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Today, and Tomorrow
My family took a bus, which we had not taken for years, from jetty to Kimberly Street for dinner before we walked to Esplanade to start countdown. It was New Year eve, and the temperature was high at that place, driving to there was not advisable. St...
Mengkuang Dam
What can I tell from a picture?First of all, if you have followed me regularly, you can tell it is Mengkuang Dam, and I have almost pictured its full view from Cerok Tokun.The far left corner with green patch of grasses is where the entrance and car ...
Are Birds Educated?
Are birds educated? Do they attend classes like we do? If yes, do they ever skip school like some of us?I am not too crazy to ask this question. It has its own reason.I saw a Kingfisher perching at this signboard which read as "a restricted area", an...
Colours of Shadow
I had asked this question since the early morning, and continued while I was in front of my notebook. I went hiking, and did some garden jobs in between, the question followed.What is the colour of a shadow? A trivial question? Is black the answer?In...
A Yellow-bellied Bulbul
Everything seemed to be quiet this morning. The sky was not as blue as before, and no breeze was whispering through the little leaves. The only two monkeys around were too happy to enjoy their sweet moment.As I was moving away, I spotted a Yellow-bel...
Ordinary Beauties
I have been spending more time by the dam recently.There was a farmer in ancient China who found a fainted rabbit after it had bumped against a tree. He returned the next day, staying by the tree day after day, hoping to see another reckless rabbit. ...
Mushroom Cookies for Christmas
Christmas is around the corner. Everybody is by now overwhelmed with the festive mood, and my hand phone is playing the seasonal songs during my hiking.Santa Claus is coming to town?What if I see those flying reindeer pulling the sleigh of Santa Clau...
I took one but was gifted with three
I had spent two and a half hours to come back here, but you were here waiting for me. As usual, the only thing that would have attracted me in a distance is that you, the one in red. Sorry, I had to move away fast in order not to get myself a really ...
The Baby
I have bought a book on photography recently. Since then, I have experimented on some features of my camera which have not been explored before. It certainly brings excitement, the only thing that has annoyed me are the negative excitements.I have sh...
It Thought It Could Hide itself
I saw a Kingfisher uttering to itself nearby the dam. Its voice was not sweet but dry and rattling. This might be the sound of lonesome. It murmured, stopped, and continued, and repeated. I kept my silence. It might not see me. It was too focus on it...
On the Road Again
I placed my backpack on the ground, unzipped and took out my camera, zipped back, switched on the camera, checked the setting, removed the lens cap, laid down and, ready to take the shots.I was supposed to see a few swallows circling above the trees ...
I Saw A Rainbow
Ohhh...have suffered from food poisoning, and did not attend to my virtual office, or simply did not get near to my PC for last two days.Just let's cheer up with the rainbow which was captured at my balcony last Monday evening. Though it looked faded...
The Journey
This is my journey. As long as always follow the trail, I shall reach the destination at the end, be it easy or rocky, bright or dim, ascending or descending.There are always twists and turns awaiting me somewhere, or I may pick my pot of gold on som...
Sky Watch
I am having many unsolved problems. They tend to trouble me the time I am awake. I have lost my appetite though plentiful of berries are an arm reached from me. What can I do? Who can help me?I am totally lost. ...
The Web
I do not understand why and how I am attracted by the web, and this continues to bother me. I have landed on it, and have myself sticked to it. I am its prey by now.Is it a world of monochrome, or the other way? There is a pair of hollow eyes looking...
Hiked with My Poodle
This is my Keke before its hair was fully trimmed. It is a cute little one year old Poodle, isn't it? But do you ever think it can hike?Please don't laugh, it certainly looks very funny without most of the hair, but more importantly, hair trimming is...
Dragonfly Parasite
I examined and finally detected no parasites on my dragonfly. Yes, I am not a dragonfly doctor nor a scientist, but just a curious hiker at Cerok Tokun.I came across this interesting fact in Gallicissa: Dragonflies do serve as hosts for a parasite. T...
Can you see me?
I have scrapped all those that were written earlier, and keep only the photo.I don't feel to write anything. I want to be that little one, just floating on the water.What do you think if I am?But please don't get me wrong. This is only one of my wild...
They are There
It had been drizzling the whole morning. I did not remove my camera from my backpack not for this reason, I was simply not inspired. I let free my huff to chase after the puff, my sweat to race with the pumping pulse.It was still drizzling when I rea...
I am not Alone
When I hike alone, it is actually many hikers are walking on the same trail. And when I feel eerie about the darkness in the jungle, then just after another turn, the scene change.At the time I watch the sky, many others are doing the same, only at s...
The World above me
I am murmuring, and you surely cannot listen at that frequency, if you can, you must be abnormal.I am murmuring to the sky. And am I murmuring to the sky in front of me or above me? This is a simple problem but I have made it too complicated. It must...
Hidden Pavilion
I have not added much greenery to my post for a long time. It should not be right for me to keep pretending as though I am in the winter by showing some clever images. How can I keep pretending like a beloved politician.This is the early part of my h...
Birds\' Talk
I do not have a high-end telescopic lens, to present my pictures of birds differently is then the only way to compensate for this shortcoming, and I make them look as watercolour painting.I begin to hear birds' chirping along my hiking trail recently...
Weeds and Webs
I have no idea how to describe them. Are they beautiful, ugly, awesome, weird, unique, indifferent, extraordinary, or simply nothing at all? But I am fond of them.They were standing besides the pathway at the paddy field, and were so near to me, yet ...
They are Dragons, They Fly Around
Butterflies would not fly without the presence of dragonflies. Whenever I see butterflies, dragonflies are there. They are either hiding in the bushes, or flying around like helicopters. But the more I know, the less I understand. Thus I can only tal...
The Wonder of The Little Lives
My instinct guided the camera, and butterflies showed me the way. Pictures of butterflies were the extra joy I have harvested from the paddy field.My zoom lens helped to take these pictures in a distance, which in turn did not require my eye-to-eye o...
Sunday Morning at A Paddy Field
This is the place I pass by everyday on my way to work, but it manages only to catch my fleeting glimpse at the speed of 90km/hr. I have seen many pond herons wandering around over last few weeks, and am sure a glimpse must not be enough.It is half p...
Story started from 7am
It was exactly 7am when I reached Cerok Tokun this morning. It was a quiet moment before hikers started to pour in, and this was the silent corner where I started my hiking.To start hiking at 7am is nothing early, some hikers come with torch lights a...
Kingfisher Finally
After numerous failures on hunting for the kingfisher, I made it today!!I have spotted various species of kingfishers at many places. They fly here and there at Cerok Tokun, "now you see it now you don't" at Perai River bank, and test my patience at ...
Flying Mudskipper
I have shown you mudskippers some time ago, and I would like to show you something which is very interesting yet new to me right now.As their name implies, other than walking on mudflats, mudskippers are able to skip by using their strong pair of pec...
