A New Life

I had been thinking to get something alive in my room for quite a long time, (it'd be great if it can be a dog!!) until the beginning of December last year, I've got a little "bulb" from WoolWorth when it was going to close down. Guess this is not the first time I grow a plant, (for sure, most people grow something like mung bean or water chestnut during primary school, right?) but it still excites me quite much.. especially when its grow has become so obvious day by day..!!

This is its box, a white hyacinth, originally I planned to get a blue purple one, but I thought I was going to Austria skiing trip that time and I wouldn't be able to take good care of it (in fact it doesn't really require any care..), so being stupid I didn't buy it when I first saw it in the shop. Later I realized that it was actually going to close down, and I can actually get it first, while start growing it later.. Unfortunately, few days later when I went again, there were only plenty of white left! :( :( - Anyway I do love white colour very much.. it's just the blue purple look great on it.

If you don't know what a hyacinth is, it's 风信子, sounds any familiar? Thanks to Chorpeng, because I didn't know that as well, but when I told him I bought a bawang for £3, immediately he asked whether it is 风信子.. geng ley..! OK, not going to grumble too much.. This post is dedicated to my little hyacinth - its growing process, and I'll be updating it often until it's really a grown up.. (eh, that's not a human la..)

2008.12.23 The beginning.. this was how it looked like.. a bawang, right? (Bear with me the quality of the pic, I don't understand why on earth I took a pic without focus..)

2008.12.29 About one week later.. I could finally see "something" there.. (Eh? is there a difference?)

2009.01.19 I checked it nearly daily I think, and about three weeks later, it had just made this BIT difference..

Same day, perhaps there wasn't much difference "up there", but its roots grew damn fast..

2009.01.22 it speeds up a bit, I can see its grow

2009.01.30 When I showed it to Bee Peng, she said probably by the time we graduate the flower will be there.. lol

2009.02.06 Miracle of life..

2009.02.09 It's growing very much faster now..

2009.02.10 I can see the flower.. Can you???

2009.02.11 They came out the next day.. :) :)

2009.02.12 Finally.. (notice the dates, it started growing fast fairly recently..)

Same day, another view.. I can see that it will be very pretty.. hahaha.. What do you think?