Message Bean

So anyway, after numerous attempts of keeping a written content based weblog and now that my previous excuse of not having a digital camera is invalid, here is my new site, in its 571st incarnation.


I'm not sure why I chose to post this first picture. It's one of the most novel little gifts I've ever seen, not to mention a somewhat dodgy result of possible genetic engineering to the innocent sprout. This was a colleague's birthday gift. It came as a seed in soil packaged in a simple tin with instructions to water and leave out in the sun. After three days, voila! A little green sprout poked through the soil and came out into the sun.

This however is no ordinary sprout as the name on the in suggests. This is a magical message bean!




The former bean part of the sprout/seedling comes engraved with birthday wishes on either side. What technology was used in creating this horticultural wonder/mutant I can only guess. The boss suggested the technology was either German or Japanese. However, my Chinese colleagues, not suprisingly, preferred to think that the Message Bean had teutonic origins.