Interloper View

Lata Iskandar is on the road up Cameron Highlands. I recently made a trip there and here are some pictures I took:

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert During some point of the Journey they had an Argument, and one friend Slapped the other one In the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE . where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE . The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?" The other friend replied "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it." LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS I

Took the following picture of the sunrise at Gurney Drive. My friends took me then to run with them and they told me how they enjoyed the sunrise. I thought I would share it here:

I was walking and happen to come across the following. I thought it was interesting that the rats sleep anywhere and everywhere but in this particular case, it left its tail exposed:

One of the joys of visiting Botanical Garden is to see the monkeys roaming around freely. However, most of the time, I only observed one kind of species. Recently, I found another kind. Here are the two species I saw:

The following are the balance of the photos:

One of the benefits of staying in a multi-cultural country is getting to see and enjoy different festivals. It has been several years since I went to see the Thaipusam possession but I managed to do that this year. Here are some of the pictures I took (I split into two entries to ensure the performance):

This is a story I heard from a good friend of mine. A man had just put up a sign "Puppies for Sale" when a little boy appeared with great excitement in his eyes. He was waiting patiently as the man finish putting up the sign and asked, "Uncle, how much does it cost for a puppy?" The man said, "About 40 to 50 dollars?" On hearing this, the boy face suddenly became sad for a second. He was about to go but suddenly turned around and asked, "Can I see the puppies?" The man said, "Sure!" and whistled. Just then the door open and a lady came out followed by several puppies. The boy's eye lit up as he saw them. One by one the puppies came out. While he was playing with the puppies, one last puppy came out with a slight limp. Apparently, the puppy was born without one hip bone. The boy saw the last puppy and immediately asked the man, "How much for that puppy?" The man said, "You don't want that one, he is cripple

It is an annual custom to turn on all the lights in Kek Lok Si for the fifteen days of CNY. The following are some of the pictures to show how awesome the sight is: