Beautiful Sunday

Sunday 24th January must be one of my happiest day this year. My wife looked well, had lunch at Zaika, went to Labi to visit our future padi field, visited my parents and discovered new insects in my parent's garden.

At about 4 this morning, I however was woken up by my wife asking for sweets and I thought she was having a dream but when I touched her hand it was cold and when I woke up I saw she was drenched in sweat. It's a sign I get familiar with for the last one year... her sugar level had dropped drastically and she need sugar. Woke up, looked for sweets, made her 2 cups of milo and some sweet biscuits. After that she gained a bit of strength but could not get up and she continued her sleep. It was only hours later that she was able to wake and get up and bought her to the KB Hospital but nothing more can be done. I hope she gets better each day but will and had always expected his sort of drawbacks from time to time. I am lucky to have families, friends and colleagues who understand our situation but pity her because amongst most of her friends who understand her plight there exist some who do not and sarcasm becomes 2nd nature to them. May Allah bless us all.

By God's will

There are a lot of things we can plan in life but there are some which you may not plan for but will happen by God's will. After our enjoyable trip to Miri and Singapore my wife was severely suffering from short of breath and the swelling of her feet worsen. She had been complaining of these ailments for nearly the whole of 2009 and last Friday whilst we were in Bandar because I was supposed to attend a company dinner, we decided it was best for her to seek treatment because she could not stand the pain any longer. We spent about 6 hours in the RIPAS Hospital Accident & Emergency Department. The doctor said the swelling was due to excessive water retention and after x-ray the doctor found that she had water in her lungs and had to be admitted immediately.



The evening before that we celebrated my bro-in-law & wife's joint birthdays. They're born on the same date.



Friday morning I was stalking these two insects in my bro-in-law's garden.

The baby grasshopper which was feeding itself on a plant's leaf

From baby grasshopper

and a spider which had just caught a fly for breakfast

From spider

Dragonfly Profile

Inspirational

As part of our effort to learn more about padi planting, we were really grateful to Pehin Aziz (and Hj Zak) for their time to take us around their padi field in Wasan and sharing tips and experiences. We hope one day we will be able to produce padi from our land in Lot Sengkuang Labi. So far, we only managed to manually clear the land and it surely took a lot of effort by my brother and our helpers to get to this result















and along the way I also took a few macros







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More macro

A few more macro taken on 11 Dec





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But my favourite is this one

Macro - lite testing

To Bro PainQler, thanks for the words of encouragement. Here's some photos that I captured during the trial of the macro lite.

Let there be light

Bought myself a macro lite system to enhance my hobby - macro photography



Some trials, but have not found insects as my usual victims



BTW that's how it looks in my eye (literally)





More photos here

Macro Ring Lite

More insects

The insect hunter

On the lookout for more. Anyone with information please contact me...

Brief encounters

The waiting was long, the encounter was brief... but its worth the wait.

wild and beautiful