Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Nothing has changed; but our mind contemplates the matter in a different light and sees it from another aspect: for everything has many angles and many different sheens. Thoughts of kinship, old acquaintanceships, and affections suddenly seize our minds and stir them each according to their worth: but the change is so sudden that it [...]

After two-and-a-half years later of journeying with my D200… it’s time to lay it to rest in the dry box. Not that the D200 was proving inadequate; I’d very gladly stick to it till its shutter dies, but its sensor had gone awry and it’d cost more than a third the price of a new [...]

I held the most remarkable of all living things, a creature of astounding abilities that elude our understanding, of extraordinary, even bizarre senses, of stamina and endurance far surpassing anything else in the animal world. Yet my captive measured a mere five inches in length and weighed less than half an ounce. I held that [...]

Sprayed with insecticide by SBG staff, apparently. Some were still twitching by the time I got on scene.
They were there on that same spot on the tree (a Terminalia ivorensis) for a week, at least. I counted over 160 of them earlier this week, and collected 6 of them, 4 of which have pupated [...]

According to the Archbishop of Westminster, the economic downturn could be the very thing that brings us to our senses. “It’s the end of a certain kind of selfish capitalism,” Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said. “This particular recession is a moment – a kairos – when we have to reflect as a country on what are [...]

Curious onlookers would approach me, where I was standing by the main bridge with my camera pointed at the bushes, asking what I was shooting. I’d point out the Shore Pit Viper coiled up between the branches, adding a descriptive sentence or two about the reptile.
“How do you know it’s a viper?” a little [...]

So tired! Pre-dawn waking mornings and an overnighter at Pulau Ubin. I wouldn’t miss this for the world… there’s so much to learn, about bird-ringing, bird behaviour, and everything about the avian types from the real experts. Something I wished to have been able to do since years ago, but never had the chance to. [...]

Keep seeing massive clumps of various sorts of hairy/tufty/spikey/furry moth caterpillars on tree trunks lately…