A new breath of life

Ah, a new breath of life, my supposedly evergreen plant that is. Have been keeping some neat and cool looking "money plant" near the window of my 6x4 feet cubicle (hahaa... no, not that small though, but...) and the poor plants were left in such a sorry state. I would like to think that the sorry state came about due to the plants absorbing all the negative "chi" directed at me in the office, but to be honest, the sad looking plants probably died due to almost perpetual neglect. :(

Yeah, when I first had the plant in the office, one of my kind colleague took pity on me and volunteered to help look after the plants for me (i.e. change water and give the leaves a good wash once a while), and I would occasionally top up the water, but after a few months, it seemed that my colleague also "forgot" about me, or to be specific, forgot about my plants.

So, what to do? I just added the water to the brim each time I can. Yeah, yeah, I know. I could have changed the water myself, but there are simply just to many "buts" going around that I consider them excuses for plain laziness on my part. Not a greenfinger muh! Also, even with some miniscule shading from the window pane, I think the heat from the sun have been too intense (have you ever sat basking in the sun for so long that you almost collapsed?), which had directly contributed to the sorry state of my now "died-ded" plants. So, not entirely my fault!

Today, with the approaching new year, gave the old wilted plants a decent burial, sang them an almost sorrowful requiem, with many a tears shed (due to guilt I guess)... not! Now, I have some new, hopefully in the literal sense, evergreen money plants, complimentary from another kind soul. Let's see how long they survive the incessant tough environment of my office cubicle. :P