The pretty Fish

"I see you, can you see me?

The lake varies from shallow at the lake bank to about 1.2m at deepest, but the bank is the favourite place for these fish during the hot day. Why?

Tests done on water samples on a pond showed that dissolved oxygen content varied from highest at the surface to almost nil at 600mm below the water surface. That is why the fish likes to rest like that because the lake bank is less than 300mm depth and there is plenty of oxygen to breathe.

Beauty and the Beast

The Bamboo Orchid is a beautiful flower but the plant bug is an ugly beast (actually not that ugly). 
But what is it doing, taking the morning dew from the flower or sucking the juice ?

Light Yellow Coconuts

Normally, we have green and yellow coconuts on a coconut tree. But this tree at the Petaling Jaya near Kuala Lumpur produces only light yellow fruits.
Perhaps the tree is on a public place, nobody or monkey climbs up and plucks the fruits away. 
It is surprising that with so many foreign workers and poor people around, the fruits can still remain there.

Bamboo Orchids

The flowers are flourishing again along the hilly sides of the Borneo trunk roads, but not in my farm. It would not grow well at the slightest change of its environment.

Ugly Greenish Starlings

Most of the birds are pleasant to watch, except few types. 
These greenish starlings are obviously not my favourites. Red eyes, high pitch voices and ugly look are some of the characteristics.

My Ugly Dog

"Go back to the Kennel!" I screamed.
He grumbled, "No, I don't want! I want to be free!"
This fellow never learned from the lesson, still wanting to go out of the house.

The other day, he was blinded by an infection after having an outdoor stint. His only eye turned red at first. He then fell into the large drain outside the gate and it took me great effort to pull him out of the deep drain. The next day his eyes turned white and could not see anything at all, losing its sense of direction, colliding everywhere.  I thought his nose sense should be able to guide him, but no, he seemed to be lack of scent.

I applied some antibiotics paste on his eye for three days and luckily the white stuff went away and he managed to see again. He was happily jumping up and down, and has forgotten the painful and fearful experience. 

Some humans were like that too, never learned from the painful histories.

One stormy afternoon on the Borneo Island

From sunny day, the sky suddenly turned cloudy. These low clouds were rather uniform in level, changing the mountains into flat plateaus visually.
Rain started to fall after a while bringing fresh feeling to me in the long distance drive.