WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES

Figure below: Occurrence of lightning involving ground objects.
(Left) A close lightning flash striking a tree at a distance of 60 metres. (Top) Lightning"; the discharge is triggered by the presence of a tall tower. Lugano, Switzerland.

BANDUNG - STRAWBERI DAN NURSERI

Tanaman strawberi dalam polibag.

Pamiran orkid.

 Bonsai

Pirang (dalam pasu plastik) yang perlukan rendaman air.

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - NATURE IN ARCHITECTURE

Sydney Opera House

INTRODUCED FROM SOUTH AFRICA

While attending a conference in Johannesburg, S.A. in 1996 I managed to collect seeds of several plants out of which two ornamental plants were successfully grown.

1. This plant can grow more than 10feet, has small, erect branches with yellow, sparsely, trumpet like flowers. Suitable as hedge plant. 

2. Bauhania. Bushy and smaller than the bauhanias (pink and white flower types) commonly grown here. (For some years I lost the plant because the only sample that I asked my brother to maintain was chopped down. Recently, I brought back cuttings widely grown in Stradbroke Island and Gold Coast, Australia. Hope the cuttings will grow).

LAYLA DAN MAJNUN

Kisah romantika Timur Tengah ini pertama kali dibukukan dalam Bahasa Melayu oleh Sheikh al-Hadi.

KU KUNYAH ULAT NI

Ada kawan Melanau di Mukah sediakan makanan sejenis ulat daun untuk ku cuba. Rasanya tidak lemak seperti kalimata [ulat sagu atau siet (bahasa Melanau)] goreng maupun hidup-mentah. 

Rasa ulat ini kepahitan sedikit dan kulitnya agak liat dikunyah. 

Perarakan Maulidul Rasul oleh kaum Melanau, pekan Mukah.

MAKING GULA MELAKA

Basic steps to make gula melaka:

1. Climb a young coconut tree to look for an unopened flower stalk.

2.. The upper petal of the flower-bdearing stalk is bound shut to prevent the bud opening.

3. . The flower-bearing stalk is bent gradually downward and the tip is cut off so that the sap can ooze out unhampered.

4. The sap is boiled until it becomes a thick orange-brown mass which is then stirred until it crystallizes.

5. The mixture is poured into bamboo canes where it cools and turns so hard that you have then to grate or chop it.

A simple way of boiling the sap.