My Plant's first Bloom ! and my (not-so-actually) new wind chime

Oh Happy Day... My plant bloomed it's first flower ! A white one. Am not sure what it's called LOL - anyone has an idea ? I think I know, but I'm not going to risk embarrassing myself ha ha ha


Another windchime added to the small garden.. Have 2 now, this one is a bit louder. Got this one from Living Cabin too. They have a quite a bit of good garden stuff there. This chime has a little Grocery Store as the top bit.

The Feng Shui water fountain

Ever heard of a Feng Shui water fountain ? I loved this one the first time I saw it. Went all over town looking for it :) They had run out of stock. I found this one at the Mid Valley Living Cabin ! Yay !!!! Listed as RM105, but they had a sale so we got it at 10% off.

Now I have a water feature outside the house and one INSIDE as well :) It's so soothing to look at and sits very nicely on the sideboard. It doesn't sound loud but I already have the aquarium's water flow providing the sound of water in the house.

Of soothing sounds..

I finally got the water fountain installed today !! After shopping around in Kota Damansara and haggling with the FOREIGNERS who were managing sales of the items (they wanted a total of RM750 for the same configuration but minus transport and installation... giler ker ?) - I finally found one that suited my budget - in a shopping complex !! Talk about shopping complexes being more expensive… Anyway there is this place called Sunflower Art and Décor in Sunway Pyramid which has a white sandstone fountain on display in their shop. I liked it for its minimalist design – not much fuss there.

The price was also reasonably cheaper than anywhere else for the same design. I paid a total of Rm590.00 for the whole thing –

Water feature set 480.00

Delivery 30.00

Installation 80.00.

The water feature set consists of the 7-part sandstone fountain + water pump + lighting. They also provided some white stones and tested and adjusted the water flow. I used my own energy saving light bulb although they brought one with them.

So here are some pictures to show off for ! I haven’t completed the rearranging and deco as yet, only managed to put my pandanus bush together for now. I still need to get my wiring done up properly, put some white pebbles and rearrange the rest of my plants.

Before – marking the spot for the fountain with a wire planter holder. The pandanus bush looks like it's keeled over and died...

My new fountain close up – two tiered

Voila ! The water feature all done ! See the lights and my pandanus crop nicely arranged now.

Another view of my new fountain....

I hope to post more pictures of my little spot of heaven on earth soon, when it's all done. Ooh... happy happy day !!!

ps. eat your heart out, my invisible weightlifter friend ! :D

My Greenies and I...

Pictures of my greenies... See if you can spot the butterflies ! I adore green and hanging plants. My maid has contributed to growing some chillies too. Soda insists on being in again, he's hiding behind one of the plants.

Tot straks

Oh lupa pulak

I got me some more new plants !!! Yay ! From Jusco Home Centre in 1U, from Giant at the KJ Mall, and from the Bandar Kinrara Giant Mall... Pics soon, I hope ! Greens are lovely - I find that everytime I feel upset and depressed, I go out and get green plants, and flowers. I got myself some roses the other day, but they are now wilted, how sad.. maybe time to get myself another bunch ?

tot straks...

Oh well, I might as well!

Sleep is eluding me again.. or is it because I'm so highly strung ! Well, whichever it is, I decide I might as well write a bit then.

Saturday was sooooo hectic.. morning was a recital in Shah Alam - Kakak was in My Fair Lady, lah-dee-dah-ing in the Ascot scene.. wonderful ! I always loved playing dress-up - white frilly blouse, skirt with huge ribbons.. large hat with bows and feathers, elbow gloves... sigh... supposed to end at 1:30pm but it overshot to 2:15 instead.

Rushed home, with barely enough time to get ready for the next event - in Cheras ! Baby was to participate in the gymnastics demonstration (Mummy is too tired to send you, darling.. it's the other side of the world ! But Mummeeeee, if I don't go, who will replace me... and I've been practicing very hard..!) So of we go, and to reach there before 3:00pm, which we obviously didn't. 3:30pm it was, and loafing in the South Hall until this pretty little something (girl? fairy? waif? That's Emily, she's a gymnast, in form 4, Mummy... WHAT?! She's... she's... Mum! If I'm supposed to be tiny, what's she ? Errr... miniscule, Kakak ?) came by to get something and told us that the rest were already waiting at the red gazebo.

Off raced Baby to the red gazebo to join the others. Mum ? Oh no, Kakak, we're staying right here. No way am I going out into the 40c sun ! My little Professor agreed.. and recommended we sit comfortably in the canteen.. yum yum! Forgot we didn't have time to grab any lunch.

My Pilot was out in the field, rounding up his old chums, and a hit with the girls, as usual. Every time I looked, there he was chatting with a junior girl. Hmmmm... Anyway, he was giving me regular reports from the war zone, via sms, to keep me updated on the goings-on. When it was Baby's gymnastics session, the 3 of us watched from afar, in the comfortable shade. The Pilot was in the field, but wouldn't have been good with a camera either, cos he couldn't see over the heads of the others there !

And Mum decreed that we were to leave immediately after Baby's done. And the Pilot speaks - Oh Mum, after this, please.. I want to watch my cheerleaders.. wow.. HIS cheerleaders :) ha ha.. well the boys' house did win the cheerleading competition this year, after all.

Rush rush now.. to MVMM.. and managed to get seats for Forbidden Kingdom at 8pm! Pilot - Mum, are you that desperate to watch this? You agreed to take seats, third row from the screen !! Happily enough! And I wish I could go watch this again, this would win hands down against that Crouching Tiger nonsense, any time.

Tired day, satisfying night, and no one went to Taekwando on Sunday morning :) Oh well, they deserve a rest after the grueling hot day before.

Lunch was a lazy affair - Rice, cubed mutton curry, salisbury steaks (actually fancy-named burgers ha ha ha) and some soya-based Thai-styled fried dumplings which tasted great. No veggies - I ran out and forgot to buy a bit. We only have petai, which I don't think would have fitted the menu..

Then the Ustad came by after the heavy downpour. Dinner was supposed to be at Subway, but I got vetoed out so we ended up at Pizza Hut in SP. Had a lovely time at MPH afterwards.. RM230 on books alone - which would be tax-rebate-able anyway so no problems there. They had to chase us to make our payment quickly as they had to close! So home we went then with a bag-full of books! I got my follow-up Sudoku book, I'd finished the earlier one.

Made the boys finish their homework tonight itself. They still don't know that Monday is declared an occasional school holiday for them. They'll just enjoy a good lie-in tomorrow then when Mum doesn't wake them up as usual..

Oh did I mention that I got me new plants ? Love them.. the hanging draping kind... I hope they they won't commit mass suicide like the last batch I had!