During a recent night survey at Sungei Buloh:
Gynacantha dorhni, a large but slender and beautiful dragonfly, contentedly perched and completely oblivious to the world around it. This individual was, with the mutual agreement of the entomologists present, collected and presented to our in-house odonata expert who then recommended that it be kept as a museum [...]
When the mind is satisfied, that is a sign of diminished faculties or weariness. No powerful mind stops within itself: it is always stretching out and exceeding its capacities. It makes sorties which go beyond what it can achieve: it is only half-alive if it is not advancing, pressing forward, getting driven into a corner [...]
The Japanese Ambassador and his wife prepare to start off Ikebana International Singapore Chapter’s 40th Anniversary gala with a Kagamiwari Ceremony (Sake Breaking Ceremony).
At the office, some of us were landed with the responsibility of fledging a young mynah, whose nest was removed from the ceiling boards in a preemptive motion by our admin staff [...]
Definitely the best British sitcom, ever.
Ahh, the verbal dexterity!
I think I’ve found my portable antidote.
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And [...]
The urge to roam has been growing stronger.
Feeling starved and restless.
Physically, psychologically, intellectually.
Very badly.
… …
Very, very badly.
All these tools, these drivers of globalisation, these reducers of distances. Worlds are bridged closer, yet remain far apart. Friends seem so near, and yet so distant. Blogs, Facebook, and instant messagers help me connect, yet I end up [...]
Summoned to the Fish’s desk with a “come to my table NOW!!! big spider”, I fetched an empty specimen tube and hopped across the hallway into the other room. I was expecting one of those huge jumpers, which constitute most of the S.O.S. cases around here. When I saw this one from afar, I promptly [...]
It was a cheesy thing that we did, but here’s to old times’ sake.
Here’s a re-dedication too. To our moms on this Mothers’ Day.
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Ps. here’s a never previously released blooper version!
A mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage for what really matters: poverty and preventable diseases in the third world, arms sales, oppression, injustice. Bad language and sex might offend some, who certainly have a right to complain; but they do not have a right to censor… … After all, it is morally [...]
So there I was, parked at a table full of local and international Shell employees (they were kind enough to sponsor a table and I was there courtesy of the Singapore Environment Council), a youngling challenged to bridge that vast age, experience and sectoral gap in making conversation with people who were asking me about [...]
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