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Monday, May 17, 2010

Slowww walk......


Kolam ku sudah hampir siap. Tinggal lagi 3 biji perlu pasang atap. I dont think ikan tu boleh survive dengan temperature yg membakar mcm sekarang ni....ramai kenalan kata aku dah hitam (termasuk wife). Nak buat mcmana...dah hampir 5 bulan aku berulang ke lokasi kolam di Kpg Ulu Chemor tu...no break. Hitam pun hitam lah! Yg penting Im doing what I like. Kepuasan dan adalah segalanya. Tiap hari di situ lah aku, membuat kerja-kerja agro aku. Jiran2 terdekat masih ingat aku berulang ke kapal buat keje survey lagi...sbb they rarely see me.

Step sekarang ni ialah memilih jenis ikan yang aku nak bela...tadi sembang dengan makcik jual ikan kat Pasar Besar Super Kinta. Dia suggest ikan keli dan tilapia merah. Kata dia dia tak makan ikan belaan bukan melayu sbb dia pernah tenguk sendiri apa yang olang itu taluk lalam kolam maa...Antara ikan yang aku sendiri minat sangat nak makan dan bela ialah belontok, puyu, jelawat, baung, dan lain2 ikan air tawar yang marketable.

Aku bercadang untuk buat pelet sendiri utk cut cost...mesen peletizer boleh dapat dgn harga rm seribu lebih berbanding kalau aku order pd mereka yg iklankan produk tu online....rm3000 atau more. Ni nak pi kursus buat pelet dgn Perikanan..tapi malang sikit kursus tu clash plak dengan kursus Pembenihan. Hiyaa....esok kene sort out le dgn en Safarudin.

Selepas siap projek kolam ni aku plan nak buat reban ayam pulak la...bertambah hitam la aku! Bela kambing minat jugak tapi clash plak dgn sayur2 yg aku tanam tu!

Snapshots of my fishponds...not really the latest. Will update after my wife return from Guangzhou with my camera.




Ngapa la aku ni malas sangat nak update blog free ni?? Orang lain dah sampai ke mana ntah, aku baru second post...he he! Tak pe yob...yang penting you are moving forward (kata org kpg aku).


Friday, May 7, 2010

Baby steps...

A journey of thousands miles begins with a single step ( so said Confucius). I'm someone who took the company voluntary retirement plan and decided to start a biz venture - I used to work for a few oilfield services companies, mainly doing oil exploration or what's called seismic surveys. I enjoy farming and agriculture, I've started building 10 fish ponds to start my small step of entrepreneurship. You can see pictures my ponds below. I like the place so much because it's so quiet and peaceful. There's a clean river that originates from the hilly area nearby and of course the water is cold and clean.



Layout of my fish ponds


My ponds seen from a different angle


Smaller ponds which will be used as 'testing ponds'


The construction is slightly delayed because it's been raining on some days. The guys who built the ponds were my childhood friends and it's good because they didn't mind doing extra work voluntarily...no extra charge. I had promised them a bbq after everything is completed.

In every business, marketing is the toughest challenge. My plan is to sell the product myself at the markets and also will be checking out the hypermarket like Tesco or Giant. Will see...

I'm hoping to start filling my ponds with fish by end of May 2010.

For now I'm just happy that at least I can breed whatever kinds of fish that I like and I'm doing what I enjoy most. InsyaAllah.