Amourphophallus paeonifolius.

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Margaret Nancy Yong from Kuching is blessed with a very rare flower. She has given me permission to share it with you all.
With my Beauty...Amourphophallus paeonifolius.

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Red: a colour of luck.

I gave a short talk during the Students' reunion when i went back to Borneo.

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fake branded products.

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Nicky loved shopping, she could afford only fake branded products.

Phyllanthus niruri or Dukung anak.

I have been looking for this wild herb for a long time. When we were young, my mother would send my siblings and I to collect by pulling these herb, roots and all. She boiled this for us to drink. I found this growing a in pot sharing another plant in Singapore.
We called this MA ZAI CHO. Phyllanthus niruri or Dukung anak.

persimmons

persimmons, in China in the past, when mothers couldn't breastfeed their babies. The babies were fed with mashed persimmons. I have a story on this in "One Roof, Two Lives."

Traditional Medicine.

My Sis E inherited the skills of a traditional medical practitioner. Here a peppery leaf was used to apply to a bump, and the swelling will go away by the next day.