Roadsides

So, there i was....
6 hours of college
3 hours of bus-ing around and
2+ km of foot work behind me

Half a kilometer ahead

It was drizzling, the kind with sad heavy drops...
maybe i should have waited for a bus in the first place, but i just didn't like standing helplessly under the rain

I stopped striding at a junction
Its a funny feeling having cars were flying pass on my right and motionless trees on my left
Makes you feel like being trapped in time, epiphanic...

I looked across the 4 lanes to the Petronas as the rain gets heavier
Now if i ran, I'd get soaked.. if i stayed.. not much difference there..

Took a step back against a palm tree and watched the moody sky moaning
Watched the rain crawling closer to my feet
The thunder calls echoing the lightning flashes in the clouds...
Remember how teacher taught you not to stand under trees when its raining?

Only one thing was stopping me from dashing to shelter...
And that was weariness, despite all self-denial and masculine 'ego' i have in my strength
Well, that... and maybe the speeding cars too...

But then hope appeared, salvation from the drench
in ridiculous impossible coincidence

A bus.

Which side of the road would you have stood at?

The precious plant in the little purple house..

Once upon a time,
there was a gardener..
and this gardener had a big garden..
in this big garden grew many kinds of interesting plants..

On the left side of the garden grew Cabbages, Carrots and Cauliflowers..
and at the right, the garden had fruits like Pomelos, Pumpkins and Pineapples..

But the middle of the garden was most special..
because in it the gardener planted many many types of the most beautiful flowers..
from Lustrous Orchids and Dharling Dahlias..
to Wild Peach Roses and Orange Rec Coxcombs..
the middle of the garden was full of colourful flowers..

Right in the middle of all these flowers,
the gardener had built a funny little purple house..
this house had a little window, and a little table..
but it did not have a roof..

No, the gardener did not forget, but he remembered that all plants needed sunlight..
and in this little purple house was a very precious little plant..
why did he built the house?
because he did not want to show anyone his favourite plant..

So every time someone asked, "whats in that house, gardener?"
he would just reply, "there's a very special plant inside.."
and show them all his other plants,
giving water and putting fertilizer in their soil..

Then when night came, when there was no one around,
the gardener would go into the little house to look at his precious flower
giving special water and putting special fertilizer in its soil..
the gardener also sat by the plant because he knew that special plants need a lot of care to grow

As time went on, the precious plant in the little purple house grew..
now it had a bulb.. which would soon bloom into a flower..
the gardener was very happy because he knew the flower would be very pretty..

But the other plants around the house grew too..
and more and more people were interested in the gardeners garden..
everyone wanted to see how beautiful his garden was..

Everyday, he had to take visitors around his garden many times..
and every time someone asked, "whats in that house, gardener?"
he would just reply, "there's a very special plant inside.."
everybody wanted to see what was inside the little purple house..

But this made the gardener very tired..
he soon forgot of the precious plant in his little purple house..
the gardener stopped giving special water
and stopped putting special fertilizer in its soil..
he was too tired from showing everyone his garden to take care of his precious plant..

Days passed by
many visitors continued to visit his garden
and the gardener had no time to take care of his plant..

Inside the little purple house..
the precious plant began to feel lonely..
it felt that the gardener cared only for all the other plants

The plant also began to feel hungry and thirsty..
because the gardener forgot to give it special water
and put special fertilizer in its soil..

But what the plant wanted most was to have the gardener sit by the plant
because it was a special plant and needed a lot of care to grow

The plant began to die..
its bulb bloomed but the petals were weak..
and the petals and the leaves soon began to wither and fall off..

Days later, the gardener suddenly remembered about the precious plant..
he rushed to the little purple house to see if the plant was alright..
when he saw the plant, he was very sad because he thought that the plant had died..

But the precious plant was not dead
there were a few leaves that were still green..
why did it not die? how did it stay alive?
because there was no roof.. and the sunlight could still come in..
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thinkin of wat was.. and wat could possibly be..