The Lotus

One last day to the New Year 2011! May I use it to extend my wishes to all friends, relatives and viewers a Happy New Year 2011 and may it bring to them evermore happiness, prosperity, health and also looking forward for more time and sharing together always.
A 'datuk' photographer friend has fascinations of taking photo of the lotus. He said the beauty and shape of this flower keep on changing and it bring deep sense of inspiration and wonder. No wonder there is to this day a worldwide fascination with flowers, inspiring both the poet and the novice. To many Asian cultures, the lotus symbolises purity and the growth of it's beauty, unsullied by the mud and slush of its origin. True enough, it is gorgeous to see how the beauty unfold itself and stand out elegantly from the rest with grace and fascination, wavering with it its thin tall stalk as the wind blow on them in the pond.