Some unusual signs

This is meant for those with sufficient knowledge of English, otherwise it would not serve its purpose:

This one should please the activists of animal rights:

This is overkill...wonder what made them include this!

I wonder why we refer to asses as stupid...

This story uses the donkey as an example to show us how to take life 'one step at a time' in the face of obstacles:

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbours to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbours continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Proof of Elephants' long memory?

Elephants seem to stake their claim to their original habitat. No, this has nothing to do with Batu Gajah (Stone Elephant if translated English way, or Elephant Stone if the Malay way). You cannot find a single elephant here, just on the logo of the Kinta Golf Club. Below are some pictures and a nice story to go with them, forwarded to me:

Elephants march through hotel lobby after it was built on their migration trail.

These amazing pictures show why you shouldn't get between an African elephant and its favourite food. Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia happens to have been built next to a mango tree that one family of pachyderms have always visited when the fruit ripens. When they returned one year and found the luxury accommodation in the way, they simply walked through reception.

The animals came in two-by-two: Hotel staff and visitors have got used to the elephants' impromptu strolls through reception Now the family group, headed by matriarch Wonky Tusk, return every November to gorge on mangos - up to four times a day.

Andy Hogg, 44, director at the Bushcamp Company that runs the Lodge, has lived in South Luangwa National Park since 1982. But in all his years of dealing with wild animals he has never seen such intimate interaction between man and beast. 'This is the only place in the world where elephants freely get so close to humans,' says the 44-year-old. 'The elephants start coming through base camp in late November of each year to eat the mangos from our trees. 'When they are ripe they come through and they stand about for four to six weeks coming back each day or second day to eat the mangos. Living in the 5,000 square mile national park, the ten-strong elephant herd are led to the lodge each day by Wonky Tusk.

Migration route: The hotel was built directly in the path of the elephants' route to one of their favourite foods – mangos

'The most interesting thing about this is that they are wild animals and are certainly not tame,' explains Andy. 'They come through the lodge to eat the fruit. 'There are ten in that herd and it is only that herd that comes through. It is a strange thing. 'The matriarchal in the herd is Wonky Tusk, and she brings the nine others through and they come and go as they please.

'Mfuwe Lodge consists of seven camps and the base camp where the elephants come through. Employing 150 staff, the management of the lodge are happy to report that there have been no incidents involving the elephants to date. 'The elephants do get reasonably close to the staff as you can see with the pictures of the elephants near the reception,' he explains. 'But we do not allow the guests to get too close.'

'Guest scan stand in the lounge are but as long as there is a barrier between the elephants and the guests that is okay,' he added. 'The elephants are not aggressive but you don't want to tempt anything as they are wild animals. 'It is the elephants choice to come into base camp and they have been doing it for the last ten years. There are other wild mango trees around and they seem to prefer this one.' And even thought the lodge was unwittingly built upon the path, Andy says they had no idea the elephants would insist on returning. 'It wasn't a design mistake- no-one really knew they were going to come through,' he says. 'The lodge was built and then the elephants started coming through afterwards.

Gentle giants: The leader of the ten-strong herd is matriarch Wonky Tusk. 'We keep people at a safe distance. They are obviously close enough to see what is going on from pretty close quarters but we also make sure we have staff around to make sure the elephants don't get too close. 'But as I said they are still wild and still dangerous. They are huge beasts and untamed.

'We have bricks and walls between the elephants and the guests such as the counter and other barriers to stop them getting to people and if they try to there is enough time for people to get away.' Naturally, the lodge becomes a busier attraction for both elephants and guests during November time. 'We find that we get more people visiting us during the elephant migration because of the unique experience of being so close to wild animals in an unusual environment,' says Andy. 'But as I said this is a totally natural phenomenon, the elephants come here of their own accord and it is certainly a rare but magnificent sight..'

A compassionate prayer

"Dear God,

this year please send clothes for all those poor ladies in Daddy's computer,

Amen."

Some confirmed real pictures

Real black and white twins
Real dog after fighting with porcupine

Real humming birds feeding from hand. I can only manage having humming birds within ten feet from our kitchen windows.

Real illegal hiding in dashboard

and last but not least, real mickeys!