Saturday, April 4, 2009

Staghorn Fern

Staghorn ferns can be found high in tall trees but not growing "in" the bark. What that means is stags don't need or use soil as do land plants.

They get their nutrition substantially from the air. Pretty amazing, eh? Stags are therefore in the same class as orchids, for example, which also mostly grow in trees with no soil.

Platycerium is a genus of ~ 18 fern species in the Polypod family, Polypodiaceae. Ferns in this genus are widely known as Staghorn or Elkhorn ferns due to their uniquely-shaped fronds. This genus is epiphytic and is native to tropical areas of South America, Africa, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Guinea1. (wikipedia)

Friday, March 20, 2009

morning sky




-some photos that i snapped (using my handphone) during my travel to Kedah (north of Peninsular Malaysia). Both shots were taken early in the morning on my way to town using a short-cut road through the paddy fields...

A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. Rice can also be grown in dry-fields, but from the twentieth century paddy field agriculture became the dominant form of growing rice. (wikipedia)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

pekan sehari




The concept of pekan sehari is almost the same as car boot sales (in UK) or sunday market (in US). Pekan sehari will be held once a week in each town or village (kampung).

Pekan= town
sehari= a day

Sunday, February 8, 2009

happy thaipusam day

Thaipusam (Tamil: தைப்பூசம்) is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (Jan/Feb). It is also referred to as Thaipooyam or Thaippooyam in the Malayalam language. Pusam refers to a star that is at its highest point during the festival. The festival commemorates both the birthday of Lord Murugan (also Subramaniam), the youngest son of Shiva and Parvati, and the occasion when Parvati gave Murugan a vel (spear) so he could vanquish the evil demon Soorapadman.
(more at wikipedia)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Saturday, August 9, 2008

PEACE..!

A sign from a small child to the world with a message ..."NO MORE WARS"