lavanderblues

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

nature around my house??

haha the last place that i'd think of to appreciate nature. right in my garden. woohoo! haha... sat in the garden this morning to go through my stack of transgenic plants & animals notes, and saw how there were SO many green parrot-like birds, which i think are parakeets, on the neighbour's guava tree! haha.. they were fighting over the fruits and like eating them in a really cute way... balancing on one claw, using the other claw to hold the fruit. i think i spent more time watching them than looking at note haiz haha... hardly see these birds flying around and yet they're supposed to be wild i think.. wonder where they flew here from...

ohoh and i noticed paddy.. like REAL rice paddy, and beans, and all sorts of plants growing in a pot!! haha.. in june after ahkong's funeral, the priest gave each of us a red packet with red beans, green beans, rice grains, yellow beans, and i can't remember what else.. i think there were 8 types of seeds, 8 treasures... and we were all supposed to throw them in some soil at our house when we got home. anw, mum's, dad's and my share are growing really well... which i like to think is ahkong watching over us...

haiz. looking at them, and i recalled the last time i saw him.. in april, he was so thin and feeble, and couldnt talk/walk properly... yet he insisted on going to the front door of the hse in penang to see me and my dad off when we hadta leave for the airport. and the huge black and brilliant blue butterfly that was flying around his coffin in the front hall the 3days after he died before the funeral and the 2days after the funeral before it flew off... and the afternoon teas that i used to make for him when he came to s'pore...how he used to sing 'oh my papa' and teaching him chinese etcetcetc.. haiz. i miss my ah kong..
i hope those plants continue to grow well...

i shld spend more time in my garden... haha i'm always exclaiming over 'new discoveries' that my mum tells me was there since like a few mths ago... oops. like apparently my maid says the paddy was there since abt a mth ago and she's been watering it since haha.. oops. open my eyes and see the colours and life around me. alevels and prelims really close ur eyes to life and living..

on a different note, huiling showed me this SUPER cute russian beer ad that showed this guy in a ballet class. gosh its hilarious hahaha...

lin~*
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