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Sunday, December 30, 2007

yoz....
today i'm still feeling a little sick
recovered a little in the afternoon, but....
dragged to some stupid concert in tempines and made my sickness worse

anyway....posted some pictures of my 2nd day at EAGLES camp
enjoy...haha
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bloody hands after killing the bloodsuckers in our tent

the dragonfly.... first catch of the day

checking out the paddy fields for insects
fresh fish......still breathing


EARWIG.... it will crawl into your brains and lay its eggs

first pitfall trap.... under the X
going into leech land to plant pitfall trap 2
termite nest.....damn...never finish collection...no queen
rest before going back to camp
nature walk....fun
thats all for day 2
wait for the other days soon...haha

died at
23:14


Saturday, December 29, 2007

yoz....
2nd day of feeling unwell
slept most of today....
dunno if tonight can sleep or not...haiz
because of the illness, had to miss chanbara today
just got my red belt but cannot wear it....wth

today is the 3rd or 4th day in a row my friends on msn have gone on strike and all never log on
wanted to talk about a trip to ECP tomorrow but guess thats not happening anymore...damn

on a different note, i have been throwing my HW aside these few days and tonight i must at least get my bio back to what it was before the hoildays
heck care about the chem HW already...

today i posting my day 3 reflections for EAGLES
enjoy...
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Day 3

I woke up at 0630 take in the clothing we hung up to dry as it was raining a little in the morning. After the short rain I went to wash up and prepare for the day’s activities. We gathered in the hall to start the morning PE activity. After warming up, we started a jog to the entrance of the farm which was a 15 minute walk from the hall. That jog was my first time jogging ever since school closed for the holidays. As I got to the gates of the farm along with the leading few people, I turned back to see a huge gap between us and the rest of the group. We waited for a while before jogging back to the hall for breakfast and meet up with everyone behind us on our way back to camp. Having a cup of hot milo after a long jog was heaven for me as I finished my breakfast and went to take a cold shower to wash off the sweat from the jog.

We went back to the vegetable plantation to collect back the traps we placed the day before and to do some active catching of the insects there. As it was my first time to the plantation, I have no idea what insects I might see as well as where to go to catch insects. We entered a tent like area where the vegetables are housed to look at the vegetables and find insects on the vegetables as well as insects flying around in the tents. The first thing I spotted was holes in the leaves of the vegetables and this is a sign that that leaf has been attacked by insects. Within the tent were a few dragonflies flying around and the group wanted to complete their dragonfly collection by catching a red dragonfly. I managed to trap it against the netting of the tent and my own net and went ahead to transferring it into a plastic vile. On the tent netting that I trapped the dragonfly was a little yellow colored ladybug with a strangely transparent wing casing. Even though it was an insect, almost everyone we ask, even the girls, found it very cute.

These two insects that we have caught were good to the plantation as they feed on insects that harm the plants. Dragonflies feed on small flying insects that might harm the plants ether by eating its leaves or drinking its sap. Ladybugs eat just aphid throughout their life and thus stop aphids from sucking the sap out of the plants and killing it.

The next insect we found was with the aid of the farmers spotting two small beetles on the long bean fruit. Transferring these two beetles was not an easy task as we could not use our fingers to push them into the vile as there were too small and we could not take the long bean off the plant or the farmers will be unhappy. In the end, we managed to make the beetles walk into the vile themselves and quickly closing it to prevent this prized catch from getting away. As it was one of the insects we found that is a pest to the farmers, it is more important to us that the pest controlling insect. Without it to prove that there are insects feeding on the vegetables, the other insects we have that feed on them will have little value to us. And our luck was wonderful enough for us to find an assassin bug in the very same plant we caught the beetles in. assassin bugs feed on other insects and act as pest control for the farmers. With this we have a predator and pray link between the insects we found.

As we went to collect our pitfall and light traps to see what we have caught, I caught a smaller red winged dragonfly with help from a friend. This one is different from the one we caught earlier as its wings were a transparent red where as the one before was just transparent. Another dragonfly added to our collection. The traps laid the day before gave us little results as in the farm area as there are very few large insects that are attracted to the smell of the bait and fall into the trap. The smaller ones can fly in and out with ease and ants can just climb down and up the sides of the jar. The light trap was not any better as the insects were just flying around the trap and not into the trap to be caught. The other light trap that was set up provided one small moth which we feel was a good catch considering how the other two traps failed to catch anything.

After another pitiful active catching section, we returned back to camp and planned out the afternoon’s activities. When the other insect group returned with a great number of catches and a pitfall jar full of forest cockroaches, we talked about how to take pictures of all the insects we have caught so far for the project. We spent lunch assigning roles to the people for the photographing later. I was to go along with another member into the forest to take GPS readings of the spots where we caught the insects and where we placed the traps.

Walking into the forest gave me hope of finding more insects that we have not caught. We went to the spots where we caught the earwig and small beetle to take GSP readings of the easting’s and northings as well as bearings of the spot. We did this for the three pitfall traps and the termite nest as we walked further into the forest towards the dam that the end.

To our surprise, our teacher in charge of the biology groups rode up to us on a bicycle and greeted us before falling off the bike right in front of the group. We hurried to her side to check if she was alright before most of the group left with her back to camp to have her wounds treated.

This leaves my other group member, the GPS reader and me the walk to the dam to take a reading of the spot. Along the way we talked about everything under the sun until the GPS reader spotted something running across the path under us and alerted us. We quickly put a net over it and transferred it into the vile and finally indentify it as a harvest spider. Even though it’s called a spider and has eight legs, it’s not one. It is of the same class as spiders and do not produce venom or silk.

After a long walk we finally reached the dam, we hurried to sit down to rest our legs. I was told that the dam provides all the power for the farm and all our electric needs from the camp. I was amazed at how this small dam could power the farm as well as everything in the camp. This really showed me the power of nature to provide us with so much.

After taking our readings of the dam, we made our way back to camp for the evening activities. The activity for us that day was the water obstacle course. As many of us have been to mawai and have done the obstacle course there, we knew what to do from the one. The logs used for the course here were thicker than the ones in mawai and we found it easier to get across this one as compared to the mawai obstacle course. The ropes used here were also thicker and thus made it easier for us to move on. All this made the Obstacle course very easy for some of us and many did not even get any water above the knee.

We were broken up into groups to try out the different challenges the course posed to us. This took about 45 minutes and we have tried all the different log crossings and rope walks the obstacle course had. Next up was a race to an island on the other side of the Obstacle course but we had to go through all the challenges of the Obstacle course at least once in order to win the race. The first group that makes it to the island had to send two people on a rife, a boy and girl, to rife their way back to the starting line.

As my group made our way through the Obstacle course, we became the first to finish the Obstacle course and make our way onto the island. The rife on the island was a rather small one but we just went ahead and got a girl onto the rife. I went into the water to push the rife off as my friend got on. As soon as the rife left land, it started to sink. It seems that the small rife cannot take the weight of 2 person and will sink. Since I was already wet from pushing the rife off, I took it on myself to be the boy needed and pull the rife to the starting line. But as I pulled the rife into an area with lotus, the spikes on the stocks of the lotus began to cut into my leg and I could not take the constant pain of walking in that area anymore. I climbed onto the rife but it started to sink back into the water again, and after that I climbed back onto and off the rife to stop it from sinking as well as keep my legs away from the spikes. I tried to use the bamboo pole given to us to push the stems down before walking over them, but this was slow and does not work well as I still get cuts from the spikes. In the end I decided to lie on the side of the rife and push off with the pole to move forward and towards the starting line. This got me wet as the rife was floating in the water rather than on it, but it was the most effective way to get to the starting line. After a great effort to reach the starting line, I clawed the rife and myself up onto land so the girl behind me did not have to do this kind of dirty work which is not fitting of a lady.

After this terrible rafting experience is over, we waited for the rest of the groups to make their way through the Obstacle course again to return to land and off to wash up before dinner. A plans to head out to do some active catching in the night with the LED light was thought up and we went ahead with it to test our luck in catching some night flying insects.

After taking a light snack before heading out at 2200, we headed to the duck rearing area to set up the LED light to attract insects to us. We took with us some nets, the LED light and a powerful touch and headed out into the darkness. The effectiveness of the LED light became known when we turned it on and within a few minutes, there were small flying insects swarming around the light like bees to honey. But these small insects were too small for our nets to catch as they will just fly right through the holes in the net. As we reached the duck rearing area, we relies that we did not bring the white cloth and some of the group had to return to camp to get it. In the mean time, the rest of the group stayed back and gazing into the clear night sky to look at stars and hopefully find spot a shooting star. We were spotting constellations and I was racking my brains trying to remember the stories behind the constellations and telling them to my fellow group mates. We did see a few shooting stars before the other group members return with the white cloth. We set up the LED light behind the white cloth to attract the insects. Within minutes, we found a small fly landing on the cloth and we caught it and contained it before returning to star gazing. The trip out at night was more star gazing than insect catching as most of us are constantly amazed that the number of stars that can be seen here but not in Singapore. The skies was filled with stars that kept our eyes glued onto and may have missed a few interesting insects that may have come visit us.

We headed back lighted by the powerful touch that brighten the whole road in front of us and brought us some sense of safety as we walk back to camp to head to bed and rest up for the night and get ready for tomorrow. We have ended the active catching for the whole camp and started taking photos of all the insects we have and identifying them.

Sleeping again in the sleeping bad brought warmth and some padding below me to give me a sound sleep throughout the night.

thats it for day 3
pictures will be posted up soon....i hope

died at
20:28


Friday, December 28, 2007

o.O
3 posts in 2 days???
i am going crazy....
anyway....today was the best day of my holidays
but not in a good way

today i went to nik's place to "study"
thats what he told me the day before
in the end...go there play Wii and DS
haha....so much for studying
took me an hour to get there and an hour to get back
taking 93 from this house and transfering to 163 home
the moment i got home and set up my laptop....
suddenly not feeling well....go and rest....
work up at 1830 to have dinner beofre sleeping again
wa.... play and fall sick on the same day....pro or not

anyway, here is my day 2 reflections for the EAGLES camp i been to earlier in the month
enjoy.......
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Day 2

The day started with a slowly as everyone awoke from their tents half asleep. I went to the hall to check on the insects we caught the night before. To my surprise, a new container was added on the table containing a huge rhino beetle. It was the biggest insect I have seen in my life and I could not contain my excitement and took it out of the container and onto my hand. But once there, it hooked onto my skin and I could not get it off without getting some of my skin off with it. An instructor, who happen to be with me, and I had to use a piece of paper for it to hook onto before my hand was free for the big beetle. As it was hanging onto my hand, it struck me how well equipped it was to hold onto and climb branches. Its front two legs were held out to stretch forward while the back two pairs of legs held tightly to the branch, or in this case my hand, to ensure it does not fall off.

To wake everyone up, a little warm up followed by a morning run woke everyone up as we ran to the duck rearing area which was a 5 min walk away from the hall. After we reached the duck area, we turned back to return to the hall for our breakfast. As the leading few people reached the hall, behind us was a big gap which was caused by people staying at the duck area watching the ducks swim about. It was not my first time I have laid my eyes on a duck, but for some people it was the first time they have seen a duck with their own eyes. To them, they ducks were cute and this caused them to watch the ducks for a long time. This again tells me that they have lived such a city life that they have never seen a duck other than on the dinner table.

Breakfast was Nasi Lemak, which was made of brown rice with small fish cucumbers and peanuts with a health serving of samba chill and hot milo. The hot milo made the breakfast the best meal we had so far into the camp.

After breakfast was the start of my group’s active catching of insects in the padi fields. We put on our life jackets and walked out onto the paddy fields to start our great hunt. I see no need to put on life jackets on this trip as we are not even going into the water and even if we do, the water is only half way up the knee. But as it better to be safe than sorry, these safely measures have to be taken to ensure that we arrive back in Singapore safely. What was struck us on the spot when we headed into the fields was the complete lack of insects other than dragonflies and pond-sackers. We went about trying to catch one of each only to find ourselves nothing to catch after that. It was a sight for sore eyes for us when we spotted a yellow butterfly flying near us. We quickly get our nets ready to catch the flying insect to add to our collection. With a little teamwork, we managed to trap the butterfly in between two nets and quickly transfer it into the plastic vials we brought. At closer inspection, we found some water boatmen in the paddy fields swimming in the water. Sadly, they were too small for our nets and could swim right through the holes on the nets.

What this lack of insect species tells me that there is a lack of diversity of food sources to support a large number of insect species. As the only source of food to start a food chain there was the rice plants, there can only be a few kind insects feeding on the rice. This in turn leads to fewer types of insects feeding on those rice eaters. This has limited the number of different insect species we can find in the area but has given us great insight into the how the environment affected the diversity of the insect of the area.

We visited a small building to ask for help from the farmers in our search for insects. We came across a couple of farmers killing fishes that will most likely be on our dinner tables that night or at a market place the following morning. To see life fishes which are still flapping their tails and gasping for air getting their fins chopped off and having a knife stabbed up their necks with blood flowing out was not a sight for those with weak stomach.

With our lack of results in mind, we went to check with the boss of the rice fields to ask for his views on the type of insects that can be found in and around the rice fields. It came to light that the insects that we were looking for, other than dragonflies and pond-sackers, were found deep in the fields and not on the outer edges where we were searching. We were told that if we wanted more insects we could check out the vegetable plantations and dragon-fruit plantations. It seems that the workers have been catching much different type of insects in that area and are glad to help out in our hunt for insects. With that in mind, we made plans to go visit the vegetable plantations in the afternoon.

As we returned from the fields, we meet up with our sister group who were also catching insects. But for them, they were catching them in the forest as compared to the farm area. As we reflected on our pitiful catch of insects, we were amazed at the number of insects they caught. They have caught at least ten different species from the forest. Over lunch we talked about the area we have gone to and where we planned to go to increase our collection. There were plans of exchanging group members to let everyone have a feel of both areas of catchment. The afternoon’s activities was to set the traps we have prepared in our areas to trap any insects in that area. We had six pitfall traps ready, three for each group, to be placed in each area.

Lunch was followed by the afternoon activities, which was a trip to the vegetable plantations and dragon-fruit plantations. As some or the other insect group wanted to follow us to the vegetable plantation, my friend and I went to follow the other insect group into the forest to try our luck at catching insects there and also to aid in the setting up of the traps. I loaded the three glass jars into my bag and made our way into the forest. As we enter the forest, I was hoping that we could find some new insects to add to our growing collection and help us have a better understanding of the environment’s effect on the insects.

As we entered the forested area, what struck me was the noise of the forest created by the insects in the forest. We were a few minutes into the forested area when we spotted a small beetle on a tree just beside us. A net was placed over the beetle as soon as I found in and it was quickly transferred into a plastic vile. In the very next tree in front of us I spotted an earwig resting on the trunk of the tree. As we just placed the beetle in my bag, we took out another plastic vile to catch the earwig.

Traveling deeper into the forest with these two catches gives me hope of a better catch deeper in the forest. As we approach the site in which we will be setting up our first pitfall trap, we took the spades and glass jars out to start setting up the trap. While some people were digging the forest group to insert the glass jar, I was looking around the area trying to spot any interesting insects to add to our collection. The pitfall traps are jars with some uncooked rice and pineapples inside to attract insects to the trap and fall into the glass jars and be trapped. Looking around the area of the trap I found some pitcher plants near the river that was running through the forest. I can see that what we are doing with the pitfall trap is based off this plant that use sweet smelling sugar to attract insects into its mouth and the slippery walls cause to insect to fall in and be trapped.

The next pitfall trap will be placed deep in the forest off the trail that we have been using. We were warned of leeches crawling around in that area and this put most of the team off and refused to enter the area. I went in with another guy to set the trap under a fallen log. At the entrance of the route I spotted a leech on the floor and went on to get rid of it to save myself from having a bloodsucker hanging off my foot for the rest of the day. Digging in the forest soil was not an easy task as there were roots under the surface that will hinder us in the need to digger deeper to set our trap. In the end, we had to set it in a slanted manner due to the roots under the jar. We walked back to the path and carried on with the track into the forest. But, a group member spotted a leech climbing on my shoe and screamed out loud as we went ahead and remove the leech and kill it by burning it. It seemed that this leech was very tough and managed to survive being burned alive and was still moving after we burned it. We decided to end its life by crushing it on ground.

The next site we visited was a termite nests under a log. The insect we wanted from that nest was the queen termite to make our collection an even better one. As we turn over the log, all that we see are workers and soldiers crawling around. As the morning’s trip to the nest caught a soldier termite, we wanted to complete the set and catch a worker as well. After that was done, we unearthed the nest in our attempt to find the queen. All we managed to do was destroy the nest to find no queen.

Last stop was the site where we will be placing the third pitfall trap. It was placed along the track hoping to catch any insects that may walk by. After the trap was set, we made our way back to camp to review the insects we have caught so far.

Back at camp we compiled the total insects caught by both groups and started labeling the locations of where we caught each insect. We had to stop this when the other groups returned and started the evening activities. The insects, birds and survey group are to go for a nature walk to learn more about nature. We learned about the waterproof abilities of the lotus leaves that allow water to slide off the leaves whenever there is water on the leaves. This is due to the closely packed molecules on the leaf surface which does not allow water to pass through. We can copy this design and come up with materials that act in the same way to aid the world. We also learned of the strength of silk made by spiders and some insects. If we could make materials with the same strength as the silk we could have stronger cables to support our world with. The coconut tree was also something we gained insights about. The tree of a hundred uses really does have many uses for each of its parts. A termite nest found in a dead tree gave us insight how smart some insects are to have different compartments in their nests for different reasons. Like a room for the queen termite as well as a room to rear the young.

Soon it was time to head back to camp and have dinner and prepared the light traps for use at night. The light traps use light to attract insects to it and trap the insects in water or in a net of sorts. After the light trap is ready, I went out with a girl from the other group and our teacher in charge for the biology groups as well as the temperature group out into the farm to place the trap and follow the temperature group in collecting their thermometers. As the few of us walk out into the night to set and collect, I was amused by how the boys from the temperature group screamed like little girls when a little insect jumped onto their hands. They were all of rather big builds but were scared of something that the girl following me was not. After we set up our traps and collected the thermometers, we headed back to camp to reflect on the day’s results.

The sky was clear and it was the perfect time to go star gazing. The sky was filled with stars and we started to find constellations and our own zodiac stars. Without and lights or buildings to block our view of the sky, we spotted many constellations that can never be seen in Singapore.

I learned from the night before how cold the nights can be and drew a sleeping bag to keep me warn during the nights. With the sleeping bag, I slept like a log throughout the night and was again awaken to the sounds of classic music from the alarm.

haha...another super long post

died at
20:28


Thursday, December 27, 2007

time for the pics from the camp
these are pics from day 1 of the 6 day camp
enjoy

the pit stop after customs
views of the boats and pond
my tent for the next 4 nights

the briefing to start the camp off
me serving lunch....soup only
first catch of the camp
in the cookhouse...a hawk moth
2nd catch of the camp
cookhouse....green beetle
making of light trap
trap in the darkness
thats all for the first day
not much pics taken.... haha

died at
22:54



dude.....haven't been blogging for god knows how long
got help from rishi bringing my blog back to life

anyway....been off the malaysia and back in the past two months
two camps to go to and it was damn fun to go into the "wild" and live for a few days
the first one is too far back that i don't feel like blogging about it
the later one....haha...EAGLES
more fun

alittle info first...
my groups project there is the study of insects...
i love insects...
fun fun fun

i will be posting my reflections here for all to read...haha
as well as pictures to add some colour to this red blog

this is the day one's reflections
enjoy........
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Before the 6 days of the camp, we got ready the equipments and researched on our given task. We had to research on the insects found in and around the farm area and their interaction with the environment. I had an interest in insects since I was young and found this a wonderful experience to research on something I love. Before the trip, we researched on traps to use to catch the insects with and also went to get the materials needed to make the trap. All these materials was stuffed into a large suitcase and brought to the camp site. For a group that deals with little insects, we packed the most materials to the camp site.

Day 1

On the first day of the camp, we arrived in CJC foyer and got ready for a long trip to the camp site. It was time to meet up with friends from the mawai camp and also new people joining us for this trip. I also saw a sight that was so common on trips like these, a mother hugging her child as if the child will never come home. This is, sad to say, very common and tells me a lot about the current mindset of the people. These children are so used to the easy life at home and viewed this trip to the rice farm like going to off to somewhere far away never to return again. What is only a 6 day trip to most of us is a 6 day period for them to be away from the comforts of home.

As we board on the bus that will take us to Singapore customs, it has never occurred to me that that day was Saturday, the day where most people might go to Malaysia. When we reached Singapore customs, the place was filled with people, like us, going off to Malaysia. It took me 15 mins to clear myself to the other side and another 10 mins to wait for the rest of the school to clear before we boarded the bus and went across to Malaysia customs. Other at Malaysia’s side, it was the same thing with everyone waiting in line to get their passports stamped and approved to enter Malaysia.

After the change in bus, we took a 30 mins ride to a small break house to have a 15 min break to eat and stock up our supplies of snacks and sweets for the trip to the camp site and for the camp itself. But what I saw along with stocking up on snacks was what some people will do to get what they want as fast as possible. This girl took a hand full of potato chips and sweets and asked a guy in front of me if he could pay her stuff along with his. He agreed and the girl placed her items on his hands, she goes on to get more snacks and placed it on the poor guy. I feel that this is very unfair for the people behind the guy as they also want to get their items as fast as possible but are now held back by this girl’s needed to get her stuff first. This reflects on her character and also the character of some Singaporeans who do the same thing. Disregarding the feelings and needs of others just to fulfill what they want.

The bus ride to the camp site took a little below 3 hours and most people were sleeping by the time we reached there. The moment I stepped out of the bus, I was greeted by a strong wind and a wonderful view of the pond that we will be carrying out our water activities along with the cook house where we will be having our meals. We also had a good view of the area where we will be pitching our tents to sleep at night, giving us some time to plan out with whom we will be sleeping together with and where we will be pitching our tents. Walking to the hall was a great change from the near 4 hours of sitting down in the bus.

We then had lunch there at about 2 pm, the lunch was organic brown rice with some vegetable, fish and dragon fruit with soup. I was given the task to serve the soup to the other campers. While watching people collect their food, I wondered if this was what we will be eating for the next 6 days, the food was not really bad, but I was hoping for food that was similar to the food that was served at mawai. When I finally served everyone, I took my own share and went to eat with friends. I saw what looked like soya bean milk being served and I went to get a cup of it. To by surprise, what looked like soya bean milk tasted like barley water. Due to the fact that I dislike barley water, I did not touch the cup of “barley” throughout my meal. After consuming everything on my late, I braced myself and finished the cup of “barley” in one shot and got a cup of water to wash it down. Later I found out that what looked like soya bean milk and tasted like barley was in fact brown rice milk made from grounding brown rice another with other stuff together to form this drink. I learned from then on not to get a cup of what looks like soya bean milk.

After the late lunch, we went to pitch our tents at a spot of our own liking as long as it is within the area given to each gender. It was not the first time I pitched a tent and therefore it only took a friend and me to pitch our tents. The tents given to us were 4 man tents and each tent was to hold 3 boys and all our bags. To my surprise, the tent allowed me to lie down nicely, considering the fact that I am 1.82 meters tall; allowing me to lie down without any problems gave me a wonderful feeling for the nights to come. Next we placed our bags in the tent and prepared of the briefing of the camps activities for the next 5 days.

The briefing was about how we will act and what we will do for the next 3 days of our own activities. We needed to understand what the farm does and also the safety measures that must be taken while doing some activities. We were asked to do a tetra mapping of our characters to determine the element that was the strongest in our characters. The mapping was a few lines of characters that we have to rate from 1 to 4 whether they were in our characters. Adding up the scores and finding the row with the highest score will determine the element we belong to. I am under the element of earth. Even thought I believe that all this is based on unproven claims, it seems that this element mapping has some truth in it when it did manage to pin point some facts about my character.

With the briefing over and done with, the camp moved to have a run around the farm to let us know the how the farm is like and know our way around the farm over the next 5 days. For my group, we must run around with the rest trying to find an area that we can place our traps to catch insects, along with finding areas where we can find insects to catch.

Coming back from the run, I went to take a shower. As I turned the tap to have a shower, what greeted me was a wave of cold water that refreshed me as well as shocked me. With cold water raining down on me, I made the shower a short one and quickly dried myself and went for dinner. Dinner was the same brown rice and some vegetables and meat. I was relived not to see the brown rice milk being served but was orange juice. As I was still getting use to the meals there, I did not really enjoy the dinner.

I was thinking that our project will start the next day where we will do active catching of insects. Little did I know that the active catching started and the first day when a hawk moth was resting in the cook house netting just above where I had my dinner. Getting my net, I caught the moth without any trouble only to face the problem of where to store the moth as our luggage has not been given to us yet. To add on to our problems, we found a green beetle also resting on the netting of the cook house. After one of our group member went to get our luggage into the hall, did we solve our storage problem and caught both insects. But that was not all we caught that night. On the walls and floor of the hall was filled with insects just crawling around and soon we have caught ourselves a mole cricket, a cricket, a grasshopper and a damselfly. These were the start of our collection that grew over the next 2 days into a museum like collection in the hall for everyone who wanted to take a look at the insects of the farm.

With the insects caught, we went on the making our traps to get ready to be set up the next day or the night itself. The light trap that I was asked to make has been pre-made back in Singapore and only needed aluminum foil to be wrapped around the cardboard to be completed. The light trap was made such that the insects will be attracted to the light and fly towards the trap and be caught in it.

Soon it was time to head back to the tents and rest up for the following day’s activities. Inside the tent was stuffy and rather warm due to the combined body heat of three people in a small area. With that in mind, I went to sleep in shorts and a T-shirt. But late into the night, the temperature dropped around us and I was forced to put on long pants, socks and a jacket to keep myself warm enough to sleep through the remaining night time. With a little more than 6 hours of sleep, I woke up to the ringing of classic music from by tent mate’s alarm. This was the start of the three days of self planned activities to catch insects to understand their impact on the environment and the environment’s impact on them.

damn long...haha

died at
19:20

the guy

Lim Meng Hwee

07-02-1990

ShoutOuts


members of my short social line

Ashley
Cheryl
Eirene
Ing hian/nik
Joanne
Rishi
Yahui
YC

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