone" one way or the other...


Cheers~


BigTr33


Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Career Path and Dilbert Zone.

These few weeks, BigTree and I were quite into the joke of workplace and some of the management theory comic posted especially by Dilbert Comic. The followings are our favorite at time... these are some of our jokes of time while driving on the road back home everyday.

Don't be surprise that you may find some of the similar characters at your workplace. wahahah..
Anyway, ces't la vie...and enjoy~~
The "Organizational" Level























This is why giving 110% effort is theoretically impossible!!!
























You may want to TRY this out! (Customer Relationship Management Practice)


This is why you should avoid asking questions to the CEO / president of the company


Catbert - The Evil Human Resource Director


Well, it is quite a sad case and yet it was expressed in such a humorous way -Dilbert Stripe Comic!

Enjoy Reading~ more Dilbert comic at http://www.dilbert.com/


Lit'Bird. :D

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The "last" P-activity in 2009

The "honeymoon" for two months (free from Sunday classes) is over, I need to get hold on the last two subjects and Final which is the must to "finish it off" in order to get the "Cert-paper"... Meaning to say, I will not touch my camera quite often...but will cover another 2 weddings in Dec and Feb. *sob*sob*

Several "warning" and "friendly-reminder" have been placed by BigTree to "constantly" remind me about my final paper is time to finish...and I've decided to cutdown the P-activities work at this point for awhile instead of having mentally stress from his long-winded reminders Ops... hahahaha..

Here are some pictures that I can share about the P-activity :D
The Crew of Five: Nadia, Jimnie, Dylan, Karin  & Me
(Thanks everyone for making this!!! Have fun and great time with you all.)


Shot of me with biGlasses while waiting for my model...

Will upload the "final" piece from this activities in the later post in Dec. Hope you guys stay tune and comment on the work then... See you.


From Lit'Bird
*Live life to the fullest and don't regret!"

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Wedding photos for KC and TY

Here you go... delivered the photos with love and sweat!! :P

This is part of our inspiration in making a sweet lit' promotion item for the lovely couple.

The Perfect Match has been found! :D


Back to the main topic: photos of the wedding day event. It is always fun to have witnessed a lovely couple finally tie the knot with all the blessing from family members and friends. Although it was an ordinary and simple event, down in the heart such moment is meaningful and priceless to the couple.

In the Preparation
Preparation
From the very beginning, all the bride's best friends were helping in preparation and getting ready before the bridegroom was arrived. Lots of laughter and cheer around the bride. See below, they bunchs of sporting and cheerful peers.

Bride and friendsI

t was so great that we managed to get some nice "moment' captured and here it is.. I love this very much. Perhaps next round we can try different body movement and not making the posing too organized. :P

'Can
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The Game..
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The gaming part is always the highlight and interesting moment before the bridegroom manage to see the bride in the local Chinese wedding culture. KC and buddies were asked to "bite" the "I love you Ting" alphabets with bread. Quite a creative and sweet game in mind by the bride's friend. See the above.... guess which is the most difficult-making alphabet. Hehe :P


There are more photos available at my Flickr Page here, please feel free to comment or share your thought. :D

The moment I
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Lit' door gift
Sweet Lit' Statue
Dinner
The Bride

 

 

From BigTree and Lit'Bird
We always excited about your wedding...

Monday, October 5, 2009

Congratulations to Kah Choon and Tin Yin

Last weekend, it was a festive weekend while everyone is celebrating Moon cake Festival, BigTr33 and I went for a lovely wedding.

Here is a photo-slide show that we created for a lovely couple on their wedding day.



To us, it is rather a meaningful one as this is our first project working together. (on something more "FCM-related"):D BigTr33 was coordinating and made all the communication..not to forget.. my personal driver also. My part will be working on the photo-shooting and cover design part.

Understand that it wasn't the best piece of work but it certainly give us some lesson to learn and sweet memory about wedding.

We both were so impressed of how dedicated of the Bridegroom making all the heart shape deco all over their room, dinner reception at restaurant.. and the sweet presentation. This is really touching.. (BigTree please take note k.. kekeke)

Will post up the album soon.. after I have upgrade my flickr page.
Stay tune.

With love,
BigTr33 and Lit'Bird.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Tommy Recovering from Food Poisoning


Listen to instruction!?, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.
Poor Tommy suffered the most severe food poisoning last week as diagnosed by Vet. He had blood in this stools and total loss of appetite for more than 2 days!

Even Vet commented he only has 30-40% of surviving... with heavy hearted, we did our best to feed him fluid medicine and brown sugar drink (recommended by Vet. It can clear the poison/toxic from his digestion system)

On the Saturday evening, Tommy had a very smelly diarrhea and he was too weak to move his tail. :( We decided to let him stay outside for some freedom and fresh air.

However, he was disappeared for the whole Sunday. We all thought he must not able to make it... as we looking out the street, yelling his name "Tommy... Tommy..." and there was no sign of him.

Dramatically turn on Monday morning, he came back with his tail moving. To our relief, he is getting better. Although he is not as great appetite before, at least he is recovering..

Hoping Tommy stays healthy and don't take much garbage food...

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Reflection


Reflection, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

There are so many things in my head recently; however, this is the true character of lit'bird...

Peace in mind needed to complete the marathon tasks. (To make myself busy always)

Prioritization is the most important step..

Haha, what am I talking about here. Most probably self reflection before moving to the next step...

Wish to be like the fish (flexible).. but in fact I'm the one watching it outside the pool (reality)

Back to work... stop day dream. *bit hungry now.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Indran & Sreem's Wedding

Well, last weekend we went south to Kota Tinggi in Johor to attend our friend's wedding. To avoid a 10 hour journey on bus from Penang to Johor, we have decided to take a flight. Due to budget constraint (everyone would want to save a buck or two during this time right?), we decided to take Firefly instead of Air Asia. Let me just summarize the journey to Kota Tinggi was smooth except when the plane tilted it's wing to land / change direction, my palms and feet were sweating (I am pretty sure Lit'Bird feels the same but too shy to let me know. Haha ...).

Kota Tinggi is a small quiet town and eveyone as usual busy carry on with their daily routine. We took a taxi from Senai airport to Kota Tinggi. On the way, we chatted with the taxi uncle who has a passion on food, but not a good sense of road direction. We managed get to the Mayrest hotel thanks to the direction given by Om, Sreem and the road map shown in the invitation card.

At that evening, there is nothing much that we can do except getting some rest at night to prepare for the wedding at 3am. This is the first time that we attended the wedding during the wee hours of the early mornig. Sorry Om, we really thought that it was a typo at first, but after clarification, then we realize it is 3am. However, we get up by 1.30am and get dressed in casual. Then we join Mugilan, Reeng and the rest of the family at 12th floor.



As you can see here, nanny and Reeng were preparing to go. Everyone is happy although a little bit tired. We went to the temple together with the rest of the family.

A Smile
Posing

 

Many thanks to Om and Sreem. We have the exclusive rights to take pictures of the bride before the wedding ceremony. (sounds like paparazi right? Hehe ...) I know many of you out there would agree with me that the bride looks absolutely beautiful ... The accessories were fabulous ... by the way, we were told that Indran has arranged to have 2 undercover policemen at the temple to avoid any unpleasant event took place.

The wedding ceremony started at 3am. There were many people at the temple, mostly are friends and relatives. Indran arrived at the temple and we know he was quite tension. His eyes stared straight and couldn’t smile at all. Well, it is understandable that it is like once-in-a-lifetime event and surely everyone will be tensed up too.

The full wedding ceremony started with the blessing from the temple's priest and then the close family. The ceremony took 3 hours and although we do not know the meaning of each stage of the ceremony, it is very formal and meaningful...

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The peak of the ceremony is when Indran ties the "tali" around Sreem's neck and place a red dot on her forehead that symbolizes the union of the couple. In our heart, we are very happy for both of them. After the ceremony, we had a light breakfast at the temple with the family. We followed Mugilan and Reeng together with the rest of the family to Indran's house for house welcoming ceremony to the new couple.

By 9am, most of us went back to the hotel to catch a few zzz. We were knocked out in the hotel. Lit' Bird was excited in selecting the pictures for the new couple's montage that will be displayed during the wedding dinner. We debated on the Flash Player trouble shooting after encountered several errors in previewing and managed to selecte a few candid photos together with Om and included them in the montage.

 

In the evening, we went to the hall earlier to help setup the montage with the help of the AV system guys. The hall was nicely decorated with flowers and it looks grand. The dinner was simple, nice and very heart-warming. Although we may not know everyone in the hall, we all are there to celebrate this new couple. We met Goh at the dinner. As usual, our big sis Om was busy with her speech, hehe ... By the way, Om made a ncie bouquet of flowers for Sreem during the dinner in the evening. It was so colorful and lovely :)

Flower

After the dinner, we spent some time at Indran's house together with Raj and Neemi. Tommy was there also. I forgot to mention that Tommy has grown so big and strong. He can easily over power anyone of us. Luckily, Indran's dad can still discipline it with a stick :P At the end of the night, we bid good bye to Indran, Sreem, Om, Reeng, and the rest of the family and friends as we will travel to Singapore the next day.

Singapore Trip

On Sunday morning, we woke up early, packed our stuff and checked out from the hotel. We took the bus to Johor Bharu custom building as advised by Indran. It was a long and bumpy journey to the custom building. By the time we reached at the custom, it was already about 11am. Then, we took a bus to Bugis street in Singapore. We book a room at the hive backpackers stay. Frankly speaking, this is our first time staying in a backpackers stay. Anyway, we lost our way in Bugis street. After carefully studying the map, we manage to find our way to Serangoon road. Along that road, we reached at Little India and then the backpackers stay. It was a long walk from Bugis street to Lavender street where the backpacker's stay is located at.

Well, we want to travel to some of the interesting places in Singapore as backpackers, so that means more journey on foot. We manage to tour around Little India, the Raffles place, the City Hall, the statue of Merlion, etc. The first thing that struck me was that Singaporean was very friendly and helpful. We were looking at the MRT map and trying to figure our way from Little India to City Hall. There was a lady came forward and offer us some advice on the way to get to City Hall. While we were kind of lost in the MRT station at certain point, they actually take the initiative to approach us and give us thorough explanation on how to get our way out...that moment really change our perception. Thinking back, how often do many actually help the tourist at bus or LRT station here...

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When we are at the Merlion and city hall, there were a lot of students participated in Singapore national day's rehearsal. The children were wearing red color t-shirt with their own creative decoration. They were really cute. I notice one of the kids actually has black berry to take their photos... Kids nowadays are so advanced :P


Our trip in Singapore was very fruitful and tiring as well. The next day, we had our lunch and started our journey back to Johor's Senai airport for our flight back to Penang. Well, our flight was at 4.30pm and we were still stucked at the traffic jam in causeway link by 3.00pm!! The traffic was at a crawl at the causeway link. Our bus has to fight our way through and reached at the custom area by 3.10pm. We ran our way through the custom building and hop on a taxi. The taxi driver was smart and asked us that are we rushing to the airport. When we said yes and advised him that please hurry that we may miss our flight. He stepped on the gas pedal and the taxi flew along the highway and reached at the airport by 3.45pm. We rushed to the ticket counter and luckily the counter is still open, we were on time. Thinking back, it was such a thrill and the adrenaline in our body reached the maximum level. haha ...

The flight back home was smooth. When we reached at the PNG airport, Ludov called Lit' Bird that he was at PNG right then. We decided to meet up with him at Komtar. Ludov is still Ludov with his big afro.

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He even showed us his passport. He did tell us his unpleasant ordeal with the Singapore custom that confiscate his bottle of french wine (for his friends) and a small knife (which is given by his dad when he was young). He even lost his laptop on his flight from Singapore to PNG!! We felt sorry to him... One thing we can learn from him is that he is always positive no matter how bad is the outlook of things :D

The Husband and Wife

Well, it is a long story. No matter, we wish to congratulate our friend Indran and Sreem again here and ask when is hippo's turn? hehehehe ...

For more for photos about their wedding, please browse to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cathy_yong/sets/72157621586681933

With love,
Big Tr33 & Lit' Bird