Interloper View

The previous Sunday my son wanted to go up Penang Hill but by the time he told us it was past noon and from experience going up by cable car, it will be about 4 pm before we could start up. So I told him, let's try this weekend. Then on Thursday in the newspaper, the cable car was shutdown and will be down for at least 6 to 8 months. So I thought "Horray! I don't need to bring him after all. " I kept the article to show him but I did not get the response, I had hoped. He read it but zoomed in and said, "Yay, Let's go up by jeep!!" I did not know when to get one so I told him, we can only get a jeep from up there so we have to hike up! Children being children, said, sure let's do it. So we got ready, (my son, daughter and myself) to prepare for the long tedious hike. Imagine, a 5 year old, 7 year old and and 41 year old hiking up 4 km above sea level. My dad, also joined in the fun and urged them saying if they can hike all the way to the peak...

I took several photos on the ferry recently as I was leaving Penang island. I like the color of the ocean changes and thought I will share it here: A cruise ship happened to be docked near the island at the time: This was towards the evening and I love how to evening sun reflects on the water. I didn't realize how blue the water looked until I downloaded to the computer.

Most people know the following tongue twister: She sells seashells on the seaside. I was with my daughter and thought of the following. Now say this really fast: Give me the Screwdriver to screw the screw into the screw hole.

So what is the greatest threat that mankind is facing. I guess I have lost touch. All this while, I still think that the depletion of the ozone layer is the threat because, by depleting the ozone layer we allow all the harmful rays of the sun to enter our atmosphere thus causing cancer or other skin diseases. However, as I watch the show - Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" , it talks about global warming. Apparently global warming is different from the ozone depletion. The global warming is actually the rays of the sun that are deflecting from earth is not able to escape the atmosphere. For those who have not watched the show, I encourage you to watch it. The message it is trying to convey is critical to our survival as a species. According to the show, the recent disasters which we are facing in recent years can be linked to the global warming - primarily diseases like SARS and recent disasters like Kathrina and recent earthquake. If we don't pay attention t...

This trip to Genting Highlands, I decided to look for as many bugs as possible. Much to may surprise I saw a majority of them clustered around the entrance of the outdoor theme park. In one of my previous visits, I took one of the staircase of the hotel and found a lot of dead and flying butterflies. The only thing I can think of why we see so many such butterflies in the hotel and the themepark is that we have invaded their homes and they have no where to go. Anyway, here is my discovery: