This is a mushroom that looks similar to Shiitake (”XiangGu” in Chinese).

I have taken hundreds of photo at Kubah National Park at Kuching, Malaysia.  Today, I have selected the mushroom photos out of them and show them to you here.

Orange colour mushroom family.  One of them bow and said, “hi.”

Red colour mushroom family.

Viewed them from top.

These white mushrooms have grown on branches, hanging in the air.

The big flat orange mushrooms were fighting with the small white umbrella-shaped mushrooms.

Guess who win?  The white mushrooms were in a large group.

They were all on the trunk of a tree beside a big rock.  I have to step on the big rock to take these photo.  But the rock was slippery and I lost my balance and landed on my backside.  Luckily I was not injured, but my shirt and pants were attached with some mud.

Orange mushrooms on the tree.  The rock was just next to it.  Can you see how small / big the mushroom is?

I will show you more photos that I have taken in Kubah National Park.

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Related Posts:
1.  Mushroom at Kledang Hill, Ipoh Malaysia.
2.  Staircase on the Tree at Stutong Part, Kuching Malaysia.
3.  Mushroom Family at Stutong Part, Kuching Malaysia.

Not long ago, I just fixed the fluorescent light in my room which was always blinking.  I climbed up the aluminum ladder, checked the light on the ceilling, and found that its starter holder has changed its shaped due to overheat.

The light was always blinking randomly, and finally it was not working at all.  I never thought that it could cause heat at the starter part.  So, take note and remember, if your flourescent light is blinking, quickly fix it by either changing the tube or the starter.

The starter was also melted and stuck together with its holder, I cannot take it out, and I have to replace both of them.

I suspected that the flourescent tube also has a problem, but I tried on the starter part first.  In worst case, I prepared to replace the whole thing.

This is my new starter holder.

And this is my new flourescent light starter in transparent blue colour.

Luckily, I fixed my light successfully by changing the starter and its holder only without changing other parts.

And I have found a webpage on troubleshooting fluorescent lighting system.  It is very detail and read it if you are interested.  :D

This is the 8th Sarawak Inter-Cultural Mooncake Festival held in Capenter Street in Kuching, Malaysia.  There were many stalls selling cultural food and items.  There are street performances from Chinese, Dayak, and Malay too.

Look at the Chinese words on the decorative archway, it is written “Ya3Da2Jie1“.  This is the Chinese name for Carpenter Street.  The stage is built right in front of it, where we saw some performances there.

Looking at the Carpenter Street decorative archway from a different angle.

It was crowded along the street.

We took photo of ourselves again.

Different angle.  The post office building is on the top right corner of the picture above.

A lot of stalls.

Foods and drinks, and many other things.

Cotton candy for sale.  We have seen the making process of cotton candy as well.

Many of the stalls have hung up lanterns to decorate their stalls, there are also stalls selling lanterns.  Beautiful and colourful.

Since this is an inter-cultural event, an Orang Ulu who plays sape has joined the event too.  He played non-stop, with a small donation basket in front of him.  He smiled a little bit all the time, and nodded a bit to us when we gave some donation.

He was sitting in one of the junction of the Carpenter Street.  Look at the far end, it is the light from the DUN building.

We want to take photo with the sape player, but he look small in the photo.

These Malay ladies were selling their Halal version of the mooncake.  Great.  Salam 1Malaysia.

Malay groom and bride with music band.

Malay’s traditional musical instruments.

The Malay guys were dancing.  They seemed to enjoy the melody very much and asked people passing by to join them.

There are also haircut service on the street.  If I’m not mistaken they do it for charity.

This yellow stall was giving balloon to kids, we can see yellow balloons everywhere.

It was not so crowded near the exit of Carpenter Street.  And we can take our time to take our photos there.

There was traffic jam around that area.  Can you identified where is the Kuching Post Office, Round Tower, Pavillion Building and the old Court House.  They are historical building.

I believe most people enjoy celebrating this festival.  :D  It is a great event to attract tourists.  And I believe that more creative things will be added to it from time to time.

The mooncake says bye to you and see you again next year.

This is my lantern for Mid-Autumn Festival.  It is about 20 years old now.  It was kept in a cabinet for years and I took it out this year.  :D

Mid-Autumn Festival is called “ZhongQiuJie” in Chinese.   “Zhong” means mid, “Qiu” means autumn, and “Jie” means festival.  It has other names such as Mooncake Festival and “Pesta Tanglung” (Lantern Festival in Malay); which I think they are not really appropriate for naming this festival.

Because:-
1)  We are not only having mooncake.  - I saw it on TV, someone has been interviewed and said that do not let this festival become “YueBingJie” (Moon Cake Festival) which the next generation only know about eating mooncake but forget about the history and the meaning behind it.

2)  We are not only having lantern. - “TangLung” is a Cantonese word where Malays also call with the same.  It refers to Chinese lantern. Remember, Chinese do NOT ONLY hang up “DengLong“(Lantern) during mid-Autumn, but in Chinese New Year and other festivals as well.

During mid-autumn festival (15th day of 8th month in Chinese calendar), the most meaningful things to do are to have a family gathering, the kids playing lantern, adults sitting in an open air area chatting while “ShangYue” (enjoy watching the fullmoon) and drinking Chinese tea to neutralize the sweetness from the mooncake.  Besides, “DengMi” - a type of quiz guessing Chinese words game is also played among the community.

In the older days, Chineses start making poems praising the beautiful moon or express his / her feelings using beautiful poems, but in the recent years, it has changed to BBQ gathering.

This is my brother’s lantern.  It has a same age as mine.

Think carefully about this question!
Is gathering = Eating together?

I prefer talking together rather than eating together.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

The petals have gone, what does it mean?  It is not true if you think negatively that it means the end of love or relationship.  It has 2 choices.  First it will produce fruit and seed.  (If the flower ovary were getting bigger, I will show you next time.)

Second, she lets its petals go, the petals drop onto the soil, and fertilize her more.  There is a sentence in Chinese,  ”Luo4 Hong2 Bu2 Shi4 Wu2 Qing1  Wu4 , Hua4 Zuo4 Chun4 Ni2 Gen4 Hu4 Hua1.” - by GongZiZhen (1792—1841) It means:-

“Luo Hong” - red flower that has dropped
“Bu Shi” - is not
“Wu Qing Wu” - thing that are feelingless,

“Hua Zuo” - turning into
“Chun Ni” -  soil in the spring season
“Gen Hu Hua” - makes the flower (plant) grow better.

Even after the petaless rose has dried, it still smells nice.

There is a small part of the lyric in a song by ZhaoChuan (a Taiwan Chinese singer), “Xi3 Huan1 Rong2 Yi4 Diao1 Xie4 De4 Dong1 Xi1, Xiang4 Ni3 Mei3 Li4 De4 Lian3″.  It means ,”I like the thing that easily wither, like your beautiful face.” If you sing this song to your girlfriend or your wife, she will give you a punch on your face.

There is nothing wrong for a flower that has withered, it is just a process.  The love will last forever (if you believe about reincarnation), the love will continue in the next life.  Or at least the love will last until the end of this life.

The flower has withered, but the rose plant is still alive.  The beautiful face may have gone but the heart is still there.

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Writing Chinese in A-Z

You may have noticed that I have been using ABC to write Chinese Word.  The main reason is because I found that not every computer can display Chinese characters.  There are many format in Chinese characters, Big5, GB, Simplified, Traditional etc.   It may not be displayed properly in some computer even it is set to UTF-8.

Second, even some computers can display Chinese characters, some of the readers cannot read (pronounce) the words.  If you know “Han4Yu3Pin4Yin1″, you can understand what I wrote.  :)

Happy reading and have a nice day.