When looking at this new shoots, it tells me that every new day is a good day.  It gives new hope and we should catch this new opportunity to accomplish our mission.  I always like to see new shoots of any plants.  The plants tell us that it’s going to start their new lifes, new generations, and new journey.  It has forgotten about its pass, just concentrate on what is going to happen now and the future.

Do not let what happened in the pass to stop us from moving forward.  We supposed to move faster than before because we have learned how to avoid and eliminate the obstacles.

If yesterday were not a good day
today should be a good day
if we can clear the rubbish in our mind

If yesterday were a good day
today should be a better day
if we have a stronger will to reach our destination.

I’m sure if the PC you are using now is running slow or something is not right, you will restart your PC to let everything back to normal.  We may take the wrong path in a middle of a day, and if this is the case, we can just restart our day immediately by changing our mindset and controlling of our emotion.  This plant has been cut to eliminate the old branches which didn’t look nice, and it produces 4 shoots.

These caterpillars are found in our garden on the willow tree.  There were more than 5 in a group and all eating the willow leaves.  They were crawling slowly on the willow leaves.  At anytime, any one of the caterpillars may be falling down to the ground.

It happened.  When a breeze came, one of the caterpillars was blown into the air.  Surprisingly instead of falling onto the ground, it was hanging in the air.  First I thought there was a spider web.  I was not sure either the caterpillar was lucky.  It may get lucky if it only fell onto the grass below the willow tree, otherwise it may become the food of the spider.  While the breeze was blowing, the catepillar was swinging around on the stiky spider web which disallow me to take its closed-up photo.

Both are not the case.  After the short while, while the breeze stopped or getting weaker, the caterpillar started to move itself.  It climbed up through a vertical silk line and reached the willows leave, and start eating again.  Amazing!!!  It was not the spider web but it’s its own silk.  It was clever, had prepared and getting ready for the bad environment.

The breeze attacked the caterpillar again, I witnessed the caterpillar climbing up again using the different vertical line.  Now I have a stronger fact that the silk was produced by itself although I can’t see the caterpillar silk.  The silk was too thin, and I did not want to hurt it by touching its silk.

The destiny is in our hands.  Instead of letting the environment make changes to us, why not let us take the initiative to improve this environment.  Every entity in this universal have their rights and abilities to protect themselves, and blend themselves into this mother nature.

The pattern of this roof looks like the corn.  I guess they are ceramic roof tiles which had changed their colours over a long period of time.  Some of them may had been replaced by the house owner with the new roof tiles that’s why we can see the different colours for each tile where if we see them as a whole thing, it creates a corn seeds pattern. 

Some of their colour are lighter, some of them are darker, some are white colour, some reddish, and some of them are brown or black.  The darker colours roof tiles are actually the colours of the moss on it I believe.

The roof is very old already.  Do you notice that some of them are missing?

Actually they are many other things which is not nature by default, because it is human-made, but if we look carefully, it actually show its nature behavior or slowly changes its behaviour to adapt to the nature environment.

Who say human-made stuffs doesn’t look nature?  Tell me who says?  Who says?  … …  [This sounds similar to an advertisement on tv.]

From my point of view, human-made stuffs are also parts of the nature, because human itself is parts of the nature.  The only things that make the difference is that either the stuffs can make the nature become more nature or otherwise destroy it.

This is the truck that was pulling nothing. It look extremely short. Do you think that it looks cute? It looks like a huge big-headed cute worm moving on the highway. I like to see this type of vehicle especially without the trailer.

I did not noticed it until I viewed this photo in my computer. The rear wheels of this truck were actually not touching the road surface.

Not all of the big headed truck do this, but this one also same as the above. They must have some reasons for doing this. May be to make this vehicle more efficient and flexible.

This is another big headed truck in different pattern.

Usually SiewPeng and I call these big trucks dinosaurs when they carry trailer or big / multiple goods container, but when it carries nothing we may call it a worm because of its shape.

When a dinosaur is beside you and overtake you, you can feel that there is a strong wind and a hidden power that move you to the side or create a big vibration.I have this experience when I rode my bicycle last time. Therefore when a dinosaur appear or moving into your ways, you must be careful.

I took all of these photos on the Malaysia longest highway which is called North-South Expressway in Peninsular Malaysia. While I was taking these photos, I noticed that the traffic is always busy, and I can see a lot of small to huge vehicles rushing towards their destination. The things that came across my mind was that I hope everybody on this expressway (which is about 966KM) can safely reach their destination. And I prayed for them while I was on the bus.

We have heard too many bad stories happened here and I have seen some of them with my own eyes as well. I asked myself, “Are there any happy or good things ever happened here as well?” and I tried to think very hard and I have got one answer. Yes, may be there were friends who had lost each others contact but met up again at the rest area. What else? Tell me if you have some good stories on this highway.

This highway is the second home for the bus or truck drivers and other frequent users. Some of them travel only short distance, but some may travel from the North to the South that can be longer than 900KM. I tried to imagine what is the bus and truck driver’s feeling like when they are travelling for a long distance. Not only the distance is long, but they repeat the process 5 or 6 days a weeks and with countless of departure and return trips. Won’t they feel boring? For me, I have taken 200 photos on this highway in a single trip, and I have decided not to take any photos again until I see anything that’s new to me. I can’t imagine what happen if I become a driver. If a driver travel for a short distance it may be worse because he has to repeat the route up to 6 times or more in a day. These drivers will be able to name out all the exit names without having to memorise them.

If I have a chance, I want to be a dinosaur driver. But one time is enough.

Our seat was really high until we were able to see what was carried by a lorry. If you use a normal car I bet you can’t. Don’t be jealous. If you want to do what I have done, just take a bus and sit at the first row.

These are the different types of “Dinosaurs”. Some big fat dinosaurs are good at chasing you but when they climb up the hill, they will lose. Some of them won’t allow you to overtake them when they are cornering because they may use up your lane as well, you don’t know when.

Parts of this highway gives a warm and comfortable feeling brought by the different colours on the billboards, buildings, cute signboard, rest area and nice nature feature such as waterfall. But some of the features are not, they may bring negative feelings such as up and down of a hill that makes us dizzy, caught in the traffic jam but do not know what happen in front, the white colour soil on the hill beside the road which won’t tell you that when it is going to cause a landslide. However, it is useless for us to have these negative feelings. Just keep our mind positive and we will reach our destination.

This highway gives me a view on the journey in our life towards our destination, they may be something positive and negative that coming towards our direction. But we have to take the positive mindset and eliminate the negative ones. In this way, the positive thinking will move us further and the negative thinking won’t be able to slow us down. Another important thing is to keep ourselves awakened and becareful while taking each step in our journey. We will reach our destination.

Dear Dinosaur, please be careful while you are running, don’t hurt poeple around you on the highway, they are same as you having their own destination that they are going to reach.

Dear bus driver, you are the only person who can make sure that your dinosaur won’t eat people. Please remember.

Dear North South Expressway users, your beloved and your relatives, Lets forget what we should forget, and remember what we should remember. We should continue our journey.

Ah Wong yawned and showed us his powerful teeth. According to what I found, cats have specialized teeth to help them in tearing meat. Those obvious sharp teeths on each side of the mouth compose pairs of scissors, which functions efficiently in shearing meat.

I’m not sure if the spots on his nose and mouth are dirt or some kind of signs developed as he aged. He has been with us for almost a decade now. He has a strong and clear vocal. He is a bit less arrogant compared to some other cats that I have seen. He will usually mew back at someone who mew at him. And his mew will go like “meowwwwwwwwwww”, a pretty long one with high and low pitch sometimes. His voice is often loud and clear. This is one of his specialty.

He will usually mew first before showing himself and you can hear him from far away. However, sometimes when he is up to some mischieves, he would just keep very quiet so that he wouldn’t be found. Normally, this happens when he finds himself a place inside the cupboard.

I strongly believe that animals have feelings and are capable of being sad, angry and happy too. They also have their own thoughts but it is not in our ability to fully understand them even though humans are much more intelligent than animals. Maybe there will be a subject or a course to learn animal languages in the future in order to communicate with animals better. What do you think?