Green Dragonfly

This dragonfly is beautiful but I cannot understand why it needs such a long and thin abdomen. There are four segments at the abdomen, isn't two sufficed? Imagine what will happen if we have a helicopter with such a long tail? Any advantage?


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Light Yellow Emigrant Butterfly

If you do not look carefully, you would think that it is just a light yellow leaf. 
It looks like Lemon Emigrant butterfly, except that it is light yellow and appears to have a lot worm-like engravings.
The butterfly is strongly attracted to the red hot Ixora flowers.

Various Faces of Pink Pigs

These pigs lay lazily with various expressions in the cages on a lorry, oblivious of their tragic fates. By evening, they will be slaughtered and by the next day, most of their parts will be stored and consumed by the humans.
But do not underestimate their feelings, when they sense that they are going to die, they cry. 
My grandfather told me when I was a teen, that he once killed a pig. The pig was moaning and crying loudly before the knife pierced through his heart, with tears coming out from both eyes. I was so disgusted for a while, and did not take pork for a few months.

Impatiens Balsamia, Natural Finger Nail Dye

If you do not want to spend money to polish your nails, just plant more of these plants, they will give you various beautiful and colourful dyes. It is simple to grow with their abundant seeds.

Hippeastrum (Red Lily)

This plant also flowers at my Sarikei old home but with slightly different colour compared to the flowers in Kuching, 350km away.
The colour is light orange to orange while at Kuching, the petals have reddish lines with white colour towards the funnel centre.
Commonly, this plant produces four large trumpet flowers in symmetry, but this group is not symmetrical probably due to the sun's direction.

Hipperstrum at Kuching

Promotion of Haze Tourism

Our country needs more income to finance next year budget following the sharp drop of petroleum income. We have to support many people who work little but get very high pay (Of course compared to those developed countries, the high pay is insignificant). Best of all, some received kantow money, having money going secretly into their accounts beside receiving high salaries. Our government now encourages all foreign tourists especially those from rich countries, to come to enjoy the beautiful scenes in this part of the world. I am sure most of the foreign people have not seen such beautiful haze scenes which had lasted for almost two months. It is expected to be around until next year as the Governments concerned do not know how to stop the forest burning except talking hazily in the air.
Welcome to all the tourists who are not worried about the lungs being flooded with harmful pollutants or life being shortened, to have a look. 
You may be able to see how the orang utans and monkeys behave in the haze!
Don't forget to bring in plenty of CASH, multi-coloured CASH !  

Leopard Lacewing Butterfly (Cethosia Cyane)

It has been quite a while to see many butterflies flying around my farm. Suddenly, these butterflies start to appear despite the haze. Towards the end of the year, they must have migrated from somewhere.
Wait a minute, there are some differences of this butterfly. Lacewing butterfly is very outstanding due to its bright deep yellow patch at its back, narrow white patches towards the edge of the wings and the multi-colour pattern beneath the wings. But, this butterfly seems to have smaller yellow patch and thicker white patch, black seems to dominate. It is no more as attractive.

What has caused these variations, environment, haze?