Creamy Portobello Mushrooms Lasagna

This weekend I decided to bake something really sinful to reward myself for the hours at the gym, of course my gym friend Jenna would beg to defer as she is testifying I have been lazy really lazy lately ( dear Jenna, I will try to go to gym more religiously from now on haha !)



The ingredients for this dish is fairly simple.

6 pieces of Lasagna Noodles

5 cups of Full Cream Dairy milk

1 cup of normal white flour

900 grams of Portobello mushrooms ( of course some would like a heavier flavour could double the qty)

4 table spoons of lightly salted butter

1/2 table spoons of grounded black better

1 cup of Mozzarella Cheese grated ( again you prefer heavier flavors increase at your own desire :P)

1/2 cup of Parmesan Cheese powder ( same thing here if you are a cheese freak :P)

1/4 cup of Almond nuts grounded ( you can get these easily from bakery section )

some normal table salt.



First you put 1 table spoon of butter into a large sauce pan and melt the butter over low medium flame. Try not to boil the butter just let it melt slowly. Next add half of the Mushrooms ( of cos you have already remove the stem and slice up each mushrooms, thickness per slice is up to your desire ) Now stir fry the half the mushrooms for about 2 mins in that melted butter and next add in the rest. Add black pepper and salt to taste ( that means to your liking )

Once the mushrooms have been light brown in color and started to give you juices, remove them into a bowl and set it aside.

Next use the same saucepan, ( don’t wash off what ever is inside ) and pour all the milk into it and bring the milk to a simmer and pour it into a large bowl and set it aside.

Next melt 4 table spoons of lightly salted butter in low medium flame slowly. Try not to boil the butter too. After the butter are almost all melt, again use the wooden ladle you been using for the mushrooms to stir it lightly, at the same time sleeve the f lour slowly into the melted butter mixture slowl, while keep stirring the mixture.

After all the flour has been add into the mixture, pour in the hot milk in all at once. Now slowly stir the whole mixture now with the wooden ladle. Keep stirring untill the whole mixtures starts to thicken up. It will soon thicken in 3 minutes. Once that it has thicken into a sauce add the almonds. Keep stirring in low medium flame and add black pepper and table salt to taste. Finally add in half of your Parmesan Cheese powder into the sauce. Pour the whole sauce now into a large bowl, set it aside.

Next, boil a big pot of water. Add 2 teaspoon of table salt and 2 teaspoon of olive oil. Once the water has come to a steady boil at in 2 pieces of the Lasagna noodles. You can try and add more but usually i like to go slow as the noodles tend to stick together when it gets too crowded in there hehe. Boil the noodles for about 10 to 12 minutes max and move them into large bowl of normal room temperature water. Once they are cooled in the water removed them onto a large flat plate and set them aside.

Now, use a 2 inch deep baking square pan, preheat it in an oven of 175 degrees celcius or about 200 Fahrenheits for 10minutes. Next remove the pan and start by coating it lightly with the white milk sauce we cooked earlier.

Now set 1 layer of 2 pieces of Lasagna noodles. Next a nice 1/2 inch layer of white sauce, then the mushrooms , followed by a generous sprinkle of Mozzarella cheese. Continue with the layers until the last layer is used to covered the top. Now use the reminding white sauce on top of that last layer, you should have none of the mushrooms left by now. Just finish the last layer on top with more Mozzarella Cheese and the rest of the Parmesan Cheese powder.



Lastly preheat the oven to 175 degree celcius or 200 Fahrenheits. Next place the pan of Lasagna into it to bake for 45 minutes. Then once it has been baked, place on the table to cool for 15 minutes and serve hot.



I hope you guys would enjoy cooking this as much as I did for those of you who had the pleasure the have some ( you know who you are hehe ) please leave some comments.

Take care and good cooking !

Dont Play Play leh.... this is serious 2nd Skin :P .... saved my ass from a lotta pain more then once...

Now I noticed most divers in Malaysia dont use wet suits.. main reason is its such a hassle to get in and out of one during a diving trip. If you are content to just hover and glide 5 feet above the corals and stay clear of wrecks plus caves then its okie.
But me? i am nutz. I see a wreck ? i will sure ask for permission from the dive master to penetrate for sure. I see a cave or a good swim through, for sure be the 1st diver to signal my buddy if he or she wants to tackle it. Call me nutz but you are missing alot of stuff if you stay clear of these extras while diving.
Some of my best experiences comes from going into the rusty hulks of some Malaysian shallower wrecks. But boy there is so much life on these and inside these wrecks. For 1 there is the huge fishes that tends to hide within these sunken vessels.

This picture above is my Wet Suit. Its standard 3 mm thick. Its made of some high tech material which i don’t care to know but what i know is its been good to me and my body. See that mark on my right thigh? if it wasn’t for my suit I had a gapping hole there now hehehe.
Besides the fact its offers pretty good protections from sharp surfaces of the hard corals or rusty wrecks, its also helps a lot when you are diving below 25 meters of water. The thing is the water tend to get cooler as you get deeper. My dives has never been uncomfortable and I tend to amid I get pretty reckless thinking this suit can handle most brushes with sharp or rough surfaces under the sea
But the rule of thumb is don’t under estimate your risks while down there. Having a suit is like an insurance… but does not mean you can taunt danger and dive against on coming traffic


Thats how you get in from the back hehe , yes yes you will feel like some super hero in his or her superhero costumes hehhe . Now standard recommended diving for Tropical waters is 3mm, I have friends who said 1 mm is good enough.. But i have come across nasty thermo climes that could have fresh off my ballz if it wasn’t for this suit.
Also when you are planning to buy your own please always consult your dive master or a qualified store assistance. You see now all cutting and sizes fits all. After you have bought it, please do test it out with all your equipment to find your buoyancy again. The minute bubbles within these suits are what keeps us warm underwater but it also makes us naturally more positive buoyant. That means you float more easily with these.
You are advise to seek out your buoyancy level again and note that the amount of weights you will need to adjust to to dive during a real dive in the sea.
Beware that new suits tend to be more positively buoyant, mine got more manageable after like 40 dives or so.
Well thats about it for dive suits , its a personal choice really. But its never too careful to be careful right?

Euro Dinner Set..... Oven Baked Baby Potatos with herbs and olive oil...

This section of the blog would introduce the Oven Baked baby potatos in herbs and olive oil.
Wash and cute up about 10 baby potatos. Then proceed to cut them up into 8 equal pieces by cross section.
Next put all the potatos into a large mixing bowl. Next pour in 1 cup of olive extra virgin oil. Add a little teaspoon of salt and pepper for seasoning.
Next chop up some thymes . sage. rosemary and parsley. Add them into the oil mixture of the potatos and olive oil.
Preheat the oven to 190 degrees cel. After 10 ,om upon reaching the right tempreture, please put the tray of the potatos into the oven to back. First 15 mins please use 200 degrees C, next add in the potatos into the oven and cook for 30mins straight.
Once the potatos are easy to be handled by a normal dinner fork. It is ready to to be serve

Euro Dinner Set ..... Chinken Stew in Grape Fruit sauce herbs and sausages..

As promised, this is 1st part of 3 on how I prepared a full course EURO dinner for 8 peeps.

I first want to introduce the Chicken stew in herbs with sausages and carrots.

This actually not a difficult dish to prepare as its rather straight forward.

First prepare 1 quarter of full cream butter of a normal bar. Cut that bar of butter into a 7 inch deep saucepan.

Bring it to a simmer and add in your chicken. The amount of chicken for 8 servings would be about 1KG of chicken breastmeat. The breastmeat need not be marinated at all. Just add and let it cook for 8 mins to 10mins.

next once it has turned slight brown we can add in about 500 grams of sauages. Note its better to buy the sauages that has some pepper in it and not to use the normal ones from the canned variety. The ones you buy from the Gourmet corner tend to have more flavour and adds to the stew richness in taste.

Now once the meats are cook for about 15mins, remove all the sauces and the meats into a bowl.

Next add about 1 table spoon of butter and let it simmer. Then add in 1 Yellow Onion fully diced to small chunky bits. Next add in about 2 full sticks of carrots. Be mindful to cut up the carrots into nice 20 cent size chunks too.

Add in the spices , 1 stick of Thymes , 1 stick of parsley, 1 stick of sage 1 stick of chives and 1 stick of rosemary. 2 sticks of cinnamon sticks.

All the above herbs could be purchased from ColdStorage outlets. Next bring all of that to a simmer with 2 cloves of diced Garlic. Once the vegetables are cooking, bring to boil about 5 measuring cups of water and add in 2 cubes of chicken stock cubes. Bring to a slow boil.

Once the chicken stock is ready.. mix the vegetables with the meats and slowly stir. Add in the hot chicken stock 1 cup at a time, 1 cup is like a cup of tea , slowly simmer and add some flour to it to thicken the stew. As you finished the chicken stock, grate 1 Grape Fruits skin, take care not to grate too much into the white part of the GrapeFruits skin, as its bitter taste would not help with the flavour. Once you add in the grated GrapeFruit skin, you may add in 1 qaurter cup of White Wine. As the mixture is brought to a slow blow, you may add the glass of GrapeFruit juices from the original grated GrapeFruit.

Next add 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of grinded black pepper. Bring the whole saucepan into a slow boil for about 20 mins. After that you will server the Stew within a large bowl.



Once you have cooked the mixture for 20 mins you may serve the Stew in a large bowl

Darth Vader used to say... The Force is strong with this wan..... then heavy breathing follows ....

This is has to be the only think you cannot go diving without… seriously and of cause the most complex equipment yet
Yes we are talking about the regulator set.. The Regulator set is infact a combination of a number of different components
Each components can be swap out and change about with different brands too…

From the picture you can see my selection. The Primary Stage or 1st Stage is the top most metal component..That is by Apollo Japan. They make pretty decent recreational equipment.. and its balanced. Meaning it would give me the same demand and delivery of Air Supply at Any recreational diving dept up to 45 or 60 meters.

My regulator or 2nd stage is the Black piece with the silver trimmings. Its so far had been performing well for me but can be a little bit noisy Lol , hence the Darth Vader Joke … Its the same make as the 1st or Primary stage. The SPG or Air Guage is from Cressi, its the cheapest in the market and comes with a dept meter too in meters.

My Aux or Octos is the bright yellow Oceanic. I choose that model because of its low profile see the picture below.

The main reason why we divers have 1 breathing components is because the yellow colored ones are for emergency air supply support to your dive buddy. A dive buddy is who you have been paired off which every single dive. It could be someone you know or not.. the system works in a way PADI diving schools encourages recreational divers to always dive in pairs.. that way it dramatically reduces the chances for underwater accidents.
Now you would ask? what if theres not enough air to go around?? usually when the Dive leaders try to assign dive buddies they would pair the stronger diver with the not so strong diver… meaning if you havent had a constant dive buddy travelling with you , if you have good air consumption ratio , you usually get paired with someone who consumes air pretty much faster then you do. How we measure that is by the below device at the end of every dive.

The first dial displays the dept you are at and at the surface the red marker shows how deep you went. It is reading that my last dive was over 20meters. And when we climb onboard the boat , the dive masters would record how much air we have left on the bottom dial. Usually the red areas 50 bar and below are considered dangerous to continue diving… its best practice to be already ending a dive when you have touched 50 bar…
On average, a normal Guy can finish a deep dive profile of 10 mins below 25 meters , 15 to 20 mins above 20 meters and finally 20 mins above 15 meters. The reason we have different time limits for different depths is because compress air behaves very differently at every 10 meters.
At every 10 meters , the air and your body is taking on another level of pressure. The air we breath is compressed further so , technically you are breathing more of the air thats been compress to a lesser volume hehe… not very encouraging I know.. wish we all could grow gills then eh??? me too.
Still even we carry a significant low supply of AIR, there are strict rules to follow that makes us very safe too.
Number 1 rule of diving is actually rather ironic too… Never ever hold your breathe. Even when the regulator is knocked out of your mouth by accident , you are not suppose to ever hold your breathe… you must immediately allow small bubbles of air leak out through your lips. The reason is when air is in your lung and you are going up , the air you had taken in at higher water pressure at deeper levels slowly expands outwards. Therefore filling your lungs up more. So imagine you hold your breathe and it expands further? yes you will burst like a balloon for your lungs. Thats the most common type of fatal accident that can happen. Its very rare , so rare its safer to dive then to drive hahaha.
Ok thats all for now.. Take care and happy diving !!!

FINS ....... DO WE REALLY NEED THEM ..

The thing is if you want to dive without FINS , then you need a size 30 feet with webbings like a duck feet between your toes to function as a FIN.
There are 3 types of fins in my point of view. POWER FINS , JET FINS and BIO FINS.

well dunno why but in the diving community they love to flam peeps who support alternate types of FINS but their own….

And there are the ever stylish freakishly high-tech FORCE FINS. I will be talking bout my FINS , the POWER FINS. Picture below



Yes they are the same ones used by US Naval Seals 20 years ago. Why change something thats not broken right? its very simple and easy to use. Plus its shorter in length infront so walking around with it is not as hard as try to walk with the normal 1 meter length ones.

From the next picture you noticed that its 1 single piece constructions. No high tech manufacturing techniques at all. Thats why its been said to last you a lifetime.

Now you will need one of these below to use my type of fins. Its called a dive boot.

This is because my Fins design is called open Sole type. There are full Sole fins out there that is like a huge slipper with fins

That type of FINS you dont need to have to wear dive boots. The reason i found having Dive boots really is sometimes the dive boats are a couple of 100 meters away so you need to walk there on foot , just imagine the hot sand or the odd rocks or sharp corals along the way??? hehe get the idea right.

Now for the other fins you can go google it with the names I supplied earlier on. Make sure to try on the FINS with the BOOTS as there are different cuttings to a boot and materials like normal shoes. It has to be compatible to your FINS. Its must be a comfortable fit with both on and the end of the fins should be touching your ankles. Thats very important as if you are too far behind your ankles , that means the fins are too big for you and you cant power it under water. If its too short infront of your ankles , that means its too small and you will be wasting alot of your strength using it underwater.

Finally just a note on how to use fins in the water. When you swimming normally on the surface of the water, try to put as much of the fins into the water and not lift it out of the water as it will be wasting alot of time and energy to push it back into the water again each time you kick. I usually just lay on my back instead of my front to kick towards the pickup boat hehe …. Also when under water, bear in mind its not the upward stroke of the fins that gives you the force to push you forward. Its actually the downward stroke that does the pushing. So conserve energy while doing the upstroke and put more effort in for the down stroke or kick. Try not to use your knees only to kick , use the largest muscle to do most of the work hehe and that would be your Thigh muscles and buttocks





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IF ONLY I AM A FISH !.... THEN I DONT NEED THESE

Today I going to talk about MASK !
Its one of the major part of the scuba diving sports , but has been a favorite debate subjects…
some would even go to war ! defending what they feel is the best type of FINS … or MASK.
There are generally 3 Types of MASK in my point of view. Please dont flam me if you dont like my selections hehehe.
There are for MASK, FRAMED MASK, FRAME LESS MASK and PARA MASK.
FRAME LESS MASK.

The reason why its frame less is becos as you can see the plastic or rubber is moulded around the glass part of the mask. This in turn gives it a lower profile. The reason for my choice is the closer the glass is to the face of the user, generally you can get more viewable area hehe, think about tunnel vision.
Since if it was a framed mask, its plastic frame would be thicker, you will experience less field of vision. Also the lower the amount of air between your face and the mask, the less chances you can feel the suck out effect. This is due to the air been compressed by the water around you when you go deeper into the sea. That can be usually balanced out by blowing a little air out of your noses when you fee; the face squeeze hehe.
Now there are 2 points when you are buying and preparing a mask.


See the picture above. This is how you been testing a mask when you look right into it. Now without putting the rubber band around and over your head just lightly place the mask over your nose and eyes.
Next just inhale slightly through your nose and let go of the mask while your head is looking straight down. If the mask is a good fit on your face profile or type , it should be able to stay in place on your face and wont drop off by itself after 20 secs. If it has a bad fit around your face, the air around you will seep into the mask and cause it to slowly peel off. Thats the simplest rules to test the fitting of the mask on your face.
Now to prepare the new mask for use, its a bit more tricky, some might ask you to just put tooth paste on the inside of the mask glass parts and leave over night and wash it off with a tooth brush and running water.
The reason is all new mask comes with some kind of chemical coating on the inside of the glass part of a mask. Its a factory default. Therefore you need to peel or wash off that layer to prevent the mask from foggin easily while using it underwater.
What I learned is a bit more effective but needs a steady hand. I would prepare my mask by using a small lighter, the type you can buy off the tobacco or cigarette counters. Then slowly warm the inside of the glass part surface, as you do that you can clearly see the heat from the small flam slowly but surely burning off and evaporating off the chemical coatings with all new Mask. Once you got to heat off all the glass surface inside the mask, you maybe leave it to cool for 10 mins and then wash off the inside with tap water.
Now all you need to do is to spit saliva into it and wash it off with sea water and you are guaranteed clear vision through out a 1 hour dive hehehe . Of cos some more civilized divers unlike myself would still prefer to use commercial anti fog products on the inside of the treated mask glass part instead hahahaha.
Thanks for reading this blog and take care.

How you can take your current Digital camera 40meters underwater :D

This blog is to explain how we underwater hobbist take our digital pictures underwater.

The thing is chances are, the digital camera you have been using all these time on dry land could indeed be converted into an Underwater Photographing camera. Heres how.

Bring your digital camera along with you next time you go to the SuperMalls like Mid Valley or 1Utama.

If you happen to be near a Camera Retail Store, just walk in and ask about Underwater Camera Casings.

Show the shop assistant your camera and he or she might be able to find compatiable cases for you.

Heres a picture of what an Underwater Camera Case would look like…



As you can see I have modified it a little with a blue colored Spring cord. Thats to make sure my camera does not slip out of my hands and float up to the surface of the ocean hehehe…. like a doggie lash :P

Take note the Bright Orange band you see circling the whole Underwater Camera Case. Thats one of the Most important part as its a rubbery O ring that when applied with silicon grease, effectly forms an oily barrier between the 2 parts of the Case to stop air from getting in or out. That is effectively acting as the water seal for the case.



From the above picture you can clearly see the Orang O Ring again. Take note it is a very important part of the Underwater Camera Case. It is major part that effectly forms a seal between the 2 parts of the casing. That seal keeps water out and keeps air in the casing.

On the right side you will see the general shape of the camera. Thats why you put the camera in and close the 2 parts together. The O ring is important as its made of some kind of rubber and we will apply silicon grease on it so as to form an oily barrier to air and water.

Take special note that the O ring must be kept clean of sand and dirt at all times. The thing is even when it seems alright from normal dry land to 5 meters down the water. The increasing deep of your dives and the pressure from the water above and around you could be enough to push through the gaps formed by the sand or dirt. That would make the Casing flood up with sea water as the air is been pushed out of the case pass the dirty O ring.

Another important point could be even the Hair from your head if caught between the O ring and the 2 parts of the casing can mean the same thing at deeper levels of the dive. To make sure the O ring rubber and the Camera case working at good condition, here are some points.

Dont leave it out in the direct sunlight or a heat source. You will cause heat pressure built up within the sealed casing. Next dont drop it on the ground or knock it around too when diving.. this could compromise the casings condition allowing a poorer seal to happen.

Thats about all I have to write about it now. Hope it would be useful information. Once last thing, if you never too sure if the casing is deep worthy when you first get it, try to take it down 1 or 2 dives without the camera inside.

That way if it does flood , at least the digital camera is not in it :D

Take care now and thanks for reading my blog. If you have any questions please leave your comments or send emails to me, I will try my best to answer them.

To be afloat or not to float that is the question :P

Well this is my 1st article on the BC. I not attempting to write which is better or give a technical writeup of its functions. I am just going to give a no nonsense review of my BC.

Here is a picture of it...


Here is the back of it...

Still please take note that my BC is uncommon among Malaysian divers…. maybe you will see similar types when you dive with Singaporeans :D for now we can call it a backplate + wing BC…

From the 1st picture you can see that there is a lightweight metal plate which is attached by a harness or straps

From the 2nd picture you can see that there is the 2 CAM Bands that is use to wrap around the Scuba Air Tank and keep it from floating up to the surface when you are at the bottom of the sea hehehe.

This is a major part of your Scuba equipment. The ones you see at the Shop eg. in Mid Valley near the GSC cinema would be selling the Jacket Type BC. The reason they are called that cos they look like huge vest or jackets that you wear .

As you can see from the 1st picture, there the blue pockets.. thats not standard as I did some motifications to the original. Its purpose is to hold my Weights.

Yes you heard right, we are usually not heavy enough to sink on our own, this is because we got our lungs to thank for… so we need to add a specific amount of extra weights to help us to be able to sink hehehe scary eh?

Now I am about 79 KG so I usually sink very well with 4 KG of weights, thats like 5% give or take. But the thing is some guys are light but need more weights then me to sink. Its all down to your specific body type, that you can learn alot when you practicing in normal diving pool.

Note is that in the pool its not salty like the sea water, reason is Sea water with its salt content makes us even lighter in water. So generally we need 1KG more when we go diving in Salt water.



This above picture is showing the Low pressure Inflator Hose … the main job of this part is to connect to a device that has a air hose that hooks on to the shiny tip there beside the button. This is what you control to inflate your BC and deflate it.. Why?

It helps to control how much you float underwater :) Why do we need to bother with that is simple… as you move down the levels of water… the water you passed behind you will push its weight on you. Your air in and around your body like in the equipments will be compressed by the weight of the water… so what air you have on upper levels will begin to be less in volume.

This means you wont float as much. So in order not to sink anymore and maintain a certain deep , we need to allow air from our Scuba Air Tank into the BC. When you do that its counters the down ward force of the water above you and makes you neither float too much or float too little.. we call it Neutral Buoyancy..

This is learned from the fact most fishes have their own BC naturally built in.. thats how the fish seems to float in the water like a bee and not sink and crash into the corals or sand hehe…



Thats a picture of a Dump Valve… its uses is simple, pull the Orange Cord and it will let you dump the air inside your BC very very fast… I wont discuss in detail how to use this … but there usually are 2 Dump Valves on a BC… Mine has another one located near my left shoulder Straps infront. Just take note of the location of these Dump Valves is all .

So now you have the basic idea what this equipment is for :D. If you want to know more detail and more technical information you can sent emails to me or comments, I will try my best to answer them.. if you are working in the same Gym as me, I could bring this equipment and help you understand more about it.

Thanks for reading this blog, the next blog would be followed with other basic reviews of the Scuba Equipments we use to go diving…

Underwater Photography made easy.

Although not everyone wants to take up underwater photography when they are divers but come on ! we are tourists and whats a tourists without cameras ! Besides the animals love the camera dude ! well at least the kawaii ( cute ) Nemos ( clown fishes ) love it !

Learning Underwater Photography is like building up a skill in a fantasy role playing game ( for the uninitiated, fantasy role play games is a popular type of entertainment where by you create your own avatar within the rules and world of the game and live through that avatar the adventures within that game world.) Why do I say so ? well we all know that as a Newbie , you got low stats when you start off with no class specialization. Therefore to become a hobbyist underwater photographer, you will need to LEVEL UP.

First rent a underwater camera to begin with, yes ! you can rent those from the local dive operators or dive centers. Next practice on easy subjects 1st, much like taking on rats and snakes as a Newbie in the role playing game. I would suggest Corals , Anemones and yes ! NEMOS ( clown fishes )

Just make sure you got the MACRO option on ( for those who do not know whats that just make sure on your camera display has a FLOWER icon on ! ) For starters make sure the Flash is on all the time. Now just point , steady and click away. Its digital anyways so please take as many shots as you like , as long as you got enough air left in your scuba for the trip back up !

Finally after you gotten better then you move on to moving targets like small animals. Its not hard at all really, trouble is where to locate them ! Once you find them ( of cos the local dive master or dive tour leader has found them for you ) just point and click away.

Thats how I learned of cause. I am still renting my cameras and those shots I have made are with normal digital cameras with their underwater casings.

Enjoy Flashing away then

Diving is not for the extreme only.

I started diving by accident while on company paid holiday in Tioman Islands summer of 2006. I always love to snorkel and love to go to island holidays.

Myth Busters :

I need to know how to swim before diving. ( No you do not , ironically you need to know how to sink ! )

I need to be like superman to dive ( Reasonable state of health and most importantly a sound mind )

I need lots of money to learn how to dive ( Well if you are living in Malaysia then your lucky ! RM 1000 and you get a license )

I need lots of time to get a Open Water License ( nope I did mine over easy a span of 4 months with only 1 weekend day practice of 3 hours each.)

I need to buy my own equipment which is very expensive ( nah you could rent those easy at the dive centers on the island for less then RM 100 per days ! )

Write to me at nimamok@hotmail.com if you interested to take the first step to underwater adventure.

Now the myths have been busted, ( if you have more just comments and I will reply ) lets see how I started.

I was holidaying on Tioman Island and was introduced to diving when I took a discovery dive tour package.

Basically they give you a crash course for 1 time only diving trip near the beaches. I was hooked !

After 5 months back in Kuala Lumpur , I finally took my open book exam and island dives and I was certified.

Thats how easy it is. Yes ! its that simple. Below is my advice to would be divers.

1. Respect your equipment and let them tell you how to dive.

2. Respect the environment you are diving in because you will always be a guest !

3. Respect the animals and plants in that environment and they will take care of you.

4. Take nothing but pictures and leave nothing behind but bubbles.

Happy Diving my friends !

Potato Casserole

Today I cooked myself an easy dinner. No brainer , seriously anyone can do this..
What you need : for 4 servings




4 nice 200g potatos

5 nice 50g potatos

200g of Mozeralla Cheese ( spell check ;D )

100g of your choice of bacon ( salted would be nice )

black pepper seasoning ( ready of the shelf )

table salt

Extra virgin olive oil ( you could ask the olives if they were actually virgins )

4 table spoon of full flavor butter ( seriously I feel food is food so none of those low fat stuff )

Now the fun begins ! you just need to skin the 200g potatos and chop large chunks of it into a boiling pot.

After all the 200g potatos are in there put in 1 teaspoon of table salt and boil for 30 mins

After that drained the boil potatos for 10 mins and then mashed them up with all the 4 table spoon of butter.

As you mashed add only black pepper seasoning as you see fit.

Once well mashed just leave it aside

Next hit up the shallow pan with 2 table spoon of Extra Virgin Olive Oil with 1 teaspoon of table salt added in.

Chop the bacon into strips but dont mince them. Add black pepper to marinate for 10 mins

After 10 mins add the bacon strips into the shallow pan. Slowly cook the bacon till crispy brown. ( do not dispose the lad and oil after you have fried the bacon strips, set it aside )

While you are frying the bacon, move to washing the 100g potatos and cut them up into slices with the skin.

Once the bacons are done and removed from the shallow pan, continue to use the lad and oil mixture to fry the potato slices.

The potato slices should not be well done, just fry them for 5 mins and take them out for cooling.

Now get a deep earthen baking bowl ( any bowl thats made for baking should be fine but should be at least 8 inches deep )

First put all the mashed potatos into the bowl, level the mash and then add some bacon strips or chips on top.

Add in as much Mozzy Cheese on top of the bacon and mash. then begin to layer the potato chips on top

Next more Mozzy Cheese on top of the Potato Chips and more bacon chips or strips.

Finally preheat the oven at 180 degrees celcius for 10 mins

Once the oven is ready, put the pot of casserole into the oven and bake for 25 mins

Now first 15 mins both top and bottom oven heaters are on.

Latter 10 mins only the bottom oven heaters are on.

Congratulations you have just made your first Potato Casserole for 4 peeps hehehe.

Welcome to Naked Nimamok’s Corner

Hiya, my name is Dominic, Nimamok was the charather name given to my Everquest ( TM ) in game character. He is still alive and well in the Everquest ( TM ) game world but adopted by my friends since I stop playing 5 years ago. You may search for Nimamok in google to find out more.

The purpose for this blog is to share my hobbies to the world. It is a passion of my to share my experiences. I am an avid diver and also taking my turn on underwater photography. I also love to cook. Besides that I also love to travel and experience local cultures.

I hope from my blogs here, they might ignite similar passions that may finally bring more joy and colors to your life too.

Future goals would be to go Pro on Diving and get a PADI ( TM ) instructor license. To go FreeLance and sell the pictures I have made while diving. Go Pro with my cooking and have my own internet cook show. Learn to play the SAX and also take up Rock Climbing AKA Spiderman hehe.

Hope you will enjoy the things I love and hope it has enriched your lifestyle on this planet too.”

” Live furiously & Die Free ! ” by Dominic Neo. 1974

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