thank you for the plant tips! lester is looking better and happier. i think he really really missed me. poor thing.
the orchid is blooming, pretty pretty pretty!! i think she looks like a danae - her name is now danae - she's looking a bit sad still though. i hope the coming spring will cheer her up!
i have a plant at home....his name is lester and he's really cute, with deep green, spiky leaves that poke in all different directions. i got him a couple of months back, and i got really attached to him because he was the first plant to not just survive, but also thrive under me. i think it's coz I try very hard to take care of him.
it used to be that i killed plants, yes, even cacti which i have been told are impossible to kill....don't ask me how i did it, but i did. lester had been sitting on my window sill for the past few months, looking radiant, healthy and happy, that is till i asked my friend to take care of him over the vacation....
imagine how upset i was when i was greeted by the sight of a plant that looked more like dried vegetables instead of a living thing. i don't know what happened, but lester looked so bad i was ready to cry 
my poor baby!
i think he missed me though - i was certainly thinking of my baby lester when i was away - coz he looks so much better now. He looked half-dead when i got him back, but he now looks half-alive 
, which is much better - phew!
I think he probably also likes the fact that he now has a female friend - i was gifted with a pretty orchid plant a couple of days ago, a cheer-up gift (thank you, Mons, *MWAH!*) and she is beeee-yoo-ti-ful! I haven't thought of a name for her yet though. (yes - i am kooky 
for naming my plants....i've heard this all before). i am going to make sure she thrives just as well as lester.
oh yes - don't ask me why i named him lester though....he just looks like one. 
This one's kinda fun! go play the little video - you don't need Flash. what i like about it is the twist at the end
oops...i forgot to say that the title is the link to the video
I like writing to people, not via email, but instead, pen in hand, on nice stationery decorated with all manner of cute and pretty things (yes...i am a girl in this respect...) and rattle on and on on the way life is.
Email is the easiest method of communication, but so impersonal and distant. All i see are the same fonts in the same size, in the same color, just phrased differently. Where are all the unique littles swirls of the tails of letters or the abbreviated dashes of the crosses of 't's that makes letter writing so much more alive and immediate?
It's the same with journal writing - I liek writing in thick journals on good quality paper, feeling the lazy slide of pen nib on smooth paper. It is a sensuous luxury that I try to afford myself these days, one of the things that reminds me that I am alive. E-journals are good things for getting thoughts like these out to many people, but my most private thoughts I lay down on paper, to make tangible their presence such that they live and breathe and are another mark of my existence in this reality.
i'm on a blogging spree today...i should be doing homework or something, but oh well...
so anyway, to the topic of friendship - a recent event in my life got me thinking how well i know my friends and how well they know me. i've known someone for the past...wow...almost 8 years even though we only began talking to each other 6 years ago. i thought that we were friends who knew each other better to recognise the differences in one another and hence know how to react to each other - well, it turns out that time doesn't matter at all.
I always did know that time didn't matter, but my thoughts now turn to that intangible thing that makes friends friends. It's so fleeting and elusive that the moment you know have it, you hold on to it for dear life and don't let go. It's hard to make friends whom you can truly count on, but harder still to find those that can truly understand you and whom you feel can complete the other half of a sentence that you started or in whose company you feel nothing but safe and totally accepted for who you are.
Here's something that may get me flamed.....but I have to say it, so apologies are in order first.
I was reading a comment on someone's blog, about the commentor subscribing to that someone's blog because the someone subscribed to their's......
maybe the commentor does truly enjoy reading stuff from that someone's site (which does have substantial stuff), but I thought there were better reasons than "you scratch me I scratch you back".
there's more to that than what i have written here, but I would just run on and on, so i better not!
oh well, c'est la vie!
Update on my drain guppies
I don't know how many of you remembered about the drain guppy incident that i posted a while back, when I was back home and catching guppies in a monsoon drain to ensure that the guppies i had at home wouldn't die out due to inbreeding....well, they all died, except for the drain guppies. Arrghs.
I forget how hardy those drain guppies are - the whole family had been living in that drain for close to a decade at least! To live in a place like that, they must have developed some sort of resistance to all sorts of parasites and diseases....I think so at least, because all my pretty multi-colored little guppies started dying out, leaving the ugly and blandly-hued drain guppies behind. So much for my smart idea...
well, the only good thing that comes out of this all is that now i am sure these guppies won't die of fright when we release them into the new pond (when it's finally built) whenever my dog comes to paddle about in the water. In fact, I think they will be smart enough to hide when my dog tries to chase them. Hopefully!
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