Gardening

 

My Seven Stars Needle Plant or Rose Cactus Plant

Gardening is my hobby.  Every day when I walk to my garden and see flowers at my plants, I feel so happy.  Besides the above Seven Stars Needle Plant, I also have curry leaves plant (Murraya koenigii), money plant, Mexican petunia or Ruellia simplex, ferns (Nephrolepis exaltata), Money plant (Epipremnum Aureum), Basket/ Corn plant (Dracaena fragrans), Arrowhead (Syngonium Prodophyllum), Mother of thousands or Mexican hat plant (Bryophyllum daigremontianum), Water Jasmine (Wrightia Religiosa), Plyscias Balfouriana, Oyster plant (Tradescantia spathacea), bougainvillea, chilli plant, butterfly pea plant, Papaya plant, clover (Oxalis corniculata), cactus, cotton plant and Adenium obesum (福贵花).

Recently I sold some plants and this give me more motivation to grow and propagate more plants.  I bought lots of soil from Shopee and Lazada.  When the buyer wanted to buy my plants, I gave them the good nice ones.  If they are not so healthy, I gave them a cheaper rate.  When I sell them my plants, I gave them pots with so much soil as compared to the nurseries, where they gave half pot of soil or sometimes three quarter of soil.  

 Potting Soil that I purchased from Shopee

Garden Soil that I purchased from Shopee

Good soil is so important for the plants.  It gave them the good nutrients to thrive in the environment.  So when the soil I ordered came, I need to mix the soil before repotting my plants.  

Picture of the containers I used to mix the soil

I mostly do my gardening at night, where it would be not too hot.  At night the plants would not lose much water content too.  

If you want to buy soil in bulk, Shopee is selling a bundle of 3 at $13, a bundle of 5 at $25.  These prices are for the potting soil on the above photograph.  Yesterday I ordered 10 packets of  potting soil from Shopee!  As for the other photograph of the garden soil, Shopee is selling at 1 packet $6.80 (5 Litres).  There are so many varieties of medium you can used for your plants at Shopee.  Buying in bulk saves money and you do not need to carry them too.  

My Yam Plant

 

Yam plant from this owner at Khatib

On 17 March 2024, I went to this house to take the yam plant.  The owner gave up on this plant.  From a plant with several foliage, its leaves were by then left with only two.  So I took over the plant.  I pushed my trolley there and collected it at Khatib.  I was very careful when placing it in my trolley because I do not want to destroy the leaf.  The owner had told me that she bought this Yam plant last year only and it was just like that as seen in the photograph above.  She did not do anything to the Yam plant. 

Getting ready to repot the yam plant

Back home, I discovered that the blue pot that the person had planted the Yam plant was with no hole.  The soil doesn't look good too.  So I decided to repot the Yam plant to a pot with hole.  This is to make sure that water can drain well and there would not be any water trapped in the pot, making the pot too wet for the Yam plant.  When I dig out all the soil from the Yam plant, I saw so many pieces of torn styrofoam on the bottom of the pot.  There were water on the base of the pot too.  

So I carefully took out the Yam plant and at the same time, I mix my soil with the soil from the Yam plant.  Last night, I posted on Instagram about my Yam plant.  The picture below shows the photograph of the Yam plant from yesterday.  

Yam plant on 26 March 2024

Today I was so surprise to see the Yam plant has changed so much!  The leaves had grown bigger and there are altogether 5 leaves now!  I am so happy to see that I had successfully changed the fate of this Yam plant.  

Yam Plant on 27 March 2024

If you would like to buy Yam plant, you can click on this link: https://shope.ee/4KwAohtGy3

Buying plant online saves you the trouble of transportation and also all the energy to carry

the heavy pot of plant from one location to another. There will be inconvenience when

you push the trolley on way to home. I had to walk the way that had ramp and I also need

to take the lift when I need to board the MRT. These few days, the weather was extremely

hot too. Buying the Yam plant online can save the hard work of traveling under the hot sun.

The potted Yam plant placed inside my trolley during the transportation

My Family

 

Photograph taken two days after Isaac was born

This is another family photograph taken two days after Isaac was born.  I had become a mother of 3 even though I wanted to have 2.  

It's five years since we are divorced.  My family consists of the 3 children and Taco now.  I had accepted and living very well without him by my side.  I have Taco to keep me company.  And I have 3 wonderful children.  

My hand holding Isaac's hand at three days old

The little hand that I hold has now become bigger than mine.  Isaac's hands are bigger than mine and he is even taller than me now.  

My family photograph taken on September 2023, my birthday

I believe I am in the next stage of my life.  My children are grown up and I had reached menopause.  The photograph above was taken on my birthday.  The children helped to make the cake.  Clara baked the cake and the other two helped to decorate the cake.  I am so blessed to have 3 perfect children.  I am always learning new things again from my children too.  I am having some health problems at the same time.  So my focus now is on maintaining a good health and to live a meaningful live everyday.

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Power Bank

 

Aukey Power Bank, 10000mAh

Recently I bought another power bank.  My current one is Anker.  I have two Anker power banks.  One is 20000mAh and the other is 10000mAh.  The 20000mAh Anker got 'bloated' one day.  It was expanding in every hour.  I scared that it would explode and I quickly threw it away in the rubbish chute.  So I was left with Anker 10000mAh as shown below: 

Anker Power Bank, 10000mAh

This current Anker Power Bank is not bad, but the light indicator was not working now.  It was not too big, able to fit into my small bag too.  However, it always show only two lights out of the four lights indicator.  Thus I did not know when it is fully charged.  

I am very happy with Aukey Power bank now.  It is white colour, my favourite colour for the power bank and there are 4 lights indicator also.  It is small, the size of a credit card, and I can put inside my small bag.  I always bring it along in case my handphone run out of battery.  With Aukey Power bank, I really can have peace of mind when I go outdoor. What's more, the price is very affordable.  

Another Power bank that I had bought is Mazer Power bank, 10000mAh.  I bought this power bank for giving to Isaac.  He don't have a power bank and he often forgets to charge his phone.  So I bought him a power bank so that he can have access to his handphone when battery is low.  Mazer Power Bank that I had bought for Isaac is white and it is also in credit card size.  Isaac loves it also because it is very small, able to fit into his RockBro waterproof pouch for his bicycle. 

Isaac's Mazer Power Bank, 10000mAh