my first phal

[Eythan]

ok so its spring time here in melbourne, aus, and things are really starting to get quite hot

i went into box hill the other day and bought a moth phal (beautiful white white flowers with yellow and red speckles in the centre). it wasn't looking all the best, but at $20 was relatively cheap, so i bought it.
it has a healthy looking spike developing (one of the flowers is open, other buds opening, spike still extending), but my concern is that the plant as a whole is a bit limp, the flower that has opened isn't opoen fully and is a bit wrinkly, and i'm not sure if that's normal. the leaves themselves are quite small and very wrinkly and very limp, which i don't think is normal at all. i'm too scared to give it water (i have drowned a few orchids in the past), and the lady in the shop i bought it from advised aginst watering anyway.

the roots look ok i guess, from what i can see above the bark (i'm not going to take a look at the buried roots, i'll try to leave flowering orchids alone as much as possible)

it may be the heat causing the poor dear to go limp (temp has been approaching 30 degrees celcius, it may have gotten hotter than that even), so i put the whole pot in a bigger pot and put gravel and stones between the two pots to moderate the heat a bit.

its currently sitting on a table under a translucent white varanda, but it still gets the hot breeze

i have a little hothouse in my back yard, but it's like a sauna in there these days, so i think that's out of the question

maybe i should take it inside my house, or just leave it to recover (it wasn't exactly healthy when i bought it)

any suggestions??