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The Cups Used At Different Stage Of One Man Life

SmallCheese — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:23:10 +0000

For quite some time I didn’t post funny junk in Gmail. But, there is one forwarded email contains an illustration which I found it good to share with you.

I guess you understand what this image is trying to tell, whether the implicit or explicit points in it:

Travel From KL To Singapore By Train For Weekend Break

SmallCheese — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:53:50 +0000

When a friend suggested to take train for the short weekend break at Singapore, I agreed without objection as I looked forward the experience of sleeping on bed in the moving cabin.

Catching Twilight At Broga Hill

SmallCheese — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:12:31 +0000

That was the first hiking trip at Broga Hill, with a wish of doing time-lapse photography for the moment of twilight to sunrise (but failed eventually ☹)

Pollinate Passion Fruit

SmallCheese — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:50:21 +0000

It is very EASY to plant the passion flower or passion vine (Passiflora) but it is VERY hard for it to naturally bear aromatic, tempted passion fruits.

This is especially true if the passion fruit vines are grown in backyard within a crowded residential area where you hardly find lot of bees, butterflies, etc, to pollinate the passion flowers.

How to pollinate passion fruit flower?

Without enough insects to act as pollinator, the passionfruit flowers hardly fertilized simply counting on wind, water, etc, because of the following factors:

1) The unique passionfruit flower structure:

With reference to above diagram taken from passionfruit pollination handbook, the anthers with pollens not only appear lower than stigma but also facing downwards to the floral axis and against the pollen receivers.

Thus, the pollens are much easier to fall down than blew up even the stigma is adapted to catch or tap the pollens.

2) Short life span of the blossom – the passion flowers only open and last for few hours. Usually the passion fruit flowers open at dawn and close about noon, which will likely to bear fruits as that is the active period of pollinators.

Sometimes, however, the passionfruit flowers only open at late evening and close before dawn! This is exactly what happen to my passion flowers :-( Needless to say, the chance to see them bearing fruits is almost zero, as all the natural pollinators are not working after the sun goes down!

To fix this exception, manual pollinating is a must! There are some photos in the gallery showing you how to do hand pollination, if you would like to turn the passion flowers into aromatic fruits.

The Pavilion Crystal Fountain At Night

SmallCheese — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:43:19 +0000

The image gallery of Pavilion Crystal Fountain at night, taken on the 2nd day before Chinese New Year 2010, see the splendid crystal fountain appears in different colours under dedicated lighting.

With reference to the dedication, this is the tallest liuli crystal fountain in Malaysia (endorsed by the Malaysia Book of Records), conceptualized by the shopping mall and in collaboration with liuli artist, Loretta Hui-Shan Yang of Liuli Gongfang.

The crystal glass fountain featuring three bowls of different size stacked up in staircase shape, each bowls crafted with the national flower of Malaysia, with tag line that reads Grand bloom of fulfilment, to symbolize the multiracial culture, opulence, passion, progression.

If you are going to visit Kuala Lumpur, take a chance to drop by Bukit Bintang after the night falls, there you can enjoy taking photographs with this illustrious landmark of the high end shopping mall in KL Golden Triangle.

Hiked Bukit Tabur West At 615am

SmallCheese — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:21:00 +0000

This is the fifth trekking trip at Bukit Tabur, third time using west trail and FIRST time to hike Bukit Tabur in the dark. I know that some trekkers even start at 4am to catch the KL city night scene in the very early morning.

We started at 615am or so, as the 2nd team to start hiking at west trail on that day, I believe. Although we missed the great sunrise, the fog blanketing the Bukit Tabur East is not bad to enjoy and photography too.

Bukit Tabur East Covered By Fog In The Morning

SmallCheese — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:09:26 +0000

Footage taken by Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7 in the morning around 07:41am, at +3° 14  6.26  N +101° 44  31.28  E, see Bukit Tabur East blanketed by fog that blew up from the Klang Gate Dam reservoir. Think that is great challenge for those who were hiking there at the time.