Bad 'Early Bird'.....

..... you've given me the Columnea virus! I'm looking out for more varieties now...


Columnea 'Early Bird' isn't she a beauty?




back view

My little stony friends

These are some of my lithops or living stones as they are commonly known. Very interesting little plants...easy to grow once you get the hang of it. I've killed so many due to ignorance on my part....i watered them to death! Thanks to the internet, i've finally understood the dos and don'ts of growing them.
I've around a hundred plants now. Most are still tiny...i hope i will be able to grow them to blooming size. It's a matter of patiently waiting...

Adenium

Some of my adenium collection.....


Daeng Siam



Harry Potter




Super Big Chubbiness



Charming




Pra Kai Dao

Aaaargh!

These 2 days had been real shitty for me. Yesterday, i turned on the stove and forgot to turn it off for half a day and got an earful from my other half! This had happened before and one time, i forgot to turned off the fire after frying some stuff and the flame must have shot way up high cos the exhaust fan, the salt and cooking oil bottles melted! The ceiling was all sooty and black smoke entered the whole house! Thank God i didn't burn the house down then. Thank God again that nothing was on the stove yesterday. Talk about carelessness...i need to kick myself hard on the head!

Today, something else happened...i was reversing from a parking lot and hit a 4 wheel drive! I swore when i looked back, there was no car coming in. This lady must have must came in when i looked away for a second. Her car only suffered grazes near the back of the car. This is my car.....grrrrr! Another earful from hubby too...eeeeks!



I'm really worried for me now...i'm really getting to be so forgetful and absentminded lately....is this a sign i'm getting some form of dreaded disease or it's just age...

Griffinia liboniana

Got this from a taiwanese friend way back in 2006. It just bloomed yesterday!







More info here...

Griffinia liboniana

More Neps...

N.ampullarias...my favourite of all neps. The fat, squat pitchers are just too cute.





N. bicalcarata..the neps with fangs


This one is a natural bical hybrid...possibly N. x cantleyi (=bical x gracilis)

Nepenthes

Some not so recent pics of my neps rafflesiana collection. These are commonly found in Brunei especially in the Belait district where peat swamp forests are extensive. The first pic i believe is N. rafflesiana Brunei Giant.

Horror!

Sickens me....

Read here...
Sicko!

I'm lost for words...

This is sad....

...and a great loss to our wild life here.


Read more here...
Borneon Leopard


The problem with roads here in Brunei is that some stretches are not litted at all in the night. We just have to rely on cats eyes and road studs...how pathetic is that? The relevant authority should take a serious look into this. We recently lost a friend to a horrific accident...he must have tried to avoid something on the road. I bet most fatal accidents that happened are due to this. That's one reason why i avoid driving at night...i'm blind as a bat driving at night.

That poor leopard probably have little ones waitng for her somewhere...sad....


**Photo by Yusrin Junaidi, Borneo Bulletin