The Wild Geeks Adventure Club

Wow!!! In just two weeks, I have come a long way since I bought the mountain bike.

Last week, Joe and Daniel bought their bikes. Right after that together with George and John, we formed a club called The Wild Geeks Adventure Club. "Adventure" because, cycling will not be the only activity for the club. Last Saturday was the first cycling adventure of the Wild Geeks. Together with Daniel and George, we went and had it out in the Rubber Research Institute (RRI).

It was a first time for everyone at RRI. The trails were easy and hardly a challenge at all. Nevertheless, it allowed George to try out his brother's "hand me down" bike... LOL and Daniel to determine whether if spending that RM1000 was worth it or not.. :-)

More about the trip at The Wild Geeks Adventure Club's blog here.

The Doggy Air Conditioner

I was watching last season's American Inventors on YouTube and came across this 14 year old kid, Kyle Myhra from Colorado, who invented an air-conditioner that is placed on the car window, which will suck in fresh air to keep the car cool (when the engine is turned off). I think it is a great idea and with USD 50k, it can definitely be developed and refined further (well not just for dogs but for human as well).



People living in Malaysia or any hot and humid climatic region will need something like this. Heck... not just for the dogs but for humans as well. Imagine when your car breakdown on the highway. So while you are waiting for help to arrive, you sit in the car with the air-conditioner turned on.

Kudos to Kyle!! Keep going man!!!

A Fruitful Day

Went to Batu Gajah for the weekend. For those who are not familiar with Batu Gajah, it is a small town in Perak about 30 minutes away from Ipoh. To be exact, me and the family went to Kampung Bemban in Batu Gajah. Stayed with my in-laws in their typical Chinese kampung house with chickens running around and fruit trees everywhere.

The wife needed to see the family and do some family stuff. I was looking forward to this trip for a personal reason; my wife's aunt make a killer "bak chang". And its that time of the year... the "Bak Chang" Festival... :-)


Home made Hakka "Bak Chang". Yum yum... they are really da best... :-)

When we reached the house, the first thing I noticed was the Mango tree. It was filled with mangoes on the verge of being ripe!!! I quickly found a mango "harvester" and went to work.


I called it the mango "harvester" for the lack of a better name. It has a hook at the tip and a sack right below it. As you hooked the mango fruit, it drops into the sack. A great invention... I must say.


The "harvester" from another angle.

Btw, the mango tree was heavily guarded by red ants. I was fighting a losing battle with these fiery ants. Each time I hooked the mangoes into the sacks, tons of ants would crawled onto the harvester's pole towards me as I held it.

I swear some of them were conducting aerial attacks... I found myself crawling with ants... and these devils are fearsomely protective of their damn tree.

Of course, being an "ant bully" that I am, I persisted and was quite fruitful in the end, pun intended... :-) The following are the fruits of my labour... LOL... really getting carried away.


These mangoes did not make in into the sack and suffered a 15 feet drop. They had to be turned into rojak asap... yum yum.


The harvested mangoes waiting to be packed into plastic bags.


The mangoes with my weapon of mass destruction, as far as the ants are concerned... :-)


Btw, this was the 3rd harvest... I had previously bagged two bags already.


The mangoes, packed and sorted into 3 bags. 1 bag is about 60 mangoes... :-)


The Mango Tree after being stripped of its fruits.

Hard to believe that I harvested more than 150 mangoes from this tree. Btw, there are still more mangoes in the tree, which I could not reach with the "harvester".

I think in another month I will be back in Batu Gajah again... this time, it will be DURIAN!!! Yeah!.