gejala pokok | symptomatic trees

there’s something about the bodyshop that creeps me out a little with their “buy a candle and stop domestic violence” etc. thingies.

dropped by it today (okay, not that creeped out that i stopped going altogether, my bad!), and saw a sign that says “adopt a seed”, which of course perked me up. it’s some action around global warming, and calling for potential customers to pick up small brown packets of seeds to plant them at home. no instructions or details about what seeds they are, but here’s a visual clue:

i asked the shop assistant what it was, and she said it was a yellow flame tree. sounds cool! she said i had to boil the seeds for 2 hours before planting, which makes sense because tree seeds has quite long dormant periods. but uhm… does anything about this exercise strike anyone as a little weird?

anyway! i can’t wait for an over-population of yellow flame trees all along the streets of PJ and KL :D. i wonder if i can manage one on my balcony ;p