My Absurd Short Story


The background of this story is at the orchard.

One day, a little girl went to the orchard with her mother. She was fascinated by the redness of the apples on the tree. As she happily admiring the red apples, suddenly a breeze gushed through the orchard, an apple decided to make a suicidal jump, and dropped directly on her head. She started crying due to the sudden pain on her head. Her mother quickly inspected the little girl's injury, and found that a lump was formed after the hit. The mother was very angry and also felt heartache, as her lovely girl was hit for no reason.

She brought her daughter to the owner of the orchard and complained: How could you let this happen to my lovely daughter? Tomorrow she still have a musical concert to perform, how do you expect her to wear her crown to perform? The owner of the orchard farm must have seen lots of this kind of incidents happened; he motionlessly said: Madam, please understand, no doubt I am the owner of the orchard, but I am not responsible for the fallen apples. You ought to ask the sudden gust of wind and the apple tree, they should be responsible for your daughter's injury.

After the mother listened to the orchard owner's explanation, she was furious. 'This is your orchard, and my daughter is injured in your orchard caused by your apple tree, how could you deny your responsibility?' The owner smiled and replied: No big deal, this most I will chop off the apple tree tomorrow.

' ................', the mother was wordless.

Beauty is meant to be foundWhen life is tough, we got to find a way to get out of it. Facing uncontrolled price hike, both in daily products as well as government's charges, with not much increase of wages or income, one could easily get furious of the situation. Instead of boiling inside like a cocoon, the best way is to get out of it. One of the ways for me, is to take the camera and capture some scenes and produce some delightful images and amuse myself to pass time.
Once we get out of the box, we will see the sky is still blue, the birds are still chirping and life is still beautiful. Ugliness is a state of mind; whether it is physical or mental. I always enjoy simple things in life. A pleasant chat in the evening; a glass of good wine; a quite and serene corner; that what I am looking for.
There are hundreds of people living in thousands of buildings. We do not expect everyone behave as we are. Therefore, when you see a fox stands in front of you, either you face its cunningness or just turn and walk away from the creature.

Every cloud casts a different shadow below it. Just respect its existence. There will be no big deal then.

The Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park

Went to KL several times, I have never noticed there is a Butterfly Park in the area. Until few days ago, I brought my son to pay a visit, and to plan for his first time visit there, I bought a KL local map from the bookshop, accidentally found this butterfly park. As both father and son are photography hobbyists, we decided to pay her a visit. Strange enough, the taxi driver told us he had not been there too, he went to the wrong road, but finally managed to bring us there. The Park is not very big, may be half a football field area; but the collection of butterflies are plentiful. They are gorgeous! Here are some of photos that I took from the park:

The Butterfly Affair

Recently I joined a web-based photography hobbyist group. Saw their photographs featuring local species of butterflies. This group of people is really the experts in butterflies. They have all the information of most of the butterflies in Singapore, furthermore, they are photographers too! Their photos inspired me and challenged me to do something about it. Then, one day, I decided to take up the challenge and took my tools to Alexandra Butterflies Trail and started to hunt for butterflies. The following shots are the results of my hunt. Under each photo I attached a piece of beautiful Chinese 'Song Ci' 宋词to company it.

贺铸 词
几许伤春春复暮，杨柳清阴，偏碍游丝度。
天际小山桃叶步，白苹花满湔裙处。
竟日微吟长短句，帘影灯昏，心寄胡琴语。
数点雨声风约住，朦胧淡月云来去。

赵令畤 词
欲减罗衣寒未去。不卷珠帘，人在深深处。
红杏枝头花几许？啼痕止恨清明雨。
尽日沉烟香一缕。宿酒醒迟，恼破春情绪。
飞燕又将归信误，小屏风上西江路

晏殊 词

六曲阑干偎碧树，杨柳风轻，展尽黄金缕。
谁把钿筝移玉柱，穿帘海燕双飞去。
满眼游丝兼落絮，红杏开时，一霎清明雨。

浓睡觉来莺乱语，惊残好梦无寻处。

晏几道 词
醉别西楼醒不记，春梦秋云，聚散真容易。
斜月半窗还少睡，画屏闲展吴山翠。　
衣上酒痕诗里字，点点行行，总是凄凉意。
红烛自怜无好计，夜寒空替人垂泪

周邦彦
月皎惊乌栖不定，更漏将阑，轳辘牵金井。
唤起两眸清炯炯，泪花落枕红绵冷。
执手霜风吹鬓影。去意徊徨，别语愁难听。
楼上阑干横斗柄，露寒人远鸡相应。

晏几道 词
梦入江南烟水路，行尽江南，不与离人遇。
睡里消魂无说处，觉来惆怅消魂误。
欲尽此情书尺素。浮雁沉鱼，终了无凭据。
却倚缓弦歌别绪，断肠移破秦筝柱。

柳永 词
伫倚危楼风细细，望极春愁，黯黯生天际。
草色烟光残照里，无言谁会凭阑意？
拟把疏狂图一醉，对酒当歌，强乐还无味。
衣带渐宽终不悔，为伊消得人憔悴。

欧阳修 词
几日行云何处去？忘了归来，不道春将暮。
百草千花寒食路，香车系在谁家树？
泪眼倚楼频独语。双燕来时，陌上相逢否？
撩乱春愁如柳絮，依依梦里无寻处

欧阳修 词
庭院深深深几许？杨柳堆烟，帘幕无重数。
玉勒雕鞍游冶处，楼高不见章台路。
雨横风狂三月暮，门掩黄昏，无计留春住。
泪眼问花花不语，乱红飞过秋千去。

Waterloo Street is a fascinating place. It attracks me since I was a child. There are a lots of things mismatched here! There is an Hindu Temple next to a Taoist Temple. More strange is the Chinese goes to the Hindu Temple and the Indian also visit the Taoist Temple. If there is any place can really interpret what is racial harmony, I think this is the most appropriate place.
四马路，又叫瓦特魯街，是著名的观音廟所在地。我從小到大，都深深被这条街的一切事物吸引着。这里生活着各色各样的人，多姿多彩，声色擾人。第一个异样是两个不同宗教的廟宇并立。一邊是印度廟，隔鄰是观音廟。時常见到印度廟前有華人在膜拜，同時也会看到观音廟前有印度朋友在合十。如果要在本地找一个最有代表种族和諧的地标，非此莫属。

Then there are different kinds of people here. Some are pro-artist, some may not be. But their common aim is to earn a living there.
这里有不少街头卖艺者，每日在此演出。有些是班科出身，有些是自学成功的。但他们都有一个共同的目标：來这里求生活。

Of course, foreigner too, will have a place to be. Such as this special mute motorcycle world traveler. He just sit there, and exhibit his past journey records, people would donate to him too.
当然，在我们这里，百川合會，四马路也不例外，老外也能安祥地占一席之地，就像这位啞洋漢，他是一位頗有名气的电单车环游世界旅青，也乘来新加坡当兒，在此筹一些盘纏之費。

Beside, there are always the worshipers to come and visit the most famous 'Guan Yin Miao'. Throughout the year, you could see people purchasing flowers for the offerings.
来这条街的人，大半是来观音廟上香的，因此你会看到花販四處林立，買花之人不絶。

This is a place full of people, full of color and noise, most of all, full of life!
这些终日人潮来来往往，五花十色，撩人眼簾。但这里確实是充满着生活气息，看着活生生的人生缩影。