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Dated: 2010 Feb 15 Mon
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Previous Unloads: 2010 Feb 10: "Revisiting" the Backyard 2010 Jan 17: To the Bornean Land of the Hornbill 2009 Nov 10: Dedicated to My Teacher, CheGu Ghazali Hanafiah 2009 Jul 25: A Bridge to Bayan Lepas 2009 Jul 16: UDM Maiden Degree Conferement 2009 Jul 1: The Tanjong at the Muara of Terengganu River 2008 Dec 28: The 2008 Year Event 2008 Aug 12: Kenyir Re-Visited 2008 Aug 08: Taken to the Memory Lane - UKM 1970 in 2008 2008 Jun: Bukit Besar - The Last Bastion 2008 May: An Old Man and the Sea 2008 Apr: Drifted from the Past 2007 Nov: Ke Tepian Sang Seluang Melaut 2007 Mar: Duku - The Fruit of Terengganu 2006 Oct: The Faces of Ramadan 2006 Aug: Convocation UKM #34 2006 2006 Jun: Bidong Revisited 2006 May: Kenyir, Here I Come 2005 Nov: Jalan Hale Revisited 2005 Apr: In the Backyard (and Frontyard) 2005 Jan: Seri Puteri Eventually Visited 2005 Jan: SAS Re-Revisited 2004 Jul: In the Heart of Two Cities 2004 May: Cameron Highland Revisited 2003 Nov: Reunion of Class of 66 2002 Sep: A Consequential Events from Feb 2002 2001 Dec: Digging Deep Into the Root: SKBT Revisited 2001 Jul: 29th Covocation of UKM 2000 Dec: Just An Unlucky Day 2000 Jul: A MiniReunion of Class of 66 1999 Dec: Study Tour to Taiwan 1999 Sep 23: A Week on Leave 1999 Sep: The Officiation of Smart Technology Centre, UKM 1998 Apr MOU and Launching of Chito-Chem (M) Sdn Bhd 1997 Dec: Rally Nationwide Vision 1995 Dec: SAS Revisited 1994 May: First Asia Pacific Chitin and Chitosan Symposium (APCCS) 1991 Aug: Study tour to Medan, Indonesia 1991 May: A Visit to Langkawi, the Land of Mahsuri |
 Had not been seriously to the backyard for nearly three years. Since conceded from the office 2007 Apr. The CNY break had extended the weekend to Mon in Trg. So eventually I had the chance to "revisit". The dry season for the last many weeks were imbibing. But the heat had shortened the time up to only late morning. The trees were all of fruit-bearing age, but none right now, except banana, because of the dryness. |
 A view, long had not been with. The ubi kayu had been harvested many times already. |
 A small swarm of beetle was feasting on the leaves of pumpkin, leaving untouched the even the greener chillies above it. Pale orange in colour, or rather greenish yellow. Rather wild. They took off immediately on the approach of the camera lense. Very agile, moving about, trimming the edge, changing the spots actively. |
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   In 2004 Nov, the dokong, horticultured in the same year the house was constructed (1985), began to give us their sweet langsat-duku combination. This is the remaining few of the trees that we planted that give us the fruits. It was grown from the seeds, the fruits of which was brought here by the house builder Pak Zid from his home town in Pattani, Thailand. From the two kilos fruits that Pak Zid brought to us, several seeds were germinated in two discarded paint-cans; when they were sufficienly strong and enough number of leaves, they were transfered per se to the plot at two different locations; they grew up at a different rates; the slower one was inhibited further by the frequent manace of the hanuman langur to the resultant size-wise of one to ten. Judging by its lack of branches, it would take many more years to bear fruits. We were waiting for the langsat (two trees) we planted from the seeds the fruit of which were given to us by Pak Etek of Sungai Buah at about the same year; and we were also waiting for the duku, the baby of which was the one that survived from the forty odd babies we brought from Terengganu in early 1990's; (another one survived in Sg Buah);
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  Unfortunately all the lansium were attacked on the bark. No moving living creature were visible. Perhaps too small to be seen. Said to be of some kind of larva. The bark is stripped off bit by bit, exposing the woody part to be weathered. Death started from the tip with the leaves dropped piece by piece. Somehow new braches, seemed ad hoc, seened growing from which ever part still alive. |
| All the lansium were infected. But duku, of the baby from Terengganu, was the least. Dokong of the seed from Pattani, Thailand was the most severe. The langsat was a local of Sg Buah. |
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The rambutan tree, captured in 2003 at my home in Kg Pengkalan Arang, K Trg, of the type "che embong" or "che de", that was planted perhaps by my father's father before I was born. I grew up under its shadows when I was a timid boy around my home. It died of the old age, notably in the year after 2000, and was cut off. The stump as in 2009. When I was small, there was another on the opposite side of the path, the "che man", together with a coconut tree. Both were made away for the house to be 're-suscitated', perhaps in late 1970's, when my father has passed on. |
   In 1980's, my cousin AbgWi made a gootee from it, and planted at his place, about 100 m away. It grew up well, and born fruit. From the grown tree, another gootee was cut off, about ten years later, and I took it to Sg Merab. And it grew up well. But perhaps needed some more time to bear a significant amount of fruit. |
 The down-side up of a decaying timber. The delicate structure of the home of the atomic white ants. The structure that connects the timber above for the perpetual suply of carbohydrate, and the soil below for the suply of water and minerals. The transportation cost was brilliantly averted. |
  Local banana, and the one from Terengganu, the lemak manis, which is waiting in turn. |
   In 2006 Jan the curry leaves were infested by the black larva that kept on 'harvesting' extensively the greens. The chalky white beetle of aphid size that are seen flying in and out of the plant. |
  The curry tree is now free of infestation. The root even swept into forming a new cluster in the neighbour's compound. |
      The other herbals included the ficus, the kadok, hempedu bumi, chilly, and the blue flower for making the boiled rice blue. That the Kelantanese uses to boil rice for nasi ulam. And the chekor manis with the back-up curry which I regrew from the west to the east of the house. |
  A very strange object Arifah found on the ground. Shared by her sister, Aidah. Apparently a used and abandoned bird nest. |