The memoir of my aquarium

Today, I’m going to talk about my aquarium. This aquarium has been accompanying me for 3 years now. A lot of things have been experimented inside this aquarium and many lives had perished inside this 2 footer space just to fulfill my lust on fish keeping hobby.

When I think back, the life inside the aquarium depended on me so much. Periodical maintenance will normally make the fish happy but my negligence would cause the fish to gulp for air, attacked by disease or ended up RIP.

Last year, I gave up on fish after my marriage and started a rain forest theme aquascape using the same aquarium. I learnt how to make my own CO2 generator, collect some knowledge on the water plants, choose the right colour and intensity for lighting and get the most economical filtration system.

Currently, I am proud of the aquarium because everything is done using DIY (do-it-yourself) method at the cheapest price. The most expensive product I have bought so far is the plant fertilizer. The mosses plant I got for free, water filter I bought at modest price, CO2 generator I produced using some recycled items and some bread making recipe.

My rainforest cultivated using assorted species of mosses and plants

Unfortunately after a year, I’m going to dismantle the whole aquascape due to my commitment on an overseas job attachment. My wife and housemate already spoke to me frankly that they wouldn’t want to commit as keepers to my hobby. So I have decided at this point to give up on temporary basis before I’m back in Malaysia again after 6 months. Anyway, I have posted some of the photos and videos of the current setting before I scrapped everything.

A red cherry shrimp scavenging for food at the filter inlet

Another shrimp hiding among the water plant

Merry Christmas

Wishing everyone a pleasant merry christmas. May your christmas be brighten with joy and peace.

1st wedding anniversary

On this day in 2007, 22nd Dec, I tied the knot with my sweetheart, Carmen after 6 years of courtship and patoship (my own term). I still remember how we had to go through a lot of preparations physically, mentally and emotionally as well. After hours of nervousness, anxieties, and quarreling finally we got married which I think worth every minute spent enduring all priceless experience.

I remember the wedding ceremony at the church in my hometown, Sarikei was attended by over 150 hundred friends (mainly my parents’ friends) and relatives. Ceremony was grand plus some hiccups because the pastor was a bit anxious then me. Then a congested lunch at a Chinese restaurant ended the long hours of preparations. Glad finally the initial stage was over.

But the real marriage life starts after that. Over the past one year, our marriage is filled with happiness, laughters and not forgetting some tense, sad and despair moments. Initially, it was hard to share the same bed with my wife. I remember she couldn’t stand my snoring melody at night which forced her to surrender sleeping in the living room.

Living together is like transforming two separate entities to become one. Been a tag team with my wife means there’s a lot of understanding involve in solving issues from our marriage, family, career, habits, lifestyles etc. I have learnt when to be firm and submissive depending on situations. But, I'm glad that someone is doing all the laundry and cooking for me.

The strength about her is that I can’t hide anything from her verbally and non-verbally. I guess it’s a ladies’ instinct to predict what’s going on to their men. It sounds hazardous to men but in the end breaks the silence.

As most of my married friends said, married couples will prosper physically and that happens to me and my wife as well. I have gained a wealthy 8 kg since marriage. I’ll try not to ask her about her progressive pounds or else a kiss of death is waiting for me.

Well, we get to cherish all the moments no matter during clear or storm and normally we manage to get through and learn new stuffs. This is what so called lessons learnt. Of cause there are a lot of other experiences that I still think still better kept privately within us.

To my dear Carmen, it’s been a year we got married and thank you for your companionship and love through all the moments.

The Launch of Fly-By-Wire

It has been a while I didn’t blogged. Used to blog a lot using harsh words on the political side of Malaysia but now cool down a bit. It’s been great giving critics with other bloggers from the same genre to reflect our views and thoughts on various injustices, undermined by the government.

For this blog, why did I choose the name Fly-By-Wire? One of the quick reasons I can think of is because I love airplanes and modern airplanes like the Airbus fly on this type of system. The system makes flying easy but some mishaps in the air had the pilots to blame due to their misjudgment using the same systems. Convenience and tragedy is just the reality in life, it’s a continuous dynamic process even though sometimes I can’t accept these metamorphosis evolutions.

Let’s set sail from here.