Converting your lawn into a vegetable garden?

http://www.ecosnippets.com/gardening/city-asks-couple-to-remove-their-garden/

similar scenarios had happened. Many years ago, we grew broccoli and broad beans at the berm, because the rented house was deep at a chasm. People laughed at us, but we didn't care. I related this in my The Playgroup Club book where in a real situation, the people became celebs and appeared on TV.

ABC letter I for iguana

In Meleka,  Malaysia , the men just had the iguana basking in the sun. They didn't ask people for money. When I asked if I could hold it to take a photo, the men were happy for me to take it. In hindsight, I wonder if the tourism board paid them to be there.

I did hold it and I wasn't scared.

Cacti flower

My daughter's little cacti plant has a lovely flower. The cacti is the size of a hen's egg, and the flower is less than 1/3 inch in diameter.

flower: Polys

http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.co.nz/  polys-Polyanthus

Cosmos

Cosmos is a genus, with the same common name of cosmos, consisting of flowering plants in the sunflower family. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Cosmos
Higher classification: Coreopsideae

Sonia Lahung J, my friend grew this in her school.

http://floralfridayfoto.blogspot.co.nz/

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Grieving and holidays

we went to America 3 years after Andrew had died. I was still grieving and the trip was blurry.

People say move on , isn't it time. I was grieving a long time because of my special circumstances.
I finally moved on when I finished the first draft of my book. I consciously told myself, move on, and help others. That was when Andrew would have been 21.

A watery wedding, Kongs and Lais

When my parents were married, it was during the war. Mum lived up the Rejang River in Durin. Dad lived in Lanang Road in Sibu. Dad paddled a canoe with a wedding dress he borrowed from his very good friend Chew Chiong Tack's wife. 

We used to joke that she was Pocahontas paddling the canoe down and singing the Land of the Belian tree. We teased that she ran away with her man John because she didn't have a wedding photo. 

Today, a friend IDed the husband and bride of this photo. In my "From China to Borneo to Beyond" book, I mentioned back in the home land of China, in the Hakka village of my mum, the Kongs, the Kongs always married the Lai/Leas and vice versa. In deed my informant told me this was a Kong/Lea match. The husband could very likely be Mum's cousin, because he comes from the same lineage of Mum's ancestry.

This photo created a lot of interests. A certain doctor googled and read his dad's name, and he sent me a photo of his parents' wedding photo. His mum wearing her wedding dress which she very kindly loaned to many Sibu girls.

This photo raised a flurry of comments in blogger land. It was Chang Yi who first posted the photo. A Kai Chung School friend and a classmate who IDed the photographer who was my Dad's very good friend in Singapore.