FireFly Mission Durian Party in July 2008

It's the annual durian season in Singapore and its time for any full-blooded Singaporean to go durian-crazy.

Su, a friend kindly donated 3 car loads of durians from her family's organic farm in Johor Bahru. It's my first organic durian tasting. With this amazing amount of durians, I practiced my durian selection skills and incredibly, gotten quite good at choosing ripe durians ; opening more than a few dozen durians like a regular durian seller. It was an unusually hot season in Malaysia and durians were dropping well, like durians at the organic farm. In the end we had tons of leftovers, my hands and body were still smelling like durians even after 3 days.

Another couple kindly hosted their place for our durian party. Volunteers and supporters of FireFly Mission were invited in appreciation for their help in recent Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar project.

Visit the website FireFly Mission , it's a humanitarian mission by a group of Buddhist having projects in Myanmar, India, Thailand. They always need help as form of volunteers and funding for their on-going projects. 100% of all donations go towards the projects with volunteers personally flying over on their own expenses to the villages over-seeing the missions. You can view their photos here.





I can't believe how they filled their cars with durians, this was half emptied before I had the chance to photograph it


The drivers hard at work transfering the durians


CH gleaming at this bitter sweet durian


My durian taste better than yours, discussing what a good durian should taste like.


Newspapers and durians seem to go hand in hand at many durian parties


Durian Processing area


We gotten so organised with different sections of durian openers and durian processors


Amazingly with three car loads of durians, they managed to clear Singapore customs without a big hassle


Still struggling to open a large amount of leftover organic durians, most of us with a belly full of durians gave up. This is what was left.