The clouds just doesn't want to go away

I have been monitoring the weather in weather.com. The clouds over the East Coast especially Kelantan and Terengganu just doesn't want to go away. After one cloud about to leave another immediately appear. The low-lying areas have started to flood and a few of the main trunk roads are under flood water this afternoon though still passable.. This is the 4th day of continuous rain and my workers cannot work today. Another day wasted. Kuala Terengganu is still in darkness. The reading from my hygrothermometer in my house shows temperature at 26.9 celcius and relative humidity at above 90%.

Received news from my supplier that the steel bar price had dropped to RM2,300.00 (CQ bars) and RM2,600 (BS bars), a drop of almost RM1,000.00. GOOD NEWS for those who just wanted to start to build a birdhouse. Lets forget about the drop in birdnest price as this is influence by the economic cycle. It is not the large numbers of birdhouses that affect the prices. The numbers of birds will increase exponentially no matter how many new houses are being built. However, those who build or buy birdhouses have to be careful because you are sharing a smaller cake and also remember the X factor. I would like to warn those who are buying birdhouses in eco parks. Think twice before making a decision. Swiftlet farming is now an art of attracting the swiftlets to stay in birdhouse and to make as many nests as possible in the shortest possible time and there are so many factors involved and one of the most important is the macro habitat. Let us compare a birdhouse in an eco park and a standalone farm with the nearest farm 1 km away with the same micro habitat and on the same flight path of the swiftlets. The number of swiftlets passing will be the same but the chances of the swiftlets visiting your birdhouse will be different. Similarly with the feeding grounds. Which will the swiftlets prefer ? Feeding ground right in front of their birdhouse or far away? What I am talking here is not about those birdhouses in town which already had an established population and with swiftlets already populating the birdhouses to the brink. Sorry to those eco park developers if I have offended them. But this is reality. Buyers should not blame the developers if they are not getting the desired result later on as the one making the decision are the buyers and they should weigh all the pros and cons before investing in the eco park.

Eco Parks should not be about building rows and row of shophouses for the swiftlets to stay. Eco Parks should be eco-friendly, should be standalone, with suroundings with lots of trees so that swiftlets can search for food and buildings need not be rectangular like shophouses. Buildings show also be as green as possible with lots of hard and soft landscaping features like rocks, pool, fountains, shrubs and creepers. Eco parks should be about sub-dividing lots into at least 1/4 acres and building standalone buildings surrounded by fruit orchards, oil palms or other crops. Mixed farming such as rearing leeches or worms would be ideal. This is my vision and I feel I share the same vision with this blogger who had a farm in Thailand.