week 6 full of flowers~

Week 6

Location: Nursery Unit

Mission: Bring back hostages while working undercover as an intern.

Duration: 9/8/10 ~ 20/8/10

Good luck, secret agents!

Arrived at the designated mission destination. Be careful, do not blow your cover.

This is Mr Sungkin Siran, an experienced staff here at IPS. Has been in the Agri field since the 70's. Taught us many about plant breeding, plant maintaining, plant everything. Here, he demonstrated how we can filter out the unwanted materials from soils.

Important tips: work with a smile. Don't take it too serious. No need to tense up.

That way you won't feel tired. :)

Here, we're making a soil mixture, with 3:2:1 ratio.

3 parts of soil, 2 parts of sand and a part of compost.

The soil mixture is filled into hundreds of polybags (keep smiling) before being transferred into the rain shelter.

There you go! Hundreds and hundreds of filled polybags ready to be used for planting pretty flowers.

This is the overgrowth plant in a polybag. It needs to be replant in other pot to ensure good root growth.

Plant re-potting. These 2 ladies seems to be enjoying their work. That's the spirit!

The re-potted plant is transferred back to the rain shelter.

Guess what this is. No, it's not a spaceship(??!), it's a durian seed grown here in the nursery.

We were going to plant this "flower" in this big pot but we're out of soil mixture. Next time maybe? Hehe~

Doing our internship in here feels like participating in the reality tv show, "Survivor". Don't worry, we all can survive this misery. And one day, my fellow survivor, YB Lawrence went fishing at the Timbang Menggaris river and also at sea. He brought back this home:

Yummy, you're all doomed. It's the first real fresh foods for us for a while now. Most of our diet here includes canned food and instant noodles.

What the fish? It's fishy, and lots of 'em.

And that's what we were doing for this 6th week. To be continued~