My Longkang

My blogging has been erratic the past few days. My blog was suspended and later deactivated. The technical term is farking I believe. My credit card was used to make purchases to the tune of two hundred plus British pounds the exact figure I don’t really know yet.

What caused it all? Honestly, I don’t really know how it happened but I have since installed some antivirus software. Mylongkang too had its password changed by an unknown hand. My emails were compromised too. I have a few guesses although I do not know for certain.

I guess looking back I was an easy candidate for viruses, trojans etc. Blogger friends, are you adequately protected? Anyway mylongkang is now back online thanks to pikey, will and my good friend and guest blogger Flyfisher

Thanks a million guys!

Another beautiful Sunday, and Jellina and I did some gardening. The temperatures were near 100 F. and she was dressed for 50 F. She is aware of the sun’s damage and likes to maintain her skin nice and fair. Me, I get sunburned 3 times a week. The focus was to be on the grapes, but the pine tree branches near the grapes are a bit low in some places, so Jellina took drastic action and pruned them. In my defense, I had to clean up the branches. Notice the effort and grimace. Maybe she was imagining cutting off something else?

The grapes are coming along very well and should be ready in mid-August. Jellina prunes the branches without grapes to make the branches with grapes much sweeter. We have 3 different varieties, and they are all eating grapes, not the type you would use for wine. I am really looking forward to when they are ripe. We use a drip system to water them, so the ground away from the grapes gets very dry in the summer heat

The grapes currently are only the size of a bean in a pod, but in another month they will be 4 times this size and ready to eat. I would guess we harvest at least 10 kilos. We hope to add more grapes next year.

-Flyfisher-

Sometimes in life it is often better to look before we leap. Or as my blogger friend Tony wrote before somewhere to think before speaking or acting. Anyway a fee of Rm20.00 got me a t-shirt, a book and a ticket on a long journey, a journey of 40 days! I was committed even before I knew what it was all about…. and it started because someone asked : What on earth am I here for?

Anyway Bertrand Russell said : Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.

So the next obvious question would be : who are we?

Russell Kelfer:

You are who you are for a reason.
You are part of an intricate plan.
You are a precious and perfect unique design,
Called God’s special woman or man.

You look like you look for a reason.
Our God made no mistake.
He knit you together within the womb,
You are just what he wanted to make.

The parents you had were the ones he chose,
And no matter how you may feel,
They were custom designed with God’s plan in mind,
And they bear the Master’s seal.

No, that trauma you faced was not easy,
And God wept that it hurt you so;
But it was allowed to shape your heart
So that into his likeness you’d grow

You are who you are for a reason,
You have been formed by the Master’s rod.
You are who you are, beloved,
Because there is a God!

This week together with Mary, Huai Bin, and Suituapui I had a chance to welcome Will to Sibu. He brought along a friend not in pic kongkay. I couldn’t stay long as I had other appointments elsewhere. Great meeting up with you all.

These are my entries for this week’s weekend snapshot.

Same spot. Different directions.

Have a great week ahead every body.

I found this video as I was surfing the net. It is so beautiful and yet so sad…so very sad.

Edison Lighthouse - Love grows where my rosemary goes

Tanya Tucker - Hee Haw - If It Don’t Come Easy

I have asked for and thankfully received permission from fishman to post on my blog a video of a ‘dog rodeo’. Enjoy. Thanks Fishman. By the way, the dog’s name is Axel.

Axel apparently was wearing a harness after the vet told Fishman that a pug’s neck is too short for a collar. Axel had been wearing it for a while everyday although they were in the apartment, so that he could get used to it.

So far he had no problem with it… that is until Little Teddy ended up on Axel’s back. Many of us try to get rid of encumbrances exactly the same way as Axel don’t we? : that persistent admirer, pesky neighbor, work assignments, attention seeker at social gatherings, recurring credit card bills etc

I am generally a very lazy gardener who limits himself to watering the flowers and leave my fruit trees alone. My dog runs loose in the garden. Recently I put some fertilizer in the garden and wonderful results can be seen.
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This week’s theme is support. To me instant food manufacturers play an important role as a support for small, busy families who don’t have much time to cook.

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