Beetle Interview

Few weeks ago, someone from the Pets magazine had called up to me and asking to initiate an interview on my experience of collecting & keeping of beetles........ Finally Malaysians are taking an interest in beetles as pets, no wonder lately you can find so many pet shops starting to sell beetles.
Beetle rearing & breeding are common overseas especially in Japan, Taiwan, France.........and every year there are many beetle collecting tours being organised to Malaysia's Highlands to observe and collect, and it is educational & full of fun. Whereas Malaysians themselves know so little about it.......What a waste.Here was the July publication on Pets magazine, where 5 pages were dedicated to the story......
It contains some write-up about Japanese beetle hobby trend coming to Malaysia.......And it addressed me as the first beetle maniac in Malaysia ( 魔笑!He He He )

Jungle fishing @ Sg. Singor

After all the while of Toman, Haruan, Peacock fishing, it is time to change to jungle fishing. But first of all we need to fill up the stomach..... Bought some local delicacies on the way to Northern Perak state........

It's been quite a while since we return to Sg. Singor, I remember on April 2005 was my last trip here...... The fascinating view of Temenggor Dam, where the bridge connects the Northern part of the East West Highway.

Recently, under the strict monitoring of the local government, some parts of Temenggor Dam has been designated as a conservation zone for the wifelife rehabilation........

Get off from the East West Highway......... Here we go, off the beaten track........ After 30 minutes of off roading, we came to a Indigenious peoples village called Kg. Tekam.....See whether we can hire some potters in this village........Logging activities are still going on here, hopefully our government is regulating them......

From the top of the mountain you can see the Sg. Singor running between the forested valley........To reach there we had to drive through many montainous terrains......

Some trails are not accessible due to fallen trees and land slides......And some trails are covered by over grown lush greens....... Finally, we reached the river bank........ Here is where we put up our tents........The river water looks spectacular, can't wait any longer to start casting......

Our friend even started the casting without us.......

After a few tries, I managed to land a few Sebaraus, but no biggies........

Some of them ended up as our dinner....... After a day of activity it's time to get rested........ Save the game for tomorow.Next morning, we started fishing just right after breakfast....... Some of our friends tried the bottom fishing for Kelah & Tenggas, while Jimoque, Hoe & me tried casting at the lower part of the river...........

Look at the mud stain on the tree that were left behind by the wild elephants....... Scary, huh!

Accessing the trail to the down stream of the river was a very challenging & adventurous activity......Starting with Hoe's catch....... Then, followed on by me.......found a nice place and caught myself 6 Sebaraus at the very same spot......
Yeah, Jimoque caught himself a nice Kelah on spoon........

Continue catching the same size of Sebaraus, still no big one appeared......

Plenty of this sized Sebaraus........ The lower part of the Singor river was the most easy way to access from the forest entrance proper. Perhaps here is the most pressured for the fishing activity....... The fish are more alert of human presence..........

We call it off after our lunch and went back to our camp site..........Teow was showing off his catches from the bottom fishing with palm oil seeds........

After fishing under the blazing sun, is good to have a good refreshing bath in the stream.....After the bath in the stream at the camp site, Teow & me drive our way up to the top of the mountain which is about 625m from the sea level and put up a night there, just to see whether we can catch any exotic beetles....... Sunset view on the hill top........Setting up a light trap.........

We had a simple meal...........

Insects came swarming around the light trap.........

Some female stag beetles came for it........

Wow! A nice stag beetle, it's a Prosopocoilus giraffa A giant moth......Not a bad harvest....... He He He!