On the 4-year mark comes a revolution !

'Looking back' is the general mood on our little-island with the coming National Day celebration. As Singapore looks back 45-years to the birth of a nation, I nostalgically browsed through my own blog, all the way back to the new-born entry 4years ago, on 4Sep'2007.

Fondly recalled how an apetite for heirloom tomatoes sparked off a new hobby in gardening; which later fireworked into a large collection of complementing edibles, ranging from herbs to fruiting/vegetables, both temperate and tropical. I had great fun, on top of the sweat and misery of failing crops, pests and bad weather.

Approaching the 4-year mark, I feel like a revolution! Not just a superficial makeover to the garden. But a major change- new directions, new working models, new partners.

So the blog took on a new name, 'We Purr As We Grow', inspired by the new purring-partner on this blog. A delighted gardener is just like a delighted cat. We toil and sweat, then sit back and admired our completed task, still heavy in our breathing, and sounding just like a purring-cat !

Bye to 'We Eat So We Grow'. Now 'We Purr As We Grow' :)

The Sun. They love; I dun; she does sometimes.

The Sun is back. Was yesterday, being the first day of spring on the chinese farmer's calender.

The dinner-plate hibiscus and sunset hibiscus (she's the color of my nonya-kebaya) love it and bloomed lavishly...

I frown with the heat... While kimi enjoys the sun-basking in the morning...
...then she naps on the cool pebbles in the early afternoon... ... and hides in my room while I work hard at the study at mid-day.
Kimi follows me like a shadow as I move around the flat. So her chosen napping-spots must strategically allow her to monitor my movement while she's napping... Like the exit from the study in the pic.
Cats! LOL.

Chrysoberyl

Chrysoberyl, a gemstone that's commonly known as 'cat's eyes'. See pic below for comparison ;)

A month's breezed past and I have no new posting. Thought I'll put Kimi up then ;)

We are counting down to a whole week in Bali in June. So plants that were take down (all due to 'natural expiry', none diseased), no replacements were sowed in their places. By now, the previously little and packed balcony-garden looks like its been on some kind of diet-program, obviously down-sized... And looking very much better now with less plant and more space, despite my unwillingness to admit this.

Purpose of life for a cat

What's life if u have to live behind meshes and closed windows, even if it is to secure your safety? What's life if u get unlimited food without having to lift a paw? Yet u can only watch the 'outer space' beyond those windows, and imagine what is the world like outside this tiny 142sqm 'world' that u are not allowed to walk out of?

So do u, a cat also have a purpose in life? Or does your purpose lies only in my life?

What is Kimmi doing when Rummi is studying

The stepping-stool under my workstation.

Durian IN ; Catnip OUT

Live in Singapore, then eat like a Spore (err) cat! Kimi loves to eat durian. An overwhelming interest she showed to durian which do not exist in catnip.

And NOPE, im not putting any durian tree on the growlist, LOL

Fantasy list - Kittens growing on vines

If only kittens grow on vines too! Then i can train them up the poles, and pluck them when they are mature... no more kitten-on-laptop/books/printer/fax machine, or kitten playing in wet bathroom, n walking pawprints all over the flat.

...she jumps around
...she rolls over in the middle of the room
...she attempts to do my filing
...she sorts my receipts by destruction
...she lies on textbooks n laptops to inhibit work so tat we play with her.
notti notti

Kimi Bluemoon

So this is our Blue pet;) She likes to lie on e floor n stretch herself veeeery long into a roll of grey carpet on our laminate floor.

New season new pets - Green & Blue

Nov/Dec is very pleasant on a tropical island. Rain comes frequently while the clouds shield off the blazing sun rays. Even the view from our little balcony got all dreamy and holiday-resort-looking ;)


With all the buzz-buzz in work n studies completed/procrastinated, now is a good time to start the 'food chain' for 2009. Here's the new Green-pets coming up...


On top of these, our new Blue-pet is coming home with us tis friday. She's a British Blue Shorthair kitten. Susan gave these catnip plants to Kimi. Hmm, Kimi is all pampered with gifts even before she come!


Mister-Oregano is my favourite. He's been around since this little balcony-garden started in Jan. We haven't been able to cook him fast enough to match his growth speed; so tat's how he became a hanging-pot-of-oregano, shaggy hair and moustache. LOL