My favorite recipe - Curry chicken with the chicken marinated in "Kari Basah"

The essential ingredient for delicious curry chicken - "Kari Basah"

I spent most of my childhood time in the kitchen watching my mum prepared the meals for my family instead of hanging-out in the playground with other children. Even though my mum is just an ordinary housewife who never attends any cooking class yet she does great cooking with her own secret recipes that accumulated from years of experience. May be that is the only explanation to my big tummy since I was small.

After years, I only managed to memorise a few of my mum’s great recipes. With that few recipes I cooked for my friends who desperately missed the Malaysian cuisine while we studied in UK. It was a precious enjoyment to have the spicy curry or hot bak-kut-teh with my friends in the chilling weather far away from our home country.

After back to Malaysia, I did not have much chance to cook simply because kitchen is strictly my mum’s territory all the times. It was until I moved into my own house about a year ago that I managed to pick up my wok and recall those secret recipes again.

Beside photography, cooking has become another leisure activity for me over the weekend. Simply spice up my life….

Last Sunday morning i managed to find this tiny dragonfly resting on the potted plant when i was preparing to wash my car so i quickly grabbed my camera to shoot a few shots before it flied away.

Cant remember when was my last time picked up my camera to do close up shot with insect already since i moved into my new home. Just wish that i could have more time to dating with the little insect.

My little Jerome just backed from his 3^rd vaccination at the clinic. He is now 5.35kg and 60cm tall compared to the 2.99kg when he was born. Looking back the day he was born, he was so little that we have to search for the smallest shirt, glove, sock and cap for him but now we have to look for bigger size for him already. It is a joy to see him growing each day but it is a pain also to feel that we are getting older each and everyday. Now i realised the greatest thing in life is just so simple, to spend the precious time with the one you love.

This is 1 of my favorite shot taken on the day he was born using Nokia N78

This is the shot taken recently when he is 2 months old

Last weekend i suddenly realised that it was 13 years already since my first attempt to shoot the baby portrait for my neighbour’s granddaughter. Time flies, that little baby girl is now in the secondary school already.

Frankly speaking, i did not managed to spend much time with my little baby boy over the last few weeks as i was rushing for the wedding assignments’ post-processing job and many other matters that tied up my time. Only last weekend i managed to spare my whole weekend for my little boy, capturing some of his photos just to show how he look different from a few weeks back. He is growing and learning at a much faster pace than i can imagine so i think i better catch up with him before another 13 years slip away

This is a speechless sunday for me. One simple mistake made by a irresponsible contractor and driver spoilt my whole sunday mood.

The contractor simply setup their machinery on the middle of the road without proper barricade and warning signage from  a distance away to give proper warning to other road users. Then at 1:30am came the speedy pick-up that collided with the machinery at high speed. The truck subsequently swung and hit my car parked at the roadside parking. The irresponsible driver then run away in his ISUZU pick-up even some people shout to ask him stop. Fortunately someone noted down his plat no. and gave to me, that is QAL65xx.My car was seriously damaged at both sides and the bottom part that the broken the back wheel arm. In fact there was another VIVA that collided with the machinery again shortly after the 1st collision and few motorbike slipped due to the oil spilled from the machinery. I made the police report in the mid night at 2 a.m. yet the police officer only said: “Kami akan cari itu driver”. That’s the only answer i got.

8 hours after the accident finally i saw the contractor staff appeared. This time the answer that i got is that: “It is no point for you to scold me, we did barricade and put the warning light. It is the council that not allow us to put the signage at a further distance away from our machinery”

I was deeply disappointed and replied him:”Do you know that your warning light was never turn on, how you expect other to brake in such a short distane when your signage was just in front of the machine  and how were you feel if you park your car here and someone hit it yet telling you it is not his fault”.

That guy suddenly silent.

Later on another guy claimed himself as the consultant told my dad that it was the Main contractor that neglected such safety precaution.

I thought that this project’s Japanese and Malaysian public listed company joint venture shall be putting the public safety and interest in the first priority as  their works are everywhere on the road over the whole city area but obviously that is not the case.

I am deeply disappointed with these typical M.S attitude which are hit & run and pointing finger when unfortunate event happened.

Check the following websites for the more inccident photos and video:

http://tecklee78.multiply.com/video/item/18/Unfortunate_event…

http://tecklee78.multiply.com/photos/album/154/Unfortunate_event….2