Hot and sticky again, after a nice long bath and misting. We went walking round the thomson road nurseries, and it was full of CNY plant-shoppers - or rather, Singaporeans who have nothing better to do than to visit crowded places just for the heck of it and clogging up carparks and leaving without a single plant. And, not to mention, crooning over the most mundane of plants. Come on .. qumquats?? Let's see ..

All orchids are just orchids! And oooh .. these are so expensive .. must be because the flowers are so big. How come this one flowers so small also so expensive hah?

Yep. Pet peeve. Call it a Cattleya or Dendrobium or at least a Vanda right?? Right. Perhaps I'm turning out to be one of those eccentric people out there. Those who refuse to sell these idiots a single plant, while insisting that other more deserving people take plants for free.

Come come, let's grab all these gigantic pots of oranges and qumquats because they're supposed to be lucky! Oooh. And there are Lucky Carrots this year too!

Right. And end up with withering branches and putrifying oranges 1 month down the road. And did you know that cowgrass is supposed to be lucky too?

I actually saw this one - father pointing at a Nepenthes plant and educating his children: Ah! These sacs are used by the plant to collect water so that they have enough water!

Small wonder that we end up with a society of complete morons.

Mr. Ye - Dr. Goh was right, wasn't she? Reminds me of those Reef Central discussions about people keeping "nemos" in freshwater. OK, I should be more forgiving. Especially towards people who think that corals are plants.

Anyway, totally digressed. We ended up buying this LOVELY faux cave, which I'll be using for the exhibit. There was this amazing grapewood branch as well, but I doubt it's for sale. Sigh.

Actually did quite a bit today. Proof-read Yx's report, typed a letter for dad, did my share of paeds studying today, went to JP and bought some lovely clothes from JL (2 pairs of jeans - one off-white, and one blue-green, and 2 nice velvety collared short sleeves), found some prospectively usable material for the exhibit platform at dad's office .. those were nice, big plastic pallets. Came back to find that Dad hung up my mom's dance shoes on my branches. =\ Yeah, stroke of inspiration? Hehehe. Topped-up tank water, fed my fish.

Gosh, quite a rush before CNY. Wish it's still the hols. Need to get a new hood done, need to rescue the purple tilefish from the overflow box, and need to feed the Dendrophyllia. One of them's actually melting away - and alas, it's actually the one that won that photo competiton. I've been feeding them, so it's most probably coral wars. Then, need to get writeups done, and of course the bloody exhibit thing.

I'm totally not looking forward to it.

Oooh, and yx drew a beautiful lizard on the dorsal surface of my right hand using her eyeliner, and now that it's faded a little, it actually resembles a very well-done tattoo! Damn. Wish I could get one. I'd love a similar lizard, perhaps on a less-noticeable area. It's again one of those stigmata against doctors. Heck. Now I know why it was called a noble profession in olden times (no longer so nowadays, unfortunately) - all toil and sacrifice and meaning the best for people, but you get a slap in return. Nice!

Going off now before I type anything else that's scary. In quite an edgy, grumpy and touchy mood right now.