One night at Our Porch

One wet night, laron (flying white ants) were coming out from their nest and flying to look for the light. They are sensitive to light. They need light to find their mate. A house lizard was so interested. Lots of food! Patiently, the house lizard waited on the wall to catch a nearing laron. Hap, it successfully caught one. Not bad at all for late dinner :)

A little more about house lizard/gecko :

Researchers have found that the toes of a house lizard/gecko are densely packed with half a million fine hairs. At the end of each hair splits up to 1000 filaments, each just 200 billionths of a meter wide. Which means the gecko foot has about 500 million tiny branches making contact with a surface. It can adhere to literally any surface, even polished glass and mirrors!

Atomic bonding is the reason behind the gecko’s sticky feet. There is an attraction between molecules at the ends of the gecko’s toe hairs and on the contact surface.

The process of shedding all or part of their tails is called autotomy – an action intended to scare off predators (source:google).

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How We Celebrate Being Together

This post is still the continuing of my previous story. After my father gave his blessing, Rofi can come again to visit me at home. My father still didn’t talk much to Rofi but he has already shown a friendly face.

I remember that we celebrated this happy moment by eating out at a lovely restaurant. While holding hands, we’re talking about our future. We’re so happy! That night, we started to make a wedding plan. We discussed many things that related with our wedding day; though I haven’t yet met Rofi’s father. Yep, after months of uncertainty situation, talking about our future togetherness in a marriage bond was becoming our most interest!

Until now, eating out, watching movies or just hanging out to have a hot drink at a café are always becoming our favorite thing to do when we celebrate any moment or when we have spare times (especially in the weekend).

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A Small River

I saw this small river faraway from the terrace of a restaurant (Gumati Batu Tulis, Bogor, Indonesia). I don’t know the name of the river; my husband said that it’s Cisadane Small River. My entry for Watery Wednesday

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Our Weekend Getaway

I’m still sleepy right now; we arrived home last night from our weekend getaway. Last week Friday night, we leaved home to my grand father’s house (Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia)to fetch my father. He was already there for a few days. My grand father and grand mother have passed away many years ago; but their house is still kept well. One of my aunts lives there and the other will visit the house one by one.

There’s a blue thing that attracted my attention on the way. From far away, I wasn’t sure what was the motor bike brought at the basket behind. Aww, it turned out that it’s a door to door rug laundry service!

We reached the house Saturday morning. After sleeping for a few hours, I accompanied my husband and a cousin- fishing around the big pound beside the grand’s father house. After a while, the rain fell hard. We moved into the gazebo and continued fishing. It was a successful fishing, since they got more than ten fish in only two hours. We went back home on Sunday, after having lunch with yummy fried fish. We have a nice weekend!

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Broken Wing

It’s just a short post this time. Right now I’m at my grandfather’s house (Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia). It took six hours drive to reach the place. We went to grandfather’s house to fetch my father who has been there earlier.

It’s raining almost all day here; I still can’t take pictures. So, I’ll share another. A few days ago, I saw this poor butterfly in our front yard. One side of the wings is broken; but it still can fly.

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