{"id":660,"date":"2005-11-15T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=660"},"modified":"2006-10-08T15:43:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T15:43:12","slug":"678-of-wildflowers-by-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"[658] Of wildflowers by the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love flowers but I don’t quite go ga-ga (and wah piang<\/em>!<\/a> Boy, that exclamation left a deep impression on me) like girls do. Why do I like them? It’s just they’re part of green behavior kind of stuff. By they, I mean, the flowers, of course. Live flowers, not dead fresh flowers to be precise – I have a slight irritation with people that love to pick flowers. Hey, I’m a mad treehugger. What do you expect?<\/p>\n

I paid Malacca a visit yesterday. While I was there, I noticed a few species of wildflowers which I can’t name. They grow near some bushes by some road near the town of Tampin.<\/p>\n

I also learned that the Malaysian Prime Minister is due to visit that part of Malacca today (Alor Gajah<\/em> if you’re wondering) while the Durbar<\/a><\/em> is set to be held in the state later this year. There’s a better article about the Durbar at Malay Wikipedia<\/a>. Maybe I’ll transwiki it later.<\/p>\n

Back to the topic:<\/p>\n

\"Mohd<\/div>\n

The focus is off by noticeable degree. In fact, I had no choice since my camera is unable to focus properly while the object is too close to the lense – yet, another reason why should get a new cam. The reason that I had wanted to get the object as close as possible to camera is, I wanted to fill the photo with the four clusters.<\/p>\n

Much to my surprise, it was quite hard to manage. So, I settled with what I think the next best thing – focusing on the second nearest cluster of flowers and then fill available space with the nearest cluster.<\/p>\n

Finally, could somebody identify the flower? Each cluster is as large as one’s thumb. My thumb anyway.<\/p>\n

And yeah, Buck the Fuckeyes!<\/p>\n

p\/s – added a fellow Malaysian Wolverine<\/a> into my blogroll. Poke her!<\/p>\n

pp\/s – Roni, one of the guys that I used to play hockey with at Michigan, writes songs<\/a>!<\/p>\n

ppp\/s – Australia made it to the 2006 World Cup. What’s next? Penn State winning the Big Ten title? Wait a minute…<\/p>\n

p4\/s – Malaysia and Singapore might squabble like kids, but Mexico and Venezuela have refined the benchmark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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