I realise that the more mozzies I feed, the more interesting the animals are that I get to see. Why must this be so? :P
Was called to Sungei Buloh yesterday to take on a group of schoolkids from Pat's Schoolhouse. Very inquisitive minds… endless questions. Very rewarding. I'm glad I had a choice between [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
Blood pact
Screw the mandates…
Q: Isn't there a United Nations force stationed in southern Lebanon? What is its mandate, and has it accomplished its mission, or even anything substantial? Gary Westmoreland, Schuyer, Virginia, USA
John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor: Unifil (UN Interim Force in Lebanon) has been stationed in southern Lebanon for 28 years, but [...]
Business and the environment? Or business or the environment…
There comes a time when you can stand in the road and see vaguely what's up ahead. I can do it now; the fog has thinned to a slight haze. For the past few years during my ecology degree I have been living somewhat in denial of what my future holds. I thought I had [...]
Four spots, two snakes
We started off from Mandai Orchid Gardens, Kiat, Steven (our first time meeting; he figured I was Husky from the butterfly-pal forums! He was Birdwing) and I. We had high hopes for MOG, having heard and seen the great sunbird shots – especially of the Crimson sunbird and the spiderhunter – that other photographers managed [...]
Socials
I met up with ZF on Tuesday for a while; we watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2 together. It was also with her that I watched the first Pirates with! Very funny, although I still prefer the first one. Singapore gets another mention, to the amusement of the theatregoers.
Wednesday night was dinner with the usual [...]
Western Johor Straits
Slightly to the west of Sungei Buloh are several marine foodfish farms. Including the ones near Changi and Pulau Ubin, these aquacultural establishments take up ~50 hectares of our coastal waters. The floating net cages can only be set up in waters with low tidal depths of five to 13 metres… Singaporeans consume about 100 [...]
Sungei Buloh
On a Monday; a quiet day. But today was no ordinary trip to Buloh. I wasn't being called in to conduct guided tours. Well… it's difficult to keep me from blogging the details of what made today. But let's just say I managed to get this… the Main Bridge from a different angle!
And in as [...]
More blabber
Kickboxing's pretty fun. Muay Thai, something more SEAsian than the Hung Gar kuen I've been exposed to… and the training's much less tough. More wushu coming up, I hope my poor muscles can take it.
Drove lots today, much more than my usual few clicks. To our old East Coast home to check the condition of [...]
Blabber blabber blabber
1. Why do people wear jackets or long sleeves or two layers of clothing, outdoors, in bluddy hot Singapore? I'm in in a light cotton top and three-quarter shorts, and I totally sweat out the few metres I cover from the MRT station to the street a few blocks down. They're crazy, people who can't [...]
Changi, 0400hrs
I love it. It's like an annual pre-dawn pilgrimage to the shores of Changi, a little Beachflea tagging along with the Wildflims crew. Intertidal trips to me are something very special, something precious, since periods of super low tides don’t come by all that often annually, and I am usually away from Singapore. Oh, how [...]
