Posts from ‘January, 2009’

My nature tripping habits mirror that of my dining preferences – I always pick the same dishes, same places. Venus Drive this morning was a refreshing change of scenery. Or should I say… habitats. Alway from the mangroves and coasts, oddities of the entomological and arachnological worlds abound (too) in the secondary forests. Add to [...]

Wherefore this sense of restlessness?

Happy new year to all from HK!

Yesterday while at the Kranji Nature Trail, many of us noticed the odd occurrence of a great number of the black spiny ants (Polyrachis sp.) apparently ’suspended in motion’, especially towards the end of the trail where the mangroves met with the secondary forest. They were all dead, their mandibles clasping onto the edge of [...]

» Will be in Hong Kong during the Chinese New Year (24th to 28 Jan)

The tragedy of the human race is being played out, Wolf Meynert began. Let us not be blinded by feverish enterprise or technological prosperity; these are but the fever patches on the cheeks of an organism already marked by death. Never has mankind experienced a greater upsurge to its life than today; yet find me [...]

Office Pet #4: Gekko monarchus
We think it’s a she, although it’s probably still too young to tell, for it still has almost double its body length to grow. She’s getting better at that hunting job and gobbles up everything I throw at her – grasshoppers, crickets, ‘roaches, spiders, the odd caterpillar… and doesn’t need to [...]

Recently, I’ve had caterpillars fall onto my path, cats as gifts, and cats gotten rid of as unwanted pests on (or around) my colleagues’ beloved plants. The collection of vials and containers on my desk and my bathroom at home has been growing. Some contain eggs, some house pupae, and others… other stuff. My latest [...]