iN My LiFe

Adenium 'Spindrift'

2008-06-21T08:00:00.000+08:00

A Taiwan hybrid...supposed to be slightly fragrant but i can't detect any scent...

Hoya mindorensis

2008-06-20T12:05:00.003+08:00

....one of my favourite hoya. Just love its perfect globulous shape. It blooms frequently and easy to grow. Doesn't it look good enough to eat?

Orchids

2008-06-12T07:57:00.004+08:00

Phal bellina. LOvely scent! TaiTai, you bought this for me : )

Coelogyne speciosa....too bad this one doesn't give a spray of blooms. It flowers one at a time and this is the fourth cycle.

one of the earlier blooms

Dinner

2008-06-12T07:27:00.002+08:00

Decided to buy dinner last night and we chose London Kebab (KB Branch). DH had Chicken Doner + Fish & Chips and i had Lamb Doner. We were disappointed...heard that the one in BSB is good but sorry to say, KB standard is crap....it was like eating yesterday's dinner and DH doesn't like his either. I think i make better kebab and fish & chips. Well, this is one more food joint that we'll take a miss in the future. *sigh* how i missed all the good food in Singapore,,,the Indian rojak, nasi lemak, lontong, yong tau fu. I must fly back again! Lol...

Neoregelia

2008-06-07T07:33:00.007+08:00

Apart from being attracted to weird, out of this world and exotic plants, I'm also a sucker for plants with striking colours. Neoregelia is one such plant. It is a genus belonging to the Bromeliaceae family. These are my neos.....

Pink Sensation x Royal Burgundy

Prince Kuhio

Prince of Darkness

Walking Tall

Burnsie's Spiral

Touch the Heart

No id

Sun King

Charcharodon Giant

Pemiento

Charcharodon Tiger

My Plumerias

2008-06-06T07:50:00.003+08:00

Plumeria pudica aka Bridal Bouquet

Violet Princess

These are some of my small plumeria aka frangipani collection that has bloomed for me. For some people in our asian community, this plant is still taboo to have in the house compound. It is one of many scented flowering plants that are considered favourite dwellings for evil spirits and brings bad Feng Shui. Another common name for it is the 'Graveyard Plant'.....what an injustice to such a beautiful plant ~ reason being that the common white flowering ones are mostly found planted in cemeteries.

Glad to know that in Singapore, plumerias are becoming a favourite for those with landed properties and they can be seen growing along the roads and parks. When i was in my secondary schooling years, i remembered the whole bunch of us plucking some dark red flowering ones somewhere in Frankel Estate....it was for our dance performance for the school concert. The plants were of cos planted outside of the home compound. Ah...those were the days... I've yet to see tho, people going crazy over plumeria here in Brunei. Maybe i should go around promoting it...lol..

Apa Nak Jadi

2008-06-01T08:46:00.004+08:00

Astaghfirullah Hal'azim....

Bukan kah tanggungjawab Imam Masjid untuk berada diMasjid pada waktunya especially waktu2 solat? Sebaliknya yang kerap berlaku diMasjid Mohammad Jamalul Alam, Kuala Belait pada waktu solat subuh. Is this the norm in all Masjid in Brunei and the world as a whole? Bukankah mereka ini dibayar gaji untuk melaksanakan tugas2 mereka? Kemana perginya komitmen mereka? Ini tidak...sudahlah tiada azan, salah seorang makmun terpaksa menjadi Imam...kadang2 warga Indonesia, kadang2 bekas Iman yg sudah retire. Ini bukanlah nak mengata tapi antara luahan kekesalan terhadap perkara2 yang sedang terjadi didunia ini. Ini kah yang dikatakan tanda2 akhir zaman? Wallahualam Bisawab....

I really hope, with all my heart, ada seseorang yang ber'authority' di Kementerian Hal Ehwal Ugama Negara Brunei Darussalam will somehow stumble upon this entry and do something. Kenapa tak make a report saja? It'll probably end up in the bin.

Bad 'Early Bird'.....

2008-05-31T10:13:00.003+08:00

..... 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

2008-05-29T07:00:00.003+08:00

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

2008-05-28T10:57:00.009+08:00

Some of my adenium collection.....

Daeng Siam

Harry Potter

Super Big Chubbiness

Charming

Pra Kai Dao

Aaaargh!

2008-05-20T19:16:00.005+08:00

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

2008-05-11T09:38:00.004+08:00

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

More info here...

Griffinia liboniana

More Neps...

2008-05-11T08:52:00.016+08:00

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

2008-05-09T08:17:00.005+08:00

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!

2008-05-02T13:22:00.007+08:00

Sickens me....

Read here...
Sicko!

I'm lost for words...

This is sad....

2008-05-02T12:53:00.002+08:00

...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

Carpet of episcias

2008-04-22T13:54:00.001+08:00

Mixed varieties of episcia planted in the ground. They are growing like weeds, shaded from the sun.

Sinningia speciosa

2008-04-22T07:27:00.000+08:00

....aka florist gloxinia....one of my favourite gesneriads. Here's some recent blooms...all grown from seeds.

Catasetum 'Susan Fuchs'

2008-04-21T19:57:00.000+08:00

One of my favourite catasetum....generous bloomer with huge blooms and fragrant.

Tillandsias

2008-04-06T17:22:00.000+08:00

Tillandsias aka air plants...so called cos of their ability to survive without soil, roots or water. Fascinating and out of this world.....one of my favourite plants. Yep, i'm a sucker for weird and unusual plants and enjoy collecting them.

They are easy to grow. Lots of fresh air and occassional watering is all they need. Mount them on tree branches or decorative driftwoods and you're done.

These are some of my preciousssss......