My Bonsai Love Story

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Now that I caught your attention, I would like to show off one of my creation. No point creating something and hide it from the rest of the world. My heart shape Bonsai. Well the best I can do is bend it to look like a "heart". I tried once (the top photo) but it didn't really look like a "heart". Then manage to bent a smaller pot of bonsai. Now it look more like a "heart". (the bottom photo).

I didn't use wire. I used thread and tie the end of the 2 longest shoot and pull it down like a cross and wait for it to turn woody. Then I cut off all excess branch and leave. Now I just wait for the leaves from the sides to appear. Now it appear bald. Perhaps few more weeks it will look much better.

I have gone through a number of web/blog about bonsai. All they mentioned was how to plant, prune, maintain, fertilizer to use and gardening tools. None teaches how to shape it. Hope I could find a website that shows how to shape it, like a cross stitch book, where they will show you from shape "A" to "Z", cartoons character, etc. All I have to do is just follow instruction.

Perhaps one fine day I would make some unique shape out of it, like maybe my name of my face. (In my dream, I guess). My neighbor's brother manage to shape it into a Chinese word. Well this is gardening. It teaches us to be patience, creative, learn to appreciate nature and do not tamper with nature. Thanks for reading.

Potato Jelly

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A friend of mine gave me jelly one day and ask me to guess what was the ingredient. That was easy. The potato taste was strong but nice. Like it very much. I didn't know before that, that potatoes can be used in making jelly. You would love this recipe provided you like potatoes.

Ingredients:

Gelatine - 1 packet (I prefer to buy the brand as in picture above. It looks like strings.)
Sugar (I normally use rock sugar)
Potatoes (1 to 2 will do, depending on the size of your potatoes. Don't add too much)


1. Steam potatoes and mash it.
2. Boil gelatine with sugar and water. If you are using the one I mentioned above, you would need 1.2 liter or about 5 cups of water.
3. Sieve the dissolved gelatine into another pot. Continue to boil it and add mash potatoes. Mix well. (This type of jelly sometime does not dissolve properly, so it is better to sieve it first before you add potatoes)
4. Once potatoes are added, don't have to boil so long. About 5 minutes will do. Just to make sure they mix well and no lumps of mash potatoes here and there.
5. Pour into mould / container etc and leave to cool before you put it in the fridge.

Trust me on this. It taste lovely. My kids love it too. Happy trying. Thanks for reading

A visit to the sun ?!?!

There was a conference between few countries. The topic was about space exploration. A representative from each country would take turn to give a speech about their latest achievement.

Rep. from country A spoke first:
"By end of this year, my people will be building a science lab in space with 1,000 scientist on board."

Everyone applaud.

Rep. from country B said:
"By mid of next year, my country will be sending a team of 10 astronauts to the moon. We are doing a research on growing crops on the moon."

Everyone applaud.

Now it is rep. from country C's turn to give his speech. His country has nothing to offer but he can't tell everyone about it. He has to come up with something greater than the rest. He said:
"My country plans to send 5 astronauts to explore the sun by end of this year."

Someone from the audience asked, "Isn't that a bit hot, sir" The rep. reply "No, we plan to go at night."

Just for laugh! Thank you for reading

Rabbit Throw Tantrum

This is my pet rabbit. He was born on the 1st of April, 2006. Yeah, on April Fool's Day. Initially bought 3 rabbits as our 1st pet. Didn't learn more about rabbits and took those 3 cute rabbits home. Few months later found baby rabbits all over the cage. We had a hilarious time trying to figure out who was the mum. Luckily we got the information quite fast through the internet.

All his parents, brothers and sisters had short fur, except for him. So we decided to keep only him, the special one. The rest we gave it away to friends and some to the pet shop. We love him very much cause we took care of him since birth. I remembered he was the biggest new born compare to his siblings.

This is how he sleeps everyday. I find it weird. Even when I let him out during weekends, he still does this. He would find a nice corner in my garden and he will flip to his side with a loud thud. Does all rabbits sleeps like this or was it just mine. I felt he was throwing tantrum for not letting him out of his cage. Thank you for reading about my weird but funny pet rabbit.

New Born = White Paper

Mum used to say that when a child was born, he / she was like a white piece of paper, pure and innocent, waiting for the world to add colors to it. Some said the colors will appear itself when the time comes, others said it is all up to the parents or guardian. Personally, I think parents come in few categories.

"Take your time" parents.
They allow their children to grow at their own pace. Let them be themselves. Let them take all the time in the world to discover who they really are. (Hope they hang out with the right company)

"Hot Tempered" parents.
These are the most dangerous species of them all. They snap, gets irritated, agitated very easily when it comes to children. They find children to be a burden. There will be lots of yelling, screaming etc from both parents and children. Some lead to death too. (Pathetic)

"Mould" parents.
These parents already got a mould in hand. Ready to shape their kids the way they want them to be, or maybe to make them become someone that they failed to be. (All the best, kid)

"Military" parents.
These are parents that run their family like an army camp. Lights out by 10.00, breakfast at 7.00 sharp etc. Children are not suppose to choose or make decisions. Everything was pre-plan for them. All they need to do is just follow the schedule. (Poor child)

"Furniture" parents.
They treat their kids like furniture. They know their kids exist, but knows very little about them. Never take note about stuffs like exam dates, what class are they in, not to mention favourite movies etc. (Gosh)

"Overprotective" parents.
They would go all out to warn the whole world not to ever upset their children. These are folks who made many enemies since they had kids. One slight complain from their kids about you and you are doom. They will declare war to just about anyone. (Beware)

"BFF" parents.
These parents love to be their kids best friend. Share secrets, do stuffs together, hang out together, just like any other best friends all over. (Cool)

I like the last one best. I do share secrets with my kids and they trust me completely with their secrets too. So, which category do you belong to? Well, don't know about you, but I read a lot about parenting before I became a parent.

Just something for you to think about. Thanks for reading.