Tiger beetle
Weaver ants attacking termite
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Grar
When I’m behind the wheel, camera, bush, or book, I feel inspired to write… more intellectually, academically, and educationally. Words flow… invisibly.
But once I’m behind my lappie, the mind rebels.
Zoto uploads update
It’s been a busy month for the shutter. For November so far…
1: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Int’l Year of the Frog
6: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
7-9: Trip to Sedili, Johor Malaysia
15: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
18: Huntsman spider
18: ISEAS/WWF talk by Dr Chris Hails
22: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Kranji countryside
23: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
24: [...]
Getting tanned
I returned home today and told my mom that I’d have to head straight to Bishan Park again tomorrow morning, and she commented that it feels as if lately I’m “??????… ????”.
Well… there was the induction course for new staff last week, and it included visits to several places including Gardens by the Bay, and [...]
Henry
There are times when you weren’t expecting that you’d need a cab, but when you do, you wonder if you weren’t fated to have flagged down that very cab that you did. Wednesday was one of those times.
I got into the taxi, and told the cabbie uncle my destination. His response: “Geylang? Geylang ah… dangerous [...]
Eco debt
“Is humanity facing a looming ecological credit crunch?” – so asked Dr Chris Hails, Editor-in-Chief of the Living Planet Report and WWF-International Director of Network Relations, during his talk on Tuesday. A rhetorical question, no doubt, for the answer is a resounding yes.
He presented the findings of the Living Planet Report 2008, with an emphasis [...]
The Huntswoman
Woe betide any creature that finds itself ‘discovered’ on the walls of the office. A sharp poke with the business end of an umbrella and a gentle drop would land it on the floor, where it will then be coaxed into a jar, and be subjected to much scrutiny amongst the staff, who would then [...]
"Noah's Ark in Kensington"
Nostalgia can be a funny feeling. It’s joy mixed with longing, familiarity mixed with deploration. As I come to end of The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, I felt like begging Fortey to bring me back there one more time, once more to visit the warrens of hidden corridors beneath and behind the [...]
Buloh at its best!
I mentioned in an earlier post the sighting of the Eurasian Curlew – one of the highlights of this year’s migratory season. It was but an entrée. News about a flock of seven Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris), the largest reported number seen in Buloh, generated some excitement in recent days. Today… there was a most [...]
Montaigne on fashion
Take things indifferent, such as clothing: if anyone cared to refer clothing back to its true purpose (which is its usefulness and convenience for the body…), I would concede to him that the most monstrous clothes imaginable include, to my taste, our doctoral bonnets, that long tail of pleated velvet hanging down from the heads [...]
