It did bloom a few times a long long time ago like here, for instance, and after 7 years, it bloomed again in January this year and a few more times after that. I think this was the fourth time this year, that night on the last day of Ramadan, approaching midnight on the 1st Day of Syawal…to usher in the auspicious Muslim festival of Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
It started at around 9 something…
…and by around 10, it was still in the process of blooming…
…and even by 11, it had not fully bloomed…
…yet but it was already way past my bedtime and I was dead tired and very sleepy already so I just decided to call it a day.
There was another bud…
…but it did not bloom together with the one aforementioned and when it did so the following night, I did not bother to wait for it and had gone to bed early.
Well, if you are wondering, no, all those times when the flowers bloomed, I did not have any windfall unlike what some people would insist – that when they flower, one would be sure to win at one of those lotteries.
It so happened that a friend of mine has that same plant and it also flowered that same night and he PM-ed me a photo of his via Facebook…
…and he had two blooms at one go and maybe a third or maybe that one at the back would bloom the following night too…and no, he did not strike it rich either.
...STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS! 