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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
WELCOME!18 Jan '07 7:29 pm
Hello and welcome aboard, Nondin! 
Great to meet a fellow Malaysian here in this wonderful forum community. I’m from Kuala Lumpur and even though we’re so near, I’ve never had the pleasure to visit Sabah and your beautiful islands, but have often dreamt of going to Sipadan Island (looking forward to...one day?)
Hope you’d enjoy visiting here as much as I do and continue to share lots of garden pics, etc. I've enjoyed seeing your lovely garden pictures, great sunsets and beaches!! Thanks and I’m so envious...you get to enjoy the beautiful landscape, seascape and skyscape, all within eyes' view everyday...how wonderful!!  |
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nondin
valued member
Kota Kinabalu Sabah Malaysia
Re: WELCOME!21 Jan '07 7:32 pm
| jacqueline wrote: | Hello and welcome aboard, Nondin!
Great to meet a fellow Malaysian here in this wonderful forum community. I’m from Kuala Lumpur and even though we’re so near, I’ve never had the pleasure to visit Sabah and your beautiful islands, but have often dreamt of going to Sipadan Island (looking forward to...one day?)
Hope you’d enjoy visiting here as much as I do and continue to share lots of garden pics, etc. I've enjoyed seeing your lovely garden pictures, great sunsets and beaches!! Thanks and I’m so envious...you get to enjoy the beautiful landscape, seascape and skyscape, all within eyes' view everyday...how wonderful!! |
Hi Jacqueline....nice to know you.Try to "sneak out" in btwn your busy schedule to visit us down here.We would do our best to assist if U r planning for islands trips.Sipadan...yes..U wont regret every moments the clock ticking over there!Btw U are invited anytime at your preference.Take care and thank you.
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nondin
valued member
Kota Kinabalu Sabah Malaysia
Re: Once Again: Welcome!!21 Jan '07 7:45 pm
| gordonf wrote: | Hi, Nondin-
I just discovered your great pictures! They show a wonderful place that many of us here in Canada dream of visiting during our long, cold winter. The closest scenes to those of where you live that I have seen "for real" were in Belize or Puerto Rico, but as others have noted, it's amazing how similar architecture is in all subtropical places. Of course, I guess the same could be said about buildings in more northerly (or southerly) climes as well!
I remember first visiting the tropics and being stunned by the intensity if the flower colours there. I had never before seen trees like the Jacaranda or Flamboyant tree with such "Knock-your-eyes-out" colours. Our maples have tiny, green flowers, hardly noticeable! And our fruit trees, like apples, pears, etc. are relatively small, unlike your tropical fruits such as papayas. I remember asking fruit sellers in Belize why the giant papayas they were selling didn't break the branches on which they grew. They all looked at me as if I had come from Mars! Later I saw a papaya tree in a backyard with fruit on it, and the light dawned on me: they don't grow on branches!! I sure felt embarrassed!
I also have never been able to forget the wonderful bougainvillea vines covering walls, etc.
I'm looking forward to seeing your garden develop and become the truly wonderful place you hope for!
Once again, welcome aboard!
-gordonf |
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 Hi gordonf...Thank you for your kind words.By now i assume U would have enjoyed some of the tropical fruits especially the "gravity defying Papaya"!which triggered the Sweet suprise for you and I m sure you are now a very much knowledgeable gentleman owed to your extensive travelling.It would be nice if you could travel over here some day..or in a very near future to visit us....welcome in advance!
Thanks again and do take care. |
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nondin
valued member
Kota Kinabalu Sabah Malaysia
Re: Aha, one mystery solved21 Jan '07 7:49 pm
| Faith S wrote: | Maylasia, what a beautiful country. I have never had the pleasure of visiting your homeland, but my younger daughter did a couple of years ago. She loved it and raved about the beauty of the place and it's people.
Thanks for bring another perspective to the Forum. |
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Hi Faith....Hope to see you over here one day!We are waiting...take care Faith! |
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gordonf
Happy Collector
Vancouver Island, Canada
Papayas21 Jan '07 7:56 pm
Hi, again Nondin,
Oh, yes, I'm much more enlightened about tropical fruit now! Unfortunately, it's hard to get some of them here, although one of the local stores regularly stocks Durian and some of the others, and the giant papayas that I first saw in Belize are now for sale here but at a very high price. I did buy one, though, one day, and it was NEARLY as good as the ones I had in the south! I still haven't had the courage to try Durian, though!
Cheers,
gordonf |
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