{"id":300,"date":"2008-10-04T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/?p=300"},"modified":"2008-10-04T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T04:56:17","slug":"twinkle-twinkle-little-firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2008\/10\/04\/twinkle-twinkle-little-firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Firefly"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a last minute invitation from eldest sis to join her for an excursion to Kuala Selangor. It was 5 years ago the last time I was there with Darling and two other friends.<\/p>\n

First, we stopped by Bukit Melawati since my parents haven’t been there before. I remembered on our previous trip, we boarded a tram to bring us up to the hill.\u00a0 I don’t see anymore tram now but visitors drove all the way up. Kind of scary because the road is very narrow and parking space is very limited. Up on Bukit Melawati, you can see the Straits of Malacca and all that is left of the forts on Bukit Melawati is a couple of cannons and foundation stones.\u00a0Jonathan boy\u00a0was happy camwhoring with Gong Gong and Po Po.<\/p>\n

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Several families of Silver-Leafed Monkeys and Long-Tailed Macaques hang around here for peanut handouts from visitors.\u00a0 What fascinated me this time is the Silver-leafed Monkeys which I don’t remember seeing them on my previous trip. The Silver-leafed babies have golden fur as compared with the adults of dull-ashen grey. As the young ones grow older, their hair will slowly changes colour to dull-ashen grey like the adult monkeys. So you will see some young ones having black hair on their head but the body with golden fur. The monkeys\u00a0roam around freely and looks quite tame. They don’t attack the visitors but graciously waiting for food especially peanuts from the visitors. But we still have to be careful as they are wild and wild animals tend to be erratic sometimes. This\u00a0was Jonathan’s\u00a0first time seeing a real monkey from quite a near distance.<\/p>\n

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We then headed to a seafood restaurant to fill our stomach. Can’t remember the name of the restaurant but all restaurants in Kuala Selangor\u00a0were full with people due to the\u00a0public holiday. The waitress warned us that we have to wait for at least 1 – 2 hours for the food.\u00a0Jonathan boy\u00a0missed his late afternoon nap so he was quite cranky during dinner time. We finished our dinner at almost 9.00pm.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the highlights of the excursion is watching the\u00a0firefly colonies of Kampung Bukit Belimbing which lived on the berembang trees that grow along Kuala Selangor’s riverbanks. As expected, it was a long queue for tickets. It was a public holiday and the fireflies are best seen on the 1st – 3rd day of the lunar calendar when it is not a full moon. We have put on the safety jacket but there is no baby size.<\/p>\n

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We get on the boat only at almost 11.00pm.\u00a0 By then not many fireflies flying around. I guess they are all too tired and has gone to bed.\u00a0 The best time according to the boatman is around 8.00pm. I was so afraid\u00a0that\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0will make a fuss on the boat\u00a0but good little boy was behaving well. He did not get too excited over the flickering lights but whenever I asked him where is the light, he will point to the berembang trees which are full of the twinkling fireflies. The fireflies\u00a0are rarely sighted nowadays. When I was young, we can still see at least one firely flying around our house.<\/p>\n

We reached home at 1.00am. It was a good trip. For those you have never been there, you should before the fireflies extinct. But never go when the moon is full and bright and not on a public holiday unless you are the early birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a last minute invitation from eldest sis to join her for an excursion to Kuala Selangor. It was 5 years ago the last time I was there with Darling and two other friends. First, we stopped by Bukit Melawati since my parents haven’t been there before. I remembered on our previous trip, we … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}