Can you guess what is this?

Please post your answer in the comment section. The first comment gives the correct answer will get a set of 8 different types of Alternanthera plants. The closing date for this quiz is 6 Jan 2008 11:59pm.

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The Answer (posted on 13/01/2008)

This picture was taken at 7:25am in the morning.

The sunset time is about half and hour slower compare toKuching.  This is because East Malaysia and West Malaysia are different in longitude but they share the same time zone.

Ipoh is called “ShanCheng” in Chinese or it means “the city surrounded by mountain”.  The mountain or hill has blocked the view of sunrise actually, and when the sun is visible, it’s too bright already.

You may ask why the sky is too bright but I still take the picture with the above effect. 

There are 2 solutions for me:

1.  Take the photo before the sun is visible directly.  Although the sun is behind the mountain, the sky is in dark orange or dark red colour.

2.  When the sun comes out of the mountain and the sky is too bright,I adjusted the camera exposure to make the sky looks darker.

Yes, there are other solutions like using a lense filter or edit the photos in Photoshop.  But I prefer original photo instead of “photoshop” them.  And I can tell you that most of the photos (actually all of the photos) that I have posted were originally produced from camera and were not edited with photoshop, except with a little bit of cropping, resizing and adding of the word colinjong.com.

There are different types of grass on the Kledang Hill.

The yellow seed grass.

The red-flowered grass.

There are pitcher plants on the Kledang Hill too.

There are also different types of fern (”Paku” in Malay).

The star-shaped “Paku”

The net-shaped paku.

Siew Peng said that this “Paku” looks like a ship.

There are different types of leaves on the Kledang Hill.

And a variety types of plants.

“What is that???!!!” There are Buddhist and Taoism statues on the Kledang Hill as well.

The statues are located behind one of the pavillion. We can’t understand why they put them on the ground.

Foot reflexology stones are also available on the hill for people to experience the effect of this foot massaging method.  The management is also kind enough to provide a list of explanation next to the stones to enable visitors to understand more about food reflexology treatment.

We also saw a big red centipede as we went up the hill.

The tortoise were very glad to see us.  The swam to the surface as if to greet and welcome the climbers of the hill.

There were 3 persons, exploring the Kledang Hill on a hot sunny Wednesday noon. - Colin, SiewPeng and SiewPeng’s sister. We left our footprints on Kledang Hill. Till the next time to climb up this hill again, SiewPeng’s sister will check out another entrance of the Kledang Hill which is more challenging because it is a jungle tracking path.