这个八月。

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

Happy 2010

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

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 "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!"

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...

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.

 

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