From nowhere to somewhere...

Congratulations to Kanesan & Nalini

2010-08-30T09:17:00.000-07:00

Again, I was supposed to work on my writing and then... I just couldn't resist but went to cover this colorful and sweet event last Friday with Pat -- wedding ceremony of Kanesan & Nalini from Labuan. Special thanks to Mauhorng Studio for being a referrer of my photography services to Kanesan.

The ceremony held at Waterfall Temple at Penang. It is situated on top of a hill where you need to climb countless stairs (...it really tested Pat and my stamina.. plus we were empty stomach at this earlier 7am morning..) Well, the sunrise scenery there really worth your every single sweat. It was so beautiful and calm with the morning breeze.

** For those who are interested to view the full photo album, please feel free to send me msg in FB.

Another note is that, thanks Pat for changing his shift to come over for this event. He was great in snapping numerous candid shots of the day! Kudos to him! ALSO... thanks Big3 for waking me and sending me to Island... poor him, he got to enter office SO early because of me...

Once again, best wishes to this lovely couple from Labuan.

with love,
Lit'bird
*dad just admitted to hospital today...I pray hard that he would get better and back home soon...%%-

这个八月。

2010-08-17T05:48:00.000-07:00

不知是好是坏。

渴望的梦都追到手了，不知是恶梦还是在发白日梦。

好了，该梦醒了。

一大堆论文稿还得完成。。。。天呀！请赐我一半颗‘作家’ 的脑袋吧。。。

小雀上

Homemade Pizza

2010-08-10T05:48:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, we wanted to try out a simple experiment to make our own pizza. The main ingredients for the pizza dough are fine flour, baking powder and plain water.

Then, we add our pizza toppings that consist of ham, sausages, red & yellow capcicum, button mushroom and tuna fish. On top of that, we added a lot of shredded mozzarella cheese :D (Too much cheese till it covered all "colorful" toping.. hehe)

We put it into the oven at 200C for 20minutes...

The pizza thin crust was pretty hard. May be we missed out some ingredient to make the crust a bit softer. Other than that, it was delicious ... hehe ... Yum Yum ...

Once a while, making your own food does gives you satisfaction especially when you have someone to share with :D

Alright, that is from me this time. The picture sure is making me hungry ... hohoho...

Yours sincerely,
BigTr33 & Lit'Bird

Please vote for me @ Making Life Richer Contest

2010-07-29T01:24:00.000-07:00

Hi all,
My photos were accepted for "Making Life Richer" competition under this week entry.

Please vote my pics by just doing the simple steps below:
1.Register yourself at http://www.makinglifericher.com/ (it only takes less than 1 mins to complete this..)
2.Click View Gallery-Vote for "New Born" and "My Little Girl" pics under week: 29 Jul – 4 Aug!!!

"New Born"

"My Little Girl"

Thanks in advance for your vote and support!:*
Can’t thank you enuf if you invite more friends to vote for me.. hehe… =D

Have a good day ahead!

Cheers,
Big3 and Lit'Bird

Thankful!

2010-07-06T17:47:00.000-07:00

Today was just another usual day where I got in office early and had my light breakfast in front of my cube.

Surprise me today is that Canon Facebook featured my submission of photo for July entry. At first, I was indecisive on the photo selection but looks like my choice isn't that bad. :P

Anyway, thanks for giving a chance! There is still a long path to go for me to develop better skill.

Dedicate this for BigTree!

Cheers,

Lit'Bird

Dessert...

2010-06-06T05:58:00.000-07:00

Since it is a long weekend, we decided to tour around Georgetown areas to look for a nice spot for our photo-shooting! This is sort of our DIY project together :D

We visited Edelweiss Cafe (one of the Swiss restaurant in Georgetown) which is in one of our venue list and.. grab some hi-tea time with their delicious soup and dessert.

Here is the plain apple flan. It is just simple yet taste great. Kind of apple cheese cake without the cheesiness of it. It is very creamy and yet filling. Yummy!!

The brownie in Edelweiss Cafe is absolutely delicious. Guess what, Lil' bird got on hold of this plate right after i took a small bite of it... That proves that the brownie tastes great! *wink* *wink*. The brownie has a very rich chocolate taste and just enough sweetness to compliment the slight bitterness of chocolate. Nice!! We recommend to everyone to try this brownie and also the apple flan :D

BigTree can't wait to eat this chocolate brownie before I could snap this picture!!

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33

Wedding in May

2010-06-03T19:16:00.000-07:00

To many, it was an ordinary Sunday morning. For me, the usual Sunday will be mostly going out to jog with BigTree at Mengkuang Dam and have our favorite soup noodle at BM market after a walk.

But this particular Sunday was definitely a meaningful one not only for Fione & Xion Fong but everyone who attended the Wedding. (Well, this was last min invitation and thanks to Chiao Woei and his girl friend for making all the arrangement. YY and Jean you guys are cool.)

I've never seen such a jovial parents and friends in front of camera..and I just feel warm every time when i am looking at the picture..and yeah..despite the weather is pretty warm too currently

Hence, I would like to thanks everyone who has make this photog activity happened.

Here are the photos that I love most:

For more pics, you may view it in my FB or get a copy from Chiao Woei/ Fione.

With Love,
Lit'Bird~

Blue ATTACK

2010-05-24T18:48:00.000-07:00

One day I just realized that i was so fascinated with this "blue".. in my socks, shirt, sweater... (so far that's all..haha) Well, this entry has nothing much to do with BLUE haha.. i am just get excited with the blue socks that i'm wearing right now.. haha. crazy women!

And not to forget, love seeing this little small tiny ~~not really small on my feet actually~~ feet-shape socks.. (not sure how it calls..) More to come.. next entry -rainbow theme! :D (..bigTree has already shaking his head and staring at this "weird-looking" socks!)

Here is the sneak peek!

MAY is another busy month ( I thought I can concentrate on my T-paper FULLY.. huhu, bigTree is raising his eyebrown again on my delay..wahaha)

- Anti-Virus and Networking in office once driving me crazy.. but got to make friends and most importantly.. yeah got new pc in return!!!
- Teambuilding@ Jerejak- love the most tiring wall climbing and archery..althought all my arrow went off the target board! Paiseh hehe. Luckily not hitting anyone!!
- WON the Tokio Hotel's CD and tickets (althought we didn't manage to for the live concert and gave away to our Uni friend. Great that our friend Jo was having a good time there! ^o^d)
- Completed the album design for my lovely nieces and it is READY for printing. Yeah!
- Just covered a half day wedding event.. Met new friends and great photog too! (More wedding pics will come in the next entry!
- This Sunday.. hm still hope everything can go smoothly. %%-

(Ok. I couldn't manage to reach the top.. my hand was shaking so badly!! Anyway, good trial for the second attempt!)

Courtesy of Patrick S for the TeamBuilding photos!

My lovely nieces- Priscilla and Naomi.

Best regards,

Lit' Bird

Happy "Greenie" Day

2010-03-29T06:43:00.000-07:00

It was an last minutes invitation to cover this wedding. Well, I hardly say no if I have the time for it. I always love to attend wedding and capture the moments. The cultural elements and atmosphere have make every wedding unique from each other.

Why I call this blog the "Greenie" day.. Let's take a look at the picture here and you find out why. :P

Congratulations again to the lovely couple, Azlan & Ismawati!

Re-visiting Putrajaya

2010-03-10T21:42:00.000-08:00

Just a quick visit. It was a quiet street still and far from the busy city..

The Day has come..

2010-03-07T16:39:00.000-08:00

Fuh-yoo...my ever-final exam is over... feeling like a freeman after let go a heavy stone out of my mind. :P Well, not quite, one more thesis to go in order to set me free ~~forever~~.. hmm.. maybe another few more years at least before I thought of getting myself another "bigger stone"..ahem.. :-s *gona think twice..

Here are some shots of mine that I decided to publish it at the end of the day. I'm not so satisfy with picture below as I did it casually last evening after a long day. I'll revisit The 9 Emperors Temple next week to re-snap the night scenary.

Btw, I just did a mushroom hair-cut..ever since I've kept my long hair for almost 10 years?! Well, the current hair style isn't what I want but.. as it grows longer, I'll shape it again. hehe. Goodbye my messy-long-hair.

Happy CNY 2010

2010-02-07T23:43:00.000-08:00

Wish you and your family a happy & prosperous Chinese New Year! :D

Hello :)

2010-02-02T06:14:00.000-08:00

This entry will be a short one and let these pictures tell the story by itself. :)
A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. ~ Eda J. Le Shan

These are some of the precious moments with the little one:

Once again, congratulation for the new parents!
*Thanks M&M for having the confident in my photog skill. I'll keep it up.

With Love,
Lit'Bird.

Happy 2010

2010-01-06T17:44:00.000-08:00

There are too many things happened in the past one year including but not limit to job change, family event, self-development, meetings new/old friend...etc. And I would like to give a great thank you to:

1. God who has give us strength and encouragement to move on our life meaningfully.

2. family members for their continues support everyday the moment I wake up from my bed (Thanks mom for the wonderful breakfast, lunch, dinner but not supper :p) (Big TQ from BigTr33)

3. friends who we might not frequently keep in touch but the friendship that we have is unquestionable (and priceless too from BigTr33).

4. wedding couple who appreciate the art work that we've produced and we will continue to improve to have a better shots this year and year after!

5. the people surrounding us for the patience and understanding if there is any wrong doing or mistake that we have done unintentionally.

6. my best friend, partner, bigtree, gentle-giant (-though I don't agree with this nickname by his US-Colleagues) for his countless effort, love, respect and belief(he has to! ^___^ hehe) on me, our families and our friendship. (There is one nice quote that he knows I'll like it and yes, I certainly do - " This day I'll marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love." - unknown)

Picture on the Christmas Eve... *"Rain" is the picture as well.. hehe *Malaysia version la...

Happy 2010

Best Regards,
Lit'Bird

Nov-Dec 09

2009-12-14T07:05:00.000-08:00

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

The P-activity (Part II)

2009-11-30T18:57:00.000-08:00

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

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

The mysterious "Boss Zone"

2009-11-25T15:55:00.000-08:00

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

Career Path and Dilbert Zone.

2009-11-24T22:04:00.000-08:00

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

The "last" P-activity in 2009

2009-11-01T23:06:00.000-08:00

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!"

Wedding photos for KC and TY

2009-10-22T17:23:00.000-07:00

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.

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.

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

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

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

Congratulations to Kah Choon and Tin Yin

2009-10-05T19:06:00.001-07:00

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.

Tommy Recovering from Food Poisoning

2009-09-09T18:53:00.001-07:00

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...

Reflection

2009-09-03T01:26:00.001-07:00

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.

Indran & Sreem's Wedding

2009-07-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

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.

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...

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 :)

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...

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.

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

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

Dedicate this to Big Tree

2009-06-22T17:39:00.001-07:00

Dedicate this to Big Tree, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

This was captured while having a outdoor shooting with bunch of my friends at E&O Hotel. It was standing elegantly outside at the corridor which grabbed my attention. Anyway, it nice to be seen but knowingly it won't last long...

Well, I've never get a rose/flower for a guy except once for his Convocation. With this being capture... i guess it would last longer...

Anyway, pray God that everything goes well. Hope this piece of work would bring a little bit luck to everyone here.

Beautiful Sunday Morning

2009-05-03T07:15:00.001-07:00

Beautiful Sunday Morning, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

Fresh air and nice weather to start your day.

Big Thanks to everyone

2008-11-30T12:53:00.000-08:00

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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

2008-11-22T17:45:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-15T05:09:00.000-08:00

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 :)

2008-11-08T09:43:00.000-08:00

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 .....

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).
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.
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.
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.
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

2008-11-05T18:16:00.001-08:00

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

2008-11-02T18:34:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-01T15:38:00.000-07:00

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

The Caring Continum

2008-10-18T05:27:00.000-07:00

Journey

Can't work out much; things that need to be done had been done.

Waiting time is tiring and we couldn't care less. (In fact we care less)

Quoted from this side: "In order for one to "care less" about a subject, they must first care about it somewhat. Saying "I could care less about ... " does indeed imply, nay dictate, that there is some degree of care." --http://incompetech.com/gallimaufry/care_less.html

So, instead of care less about a subject.. we must first care about it. :P such a complicated language huh.

Here are some visual explanation that I copy from the same site mentioned above:

Great job of the author to visualize this caring continuum.

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After reading Frida's blog, I realize that I haven't do much of cooking since I'm back from Uni. Well, cooking nice meal is one kind of relaxation and satisfaction provided that the floor is on yours.

I miss Chicken Chop or any western food in KL. Easily we can get it from Steven Corner (It must be from up-town :D) or hanging around at PJ or Precint 9.....

I shall learn how to make a nice chicken chop then... hehe This will be more constructive :D

* Hungry now... going off for Maggi-mee time.

Cheers,
Lit'Bird

Zac & Kelice's Wedding

2008-10-03T07:13:00.000-07:00

No doubt, it was a tiring weekend to both of us. (Fred & me) Well, this project we have been through quite a tough time and dealing with the commitment issue about our partnership. However, we still manage to produce what we have to and we think of our client first (and always) though we have complaint to each other quite a lot :P

**We charged them super cheap price which we plan to increase it bit so our "art-work" worth the VALUE.

Overall, it was a nice event and personally I enjoy most while watching the finishing work. It might not have super good composition but I can sense the warmth feeling from inside-out of the family members.

Bottom (Right): Video-man gave a sign to hold everyone attention as he will panning his camera for every group session. Very cool "uncle" but funny in some way.
(Left): Interior of Rosberry restaurant with a stunning 4 layers wedding cake.

Bottom (left): Kelice greeted guest at entrance.

There are few more shots from Fred and myself will be posting in Le Frame's flickr page soon. Feel free to leave your comment.

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"I declared 2 months break!"

I've on-hold my studies for 2 months due to some unexpected work especially my college's work that I need to triple up the time and energy. On top of this, nowadays the weather was killing me. This is the longest duration that I can't recover from cough and flu. *perhaps I'm old enought not to recover soon like I'm teenager time. Haha. I need to graduate on time no matter how! (=.=")

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The "Hut" - lighting chapter

Well, quite some progress on the renovation and hunting for lighting. (plus wiring service) Everything come with cost, where nice lighting isn't cheap. Anyway, I've tried my best to choose for the long lasting design and quality bulb. I'll post the photos of the lighting in my next post after the installation. :D

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Well, as summary of the whole month; I really need a fast lense or better camera body because I'm quite frustrated when dealing with low light scene and my ISO1600 give so much of noise.
But, I've been spending lot this year in many things. I guess, there shall be a "comma" at this moment unless I receive more wedding job then :D

With cheers,
Little Bird

Some thoughts ...

2008-09-14T20:20:00.000-07:00

First of all, i would like to say "May Golden rest in peace ..."

There are so many things happen here these few weeks. I just came back from Vegas a few weeks ago. It was labour day weekend here in US (which is on Sep 1st). Vegas didn't change much as compare to last year what i experienced there. Generally, people go there to have a good time whether is it on the table, or simply get a drink, or just enjoy the view in Vegas.

These few weeks, the attention on Malaysia's newspapers is on the infamous speech by PNG UMNO rep. Whether or not this is an intended act to sabotage the harmony of the community to gain more votes, it brings shame to our country's image and confusion in the political world. Then, the police use ISA to detain the news reporter, a well known blogger and the Selangor state exco. There is no concrete evidence that prove the actions of these people threatens the harmony of our country. If they are caught under ISA, shouldn't that rep detain under this act as well?

Well, enough said on our country's politics which has go to new low. Hope everyone is alright and get through these political dramas... I am pretty sure most of the people are fed up with the current situation ...

From

Big Tr33

Goodbye Golden

2008-09-09T01:02:00.001-07:00

Golden Stare at ME, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

Perhaps it is a relief for Golden after a week in critical illness condition.

All of us felt sad for Golden as it is such a nice dog to have.

May you (Golden) rest in Peace!

From
Lit'Bird

The Awards Ceremony 08'

2008-09-05T04:52:00.000-07:00

(TOP) One of the nicer moment throughout the event that actually cheer up my day after all the hassle and busy schedule. (Bottom) VIP holding the "Oscar" looked trophy & Certificate.

From
Lit'Bird

Busy Days

2008-08-17T19:34:00.000-07:00

It has been a “really” busy day since July…

After the day when we’ve gotten our “key” of the #32 hut, all the renovation work has to take place. Other than that, sometime even well-planned event will find an unanticipated glitches. Anyhow, it was all under-control.

I don’t really like phones nor long hour chatting with cell phones as I sweat lot at my ears. :P *nevertheless, I has become one of the person with many phone calls some time. Calls from bank, classmate, neighbor, partner, students…etc
So, sorry for those who called me up or sms-ed me if you guys find me react blur to you. :”>

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Wang Wang- New Member in My Family

Dad’s friend who was kind and gave us Wang Wang- a puppy with about 2 palms sized.
Wang-wang has sharp teeth and likes to bite. He likes to play “a ji-lok” as well. :P Some time too fast that he moves, we can’t even catch him.

Wang-wang actually make us busy as well because he is full of “surprise” and still not trained to be able to leave his “surprises” at the “designated” area. I hope he really pick up this.

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Makcik J’s Wedding

Earlier this month, I attended Makcik J’s wedding at Alor Star, Kedah. It was a sweet and memorable moment to me although I’ve to risk my 20% midterm paper right on the second day of her wedding. *I managed to get 15.67 over 20%, *phew~~ thank God.

I wasn’t really have much time to pack or bring what is necessary and I ended-up bringing lot of things that I actually don’t need i.e. make up, jackets…etc. * I don’t even put up any make up.. :-s I looked so weary.

That day, I was wearing normal long pant and a super long-sleeve cardigan. However, it was not a proper attire, and I felt bad that Makcik J’s sister has to lend me her baju kurung. With her help, I looked better and formal to enter the mosque. Although it was hard to move around with a long skirt, I tried my best to take care of the cloth as well as “framing” the best moment out there. But I was sweating like mad, my back was all wet… thanks to the weather also B-).

The Akad Nikah ceremony was simple and meaningful if you ever remember how the oath reading scene like in Corpse Bride animation. I saw all the family members surrounded the couple where the bride sat quietly and was concentrating on the oath reading by her better half.

Under the witness of family members, the bridegroom cleared his throat and made his promise of life to Makcik J. * I felt quite touched and I think the Bride do feel the same.

Apart from this, I saw the respect they pay to each other in their eyes… with a gentle and certain voice; the bridegroom asked if he can kiss on the bride’s forehead. *OMG, I find it so romantic hahaha… I think Big Tree is laughing at me now if he manages to read up to this point.

Besides, J’s family was very sweet especially her parents. :P

The moment before having the family group photo session, J wanted to make up for her mom but the father said “You are my beautiful lady.(something sound like this as I can recall) Immediately I saw aunt’s face was pinkish and laughing with all the siblings. :P

Anyway, a picture is more than a thousand words. Please stay tune in my Le Frame Studio flickr page!!

**Thanks Makcik J for letting me cover your wedding!

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Inside-out: photography

Practice make perfect!
It is true. A trip to Alor Star is actually giving me better idea of what to improve and move on to different stage. Of course, there is few other photog gig of J’s friend such as Merlin who also takes good photos which I’m glad that I met them over there.

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New Job

Le Frame has 2 coming projects in September, thanks to Fred who is such a sweet talker and working hard to get the deal. I need to learn lot from him in terms of passion towards the camera parts.

Cheers,
Lit'Bird

Malaysia is PROUD of you, Lee Zhong Wei clap clap

2008-08-17T13:42:00.000-07:00

Lee Zhong Wei is the lone shuttler that reaches the final round of men's badminton event and won the silver medal in this event. He showed great determination and spirit. Although he lost to Lin Dan who is the world number 1 shuttler in China, he did his best and that is all that matters the most.

Folks, i think Zhong Wei deserves a hand. *clap* *clap*...

One World, One Dream.

2008-08-10T13:21:00.001-07:00

A picture tells a thousand words :)

Finally, summer Olympics has started. The event that i am most interested on is Basketball games. In the past, US has lost 7 games to 6 different opponents which include their worthy rivals, Spain, Greece and their main nemesis Argentina. All these countries have shown to US that a team of all stars doesn't guarantee success. Excellent team work is always greater than extradionary individuals effort combined together. US has learn it's lesson in a hard way. Therefore, the theme of their journey for this olympics is "Road to Redemption".

Sit back, relax and enjoy the games ... :)

Some thoughts

2008-08-02T20:49:00.000-07:00

Have you ever travel to the tourist attractions near to your home? Some may say yes, others may say no, and may be some will say those places are just around the corner from our home, we can go there anytime of the year. When we are so busy looking forward to go to places far away, we always tend to forget the local attractions that we missed, until one day you are at the other side of the world, you will miss all the places, people and food which feels so familiar to you :)

The moon on the other side of the world is not always bigger and much perfect in shape. It is just the same. In US, there are still a lot of dramas in politics, discrimination even among the same group of people, crappy government workers' treatment (Believe me, the ones that I encountered here is much worse than the ones that we deal with everyday in M'sia) and high living cost to cope with...

Well, I think ultimately we have to appreciate the things that we have :)

Dream come true

2008-07-26T08:16:00.000-07:00

Keys are tools that are used to gain access to some place. To me, these keys gave us access to "build" our dream home together. If you ask us if we have perceived ourselves to buy a house so soon. I would say that will be a distant dream last year. Nevertheless, the timing is right and the house is great. Therefore, I think it is time to catch that opportunity before it went away. This is our dream home for ourselves and family. This is the place that we called HOME.

Finally, we got the keys to our house. After a few weeks of waiting, the developer called and gave us the keys. We are thrilled and excited about it, but we know that this is a responsibility for us as well.

Friends, where ever you are, if you happen to go to Penang, you are welcome to our house :)

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33 & Li'l Bird

Meaningful Quotes

2008-07-21T20:01:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends,

I would like to share with you some of the meaningful quotes that i read before.

It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.
Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
Don't look for the next opportunity. The one you have in your hands is the opportunity.
Don't promise what you can't deliver.
If you can't solve a problem, it's because you are playing by the rules.

These are the quotes from Paul Arden's book entitled "It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be."

Take care everyone. Miss you guys a lot.

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33

A scared and friendly friend from mother nature :)

2008-07-19T10:29:00.001-07:00

Hello everyone,

This morning as usual, i woke up from bed and open the windows. I found a scary friend on my balcony. It was quite huge as compare to the usual squirrel that we find in Malaysia. This one has a fluffy tail ... I tried to approach slowly, but it was so alert and aware of my movements. It ran away once i get too close. Haha ...

Well, hope everyone is still alright in Malaysia after the comedies and dramas in the politic world of Malaysia.

Take care every body. Miss you guys a lot :)

Yours sincerely,
Big Tr33

The Long Waiting "KEY"

2008-07-14T05:45:00.000-07:00

After several months of waiting, finally the key for house of BigTree & Lit'Bird has arrived. *not really.

There letter with stated date of 2 July and yet today (14 July) only i received. With the condition that, I must able to reply within "14" days from the date stated in the letter. This is totally late dated document which only left 2 days for me. Well, they don't even make the accuracy of stating 14 days referring to working day, so by ASSUMPTION we don't have much time.

So I called sis, and ask about any procedure on the delivery of vacant possession. Eventually, you need to check the house critically before sign any document on the delivery. Once you deemed the premises, the bank will release the money to the developer. Anyway, there is this clauses state:" You are deemed to have taken delivery of vacant possession of the premises upon expiry of 14 days from the date of this letter, whether or not you have actually entered into possession or occupation of the premises. We shall not be responsible for any loss or damage to the premises or any part thereof."

Well, that's really a trick. Luckily, I often go to check out the house and look at the condition. Anyway, I would really advise puchaser to be extra careful from A-Z. From the banker, lawyer firm, developer as well as later stage -the renovation company. You can't neglect any importance of the T&C from any parties.

This is a good experience and lesson. Buying a "hut" is not as easy as you think. Thorough planning and adequate funding in order to proceed the dealing.

Lit'Bird

The Hibiscus

2008-07-06T06:40:00.001-07:00

Lantern-looking Hibiscus, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

I've lost count when exactly mom plant this type of hibiscus in our garden. There are so many species under the hibiscus's family, and I realized that how little I know about the name of hibiscus or even how many types i've seen.

As far as I know, mom has owned 5-6 type of hibiscus along the way she collected from road side. We're proud of her gardening skill. I can't imagine if we live without this garden... many things we could have miss-out.
1. Playing with the big snails/ dragon fly/ butterfly/ ladybug...etc
2. Non-stop supply of fresh chili paddy
3. Mango
4. Nangka fruit
5. Pandan leaf
6. Watching the little-fighting fish under the lotus leaf
7. Hiding something under the ground.. :P

Many years ago, it was a big piece of land that everyone here plant little small tree or flower. As time goes by, new neighbor clear up the space and transform it to be a parking area except the land right in front of my house. I really wish our earth could have more greener as we grow older. Make the earth for human not our cars..

Well, yet to find out the name of these flowers. * Welcome any finding or suggestion on what is the real name for this hibiscus!

Stay tuned till I've found the name for it.

Please support GREEN!
Lit' Bird

Golden

2008-06-30T00:09:00.001-07:00

Showing Tongue, originally uploaded by cathy_yong.

This is my family dog, we named it Golden! *It does have some brownish kind of fur with him.

I've attempted to take few shots on him and yet he is such a camera shy dog. Whenever I point my camera to him, he will just turn away his head. =.= He is not even shy but he is a quiet dog, only bark when the stranger is nearby our house. So, he actually knows that why waste energy bark unnecessary. hahah

Anyway, this was one of the closer shot that I've with him last Saturday. *by bit of force: P My hand was holding his jaw.

From what I noticed, Golden has some black spot in his tongue. Mom said, dog with black spots in his tongue is generally not greedy in eating (munching habit). Well, Golden only has 1 meal per day and he eats like vacuum cleaning up the bowl. hehe. *clean & clear

In-support of loving & caring your pet,

Lit'Bird

Japanese Tea Garden

2008-06-28T21:41:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone,

Recently, I went to Japanese Tea Garden which is a part of Golden Gate Park, a public park that is managed by San Francisco. Well, the garden is very beautiful :) Absolutely a beauty... How nice it will be if Malaysia can have a well maintained public park like this one ...

Well, until next post. Take care everyone~

Yours sincerely,
Big Tree

Aloha~

2008-06-24T00:53:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone out there :P

This blog is maintained by Big Tree (who you know..can be named) and Lit' Bird (obviously.. ). The idea of blogging here is simple; just to express some nonsenses and of course share some jokes that happen around us. Many friends of us are staying few hundred miles away, we thought maybe this blog could keep us stay in touched.

Buddies, please feel free to leave your comment and share with us your thought.

Best regards,
BigT&Lbird.

From nowhere to somewhere...

Congratulations to Kanesan & Nalini

这个八月。

Homemade Pizza

Please vote for me @ Making Life Richer Contest

Thankful!

Dessert...

Wedding in May

Blue ATTACK

Happy "Greenie" Day

Re-visiting Putrajaya

The Day has come..

Happy CNY 2010

Hello :)

Happy 2010

Nov-Dec 09

The P-activity (Part II)

The mysterious "Boss Zone"

Career Path and Dilbert Zone.

The "last" P-activity in 2009

Wedding photos for KC and TY

Congratulations to Kah Choon and Tin Yin

Tommy Recovering from Food Poisoning

Reflection

Indran & Sreem's Wedding

Dedicate this to Big Tree

Beautiful Sunday Morning

Big Thanks to everyone

Thanks Giving

November

Soup for thought :)

Curiosity

My Weekend

Snippets

The Caring Continum

Zac & Kelice's Wedding

Some thoughts ...

Goodbye Golden

The Awards Ceremony 08'

Busy Days

Malaysia is PROUD of you, Lee Zhong Wei *clap* *clap*

One World, One Dream.

Some thoughts

Dream come true

Meaningful Quotes

A scared and friendly friend from mother nature :)

The Long Waiting "KEY"

The Hibiscus

Golden

Japanese Tea Garden

Aloha~

Malaysia is PROUD of you, Lee Zhong Wei clap clap