This a long overdue post. Hehe.Meet the bugs I met in Desaru Pulai Beach Resort during my Oct Sem break... Although it was the shortest stay over I eva rmb havin in M'sia (2 days), it was the most eventful... how's that possible? Here's how:
Have you ever seen fireflies? I've had the priviledge to see them during this vacation!! At first I was very reluctant to go but my dad was VERY persistent. My parents kept asking any locals who stay around them for more than 5 mins about the price and place... I thought he had ditched the idea when we started heading for dinner, but noooooo... He tried his luck one last time and hit the jackport. We dined at a food stall near the firefly river, so there was no escape for me... PLUS he got the lowest offer from the ff tour owner himself- RM 15 ONLY. When it's fated, it's fated. But I TOTALLY enjoyed the experience!! I even managed to "cup" a specimen back to our room!!!
The ones we saw were probably the smallest found in M'sia. 6mm in length, and the luminous part on its abdomen was only a thin stripe.

Posted by Picasa We kept it in a transparent box so we could see it flashing it's butt off at night. Dad stacked a bunch of stuff under it to the mirror's height so when it flashes it sees its reflection and think theres another bug out there and flashes again and sees its... ok we know how it goes...It survived till morning and most probably because it was deprived of its sole objective in its week long life (to mate), it passed away.
See the white line across it's cute little dead belly? That's the flashing portion...

Si kiaokiao
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Wad do U call a dead fly?
Ans: A Flew.
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Then, Pinochio's friend's cousin's ...descendant also dropped by. My brother and were walking when a saw it hop by. I quickly asked him to finish the water in the bottle and positioned the bottle mouth infront of its compound eyes. The grasshopper went "dOoink" and den "BAAM!" head first into the bottom of the bottle. I went Ouch for it. Powerful hindlegs are no match for The Bottle... Turn up ur speakers and put ur cursors over Mr. Hopper. Can U hear it going...
"Ooow, I don feel too good"
Posted by Picasa "Wad have I gotten into?!"

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" LET ME OUT!!!"
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"Wooh, I see an opening..."

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"Maybe if I inch in slowly, no one will notice."
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"I'm Free!!!"

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"GOodbye sarckers! Pffffffffffft!"

Posted by Picasa Wadeva la Mr. Hopper, thx for complying with the photoshoot anyway...