DIY potpourri

[tweeds]

i've always liked to use potpourri when i'm making presents for friends...it's a great filler and smells good. but i've always bought them in packets off the shelf. recently someone i know bought a packet of tea-leaves and used them as potpourri. any other ideas for substitutes you've come across?

of course there's making your own, but who does that especially in a tropical country eh.

[denimdestroyedmylife]

[Kasper]

In Singapore, i don't think it's the greatest idea unless you want to know what is it like to be hanged....

[sean_]

wow, hanged over pot???

[denimdestroyedmylife]

hang 'em high?

[Kasper]

wow, hanged over pot???

Capital punishment is a legal form of punishment in Singapore. The state has the highest per-capita execution rate in the world' date=' estimated by the United Nations to be 13.57 executions per one million population between 1994 to 1999. The next highest was Saudi Arabia with 4.65. Each execution is carried out by hanging at Changi Prison at dawn on a Friday.[/quote']

Under the Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act' date='[3'] any person found in the possession of more than the following quantities of drugs receives a mandatory death sentence:

* Opium: 1,200 g, containing more than 30 g of morphine

* Any controlled drug (except opium): containing more than 30 g of morphine

* Diamorphine (Heroin): 15 g

* Cocaine: 30 g

* Cannabis: 500 g

* Cannabis mixture: 1,000 g

* Hashish: 200 g

* Methamphetamine: 250 g

Also receiving death sentences is any person caught manufacturing

* Morphine, or any salt of morphine, ester of morphine or salt of ester of morphine

* Diamorphine (Heroin) or any salt of diamorphine

* Cocaine or any salt of cocaine

* Heroin

The Misuse of Drugs Act places heavy burden on the accused to prove innocence. Under the act any person found in possession of more than the prescribed amounts is assumed to be trafficking. Any person who has in their possession a key to a premises where drugs are found is assumed to be possession of the drugs. The act states not being in physical contact with the drugs is not a defence to the charge.

Singaporeans are quite the fascist when it comes to applying the law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapore

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Tuong_Van

http://www.expatsingapore.com/general/law.htm

anyway, back to pot-pourri