WHAT IS HAPPINESS?

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What is happiness? You can learn what is happiness from the people of Lagonoy. Please watch this video.

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A GOAT FARM

Beside the Turtle Sanctuary, we visited a goat farm on the way back to Kuantan. This goat farm is just next to a budget chalet named 'Lis Nar Re', owned by a Canadian who reside in Malaysia. The goat farm was just started about 2 years ago and to my surprise, it is very clean, goats and surrounding, it is very well run. Your kids should like this place, so, keep your fingers crossed for a visit to the farm. This farm is at Sungai Ular, Balok, Kuantan. Nice long, shallow water and low wave beach is there for you to enjoy.

Guess who are holding the young turtles?

HELLO KITTY

Hello kitty!!! You are so cute. Where are you from kitty?

CELEBRATION OF LIFE, it is happening in Gary's Garden

Gary's Garden is honoured that the birds decided to come back again. Again, 2 eggs were hatched and same kind of bird. This time around, we managed to have photos of the beginning till the flying learning stage.

Mother and father birds taking turns to give foods to their babies. Love is all over the place. We must treasure it.

For more photos, go to my Picasa Web Album.

Celebration of life, at Gary's Garden

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.

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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?

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.

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.

Fraser's Hill - Flower & Bird

Fraser's Hill is an ideal place for plants and birds. It is indeed a 'Shangri-la' for nature lovers. Malaysian Nature Society organises jungle treking, birds watching, mountain climbing and other activities in promoting love to nature. During the trip there, we managed to snap some photos and would like to share with all of you.

Gary's Garden recommend you to visit http://www.naturestops.com . The shots are fanstatic. The name of the bird posted is Chestnut-Capped Laughingthrush

Fraser's Hill

My family had a trip to Fraser's Hill last weekend. Fraser's Hill is a highland resort situated in the State of Pahang, Malaysia. It is in the main mountain range named Titiwangsa which form the backbone of Peninsular Malaysia. The place brought me down to memory lane where my family shared precious moments with my nieces and nephews many years ago.

Fraser's Hill did not change much since my last visits there. The town centre, clock tower, the Paddock (i.e. horse riding range), the golf course and others still remain the same as last time. It is a good place for relaxing our minds and souls. I especially like the cool whether there.

A Profession called Hunters

As a nature lover and god fearing person, Gary's Garden is of the opinion that, except when wild animals form part of the food chain of a native, there should not be a profession called HUNTER. The nature is the rightful place of abode for wild animals. We human should leave them in the jungle and should not hunt them for reasons such as profession, food or past-time. These animals have their own family, they may be a child, a father, a mother, a sister, a brother to someone, right? Every hunter should think again, if he or she is a wild animal and shot by a hunter, what will happen? Its family's members will be in sorrow, right? A recent case of tiger poaching in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia, was a disaster to mankind. It reflects the selfishness of a human being. Every single life is precious, irrespective of a human or an animal. If someone kills somebody, he or she will be charged for murder. But, if a hunter kills a tiger, will he be, by right, charged as a murderer also?
Posted here is a picture of a little bird born in Gary's Garden and came back to visit us, how nice!!! This was an achievement to us.

The family moved elsewhere 小鸟们搬走了

The bird family has decided to move elsewhere, perhaps the existing nest could not accommodate the growing babies. Gary's Garden will just leave the nest there and who knows, the birds may come back and lay eggs in it. We noticed the birds still visit our garden to pluck grapes. Gary's Garden is their second home, we guessed.

Besides that, we noticed another pair of birds, very small size, come to our garden very evening, stay through the night and will fly off about 7.00 am. We managed to snap a photo (without flash) of them and would like to post it today to share with all of you. We guessed the reason behind may be due to fragrance from our hoyas, which have full bloom now.

小乌们搬走了, 有可能是因为鸟儿们一天一天的长大, 小小的窝也不能容纳一家四口. 偶而它们一家人会回来採葡萄吃, 可能还是当我们是第二个家吧. 我们不会失望, 反而希望它们会在回来生蛋.
我们也庆兴有两隻每天傍晚飞回来我们花园体息, 然后第二天七点早上又飞开. 我们认为Hoya发出很香的味道吸引它们到来.

Great News - the babies can fly now 小鸟会飞了

Gary's Garden has a great news today, the babies can fly. We managed to snap photos of one of the little bird standing just beside its nest. It really looks so cute. Its mom and dad must be so proud of their babies. Their efforts are not wasted. Gary's Garden is observing how diligently both parents taking care of the babies. The mother bird flies back to its nest every evening to sleep with her babies. She uses her wings to cover the little ones. The photo posted today was not using flash as we worried it will scare the baby. Gary's Garden sincerely hopes the family will regard the garden as their HOME forever. We believe the rightful home for wild animals is nature and not in cages. (can u see the father bird holds food for its babies)
小鸟会飞了.江山河园艺希望这个的家庭会当本园艺为它们永久的家.即使不能我们都了解到动物的家应该是大自然,而不是在笼子里.

Inhabitants of Gary's Garden

Gary's Garden attracts living creatures and some decided to stay. Some of these living creatures may be harmful to plants in Gary's Garden, but we will not destroy them as we believe every living creature has a decent place to stay which we called it 'HOME'. Gary's Garden propagates loves to nature.

我们相信每一个有生命的东西都应有一个家. 虽然有些是对花草有害,可是我们还是欢迎他们. 因为我们是大自然的一份子.