This is the overgrown mung bean sprouts which we planted quite sometimes ago.  It looked too green compared to usual bean sprout.  It is not edible, but it looks artistic when the light goes through the leaves and draws the line in my photos.  Again, I used backlighting to shoot this photo.

They were planted in a small bottle of water.  What happened to their future?  They might have been planted onto the soil, and produces more mung bean.  But they dried after a few days later because we did not refill its water.

We did not use the correct traditional way to plant it, that’s why they do not look like normal bean sprouts.  From Wikipedia, I have learned that in order to plant bean sprouts, the mung beans should be watered for 4 hours under the day light and then they must be kept in the dark until they turn into bean sprout.  But we let it accepting light all the time, that’s why…

Bean Sprout is a popular and can be considered as one of the cheapest vegetable as a Chinese dishes.  It is very nutritious.  Some bean sprout are made of soya bean as well, and this version gives a bigger bean sprout.

In Hokkien (a Chinese dialect), it is called “Tauge” where Malays are also using the same word without translating it.  In Mandarin, we called it “Dou4ya2” locally (in Kuching or East Malaysia), but I have heard that it is called “Ya2Chai4” (Mandirin) in Ipoh or other part of West Malaysia.

One of the famous food in Ipoh is called “NgaChoiGai“, where “NgaChoi” means bean sprout in Cantonese, and “Gai” means chicken. :roll: Don’t get confused.

If anybody knows what it is called in Tamil and Hindi please let me know.

Again, it’s our blog’s birthday.  :)
Again, we would like to thank all our readers for your supports.  :)
We hope you enjoy everything that we have shared with you.

In these 2 years or 731 days, we have written 357 posts, which means we have updated our blog every 2 days in average.  We have had long holidays, and we have had short holidays too.  The more posts we have,  has given us more traffic, and the more holidays we have, we got reduce in traffic.  Yes, traffic is one of the main encouragement for us.

In this two years, SiewPeng and I have been to quite a lot of places (locally).  We fly to Ipoh quite frequently, and we have been trying to explore Kuching and the whole Sarawak thoroughly.  We will continue to explore Malaysia (our country) for the coming years until we have left our footprints on all the places where we can find the natural and artistic elements.  We are the tourists of our own hometown.

We have been to Perth, Australia sooner than it was planned which made us wrote 17 posts about it.  Plus we were there with my dream camera that allow me to extend my photography capabilities.  Two of our dreams have come trues, and we added more things to our wish lists.  Are we greedy?

My sister gave me this keychain a few days ago when she came back for Raya holiday.  She might not know that I consider this give as a birthday gift for ColinJong.com.  I asked her to read my blog, but I think she never does that.  Anyway, I thank her for the gift.

SiewPeng’s sister gave us these while we were in Australia.   I did plan to post it today when this blog is exactly 2 years old, but we can’t wait and had written a post about it months ago.  Thanks to SiewPeng’s sister.

Nobody knows what will happen in the next coming years, but we can put our effort to shape what is going to happen as we desire.  I will continue to practice my photography skills, write more quality posts, and hopefully ColinJong.com can attract more traffic.

Happy Birthday to ColinJong.com.
and
Thank you again for your supports.

This picture was cropped only.

SiewPeng found it while washing dishes near the kitchen, I quickly grabbed my camera and started shooting through the windows.  I told my brother to take photos with his newly bought camera.  Later I wanted to get closer, I opened the door, got closer, but it flew when it noticed me.  It stopped on other plants and did not stay still.  Then I had to stop the photography session because it got across the fence to my neighbour’s area.

SiewPeng said she only knew that there is blue colour on the butterfly’s wings after looking at the photos.  And my mother said that this butterfly always appears there.  I hope it will appear again.

I am not actually satisfied with the background of this picture.  It is not blurred enough.  If I only show you the picture above, it might be quite boring, so I decided to play around with it.

1.  Glass effect (Blocks).

2.  Mosaic Tiles effect.

3.  Craquelure effect.

4.  Poster Edges effect.

5.  Plastic Wrap effect.

6.  Growing Edges effect.

Which one do you like the most?  And which one do you think is the worst?

I have others butterfly pictures and graphical effects (1, 2) in other posts.

Hope you’ll enjoy them.

Happy Sunday.

We went to Kubah National Park at Matang, Kuching few days ago on the second day of Hari Raya.  We were heading to a waterfall in the National Park, but this damselfly couple stopped me for about half an hour to have a photo session.

SiewPeng and I only saw the female damselfly at first, but later we found another one.  The female famselfly had an orange-coloured tail and she bent her body all the time.  The male in blue flying around the female damselfly.

I believed that they were getting ready for mating.  During mating, the female damselfly usually bent her tail and connect it to the male’s abdomen, whereas while mating the male will also bent his tail (a bit only) but place it on the female’s head.

I have waited for about half an hour, wishing that I can take their photo while they were mating, but they didn’t.  The male damselfly flew away after a few minutes and left only the female damselfly.  She still bent her body all the time.

While she bent her body, her wings opened up a bit unlike what she usually does (putting her wings behind her back neatly).  It seems that she was opening up her hands and said, “Hello and welcome”.

Although the male damselfly had gone away, I guessed he was somewhere nearby but hiding itself.  I did not stop my job taking the photo of the female damselfly.  Most of the photos I had got are clear on the paku (the green ferns) but not the damselfly.  So I kept on trying and trying until my new camera showed, “lense error, please restart camera!”.  Luckily after I restarted my camera, it can still work.  I have used the manual focus for the whole process, may be the lense was overheated.

May be I should left earlier and let them mating.  I switched off my camera, and moved ourselves towards the waterfall.

Related posts about Damselfly:-
1.  Damselfly is not a Dragonfly.
2.  Damselfly on Slipper.
3.   We Miss Damselfly.

This river mouth looks very far, it is the exit of Sungai Sibu (Sibu River) to the South China Sea.  From Telaga Air, the river look like a lake, with a small mouth, but it is not a lake.  It is a big turning on a long river.

I like to look at maps ( especially google map), and study on the pictures of different places.  Sometimes I found the hidden places just outside the border of the pictures.

I have never been to these places, Sibu Laut, Santin, Satang Island, and other islands.  But I know where they are.  I wish to have a GPS device.  And I also wish that SiewPeng and I have another long holiday so that we can travel to the islands.

I zoomed on the river mouth and found that there are actually beaches.  Shooting with a 560mm lense, the beach at the Sibu Laut can clearly be seen.    It was a hazy day, I cannot see it with my eyes, but my camera can.

This is what I can see with my eyes, I did not even know that there are beaches after I load the photos into my computer.

From Google Map, A is the Sibu Laut, and B is the Kampung Sibu Laut.  The red dot is the Telaga Air.

I am confused, where is Sibu Laut?  I found that there are 2 Sibu Lauts in google map, one of them is the village, the other is the name of that place.

Do you know how far is Satang Island from Telaga Air?  I estimate it should take about 10km.

The yellow arrow is the direction where we look at the river mouth.

The river mouth was behind us.  Next time, we should come here in the morning, and take a boat to see the beaches and islands.

Related posts about Telaga Air, Kuching:-
1.  Rediscover Telaga Air.
2.  Beautiful Fishing Village - Telaga Air.