Friday's lab session saw fruit flies whizzing past our heads, half-dead flies walking on the benches, and half-alive flies which are stuck onto a microscope slide having their eye facets counted by us squirming humans... peering down the microscope. We could control the direction of a fly's movement. We amused ourselves by trying to make them walk from one end of the chamber to the other... forcing them to walk in reverse as and when we wished.
Such is the fun of an animal behaviour practical. We'll be studying the ducks in Hyde Park tomorrow.
The
Essentials of Animal Behaviour book which I had brought and read in my secondary school days... is proving to be extremely useful. Little did I know that I'd be needing it in my future studies. Yep... our current module is on animal behaviour. Some interesting stuff there. ;)
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Oriental City, inconveniently located in Zone 4, 18 tube stations' distance away, is a food paradise! Its shops, foodcourt and supermarket, and 'roadside shop'-style stalls, is reminiscent of everything to do with food back home (except the prices). Thai, Malay, S'pore, Beijing, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese dim sum... you name it, they've got it. Dishes can't get more authentic than this in London. We thought we'd only be there for a few hours, but we stayed there for the better part of the whole of yesterday - eating, shopping in the supermarket, playing in the Sega games arcade, and eating some more. Mmmm... the grilled satay... that's *real* stuff! We had sooo much during lunch that we did away with dinner... :D
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