Wednesday, April 30, 2008

KIE AND THE FAMILY



Tuan Maizukie. Salam.

Thanks for sharing your family photo with us. Indeed it is a lovely family. Alhamdulillah.

You said the youngest child has very close connection with the Marine Terminal. Does she swims and loves seafood? If not, make sure she does love both. I hope the family growth does not stop here. Rasulullah saw loves his ummah to have big family!!!!

MEKONG RIVER CATFISH


Fishers in Northern Thailand netted this huge catfish in Mekong River. The length is approximately 2.7m and the weight is 293 kg. It is a Mekong giant catfish, the largest freshwater fish.

RED SEA OIL AND GAS


Sudan is targeting an increase of 100,000 barrels of oil a day mid-2009 as the result of new investments, particularly Chinese, come on stream, the Sudan oil minister has said.

In an interview this week with Dow Jones Newswires, Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan said the African country plans a daily output of 600,000 barrels mid-2009, compared with 500,000 now.

The country holds one of Africa's largest proven oil reserves at 6.4 billion barrels but growth in output has been hindered by a civil war in the South that formally ended in 2005.

The minister said the projects that will fuel this output hike will include a ramp up of Block 6 in the South West of the country. He said the operator, China national Petroleum Corp., or CNPC, intends to increase production from 40,000 barrels a day to 60,000 this year.

The recent discovery of light oil on this block should help production rise on this block, he added.

He said exploration on Red Sea blocks 13 and 15, in which CNPC is also a shareholder, offered the possibility of production development. "Signs of gas" have been detected in these blocks, which could be used for electricity generation and, as a second option, for industries or liquefied-natural-gas exports, he said.

Among other prospects for oil output growth, South Africa's national oil company PetroSA started seismic work earlier this year in Block 14, a Northern block bordering Egypt and Libya, he said.

Al-Hassan also said Sudan is mulling joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a program that aims at improving resources revenue transparency by governments and companies.

"We are considering it," he said, adding that the 2005 peace agreement between North and South Sudan already stipulates extensive disclosures.
    



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RED SEA FISHING TRIP - 28TH APRIL 08


Another 5 kg "Kerapu"!!! At least once a week, we go for fishing away from the shore. This time we go to the shallow coral patch with plenty of coral fish species. We make an effort to get Allah vast provision underwater of Red Sea. That evening of 28th April, Zul prepares steam fish and we cook other supplimentary dishes. Make the life interesting.......Live by the basic.....

RED SEA FISHING TRIP - 28TH APRIL 08


We went for a fishing trip on the 28th April, 2008 because it was a public holiday. One of the catches was a one meter long eel. This type of sea el normally served onboard the Emirate Airlines for business class passenger. I believe most of us have eaten it before. Looking at the eel, I dare not to cut it nor cook it.....

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

LAMBAIAN LABUAN



Ini yang tak tahan nak pergi ke Labuan. Kita asyik memancing di tepi pantai saje. Kenalah pergi ke bahagian tengah laut Cina Selatan atau Laut Merah pulak. Barulah dapat ikan yang besar macam ni. Jealous sungguh ni. Tuan Amin, bila nak balik ke Khartoum!!!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

JOGET LAMBAK ALA SUDAN



We were invited to attend a wedding celebration at one of our Sudanese friends house on the evening of April 21, 2008. It was a wonderful experience for all of us because we never been to any such wedding celebration before. To fulfill our host request, we joined the traditional dance. Our good friend Zul Inar was so excited with the rhythm of the music and be the first among us to join the dance. I have seen his legs started to shake liked a rattle snake an hour earlier. I have a good video of the dance but failed to upload. The file size is too large maaa.....

Thursday, April 17, 2008

BARRACUDA


This is a barracuda that we received from a friend living offshore of Red Sea. He got three of similar barracudas in a night. Lately, we enjoy cooking ourself and the new galley miss us a lot. Delicious lah.........

RED SEA FISHING - 11 APRIL 08

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

HEALTH WARNING



My cigarette smoking friend give me this photo recently. These are cigarette packs written with health warning to smokers in Sudan. Like small naughty boy, whoever manage to break the rules, they are the most macho. That's one of the reasons smokers don't stop smoking. They say, it has been proven that stop smoking at later stage is fatal to the individual health. I don't know which medical school journal that they refer to.