I wanted to post the photos of cloud each month, but I have forgotten last month.   And it is the raining season now, so I am going to show you the cloud photos that I took last month.

The first photo above was taken in Kuching and the rest below are from Ipoh (taken on our December 2010 KL - Ipoh trip).

The bear in the film “Golden Compass”.

Contrails can easily be found in Ipoh.

Black and white smoky mountains at Ipoh.

The sky looked typical, but I like the part near the mountains, where the cloud looks like the broccoli.

Dark chocolate is my favorite.  My sister just came back from other states for the Chinese New Year break, she bought us a packet of dark chocolate.

I found that the packet of the chocolate is semitransparent with warm and attractive colours.  Here, my camera put its head (lens) into the packet of the chocolate and looked at the purple skinned dark chocolates closely.

This is the making of the dark chocolate photo.

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This year, I still have a chance to meet my sister.  Last year, we meet at the airport before Chinese New Year.  The time she came back to Kuching was the time I left Kuching to Perth.  This year, we can have a gathering dinner on the coming Monday evening before Chinese New Year.

Yes, I am going to Perth again this year during Chinese New Year.

I just gave my last mechanical mouse to a recycle center.  Before that, I have taken its photo.

It was not functioning since years ago, but I kept it and hope that it will become an antique in the future.  Finally I decided to discard it.  If I was the collector, I would like to have a working mechanical mouse.

This type of mechanical mouse (also known as analogue mouse) has obsoleted, and is replaced by optical mouse.  There are many types of pointing devices including touch screen (single/multiple touch), graphic tablets, trackballs (upside down mouse) etc..  There will be one day when the mouse would be totally obsoleted.

SiewPeng prepared this lovely lunch for me yesterday.  It not only had a good look, but it also tasted delicious.

It consisted of mushrooms, carrots, cone-shaped broccolies (Romanesco broccoli) and lady fingers.  I am sure that it is nutritious.  There was also another plate of fried potatoes which is not in the picture above.

Many religions teach their believers to be thankful by praying and thank God before eating.  Besides thanks to my Gods, I also want to thank SiewPeng for this lunch.

Thank you, SiewPeng.

Chinese New Year is coming soon.  There is only one week left to prepare.  SiewPeng and I did not do much shopping, but we do more on cleaning.

My brothers have painted the gate and the wall.

Look at this wall, the cat’s footprint has been removed and replaced with new white paint.

My part is to clean the floor.  This year, I used a new water jet cleaner to remove all the mosses and dirt.  I spent the whole Sunday morning, just to clean the floor.

Can you see how white it is?  With the strong water jet, it seemed that the surface of the cement floor has been removed.  I noticed that some small stones and sand were peeled off.

This cleaning method can only be done once a year, otherwise the cement floor would get thinner and thinner.

But some parts are difficult to clean.  Since it looks cleaner than before, I did not spend too much water and electricity on it.

Oh no…  this is the car’s lubricant stain on the floor of the car porch.

Last Sunday, we also sorted out some old stuffs and sent them to a recycle center.

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Most people spent time and money to go for pre-new-year shopping to buy clothes, food, and other things for the celebration.  SiewPeng and I did go shopping as well before Chinese New Year, but we bought less on clothes and I spent more on books.

I will show you the books that I have bought.  Happy Shopping!!!  and Happy Cleaning!!!  Happy preparing for Chinese New Year.