Life is all about Choices...

i wana float away with no strings attached. I want to drill a hole and empty everything inside my mind. I wish for quiet moments, not rushing. I wish to do what i wish to do without worrying, love who i wish to love without being stabbed in the last minute.

There is so much sorrow, greed, suffering in this world. Sometimes it's like seeing this world from a glass. We may not live to see next day. Why planned so much, control so much. Why can't we follow our heart and go the righteous way?

Not able to follow your dream, not able to love the person u love, not able to go where you want to go, is painful but it's something that has got me bite on and move on with buddha's mind at heart...

sadhu sadhu sadhu

I decided not to quote which airline. But it's beginning to test my patience. First at the airport, i was told if it's not urgent (i.e. not departure date yet), call the 24hr hotline.
So immediately i went calling the hotline. Ok fair enough. I don't have good impression of any hotline numbers. They're simply too "Hot" to be picked up by anyone. But ok, after a couple of rings and hold, it went through. Fine. Explained my stuff and was quite instantly told to send email to a particular address (Instead of trying to solve on her end), and call another number to follow up with my email. I call this 'tai chi' method. But 'tai chi' is a no no in service line. It get's customers fed up.

Fine. Sent my email right aways. Following working day went down to ticketing office to speak directly to staff wanting to solve it right away. Ended up being refered to the same email and was told to call them. Alright, i called straight away and was told i've to wait for 2working days. ok Fair enough. 2days response time i still can accept.

Today i called up after 2days, and was straight away told i need to wait 4working days for reply. That marks the end of my hope for this airline service.
I shall see how long they take to drag 1 case to close.

These few entries and the next few are taken from book "Growing at your doorstep" by Hugh T.W. Tan & Chua Keng Soon. I'm blogging it to rem together with my readers

A very handsome tree of the forest, the Pulai(common name) can grow to an astounding height of 45m in height & 3m in girth. The trunk is fluted & its base buttressed. The crown in a young tree is pagoda-like.

This is the most common species of Alstonia & is the source of Pulai timber, a light hardwood. Pulai timber is cream-white, attractive but of low density & durability & so is suitable only for matchboxes, matches, chopsticks, very light furniture & pith helmets.

Gunung Pulai, in Johor, is a mountain named after this tree.
All parts of the plant produce a white latex containing alkaloids, for which the trees are sometimes tapped. The greenish-yellow flowers are produced seasonally. Each pollinated flower produces fruits which look like 2elongated bean pods up to 30cm long & these produce seeds with hair-like wings for wind-dispersal.

This large, fast-growing tree produce a poisonous latex; a beetle eats the young leaves.

Pictures can be found here: http://sg.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-101-s&va=alstonia+angustiloba&sz=all

The Common Dianella is a common species in Singapore forests & widespread in the world. this is probably because it is a highly adaptable species which can grow on terrain ranging from open grassland to primary forest, from sea-level to over 3000m. It belongs to the Lily family and Botanical Name as 'Dianella Ensifolia'.

In Malay folk medicine, the fruits, swallowed in pills, are believed to protect users from fevers for a year, and the leaves are used for poulticing wounds. The dried roots are sold in markets & can be used in cosmetics, as deworming poultices applied to the abdomen or for fumigation. The ashes of the leaves & roots are the ingredients for an ointment to treat herpes.

Pictures can be found here: http://www.natureloveyou.sg/Dianella%20ensifolia/Main.html

The flowers from this tree is beautiful and simple.

Did u know that this was one of the candidate for the 'National Flower', had not the orchid Vanda Miss Joaquim 'Agnes' been selected for that honour? This tree's white flower with its red centre displays the colours of the Singapore flag.

This species is endemic to Singapore & Peninsular Malaysia, occurring nowhere else.
Common Name: Singapore Kopsia
Botanical Name: Kopsia Singapurensis

White latex exudes from the plant when any part o it is cut. The flowers fall off after about a day with fruits in rhomboid shape & are dull red when ripe. The plant appears to favour waterlogged situations but cultivated plants can grow in drier conditions too.

Picture can be found here: http://www.nparks.gov.sg/cms/docs/redbook/kopsia-singapurensis.pdf

From the book by T. W. tan & Chua Keng Soon