Green Orange Beauty

One of the beauty living in the country-side is that I can see many plants and insects.
I found this cute fella yesterday when I was checking my snake-skin fruit plants.
She was happily munching its leaves there.
Isn't it odd? The leaves are hard and doesn't seems juicy at all, but she loves it.
Munch munch munch...
Anyone know what kind of caterpillar is this?

Mr. Eunuch?

Could this be just an error made by computer-generated-translation service?
This article from our national airline magazine has translated the-unnecessary-to-be-translated word: one's name ( He happened to be a Vice Governor!)
The name is Muslim Kasim, and translated in to English as: Muslim Eunuch.  EUNUCH???!!!

This could be just an innocent mistranslation by machine.
But then why the village's name: Dusun Gajah Mati is not translated as The Village of Dead Elephants?
^_^ Maybe the interpreter took extra effort to explicate one's sexual state? Hahaha

Passionfruit - Acidity and Sugar Content

There are a few kinds of passionfruit in Indonesia: orange-skinned and purple-skinned.

Usually the purple-skinned ones are unsuitable for table-fruit due to its extreme acidity; usually it's mixed with sugar to make syrup.

But what we have here is a purple-skinned passionfruit, with the aromatic smell, orange/red flesh, but still with high sugar content (ard 20 Brix). Making this variety to be a perfect table fruit. Just cut it, and enjoy :)

The picture below is to show how to check the acidity on our passionfruit. Just dip the indicator-paper in the juice, wait around 30seconds, see the colour changes, and check against the colour on the indicator box. Here my passionfruit's acidity is around pH 3-4 :)

Universal pH indicator

Bought another toy :) - Universal pH indicator to check the acidity of my fruits.

The combination of sugar and acid in a fruit is very very important.