QINGHAI-TIBET RAILWAY

I read with interest about the newly completed QINGHAI-TIBET railway. It definitely is a great architecture and Gary's Garden will surely try it one day. The emergence of China is sort of miracle in this 21st century. It is a country that should be visited during our lifetime.

Editorial

MY SON'S DRAWING

After looking at the drawing of my friend's son, my son also want me to publish his on the blog. Well, what can I say but willingly publish his. Well, it is not a matter of whose drawing is better but more importantly is to let our off springs to have the chance to 'show-off' their creation. They need to grow up in a healthy environment so that they can be a better person in future.

THEY ARE OUR FUTURE.

SPECIAL - COIN PLANT FRUIT

We would like to share with you a special type of fruit from Gary's Garden. We called it coin plant fruit as its leaves look like coins spiraling upward. This plant is well-liked by Chinese as it signifies 'good fortunes'. The plant seldom bear fruit, at most it flowers. Its flower is white in colour and emits nice smell. We are overjoyed that it bears fruit this time.

PAM IN CHINA

Gary's Garden found 'Pam In China', a great blog to us. We would like to share with fans of Gary's Garden. We are sure all of you will like the blog as well. The world will be better place to live at with people like Pam around. Bravo to you Pam.

A 'loving' couple, who are fans of Gary's Garden sent us some pictures of these lovely flowers. We would like to share with all of you out there. Pam, if you visit my blog, these flowers are for you.

Gary's Garden believe in good family values. Let us make the world a better place to live in.

哥妹两 & Naruto

These two drawings were drawn by a friend's son. He was so proud to show his son's drawing to me yesterday and I had his permission to publish the drawings here. Gary's Garden salute this little boy who is only 10 year-old and according to his proud father, the boy has won honours from Cambridge for his creativity.

I shown the drawings to my kids and they recognised the characters in the drawings, ie 哥妹两 (big brother & sister) & Naruto.

WESAK & MOTHERS' DAYS

Last Friday was Wesak Day and today is Mothers' Day. Gary's Garden was having an outing to Tanjung Harapan, North Port Klang to celebrate Mothers' Day on Wesak Day, ie 12 May, 2006. Well, a lot of people heard of Tanjung Harapan but do not know the way there. Here we post a road map for your convenience.

To us, Mothers' Day is as great as Wesak Day, that is to say all mothers are as great as Buddha. They are all about love, however simple they maybe. Their love is as pure as the water hycinth posted here.

To all children of the world, welcome you to put a word of praise to our mother here.

HOME IS STILL THE BEST

HOME IS STILL THE BEST......this is what I usually tell my children and they agreed with me full heartedly...... he he. I told them that one's house may be bigger or smaller, made of straw, wooden or brick, but so long is one's HOME, is still the BEST. In many outings, they miss their home, as to us, HOME IS STILL THE BEST.

This replica of water mill is built jointly by my children with my guidance. Somehow they learned how a house being constructed and I believe they cherised the moment forever.

NO POSTING IN THE MONTH OF APRIL 2006

Sorry guys for neglecting my blog during the month of April 2006. We have not posted anything as usually the month is a busy month for we Accountants........to meet deadline for submission of Income Tax returns. Anyway, we have found new opportunity in website design, built and maintain. We have setted up another website http://garykang.com sole for this purpose with our slogan, 'We design, We built, We maintain'. I hope you guys will throw in your support to us and we welcome feedback from you guys.

We have put up successfully a website for our very first customers http://michiyama.com. Again, we seek for your support. If you want to look for motorcycle tyres and parts, look for michiyama.com.

ORCHIDS FROM A TEMPERATE COUNTRY

All these while I thought orchids are tropical plants until someone from a temperate country uploaded these two pictures of orchid to me. I gave them the 'benefit of doubts' and believe he /she that these orchids are infact grown 'physically' in a cold country. So, it is up to you to believe, or if you want, prove them wrong, OK?

By the way, friends, I am still confused whose these orchids belong. Who cares? Just enjoy the beauty of these orchids.

THE ANSWER IS COMMON TAILORBIRD 答案是栽缝鸟

Mr. Paul Huang of www.naturestops.com gave me the name of the bird who build the nest in my previous posting, it is named 'COMMON TAILORBIRD.

Gary's Garden recommend you to visit NATURESTOPS. Paul has many collections of bird photos.

Cheers to you !!! Paul.

HAVE U SEEN B4 ? curious....please click here

I bet you have not seen this before........你见过这种鸟窝吗?

Have you seen before this type of bird nest before? This was the first time I have seen this. Just imagine the nest was only wrapped by a grape plant leaf in Gary's Garden. You can imagine how tiny the bird is, judging from the size of the bird nest posted.

I suspect the bird is the 'love birds' who seeked refuge in my balcony months ago. You can see more details in my October 2005 posting).

You can see how well the bird can build such nest and its workmanship is so refined. Is anyone out there knows its name?

HAPPENINGS IN GARY'S GARDEN

Gary's Garden is again celebrating the birth of baby birds. This is the fourth time we have the experience. We can actually walk near to the nest while the mother bird warms up her babies, we are no more strangers to them. These events show that all creatures can co-exist peacefully in this world and reflect to us that why we human cannot live and accommodate peacefully with each other. The kids are equally excited over the event and inspired them to express their excitements in their very own drawings.

MOTHER BIRD IN ACTION

Gary's Garden managed to capture mother bird in action this morning. This time, the nest was just there for this mother bird to lay eggs in it. She does not need to build a new one. Again, there are two eggs in it (Please refer January 2006 postings titled "BIRD IS HERE AGAIN TO LAY EGGS).

Well, the pictures show a mother's love is the greatest of all, irrespective of the living creature a human or an animal. The pictures show where a mother's love begins.........

CHINESE NEW YEAR .VALENTINE.TRAFFIC JAMS

The month of January and February 2006 was an eventful one. Chinese of the world was celebrating the most important festival of a Lunar calender. It marks the begining of a year. The celebration starts with a reunion dinner among family members in the eve of the first day of Chinese New Year.

Celebration of the festival becomes more hectic nowadays as the young ones need to go back to their parents' home and thereafter to the in-laws'. The distance involved easily totalled up at least 500km. This makes me think whether is it worth the trouble to travel up and down just to attend the reunion dinner and meet up with relatives and friends. Can't we think of other ways to celebrate the festival in a more relax and enjoyable mood? Just imagine the traffic congestion that occurred during the rush hours, it really spoils the mood of celebrating Chinese New Year.

The 2006 Chinese New Year ends with Valentine Day on the 14th February. Again, traffic jam in Kuala Lumpur somehow spoilt the mood again. Perhap the authorities should think in depth to solve the traffic congestion problem, especially in Kuala Lumpur.

Well, the consolation to all these bad mood were that I had the chance to see some rare wildlifes with my own eyes during travels and that my valentine really appreciates the roses that I offered.

MILDRED & GEORGE

These are the two little turtles that my friend (i.e. the owner) miss them so much. He named them Mildred and George.

SUZHOU GARDENS, CHINA

BIRD IS HERE AGAIN TO LAY EGGS

Well, Gary's Garden is again chosen by bird to lay eggs. This time, the same type of bird again. Co-incidentally, two eggs were layed. Maybe this type of bird only lay two eggs each time. We welcome them with open arms. My kids cherish such occasion and like to climb up ladder to see what is happening at the nest. The mother bird will spend some time to hatch the eggs and it will not fly even my kids are up there looking at it. Maybe, the mother bird knows we are harmless to it.

Gary's Garden regard this as a valueable experience to our young children. They learn how a new life begins, the value of a life and how great is mother's love. I bet this experience will never be erased in their memory for the rest of their lifes.

LIFE IS LIKE THAT

Life is like that.....Sometime things happen deviate from what we desired. We may have plan charted for what we like to do or to be in say, three or five years down the road but the results may not to our satisfaction. What to do ? We still need to face the future ahead and accept whatever come by. I believe even God wouldn't know what will happen to our future. So, sometime we just pause and ask ourselves, do we really need to plan for our future since God is also unsure of what the future will be. My view to this is that, have plan is better than without plan. At least with plan, we wont lose our direction in life.

WELCOME 2006

Today is the first day of the year 2006. Everyone of us is just like the bird in this picture, plan the direction that each of us should go. I believe not everyone has a definite direction yet at this first day of the year but at least we have a broad direction which way we should go. The direction may need to fine tune from time to time due to unforeseen circumstances as no plan is perfect.

GOODBYE TO YEAR 2005

Today is the last day of the year 2005, but it is just a normal day for me. Life still need to go on. The year 2005 was a smooth one to Gary's Garden and hope that the years to come will be as good, if not better. Gary Garden wishes everyone out there a happy and peaceful year.