While browsing through my bookshelves for old textbooks and study notes, I came across a book which Cyn passed to me before I left Sydney: The memoirs The Road from Coorain (1989), by Jill Ker Conway. I remembered that in it were quite a few pages describing her schooling life at Abbotsleigh. Not sure how [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2006’
SBWR Volunteers 10th Anniversary
Yesterday could easily have been one of my most enjoyable days at Sungei Buloh – it was a day of camaradarie and fun – nature walks with Krish the guide of all guides, boat rides around the estuaries of the Reserve, ceremonies of appreciation, sing-along sessions, banner-writing and terracotta moulding, video documentary viewing (who better [...]
Keep getting spidered
I note with slight apprehension that the readership of my blog has been escalating. And I'm quite sure my photos of insect skins aren't the ones doing the attraction. I took at look at the stats (yes, the only time I'm into such awful things as statistics) and found that the two top terms responsible [...]
The red planet? Not again
In 2003 I managed to scope – albeit poorly – Mars. This year, I've been receiving e-mails and messages on MSN telling me not to miss 27th Aug! for this is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT and yadda yaddish. The hoax is back – it made its rounds last year and this year its [...]
Why did the chicken cross the road?
I'm staring at a sepia photo of some mallards in flight. It's my desktop.
I stare at it a little longer…
It's funny how it slowly turns black-and-white.
If only most things in the world could be like that.
There's so much grey, so much dirt, so much BS in everything. I can only cuss and [...]
New haircut
Dofu… not me.
They're all empty inside
A few pics from my collection of exoskeletons, eggs, skins, moults and sloughs.
The classic cicada moult
Praying mantis, probably 3rd instar
Spider #1
Spider #2
Giant terrestrial dragonfly moult
Cotton stainer moult
Plus more photos of specimens here.
Another Saturday gone
This year is the IOSEA Year of the Turtle. NSS held an event at East Coast Park yesterday, an educational session for kids. I went as a volunteer, and my sis came along. I ended up taking photos and chatting with people, there having been enough helpers as it is. Jane helped dig turtle nests [...]
Sojourn 2006
I think I was the only postgrad there on Friday. Ergh. Feel so old! There were around 42 freshers this year at orientation… quite a bunchful. No particular duty, just photographer and standby first aider, chit-chat a bit, answer questions and whatnot. When I thought last year's Sojourn would be my last… who would've thought [...]
