Bird's Park - A Love Story

Wise Bluebrown :What is the reason for the melancholy in your eyes?

Smart Green :Oh, Wise Bluebrown, hope you can help me.. I am deeply in love with Preity White. But am afraid she will reject me. She is as fair as snow and has a house of her own. I live in a tree branch

Wise Bluebrown :Did you ever ask her? How could you assume? It is better to knock at the door than to assume that it will not open. Her heart and house might accommodate another person..

Smart Green flies to Preity's house and knocks on the roof...



Preity White: uh, Who is it?
Smart Green : It's me. Smart..
Preity White: Good to see you Smart.. How are you? what is up
Smart Green : ummm...ummm..Preity, I have come here to pour my heart out...I am so madly in love with you...Will you marry me?
Preity White : Oh, Smart!! I thought you would never ask!!!

Archer

Aim - shoot - Win. Aim - shoot - Win.

I have known great archers only by name - Arjunan, Karnan, Ekalayvan.
I have seen great shooters only on TV - in fact only Jaspal Rana

For the first time, I saw the action live - Bulls eye at every shot and the thumbrule was simple!

Aim - squirt - Eat. Aim - squirt - Eat.

Archer Fish!

When the caretaker of a fish farm at Langkawi stuck a moist bread piece on a wooden pole 2 ft above the water level, little did I anticipate what was to come.
I thought, the fish was going to jump up. I was wondering if it can do it without being knocked down by the pole.

I should say, I under-estimated this tiny fish(about the length of my palm). Suddenly a jet of water hit the bread piece with force making it fall into water.
I missed it the first time.. I didn't see the source.

The target was raised to 4 ft. We were all eyes looking at the fish. He moves a bit adjusts the angle, concentrates for a few seconds and squirts! Bulls eye again!

Now the target was raised to 6ft and perfect shot again. It was an amazing sight to watch this unique adaptation!

I was imagining Dhronacharya, a school of fish, and the following conversation

D'acharya : What do you see?

li'l clown fish : em.. people, wooden pole, em.. trees and..
baby shark : showing his teeth, fresh blood and flesh - people
archer fish : tiny white piece of bread

This youtube video says it all

Fruits of Malaysia

Durian, Rambutan, Pomelo, Langsat, Mangosteen, Pitaya

FRUITS! Fruits that I had never seen before.(Mangosteen - yes, but all the other fruits were new and strange)

Strange? you may wonder..
If you thought jackfruit and pineapple had a weird epicarp, wait until you see Rambutan(frizzy, fuzzy) and the dragonfruit (lotus ball like)

If you think you have seen a big grapefruit, wait until you see Pomelo(the XXL)

The best of 'em all, the biggest surprise..
If you thought you knew how 10 spoilt onions put in a sock which was continuously worn for 30 days by a soccer player would smell, wait until you smell a durian.
It is the national fruit of Malaysia - very, very unique and interesting! Many public places and hotels had the sign 'No Durians Allowed'. In fact, this fruit was featured in 'Bizarre Foods of Asia by Andrew Zimmern and I saw that episode a few weeks before my visit.
But, I did not know that it was widely available and widely consumed!

I missed the opportunity of tasting any of them, during this short stay, but I am sure, I will try all of 'em during my next trip.

For pictures of these unique fruits,checkout http://www.pulau-pangkor.com/tropical-fruits.html

On a different note, I(O) wonder that, when a small tropical country had about 6 native fruits,so distinct, why do we widely see only apples, oranges and grapes in our fruit stalls in India?

What happened to our own fruits? did we have any? What happened to elandhai pazham, vilaam pazham, etc?