During one of my kayaking outings on the
This morning as I sat down at the patio to read the morning papers some purplish colour caught the corner of my eye. I was delighted to discover that overnight the some large (2-3 inches) flowers had blossomed from the water hyacinth. The flowers are blue-purple colored with a yellow spot. This is the second time that it had bloomed. Remembering from the last time that the flowers would only last the day before it withered and died; I took a few snaps of the lovely delicate flowers. The colour actually “fades from a deep to lighter shade. Now I understand why water hyacinth has been widely distributed because of the beauty of its large, purple to violet flowers. But I am mindful that the water hyacinth is the worst water weed in the world and it shall remain in the confines of the flower bowl.
Note: UGLY MENACE
BTW, we had encountered another “menace” on the street where we lived. An unneighbourly act of dumping of wastes construction materials as fill materials would create a future haven for termites and other environmental hazards as the wastes decayed over time contaminating the ground water and affecting the delicate eco-system of Sungai Stutong. Existing trees and vegetations are dug up. I fear the worst for the lovely existing grove of mangrove trees. Damage has been done and the devastation continues as this person is oblivious to our concerns and protests over his actions. Obviously there is no respect shown to the concerns and rights of the other neighbours living on the same street. Disrespect and disregard to other fellow beings and nature. When man does not respect nature - they disrespect God. One man’s greed and selfnishness had led to this folly. This is a very sad thing to have happened. We can only hope and pray that it does not get worst and that good sense will prevail.
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The water hyacinth can grow so fast they can clog the whole river and take up all the available space to the detriment of all other living organisms in the river especially fishes. Water inlets and outlets can be destroyed,so they need to be cleared regularly. But,yes,even when they can be cause for alarm ,their flowers are beautiful ,so that is their good point.
On the otherhand the rubbish that people throw indiscrimiantely has no side benefits except to invite termites and environmental disaster. Somehow the level of awareness on the need to protect the environment among our society is still so low. Many still think that the world is a big dumping ground, except of course around their own houses!
The crazy (and amazingly stupid) thing is that this guy is actually filling up the land with construction rubbish/debris that other people can’t even get rid of!!! You have to pay people to get rid of this nasty stuff! Furthermore he cannot even build on the land filled with these sort of unsuitable materials - so what the heck?
When the fill up the river with rubbish, most of this rubbish will wash off shore to the river banks.
I remember once during the king tide, I saw lots of debris due to the Dayaks dumping their rubbish into the river when they are clearing their area.
The whole river smells of rotten fishes and dead plants.. yaks!!!
Such people should stay in the jungle! and I mean Forever!!!
Good FH ! Indeed I shout out loud..hu…ray…At least u have express our same feeling. it will be best if u have that fellow email address, better send all the rubbish pictures to him ,let see how he feel.Good work FH ,keep it up,I back for u.
SC
Can we cane him? We do that to hooligans in “wewillcanemichaelfayeland”
Better not. It might give this perverted person more pleasure instead! Work has stopped since monday but we do not know what his intentions are and whether he is gonna wreck more havoc or not.
Maybe he “wait” for a while and then later on “whacked” us again with even more dumping. We better watch out and if necessary report to MBKS about illegal dumping.