Baby Shrimps at Punggol

On Sunday, there are plenty of baby shrimps at Punggol beach.  I do not know if it is the season again.  But it is nice to catch something that I can cook.  Rather my wife as she is the only one who eat it.  I catch but do not like seafood.

Maybe I will have to buy a net for the shrimp.

Missing the Olive Back Sunbirds

Now that the 2nd fledging is gone, the adults does not come anymore.  Hopefully, they will be back next year to set up another nest.  My father-in-law says they will come back every year if they like the place.  I am keeping my fingers crossed.  Only problem is I may not have the right set up as this time the sweet potato plant was hanging over vertical surface making the sunbirds feel safe.

It is so nice the hear the fledgling chirping...

Papa is just nearby making sure everything is alright for the fledgling.

First Baby Olive Back Sunbird is out, hehehe!

My Brother's Daughters

My brother has 3 girls with his first wife.  My eldest niece now has two kids.  A girl and recently a baby boy.  My 2nd niece has a baby boy.  It's been a while since we last saw them.  They got married and now have babies.  I have invited them over.  Hopefully, they can make it.  It will be wonderful to see my grandniece and grandnephews.

2 Baby Olive Back Sunbirds

I checked the nest again this morning.  There are actually 2 baby sunbirds.  So it is great.  I hope both grow up and do well.  I am happy to have the twin arrival.  It is a wonderful feeling.  Now the adult birds are always not there.  I guess they are looking for food for the twins.

Kong Hee Huat Chye!

I loved the old ways.  Kong Hee Huat Chye! were the words printed in the pass instead of Gong Xi Fa Cai today.  Also Kong Hey Fatt Choy.  Now that dialects has been pushed out by LKY, we are no longer about to have the colours of venacular origins of our forefathers and foremothers.

I always remember the comics drawings with the Hokkien or Cantonese greetings for the new year.  Today, only in Malaysia and with the new medium Youtube that we can get the greetings in dialects.  We have lost our roots.  My sisters and their kids came and we all speak in English.  Now more Hokkien which was used while our kids were young.  Now that they are all adults the only common language is English.  We have become a total new breed.  While English is the language of commence and global communication, we will have a hard time to anchor our cultural roots.  We have departed from our shared history in pursuit of commercial success.  Filling our stomach is important.  Will we lose our souls?

In the New Year of the Pig, let me wish all of us Kong Hee Huat Chye!  Tai Kay Tua HUAT AH!!

Baby has Arrived!

The parent birds are no longer at their nest during the day.  So we got a little worried.  Yesterday, B3 wanted to see the eggs.  Mum did not want us to disturb the nest afraid that the birds will abandon it.  I did not worry as I had done this many times while cycling in the PCN.  So we pull up the nest and flip it.  We can see only one baby.  Maybe this nest has only one baby bird.  We have to wait for a few days to see if there is only one baby.

Tomorrow, It will be 14 Days!

The sunbirds have been diligently incubating their eggs.  Male and female take turn in incubating the eggs.  It is easy to tell the difference as there is a bigger and thicker beak and a thinner one.  I can only see the beak as the birds build the nest with the entrance looking against the wall.

So far, the eggs have not hatched.  I hope they hatched by Chinese New Year.  Then all my relatives get a chance to have a close up view of the nest.