I was driving along Green Lane early this morning. It was cool and breezy.

The scene before me was beautiful. Little yellow petals were falling from the many trees lining Green Lane. It is the time of the year where flowers from trees bloom and start falling after a few weeks. It is like snowing. Yellow petals were everywhere.

I remember in the early eighties, the flame of the forest in the USM Minden campus were so beautiful. The red petals were scattered around the trees and it was such a beautiful sight.

I was captivated by those big trees along Green Lane and Macalister Road. Maybe this is why I chose to stay back in Penang after graduating from USM in 1984.

We know these trees are real old, some more than 50 years old and still beautiful.

The former generation planted the trees and we the present generation enjoy the shades and beauty.

We should be planting trees today not chopping them off.

Can Ong Ka Theng give us a report on the tree-planting campaign launched by his Housing and Local Government Ministry several years ago?