happiee-ness

Bought this last Saturday.




Was happy when I brought it back to my room around noon time after I came back from grocery shopping. It was about 80cm tall, beautifully wrapped by the florist.

But I didn't straight away put it in water. Instead, I left it on my chair for a few hours without unwrapping it.

Then it became like this.





Its proximal stem was turning softer unlike the distal end which is firmer, due to lack of water. And it looked dehydrated too. The petals looked like they were going to fall off any moment. It was actually worse than as shown in the pic as the leaves were curled up as well. I never know sunflowers wither this fast! =(

I then placed the whole stem in a pail with water only enough to cover its base, removing only the lower end of the wrapping paper then left it again for a few more hours because I was rushing out for dinner. I came back around midnight to find the flower 'nodding' down because the stem was getting softer and could no longer support the weight of the flower.

Please don't die so fast, I thought.
Don't wither so fast, you are a sunflower.
You are supposed to shine like the sun! (Does this make sense?)

Anyway, I figured that it wasn't absorbing water very well because of its height - water has to travel long distance to reach the leaves and petals. So I cut off the stem, cut and cut till it fit into my empty bottle of pasta sauce. I filled the bottle with water till it was half full.

The leaves have already withered when I put the sunflower in the bottle. The stem is so so short now, only about 15cm. Please don't die, miss sunflower...


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One day later.

Miracles do happen.

Woke up in the morning to find that miss sunflower is smiling at me!




Isn't she cute? =D

Wheee! I never know flowers can make me so happy =D
Especially when you have rescued them from withering/dying =P




It has a unique shape =) Look at how broad and strong the petals have grown! And the stem has grown firmer too!

I then realised that flowers really have strong willpower =)
You made it, little sunflower! ^_^

Is it just because of water?
The weather these few days have been cloudy and rainy with little sunshine.
How did it grow so well?
Is it because of you?




*happiness*

Travel, travel

Time flies so fast, it's been 1 week since I last updated my blog!

The past few weekends have been fun (weekdays are fun and interesting too but I spend my weekdays at hospital so nothing much to write)...have been eating out almost every weekend. (I still cook everyday okay)...Basically I'm enjoying life here hahaha

Easter break is coming soon! Some friends from New Zealand are coming to Melbourne....and I'm going to Adelaide after that yay!

Oh and 10 of us are going to New Zealand (South Island) during winter break in June! Our first destination will be Christchurch...not sure about the whole travel plan yet~

By the way, daylight saving ends today. I gained one hour... =)

For someone special

This 300th post goes to you my dear =)

玲智生日快乐！！！

with big hugs and lots of ♥♥♥

I knocked on Heaven's door.

God said, 'What can I do for you?'

I asked,

'Please love, protect, heal and bless the one reading this.'

God smiled,

'ALREADY DONE.'

Hmmm

Was looking at some blog templates randomly and felt like trying them out, so I created a sample blog at another address...but...I clicked the wrong tab in Mozilla Firefox and changed the template at the wrong blog, so here you go...new template!

Yet, at the same time, I lost all the links and CBox I placed on the previous template. Took me some time to recover them through various means.

Lazy to think of what colour suits my blog best so I picked pink, like my previous template. It's very similar to the previous one, right?

Can't wait for Easter break, because I'm going to Adelaide! =D

下雨

昨天星期六整天一直下雨。

喜欢听雨点打在窗口的声音，更喜欢雨哗啦啦打在地上的声音。
雨哗啦啦地下着，一下倾盆大雨，一下细细小雨。
好久没有下雨了

雨点开始小了，我打开窗口享受那清新的空气，有种凉爽的感觉。
听着细细的雨声，我笑了。
原来自己蛮喜欢雨的~

之后我去厨房准备晚餐要煮的食物。
从厨房可以看到巴士站，有个人在等巴士。
几分钟后，雨突然越下越大，渐渐地越来越多人在巴士站避雨。
我切好猪肉后回到房间，吃惊的发现窗口旁湿了。
我忘了关窗！
真糟糕……
小熊公仔湿了，不过湿的地方都是头部。
床单和枕头的一角也湿了，棉被也不例外。

赶紧关上了窗口。
抹了椅子，洗洗棉被的 cover ，给公仔们的头头冲水，换了床单
开最大号的电风扇，摆好东西在风扇前面吹干
好多工啊……
在 MSN 写了 'raindrops on my window'，想起刚刚听过的 Taylor Swift 的 Teardrops On My Guitar
很好听！

“头发”湿湿的公仔看起来蛮帅气呢，是秀婷和康妮给的两个公仔 =)
不知你们好吗？