Posts from ‘August, 2006’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dofu… not me.

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.