flowers...

love them n all.. but prefer them on plants more than stuck in a dumb vase / flower arrangement... total eye-candy them! ugh!

today i ended up doing the super mushy thing...
sending not just flowers..but roses! for a dear pal's b'day.
Yuck! how uncreative.
Well in my defense... it was originally gonna be a BIG jar of...Horlicks!
YA! you read rite! Horlicks! but sigh! ...it wasn't meant to be.
apparently only flowers n cakes make the cut for a 'ta-da... midnite surprise'! :)

Chocolate... I get! But often wonder whats the significance of gifting someone flowers?

Hey Honey... its your birthday and look what i cut off the plants.
i love you so... and what better way to express it with, than flowers... !

or...
we are getting married... lets decorate ourselves with flower garlands... n hey while we are at it..lets even stick some all over the freaking stage and put some at each table.

or...
Oh Lord!... you are dead now... here...smell the flowers... n RIP.

till date i can't bear the cloyingly sweet perfume of jasmine... it reminds me of my Gran-dad's passing... and another event i rather forget.

and whatz worse is those beautiful n sweet smelling flowers... die in a week!
How symbolic is that... of the feeling it was given with in the first place? ha!

Now that the flowers died on me...what do i do with it?
press some in a book to save for eternity or... carelessly toss them out?

I once had a bouquet of summer blossoms sitting on my sunny window sill at work for many months...only 'coz i didn't have the heart to toss it out.
Various hues of yellows and browns it turned... until someone at the next cube complained of going 'aa-aa-aacchooo' to my nurtured fossils... Bless You!

so puhleease...! Save the $ for a more creative cause and spare me the flowers.

I enjoy them more in their natural habitat n splendor... n so do the birds n the bees and butterflies... who get to feast on it ...honey :)