My memorable Birthday

Oh wow, Mr. Slim came home late on Tuesday. So, I didn’t cook and we went dinner at the food stall near by our house. Hmmm… in a sudden he told me that he has booked a table in Traders Hotel, Gobo Upstairs and Sky Bar to celebrate birthday for me! Gosssh… surprise again!

But my first reaction on what he planned was ~ NO, NO! Too expensive and now economy is so bad. I even suggest I want to cook at home! Haha~
This cleaver guy has reaction in the other way round so fast ~ “Cannot cancel, because I have booked a birthday cake there! And this place, introduced by a Blogger (Kampung Boy City Gal), should be very nice” ~
Aaarggh, kill me, he actually wanted to go this place since long ago, and I always reject him. Now this time, what a good reason for him! He even put up blogger’s name to heat up my urge, what else I can say…

So, I just prepare my heart to be there for a nice dinner. I brought my little baby to done his first hair cut (puppy). Done some phone calls, met a friend for discussing on Share- Stock Market stuff. Then I came home, met Mr. Slim online and he told me he want to go home earlier to avoid jam. That was only 5pm plus. Then I went for shower and get my own ready with Casual Smart dress up, he reached home like 30 min after he said bye on the MSN. Wow… so punctual, and never been so punctual ever since!

I thought we could get up the car right after he took his good shower, see him feeding the puppies, and at the same time he asked me, why am I getting myself ready so fast? The dinner actually booked for 8pm. And he wants to complete his unfinished work before we leave home for dinner. (Aarrggh! Want to bang my head on the wall!)

Anyway, that was a good place for romance fine dinning…haha!

~The Organizer: Mr. Slim.
*Gobo Upstairs, Traders Hotel.

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* Sky Bar @ 33rd Floor

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10 minutes before Birthday, a surprise couple showed up in front of me! Gosh… unbelievable!

~Surprise couple in my birthday (Chris and KC)

~present from Chris and KC for my neck pain.

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A surprising gifts from my friend a little tinny birthday cake! But it was too full after the duckling lunch, we didn’t manage to cut the cake there…

~gifts from Keem.

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I thought everything was end, and waiting Mr. Slim to come home from work for dinner… My god, he has a bouquet of Roses hold on his hand. Another surprise again!My best friend from Texas and Sabah, ask Mr. Slim to surprise me with that… My god, too lovely!
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~ From Mr. Slim, Hui Sia, Ping Long and Pei Ying.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ bigfish!

Present in the year of 2009

We have just past our 7th Valentines’ Day. A lot of friend told me, is very unbelievable that we still have Valentines’ Day present after 7th years. So, what should I say… I think I’m still the lucky one, as we been together more than 7 years, but we celebrate every Valentines’ Day ~ no miss!

This time, My ideal present for my Mr. Slim is a WATCH! For a guy like him ~ an interior designer, he always have to work like “RUSH HOUR”, guess a nice and good watch is very important for him to be a designer. Haha ~

I was having big headache few days before the Valentines’. I actually decided to get my Mr. Slim a watch, but I didn’t actually know what kind of watch he likes. Too plan and too messy, he doesn’t like, too big and too thick, not suitable. Too fancy and too complicated, he won’t wear… huh ~

Day before the Valentines’ Day, I have finally make my decision with getting a silver bracelet and simple internal fittings design Seiko watch for him. Unexpected… he likes it very much, not too heavy, not too fancy, not too big and JUST NICE!

Guess what… my Mr. Slim gave me a big surprise this year! He came down from the car with a white plastic bag, that was a bottle of white wine ~ lovely! And also another black plastic bag which I thought it was from a Hardware Shop. Out of my expectation, there was a black color box inside the plastic bag, and with the pictures on the box, obviously I never expect he bought me a set of Knives (ZWILLING J.A.HENCKLES - Twin Pollux) as my Valentines’ Day present! Gosssh… professional and expensive!

No Doubt, I love to cook, and Twin Pollux knives set is purposely made for Asian Kitchen – for my Bigfish Cook Book!

New Living, new life begins

Moving to new house currently … guess it been more than a year I don’t even have time to enjoy my blogging. Feel so sorry to all my blog’s reader and friends.
Posting up some of my Little Sweet Home photos here:~

It is a quiet and nice place to live with, a good and peaceful environment.
From a condominium to a Terrace, we actually spend quite a bit time to get use to here.
We settled down in since few months ago, we decided to have clean and tidy furniture to be placed in the living, dinning and kitchen.

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Then for our puppies, they use to live in the condominium, but now they have bigger ground outside the house, inside the car porch to play around. Our female dog even got pregnant, and gave birth before the Chinese New Year’09.

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Over the days and months, our house becomes a good place for gathering, eat and drink…

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We had our first Chinese New Year here, my mom and brothers were here with us. We had our first Chinese New Year Eve Dinner - “Tuan-Yuan-Fan” here.

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BACK from Sabah!

Dear every one,

I'm BACK!!! Miss you all a lot here...
Just got down from flight and done my nice shower!

Was a very nice and meaningful festive holidays back home in SABAH this time.
Lot of things to share... but I'm so tired now... will update you all after "I RECHARGED MY BATTERY"!

BigFish

Happy Chinese New Year

Dear all,

I'm going back home (Land Below the Wind - Sabah),
To celebrate Chinese New Year.
See you all and Wish You all ...
Greatful Happy Chinese New Year.

My BigFish Cook Book

Since last Thursday, is been few days already, haven’t been posting my recipes on blog… huh… getting frustrated now! I was so busying to figure out ways just to improve my blog. The problem with my Photo Shooting and Making nice template are giving me a big challenge.

As a new blogger, I think I get addicted over here! :)

Comments from friends and Foodiest …
Very much appreciate to every one here and I have made up my mind to improve my blog page template soon.

1. Why I want to set up a Blog?
This is really important for me to drive ahead. In the very beginning, I bet every one here are like me ~ wanted to set up a blog for SHARING, and Learn new things. Make a habit to note down anything which is actually interesting and warming your soul. But after some times, I found most of the thing that make me smiling inside out to share here are my Home Cooking and Recipes. I feel extremely proud with my own creations and also the modified recipes whenever it served on the dinning table.
I have found my answer even obvious after some times of carving. Opinions given by lot of friends, and I’m sure that I’m the lucky new blogger because I got to know some bloggers and added them into my MSN as well.
* Especially from Big Boy Oven (Sid), my friend who works in MPH Publisher (Lawrence), and also a designer he is my ex-schoolmate (Hakkison). Their opinions are really helping me a lot.

2. Food Blog – How should I present a food blog.
Eat out food or Home Cook Food? My blogging are mainly about my Home Cook Food and Recipes. Friends’ opinion, that I have to actually make a brand and a unique name which is easier for others to remember me.
* So I stick back to my lovely nickname as BigFish.

4. Template and Theme Color.
Keep the design clean and nice to read.
* Don’t use Eyes Killing Fonts and Color.
** This is the very first thing that I can do up to the stage now ~ to change my blog looks clean and comfortable.

5. Photo Shooting.
After College and quit my design job. Is been ages I never keep myself updating with the Photo Shooting matter. All my photos are just simply shooting without any side preparations most of times.
But since I started to add my first Food Blogger (CookingMonster) in my list, from there I started to know foodiest from all around the world. The very first blog which really gave me a strong impression is Taste Like Home (Cynthia’s blog). Her photos are all serving with well food styling. Another one is Big Boys Oven (Sid), and I been chatting online with him few times, and he was telling me about the dinning set like bowls and plates chosen are important for Food Photography too.

* I will have to get back to my skill from now, try to shoot more and practice more to make my dishes come out with nice lighting shoot.
* I started to buy nice dinning set to make my food present nicer.
* Might have to set up a small shooting area in my house with some simple lighting equipments.

I’m looking forward from every one here to give me more opinions and also comments. I will try to make my improvement step by step. I am looking forward to get my own domain~ when the “clicks” is there!

Please forgive me if you found my blog has some changes, because some times it will be “under construction”.

Looking forward to step ahead from decent to better…

~ Happy Blogging ~ Cheers!

Blogs below are those I always visit because of their nice photographs. :)
1. Oh for The Love of Food
2. Steamy Kitchen
3. Audrey Cooks
4. A Whiff of Lemongrass
5. Food for Thought
6. Imbi and Itchy

2008's Lucky Ring

A Gift for us ~ End of year of 2007 & Beginning of 2008.

If you loved to have surprise, then you’re going to love my latest short story which was happened recently.

That was 30th December 2007, a really Lucky Day for me and Panda. We went to Tesco again to do our house hold and glossaries shopping. I bought a lot of prawns, vegetables and herbs… wanted to ready for the New Year Eve party in my friend’s house.

We walked out from Tesco Hypermarket, there are so many stalls selling ladies hand bags and jewelries. The very last stalls we were passing through, it was a Jewelries Stall which is selling all the Fake Gold Jewelries. This is the time… Panda shouted and ask me to “Watch Out! Why are you stepping on a Necklace? I think they dropped it”. The next step we did was we picked up the Necklace and pass to the sales girl there…

Who knows… they told us that Necklace was not belongs to them, and they passed it back to us. We holding it, and looked at it very seriously. I told Panda, this Necklace look so fake, because the design was old fashion and with the size, we both have the same thought ~ it shouldn’t be so light. But look into the Necklace clearly, there was a little number written there “916”. Huh… according to common sense “916” means gold, but on the other hand our thoughts were perfectly matches. ‘Weight too light’… since none of us can decide whether is real or it is not, then we decided to bring it over to Poh Kong Jewelry Shop near our house to find out the truth.

My God, Poh Kong’s sales person told us that this Necklace worth RM470, if it comes with a receipt, it worth even more than RM500!
Gooosssh… I felt so luckily that we didn’t throw it away just now ~

The whole 31st December, the last day of 2007, I was so busy getting preparing some dishes, we both put the Necklace aside and went to friend’s house.

Then 1st January 2008, we woke up late and Panda said, lets bring the Necklace out and we sell it off to the Jewelry Shop, so we go for Good Lucky Dinner tonight. Wow… then I was so happy and agreed with what Panda suggested! Since it looks so old fashion and none of us like the design. And the most important point is, we both felt like not good with wearing it.

Went to Poh Kong, and they told us if want to sell of the Necklace without receipt, they are going to deduct 25% due to depreciation. They have 1st option for us, with changing it to cash, but the value went even lower. The 2nd option they gave is exchange with other Jewelry in the shop, so we choose accordingly to the price they judged on the Necklace. We both felt like not so satisfy, and then walked in another Jewelry Shop (Wa Chan) which is just opposite to Poh Kong. Lovely ~ Wa Chan give us better deal! And they suggested we can pick from any Jewelries from Wa Chan which was a bit lower than the actual value.

Orrrggghh… Panda agreed and we started our Jewelry Exchange Shopping!!!
* Here it is… Lucky Gift for 1st January 2008.

A nice beautiful Gold Ring...

~pictures taken by Panda

2008 Resolutions

New year symbolizes good luck, prosperity and a good new beginning. It's the best time to analyze on our past mistakes and make efforts to achieve our desinavy goals.


~Make a Wish Here! Goals will come true~

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends
I gotta brain wash myself for ~ Work shouldn't always come first!
* To have more time for “us” and my family in Sabah.
* To take care of my puppies more.

2. My Career
Reorganize my little tuition centre which i have lost and start all over again step by step.
*Done with small renovation. Now is time to canvass sales for the business when schools reopened.

3. Get Out of Debt
Money ~ a big source of stress in my life last year!
* Will get rid from the debts I have and make my days brighter!
* Then only take out some little amount for Traveling ~ yeah!

4. Cute Car
I wanna get my Suzuki Swift! Don’t care… Dream must come true!
* *Friends says ... the car is too small ~ but I just LOVE IT so much.

5. House
I dont want to store my "age rubbish" any more!
*I gonna brain wash myself to throw away those things which I kept for ages. Keep the house look simple and nice!
* Find a suitable house for “us” and make sure it is not over budget.

6. Quit from Unhappiness
I wanna refrain from being stressful and unhappy!
I want myself to be happier and enjoy everyday in my life.
*This will make myself look more pretty and confident!

7. Enjoy Life More
I will proceed with my new hobby~ My BigFish Cook Book on the blog and make it nicer.
Therefore I will have more creation on my own recipes whenever I have time!
* Note down every interesting and lovely things I had in my daily life!

8. Learn New Things
I am going to learn on how people do so well in SOHO business and start mine from step by step too!
*Start from even a little or simple one will be a Good Start for me!

9. Slim and Slimmer
I wanna start back my Regular exercise ~ swimming!
~I'm reaching the age of 30 ....... dangerous!
*No Extra Pounds for 2008!

10. Get Organized
Organize myself from top to toe all over again.
I thought I’m very organized all the while, but found out a lot of things goes wrong because of my wrong thoughts.
*I will get myself force-organize to make my Resolutions Success this Year!

2008 Happy New Year

Dear all blogger and friends...

Happy New Year !!!

**MERRY CHRISTMAS**

To all my readers and bloggy here...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Cheapest Cook Book

~the cheapest cook book in town

I went to Porpular Book Store yesterday. Purposely… I want to have a look whether they have any new cook book. My purpose was not to buy the book ~ with the short visit time, I was just curious whether there’s any new creative way that I can learn a bit here and there.

My God! I cannot believe my eyes… just right at the middle of the entrance, I found this!
~ Chinese New Year Recipes, with nice designed cover. Sell only RM6.88!!!
Orrrggghhh… flip the book and had a deep look, those are the recipes and dishes that normally I can see from my mom’s cooking for the Chinese New Year Eve’s Dinner. What a funny book eh ~

Other than the Recipes, they written the Traditional of Chinese New Year like:~ Telling people about Red Packets, Lion Dance, Yu Sheng, Mandarin Oranges, Nian Gao and etc…

Without thoughts, I have bought it…

More than a Feeling

about BLOG

I have my whole day FREE today accept morning.

So, I’m here sitting to find out more about BLOG!

I know a lot of people have their own blogs, but I thought blogging is just like a simple thing which writing your own diary and let other people to share with. But after all, I found out that blogging is “NOT ONLY THAT”… even far more than what I expected!

I have been busying with my Job as a Marketer for the pass few years. Going outstation and been flying around a lot. There’s so many things I can share here, and I had just missed the chance cos I didn’t actually know more about the Function Of Blog.
~ What a waste…

Started from Oct 2007, I started to rearrange my schedule and switching back to my own little business… I also started to learn on Creating my own Blog. That was the very first step for me and I started with my Nick Name as “BigFish” ~ this nick name been with me for more than 15 years since my secondary school time. Over here, I want to share with people here about My Things and Feeling that made from the heart.

Very beginning... I was so glad about creating my own blog. But on the other hand, it was so hard for me to start with. I had even difficulties to start with the Add and Arrange Page Elements … My God! I started to notice that I am far behind with what is up to date online now!
Anyway… not giving up… I started with my own Cook Book. I like to cook and create new recipes for my own dish. Everything got started with taking pictures while I am doing my ingredients preparing and cooking. I practice myself to take down all the photos for the food I have done for every meal.

I was so exciting… I finally can manage my own personal time to take out the ‘WOK’ which I had kept inside the cupboard for more than 3 years due to my busy working schedule. I decided everything to be rearranged and start again… My writing, my cooking, my housework, my handicraft hobby, my pets…

Then so coincident, few weeks ago…I met one of my close best friends online, and she told me that she is an active blogger since 3 years ago, and she has a lot of fans there…she even earns from posting her Blogs… Gosh! Unbelievable… I can never believe Blogging is another pipe-line to earn extra income too. Pheeeuu… such a new stuff for me!

She told me about the Traffics, The Blog Rank and etc… everything seems so hard for me to understand. After short thinking, I have decided to start with what I can do now and since I want to make my ‘BigFish~Cook Book’, then I will learn step by step and hopefully from time to time, I can have my group of bloggy too. I believe if my contents are informative and friendly enough, I will slowly get into PPP…

image from ~ some one