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Friday, November 25, 2005

Household Hint No. 374

If your electricity
Is cut off
The glow from six fireflies
Provides enough light
To read a book.

13 comments:

  1. Poor fireflies.

    On the other hand, are they rechargeable?

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  2. Let's leave them critters alone :) Already so few of them left. Have you guys ever done the river ride up Kuala Selangor to view the flashing fireflies? Quite a sight. Flicker flicker...

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  3. nice idea .. take a boat trip and sit and read on the river

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  4. aaah, but can they keep us warm? it is so , so, so very cold here.

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  5. don't say that kak teh ... i'm coming back soon and i don't have warm shoes or a warm jacket and i can't find my gloves and woolly scarf ... my usual ploy is to borrow the family cat for warmth

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  6. Yo, check out this site! http://www.librarything.com

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  7. swifty - haha - i already blogged about this site and have catalogued exactly two of my books so far

    anisah - i will for sure be envious of your feline hot water bottles. hmmm hadn't though about the mosquitoes on the river ...

    little miss d - relieved to hear that. cherie has driving skills i never knew existed. what an eloquent horn she has.

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  8. 6 sticks of Dunhill may do the same thing

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  9. sorry marquez - not politically correct

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  10. What, these people never heard of torchlights ? :)

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  11. I'm an author, not a politician :-)

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  12. marquez - all power to him with the airbrush

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