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Bumbles, Monks and Crusts. They now occupy my fish tank. Yes, I went fish shopping again and acquired three families. The Bumbles (6 members) Species: Bumblebee Goby;Monks (6 members) Species: Cardinal Tetras; and the Crusts (6 members): Species: Bumblebee Shrimp. I think I've brought together a rather peaceful community of live beings all less than 2cms in length. I've also been very resourceful and I've cut a bit of netting from the package that ginger and oranges usually come in and I've wrapped it around the filter inlet so that no fish will ever have to travel up the plastic pipe (much like Augustus Gloop up the pipe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and get decapitated.

After the fish shopping we went to the flower markets in Mong Kok. I'd never been there before and it was a completely new world. You can buy a bunch or roses for HK$45 (A$7)! But I'm not a roses kind of person. I think roses are a bit ordinary just like diamonds. There were just too many flowers to choose from and then I spotted the sunflowers. They are my favourite flowers in the entire world because each stalk has a personality of its own. My sister-in-law wants to return next week. She's into the whole flower in a vase thing at the moment. I want to go to the bird garden as well. No, I'll not be buying a bird. Caging a winged creature that can fly is the equivalent of Guantanamo Bay.