Ranting #2

A World of Flowers Dried flowers

Too busy yesterday to update my blog... yesh... i'm finally busy in office... but I'm slacking in the office even though there's work for me to do... shall do sloooowly so at least those work can keep me occupied for the week....
yesterday was pay day... but no one is free to help me spend my hard-earned money... which is good as I can keep it for myself... (dun bother trying to help me spend though... i appreciate your efforts...)

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well... i'm supposed to talk about flowers in this post... not those flowers that one gets on V-Day (which reminds me that I didn't get any this V-Day but got a super expensive watch instead...) but those flowers which are dried and made into floral tea... (gers out there dun bother taking out dried flowers from the already long gone V-Day... i personally think that they are not for consumption but only for decoration/declaration purposes...)I think Jason's @ Paragon sells a variety of floral tea... but the price is as beautiful as the flowers themselves... I used to remember my mom bringing me to now gone Tangs Studio(the one in Ngee Ann City) at least 10 years ago to buy floral tea... well... think that's when i started to get to know floral tea...
anyway... i forgot all about the tea until the very act cute Stella Ng (sorry Stella's fan...) endorsed the Genki floral teas...

Then good old Eileen (who happened to work in Guardian for a while) actually asked me to share some floral tea after her friend managed to slim down after drinking them daily... we actually went to look at Genki's ingredient and tried to find the same flowers to avoid buying the product... However... think due to our lack of knowledge of flowers... we didn't know what flowers they were talking about and decided to get just rose, mint and jasmine.

Rose, being the symbol of woman (well... think the Da Vinci Code mentions more than once in the whole book), is supposed to help 养颜 (or maintain beauty)...
Mint is used to make one feel refreshed and jasmine... well i think it's for the taste and smell only? since people like to drink jasmine tea because it smells good... so maybe that's why we chose jasmine...

all these happened before CNY and during CNY... I had an overdosage of floral tea and had diarrhea for a whole week... maybe that's why her friend can manage to slim down after drinking daily... or maybe those flower buds are not as fresh already...

On the past sunday, my mom and I actually went to buy more dried rose for tea... and after stepping into the shop in Bugis, I actually chose more than just the simple rose buds...
i bought lavender... which is supposed to promote sleep(even though i can sleep the moment i touch my bed...) and calm the nerves... camomile which is good for headache and migraines which i'm prone to having them whenever i study and also cramps of the u know where... more jasmine... chrysanthemum, white one to be more precise... and also Globeamaranth Flower... which is good for the respiratory system and good for reducing cholesterol levels...
Actually I only know the chinese name to the last flower which is 千日红 but with the help of this site... I finally get to know globeamaranth flower...

Well... til this day I have not tried those tea that I've newly bought... will update if there's any effects after drinking the tea... be it good or bad... haha....

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Btw... just to update on the baby case... the 23 yr old was found to be a student of SIM... Eileen's school... "According to Shin Min and Lianhe Wanbao reports, the woman is a final-year business degree student at a local educational institute, who lived with her parents and a brother in their five-room HDB flat." Full report at Dead infant dumped: Police quiz suspect's boyfriend StraitTimes

Today's Straits Times is filled with O level results stuff and Oscars... but found something interesting... Rice used as glue on ancient walls StraitTimes

"BEIJING - RICE fills the bowls on many Chinese tables - and also the cracks in its ancient buildings and maybe even the Great Wall, state media said.
'The legend that ancient Chinese craftsmen used glutinous rice porridge in the mortar while building ramparts has been verified,' the official Xinhua news agency said in a report.
Archaeologists researching an ancient wall around the city of Xi'an, a former imperial capital and home to the famed terracotta warriors, were stumped by the ingredients of a resilient mortar holding bricks together.
The hardened paste reacted similarly to glutinous rice in chemical tests, Mr Qin Jianming, a researcher with the Xi'an Preservation and Restoration Centre of Cultural Relics, said.
The 12m wall was built during the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Xinhua said rice might even have been used to build the Great Wall more than 2,000 years ago. -- REUTERS"

Interesting read... haha... back to work... before that... time for some Entertainment too...
Babyblues... this reminds me so much of my house at the moment...