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When I was chatting with an EC member a few days ago, I talked about my new hobby. He said why didn't I write a blog about it. So, here we go! This blog is dedicated to Crocodil3 who asked me to write about it. To Allen with whom I spent many chat hours talking about my new hobby.

I never thought that I would be obsessed with roses, though I have to admit that they are really wonderful flowers. You see, I thought caring for them are hard. Roses look like fragile flowers which need to be cuddled and talked to in order for them to be flourished. Whereas I am the anti-thesis of anything hard working.

After many years of leaving my front yard barren from anything except some wild weeds and unkempt grass, I decided to plant some China roses, or also known as 10 am flowers. China roses are very easy to plant and need no tender loving care to grow beautifully. I started to collect and plant various colours of the China roses and felt so happy when they started to flower.

From there onwards I started to plant a few types of flowers until one day I went to a nursery and on impulse bought a rose plant. I don't even know what colour it's going to be since I didn't ask anything about that rose.

A few weeks after replanting it into a pot, I noticed that it's growing beautifully, though yet to flower. Then, one day when I was buying my groceries, again, I decided to buy two pots of rose plants. I was lucky because it's the rainy season and the cooler weather made my roses flourished beautifully.

Then my rose plants started to flower. OHMY! It's really an awesome sight and amazing experience to see all these roses when I wanted to go out from my home. And they were like greeting me when I came back in the evening. Those roses really brighten up my days and lighten up my tired mind.

In here, I want to share some wonderful photos of my roses. Don't ask me their names because I don't know. But who cares about names, when they are just too beautiful to be named.

This is my first rose. I don't know exactly which red colour is it being called, but who cares, right? It has the biggest petals and size. So far it was only flowering once, so I guess it's being selective. And I think it wants to show who's the Boss among all my roses.

Like perfect twins, one is velvety red and the other is velvety cream. They bloomed simultaneously, and the contrasting colours were just like the Ying and Yang.

I like to think this is an electric pink colour, but I could be wrong. At first I thought this is going to be a blood-red rose, but when it bloomed fully, it turned out to be a different shade of red.

Pink is never my favourite colour, but this pink rose is really awesome. Now I'm a pink convert.

I thought I won't have any favourite between my roses. But I had to admit this yellow rose can be my favourite one. I can't help from smiling when I look at this rose. Yellow rose can really brighten up your day.

This is my latest rose. I like to call this colour as 'satin pink'. It's really a soothing colour. As compared to my other brightly coloured roses, this one was somewhat like a shy lady. However, her beauty shines through, so there's no way it's going to be just a 'wallflower'.

Though this hobby of mine is just in its infancy, I think it's going to last. I don't know about you guys, but I think this new hobby of mine is really rewarding. Looking at those colourful roses would brighten up my mood, and relax my tired body and mind after long day in the office.