Mother and her bunga kantan

Today I was at the hypermarket looking for bunga kantan.  These were what I found...2 very miserable looking bunga kantan for RM1.99 each!

This reminds me of our family home in Section 12 where I used to cut bunga kantan every now and then to prepare some of our favourite dishes. It also reminds me of Mother.  She used to really love the bunga kantan plant that was grown at the back of our house.  She made sure she fertilized the plant regularly with water that had been used to rinse fish.  I think this plant must have been her favourite. I recall that the house maid who looked after Father after Mother's demise had told me several times that she had seen an apparition of an elderly woman watering the plant.  If that was true, then, even after her death she was looking after the plant.