Ling Kwong was a botanist and a noted expert in the medicinal plants in the country. She studied Agriculture because ever since a child, she loves plant so much and she's not that great in numbers. She wanted to explore, to be outside and she never envision herself to work in an office setting. Loving her profession and what she's doing, She became an author of more than thirty scientific articles, many on orchids. There's even a plant that she discovered while exploring the wilderness of the Chiang Mai named after her. Sarcochilus Kwongifolia.
Although serving as a Director of the Natural Science Museum, Ling has a dream. She wanted to have her own Herbarium where she can have a collection of preserved plants specimens that would be maintained for scientific purposes. Herbarium specimens commonly include plants, conifers, ferns, mosses, liverworts and algae, as well as fungi and lichens so when the Pandemic of 2020 happened and the Museum closed temporarily, Ling decides to move back to her hometown where her parents are still living.
The Pandemic literally halted everything. The world comes to an abrupt stop, changing almost everything in sight. The first three months, almost everyone is irritated with boredom, worried sick on how to survive, mad at how the virus was being handled and afraid because oh how potent the results are for some. Anxiety was at its peak but Man did not have its own evolution for nothing.
So people evolved and learn to live with the virus at its midst. With caution to prevent the severity of the disease, people started changing their lifestyle, the eating habits and started to get involved in any activities that calms and soothes them but not Lingling.
The only difference that happened to her is her change of workplace but she still remained research focused. Aside from categorizing plant species, her local municipality upon knowing that she was back at town took the initiative to reach out to the famous botanist to seek help and advise.
