Green Snake Among The Visitors

Hello everyone

Do you often get visitors.

How do you feel when expecting visitors to your home.

How do you like getting visitors at short notice. That will sure make you rush in a frenzy to put your house in order. You had been on idle mode the past days.

And sometimes they just barge in at your door unexpectedly. If they are unfamiliar faces and look suspicious just slam the door shut. Not really.  . .tactfully close the door. Go to the window and politely ask his reason for the visit. You never know . . . these days.

So far I rarely play host to overnight visitors . My children and relatives when they come to stay overnight or on many days and nights I don't regard them as visitors but consider them as coming home. They are not guest but members of this home.

Being alone and boring at times you more than welcome if a friend come a calling.

When two retired people meet there will be no shortage of topics to talk about and discuss and debate. All the worldly problems. Oh so concerned despite not really being affected.

You would be so engrossed you do not realise that you have emptied more than two cups of tea and crunching a lot of peanuts. You would only realise that in the night. (Most old people cannot take too much tea especially late in the day, you will make many trips to the bathroom)

You enjoy chitchatting, when you have common interests. Visitor like this you don't mind her overstaying the welcome.

But if the visitor is a bore with stale chats and full of pretence and not indicating leaving anytime, how do you show her the door. Feign that nature is calling ? Ha haaa. Old trick.

If my guest is such a bored person then I would prefer not to have any. It is so much better for me to spend time to do the visiting instead. Yes visiting other people's blogs. I stay on longer if it is interesting and inspiring if not I just skip. My host will never know if I am such a bore heheheh

Rather it is so much more inspiring to layan the young magpie robins that come to visit. You don't have to pretend to be nice. Just be yourself. Just keep still and quiet. Though they come to visit everyday they are not really such a bore. They challenge you to capture them . . . I mean in photos.

Moving all the time

But beware of this unwelcomed guest . . . this creature . . .the snake!

It may be interesting to photograph it but do you dare to go nearer? It may not be poisonous but if it bites? No no no. Advisable to keep the distance.

So from a distance I snapped. Sorry to shoo you away after I have done with the photoshoot. Anyway thanks for coming, beautiful green snake . . .

Vine snake (Ular Pucuk)

When encounter with a snake keep calm. Don't frighten it. Carefully move back. The snake won't chase. You can google for more on how to deal with a snake.

Thanks for visiting and reading my blog. 

Take care , bye . . .

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

Hi again

If you are not aware there is a brouhaha in our media over who speaks well who do not speak eloquently and who belasah saja. Well this is about speaking English. So many join the foray.

I remember being the victim to ridicules when trying to put foward my point in English.

Looking back I think it served me right because I have the habit of adding English words in my sentence when arguing over some hot topics and when trying to emphasize. When you are hot less blood goes to the brain and you cannot think out the correct words. As they say words don't come easy . . .

You belasah saja ha haa as long as the message is through. The other person can understand that's what matters.

If the language is not our mother tongue surely there must be flaws in usage and pronounciation and our tone do not sound natural. Unless we start learning the language from a very young age and have been living among speakers of that language then it is a different story.

Or if you are from the high class society and studied in some elite schools then your English both oral and written should be awesome.

To learn and be proficient in foreign language at advanced age is quite difficult. Thats my experience. I have tried with Tamil and and Cantonese. Not successful. I easily forget.

Old people like me have tongues already stiff. It is hard to pronounce anything foreign like Arabics which is the language of the Quran.

Once I joined a reading group. But I could not stand the frequent reproach from the preacher at my pronounciation. She kept on asking me to repeat the way she wanted. I was perplexed at her insistence because I just couldn't. I was"made" in Malaysia ha haa.

I only can read the way of my mother. She taught me reading the Quran a long time ago. That has embeded in me permenantly.

I quit the class.

I think not everybody can easily be fluent in a non mother tongue language. It is just natural. The way we think and speak are influenced by our enviroment. But nevertheless we should strive to learn to be better understood.

When things go wrong don't quit 

That's all for now happy chitchatting . . .

Bye . . .