28 posts tagged “school”
Been in the kitchen quite a bit recently. I discovered, not too cleverly, that food photography is not a brilliant idea when you're the cook.
Today I went for the first ODAC training in ages. Was a good workout, my feet are sore but I'm relishing the feeling.
My eyes are going to start bleeding soon from all the history essay outlines and notes and assignments.
Right: One of our cheerful Bintan Resorts guides. He never introduced himself so I don't know his name.
Above: Bumboat ride from Changi Jetty.
Right: Ixora, plentiful along the road in Ubin.
Galls don't just come in green! Infected rubber/tapioca leaves on the left. The leaves in Ubin looked generally a lot unhealthier than both L. Peirce and BTNR. Fallen branches and browning leaves (no, not red young fake ones) everywhere. Many plants had been ravaged by galls.
Chaque jour passé plongée dans la nature est un bien passé.
Last and final Net Carn.
Right: Grace Yeo as Centre for 415.
I'll let the photos speak for themselves first. I'll elaborate in my journal and update this another time maybe...
Advanced Env Bio is getting better. :D At first it was kind of a drag, but I think when the field trips start coming in, it'll get more exciting. The first session was particularly sleep-inducing, maybe I was too tired, all the same despite being in the front row I nearly fell asleep during the Planet Earth video. Not surprising - I'd slipped into unconsciousness once watching the Planet Earth, which Arts Central conveniently placed in the 11pm slot.
Second session of AEB was spent preparing pan and pitfall traps, which my group - Yen Lin, Arias, Andy, E-lynn and me - placed under a tree near the neighbouring condo's tennis court. After having done that, we helped with the sampling of the 8 by 8m quadrat on the slope.
For today we tabulated results and tried to identify the insects we'd collected from our traps. Amazing - even though I knew there was bound to be lots of types of insects, the sheer variety was simply stunning. And they were all small - what more those we couldn't see? I love studying animalia. Riveting to say the least.
There you go: from top to bottom, unidentified insect larva, Blattodea (cockroach), Odonata (dragonfly).
The cockroach was our biggest catch, whereas Shihui's team managed to capture insects at least twice the size. Both our groups found garden toads floating in our traps. We, however, buried ours.
If you look closely, you'll see that the larva as this black part in its body. I suspect it's the guts. I haven't asked Mr. Lim though...
The cockroach looks remarkably ugly, as always. The oval shape is to allow it to slip between cracks and crevices. The two things sticking out from its backside are protrusions. Mr. Lim says he's not sure what they're for. I wonder. Who needs hairy extensions sticking out of their ass? :\
The dragonfly isn't particularly extraordinary I suppose. It was cool to see it's eyes up close though. Ah for the love of biology.
Enfin les examens se terminent. J'ai attendu ce jour depuis longtemps. Les épreuves aujourd'hui n'étaient pas trop difficile, mais je me tuerai pour n'avoir pas écrit ma réponse pour une des questions de la comprehension orale, car j'ai pensé qu'il y aurait assez temps pour écrire apres la fin de l'épreuve. Mais le prof, elle nous a dit presque tout de suite de poser nos stylos. Alors j'ai eu envie de suicider ce moment-la. Ce type d'erreur est incroyable pour une de mon âge. Argh.
Apres l'examen, je me suis mise a chercher pour Madame mais hélas elle n'était pas au rez-de-chaussée. Je n'ai pas pu decider si je devrais monter pour la trouver ou de passer la carte a l'examinateuse. J'ai attendu en vain pour un moment dehors en ésperant qu'elle apparait. Finalement j'ai demandé au prof de m'aider, quand Madame a apparu elle-même. Je me suis sentie tres embarrassée, et de plus, elle était tres joyeuse je n'sais pourquoi, et j'ai fuis aussi tot que possible. Quand même, je suis heureuse d'avoir pu lui donner la carte moi-même. C'est plus sincère après tout...
I hardly like anything this noisy.
