Botanic Gardens

Sometimes I like to go walk about the parks by myself. My mom thinks I'm wu liao, but I don't see it that way. Not many people have the patience to accompany me on such trips... where I can spend the entire afternoon stationed at the same spot taking more or less the same subjects. I don't have to concern myself with entertaining whoever's with me or needing to come up with topics of conversation. I've time to myself... with the birds... or the dragonflies... or the cicadas... and whatever else are there that day. I may not like to be a nigel all the time, but I do seek and enjoy solitude.

I bumped into Joe Lai, former conservation officer at Buloh who has founded and is now running EART-H, a nature consultancy/outreach organisation. He's been giving educational talks here and there and well... I suppose being one of the plant experts... he's been kept busy enough. It so happens that he's from my 'batch' of STB Specialised Tourist Guides... got his licence at the same time as I did. Not sure if I'll see him again on Monday - at the induction ceremony - since I've got my driving Final Theory Test then. Sigh. When there are so many free days around me... why must everything choose to happen on the same day at the same time? Anyway it was good to see him again - just when we thought he kinda disappeared after the days of campaigning for Chek Jawa.

White-throated Kingfisher - ain't he handsome?

Adult and juv. White-breated Waterhen fighting over a piece of bread

Eurasian Tree Sparrow

Lesser Treeduck

posted by Husky @ 9/14/2005 12:46:00 PM  |