My Longkang

This is not from my garden. I had it but threw it away. It is called pokok hantu ( ghost tree ) by some Iban friends. When flowering ( 7 years once ) it grows a stalk about 20ft high and as tough as bamboo…the stalk I mean. It is a relatively rare plant in my part of the world, I believe.

So it was a pleasant surprise when I saw a similar specimen a few days ago. It depends on the individual. Some associate this particular plant with certain issues, some don’t. This plant you see here is but a young plant. It will be quite a few more years before it begins to flower. After the flower withers, it will die and many small plants will grow all around the mother plant.

I was at Farley Supermarket this morning and I saw lots of bonzai plants for sale. Unfortunately I saw few buyers although there were many people who came just to gawk like me. Bonzai plants are for the serious green thumb people. They are not easy to maintain and are very expensive.
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At first my dog had a suitor. Like a love sick guy he would hang around and hope to see my bitch. We even thought that it was cute. When it didn’t go home to feed, we even fed it but no hanky panky we told the dog jokingly.
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Today has been like any other lazy weekend except that I cooked rendang chicken. Honestly my wife thinks rendang chicken is sinful for all the calories it contains including the coconut milk. But I don’t care. I love to eat delicious food
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One day after I shifted my Taiwan red parrot fish inside the house, they seem so happy already. They are not so timid too. As you can see they are happily swimming even with me taking a video of them. I was considering putting a decorative concrete centre-piece for them to play with for example : a tree trunk or some concrete structure but when I went to ask, the price was too expensive.

I settled for some bricks from my garden. It worked. They are happily swimming in between and around the bricks. I just might buy another six more red parrots. Money…money………money … nothing in life is free except true love?

It is so soothing just sitting and watching life pass them by. I just need to feed them a few granules of fish food a day. There is such a marked contrast to the time when the aquarium was greenish with algae and the fish lethargic.

Have a great week ahead.

Today the weather was fine. So I took my family out for some fresh air.

I observed this unusual phenomenon. It looks like the boats and river vessels are on the same level as the road or even higher. Actually they aren’t but it is an optical illusion. However if the water goes a little higher, it will overflow onto the streets.
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There is nothing I love more than food. This weekend I had an opportunity to host a blogger friend, bongkersz. We had a wonderful lunch courtesy of Mr Suituapui or if translated into English means the beautiful curvy one.

The food was wonderful and I was afraid to eat freely as eating prawns can be sometimes very messy. However when I saw Bongkersz enjoying himself tucking into the prawn in cheese, I couldn’t resist joining him: diet or no diet.

The delicious food : sea cucumber soup, teh chee peng, chicken in pandan leaf, prawn in cheese and spicy fish fillet. The venue was Ruby Cafe.

It is great to have a friend like Suituapui. I hope there will be more and more occasions like this in the future

Some of you who visited my weekend snapshot last week will know I am trying to reduce expenses in the light of today’s rising prices for almost every consumer goods and services.
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For my weekend snapshot this week, I submit a pic of my weekly groceries.

Today I spent Rm116.00 to buy staples like noodles, rice, biscuits and household toiletries. At the market, I spent another Rm50.00 just to buy vegetables, some fish and chicken. I paid another Rm84.00 for my petrol. A total of Rm250.00.
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The Chinese New Year celebration is almost over. Pic shows a shirt I bought for the occasion but I had a chance to wear it only once.

These are my favorite tit bits. They are actually pastries wrapped around dried jam. Absolutely delicious.

As you can see, my supply of tid bits to guests is almost finished too.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with your eyes. You are not seeing double.I am just experimenting with flickr tools