Beauty And Beast Electrifying

Like a beast throwing its arms attesting beatitude and fortitude. Bolts of lightning fleeing from its arms. Thousands of baguettes and beads of sparkling radiance seizing the arms and bolts as if in contention with the gently towering diamond edifice,which sealing many times over in beatitude and fortitude, that magnificently and brilliantly proving to the dark blue skyline its greater magnificence and brilliance with its millions of baguettes of exuberant radiance. 

The beast is a 60 years old rain tree. The diamond edifice is one of the Petronas Twin Towers in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, of Malaysia. The picture was taken during the Visit Malaysia Year in 2007 celebrating the 50th Annivesary Independence Day of our country, Malaysia. 

Respectfully, with special thanks to Photography In Malaysia - www.mir.com.my. This post would not be complete without beauty and beast captured in a momentous and memorable picture like this.

"A picture is worth a thousand words whilst it abducted millions pairs of eyes and abducting more in posterity." - Nathan Quote.

Off To School

A movie goer would remember, in the movie "2012" depicted the cataclysmic destruction of our planet, that those were selected to live in the end voyaged to the only surviving  land, Africa. Africa, widely accepted as the origin of modern human  circa 200,000 years ago, have  been for centuries very tumultous; from early inhumane slavery trade to current factious collision, intestine division, deprivation of education, inaccessible to sanitarian basic needs and gender inequality that pawned millions  for an unfair loan of famine, extreme poverty, homelessness, displacements to horrific fatalities, infants to civillians; who knows how many tens of millions of children, who need education, are left to the open arms of the capables and fortunates, and why not the rich and the richer.

 

"Education, a cornerstone addressing a better nation, a better continent economically and culturally, as is often debated for a globally sustainable economy." - Nathan pondered.

                                                                                       
Off to School, Tanzania, Africa. Photograph by and special thanks to Adrian Paul.



Limitless Learning

"Knowledge itself as much a savior as a terminator;
As much one nature's gift as one grand contrivance.
An irrepressible effluence of knowledge,
Bursting fierily wanting to disseminate
And uncannily preying on that one.
Once preyed that one taken spellbound,
Devoured dear knowledge that one." - Nathan mused.

Beg to bespeak dear reader your attention and patience with my love of books. Books are very much alive in many lives probably up until eBooks and internet globally hijack that teeming generation. Possessed of books is deemed fortunate. Destitute of books is unfortunately sad. That one can draw a historical  culture  reading a historical book. One insightful book can lure out many thoughts provoking a reader. In the architecture of academic, in the scheme of experience and self-improvement, uncompromisng to unschooled, and surely that one has knowledge and understand.

"Knowledge is wonderful. It is man that is not." - Nathan for peace.

 

Love Our Animals

Broken pelvis and broken leg. Never a broken spirit. She was hit by a car. This is a photo in Langkawi LASSie, short for Langkawi Animal Shelter & Sanctuary Foundation, website. A foundation that cares, nurses and rehabilitates for the abused, abandadoned; personally bearing witness to the LASSie's dedication, efforts and unparalleled zeal from the founder(s) to the its well-merited cause, we all can no more look other way. We cannot.

2.5 km Swim Stayed Me Alive

No matter how difficulties stink,
No matter how problems pain,
No matter how frustrations nag,
No matter how hopelessness seem,
Will not stop me from swimming.
Once a 2.5 km swim begins,
It will surely be finished.
I swam 2.6 km tonight.
It was great.

Phenomenon In A Beauty

Seeing these stilt-fishermen shamelessly belittles what I believed I understood, what I understood I am the beauty I have in my mind. Fishing already a truly wearing and inhumanely life-hardened job; these true authentic original fishermen. I feel shame staring at the photo on my computer screen without my body and mind inside there that instaneous moment drawing out more the truth in the reality. How admirable these fishermen strong, tough, weathered, chastened, steadfast and uber-patient no fear no protection no frailty in the face of unforgiving wind fierce tide ruthless weather. This photo is not about a pnomenon in a beauty but soliciting the truth the life the must the compassion the conservation the proctection of our planet, earth and its inhabitants. - by Nathan

 

"Such originally traditional fishing is an amazement of man's so stretched such a strength manifest flexibility than rigidity alone." - Nathan quotes.

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Stilt-Fishing Photo - NGPC Honorable Mention by Ulrich Lambert

Stilt fishing is a typical fishing technique only seen in Sri Lanka. The fishermen sit on a cross bar called a petta tied to a vertical pole planted into the coral reef. This long exposure shot shows how unstable their position is.photo locationMidigama, Sri Lanka.

My apology for not obtaning the date. I hope you enjoy reading.

7 Sages

Nature is sacred. Nature is what comforts our sufferings, snugs us dearly. Nature is what aestheticism means. Nature is what love is, what love shows. Nature is what makes we love. Nature is the reason why we are still here.

I marveled, how wonderstruck birching on a tiny twig these 7 birds so snugly, so so dearly.

I awed, how awestruck concerting their little bodies tiny peaks as one, in unison.

I cried, how uniquely displaying their oneness their unison just as how brave, unafraid is love.

But,

When man tampers with nature, man do so the same with himself,

only more injurious;

When man is irreverent to nature, man do so the same to himself,

only more sacrilegious;

When man expresses penitence upon nature, man do so the same upon himself,

only much too late!

LOVE NATURE!

 

Note: Dear reader, if you have any details, as to photographer etc, of this photo I would be most grateful you could email me. Thanks for reading.

Where Truth Lies

Like a prestigious trophy a valuable truth needs to be earned with lesson upon lesson of hardship and difficulty. It is very true that hardship and difficulty can spawn as formidable resolution in a person as ingraining dissolution. Nonetheless, it is certain to the approval of majority to hope and favor a spawn of greater resolution and fortitude, and not the latter.

Most winners sustained, pains and injuries, and strived, against all odds, to become winners; alike the losers, but by the unfavorable stroke of inopportunity, thought defeated but yet designated to become a winner too. Losers may gain healing insights of anguished, without losing their sight and with perseverence are sure winners at the end of the day. At the end of the day, awaiting these winning losers second, third or consolation prizes.

Whether one is precocious or late bloomer, higher self-esteem, greater wisdom to a compassionate sense of humanity can only be earned by winning and losing, losing and winning, by years. Fretless baby boomers who feel edging and trailing, perhaps the feelings are edging toward and trailing behind a new frontier, the higher level of infinite positive self-esteem and wisdom, as the final truth unravels before all minds.

"The design of truth is not meant without the design of positive self-esteem and wisdom. But the design of positive self-esteem and wisdom is one of few that designed truth; that person, even a feeble sense of self-worthiness, will find strength subtly drawing himself." - Nathan quoted.

PHOTO: Waterfall, Selangor, Malaysia

Photograph by Dashuki Mohd, February 4, 2009

This Month in Photo of the Day: Your Photos

These three kids were enjoying a cool dip at a manmade waterfall in Kemensah village, Selangor, Malaysia.
— Caption by Dashuki Mohd, National Georgraphic

NOT SO BLUE PLANET

How much longer Our Blue Planet can be blue? Not one celestial object in the universe is not unique. Our planet is definitely unique as major faiths suggested existence and property of human species unique and intelligent just as no science can prove the same in any spot in the universe. But sciences have informed us two imminent quintessential elements of human body; that is oxygen and water. While oxygen is still free, water is not and is getting scarce. 

Notes:
1) 7 billion of us as at 31 Oct., 2011

2) About 1 billion still lack access to safe water; more than 2.5 billion lack access to sufficient sanitarian

3) Clear correlation between GDP per capital and safe water
4) 70% of fresh water goes to agriculture
5) 3,000 litres of water is required to produce for one's dailt dietary food
        Learn more in Wikipedia.

It is projected that world population will swell to 9.2 billion by 2050; a projection which precariously contrasts an estimation only one eighth of earth's land area is fit for human living! The populace celebrated 2013 only two weeks ago. In a simple arithmetic, one does not need to look too far thirty-eight years from now. I would be only 89 years old and no towers would be two hundreds storeys below!
Read this for Population Growth - Wikipedia

 

 

How about this notion: Oxygen is free, for now. By 2050 it may be possible for many would find themselves breathing adulterated air or, how about, paying for processed air. Especially in many major cities, old and new ones, where 60% of population is expected to live in urban areas, it may become a must for all buildings to install centralised giant cutting-edge air purifier, air ioniser or air sanitizer. Does that sound crazy? Lets come back to 2013 before this essay frame more mind-boggling pictures. Dear reader, if you are not bored yet, you may have noticed all the diagrams are water pie and water concentrics. So air is free, water is charged but if it is free it is probably unsanitised. Water will become as scarce as food by 2050. Whether food and water scarcity may happen before 2050, whether scarcity may be dangerously serious, those many who are fortunate with supply chain of food and water I seek your understanding, I address to your awareness, I appeal to your compassion to help those so unfortunate simultaneously impart the seriousness of scarcity of resourcess and others environmental problems.

 There are more to read on fresh water from here, Wikipedia

 

Breaking news in air pollutiion Beijjing

 

"After all, fortunate and unfortunate, rich and poor, man, flora and fauna, we do co-exist to provide sustenance, in nothing but natural compelling interdependent ways, to one another.

There is only one earth but there are many future generations!" - Nathan's Quote



Feathers of Seduction

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE - JULY 2007.

Title: Feathers of Seduction

Thirteen species of the remarkable Birds of Paradise are featured in this article photographed in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

Taken by Photojournalist:
Tim Laman



Breathtaking? Surreal?

Bird of Paradise; sans human intervention, one of many creations in a state of nature. Cool black facemask; stylishly designed contrasting yellow scarf, and all seamlessly weaved into brown shades, red shades to red plumes; a mischievous springy pair of corkscrew-wires that complete the stunning design by transcendently fashionable nature.

Just WOW. Millions, millions of us have seen others stunning and telling photographs, I cannot resist but to flaunt one most aspiring truth that lied behind each of these photos; a truth unseen, unspoken and unwritten.

The truth - the extreme dedication, painstaking attention, steadfast concentration, lingering dangers and lurking risks a photojournalist has to take.

Together with our advancing cyberspace technology, we are very fortunate to be able to have access to the world of photography. Perhaps I leave this truth to dictate my next post?

More on Birds of Paradise: Feathers of Seduction by Jennifer S. Holland, National Geographic.

Thank you for reading and have a great day, :-)

National Geographic Is Not About Magazine





Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888



It is not about a magazine; it is about our planet; it is about every moving moment on earth; it is about moments too many of us have missed, ignored that rapidly becoming fatal to all species, fauna or flora or man! It is about we must love our planet.

 

Being an amateur, or neophyte, in photography did not stop the world of photography to amaze me, to delight me, to ignite the flame of love and compassion and, most importantly, to gain insights that inform me the truth or lie we live in. Have I not spoken for many of neophytes? Even young innocent children would squeal in sight of an awesome photograph.

Years passed have given me the opportunity to develop a passion; a passion for learning, soaking in the truth or untruth momently, uncannily disguised in photographs, especially those of many galleries of photographs from National Geographic which I found great pleasure to unveil, to share; be it nature, animal, people or environment. After all, National Geographic have the exact theme and limitless of photographs, all specially selected for many categories, for us to lend our share of mind, duty, reponsibilty to care for earth.

 

Perhaps this is how, why the universe stays me fortunate, healthy to connect, to awake my innermost understanding to us inhabitants to raise urgent awarenes of care for our planet.

Amongst-the-Scavenger
National Geography Photo Contest 2012
Category: People Winner
Caption & Photo by Micah Albert

Description
At the end of the day women are allowed to pick through the dumpsite
Location: Dandora, Kenya




How hard and cruel one thought life is?
How meaningless and brutal another life actually is?
What steals her mind steals her blank stare in that instance of time?
What dares her mind favors her strength and will to hope?

He wishes,
Entreat love and compassion to box their miseries,
Assist happiness and comfort to rob out all poverty,
Blind greed and selfishness to open a whole new perspective,
Water this whole new perspective to grow seeds of living betterment,
Disseminate the seeds upon anywhere unseeded or seedless.

What 2013 Means To Compoundables?

2013. What does it mean to us? What does it mean by 'us'? Does it mean the lower class, the middle class and the upper class? Or, more precisely, the impoverished, the struggling, the frustrating, the ordinary, the bull and the bear, to the 'extraordinary'? Let 'us' incline to view from the compassionate eyes of the world, that is 'us' prefers the rest, which are those that have been having tougher times and suffering situations compounded yearly for the last few years; which is compoundable. Lets call them 'compoundables' as it will likely to continue without miracles, no offence, for many; and as the author is one of them.

Compoundables pervade from destitutes, all the way, to highly salaried white collars.  As 2013 just begun, it is unimaginable how much tougher and suffering 2013 will bring and continue to compound them.  No one can but sketch a vague picture of the compounables' states. As for highly salaried white-collars, they surely have a lifestyle, for their rank, or/and family to sustain. Many of them will feel this tougher burden too. As I am writting this essay, I am deeply compelled to hope those less fortunate than me would be priotitised  and favored with strength, will and happiness; and will continue to be.

Yet as unfavorably as I have expressed for the compoundables, I believe every cloud has a silver lining. That is hope. If one has been following global publicists on 2013 outlook, many have been reporting major countries like United States, China and Japan are showing signs of economic momentum or turnaround; and many countries in Asia are in positive drection, regaining foreign investors' confidence and likely to perform better than many countries from others continent. Even if one slants or rejects the reports, the reports are not unreasonable and, from Insolvent Insight, the reports are hopeful.

When we are hopeful, we gain confidence to regain investors' confidence.