back on the road again...

Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Haven't been blogging much, though quite a number of things happened in the recent past.

Firstly, we had a trip to bukit timah hill as part of plant biology lab. We went there mainly to observe plants, the different types of competition, the ways those plants overcome such competitions. Our guide, who is also our plant bio prof, is a super good and animated guide. He never fails to amuse me with his antics. During lesson, I've seen him really skip about in excitment about something. Like hello?? A middle aged guy skipping and jumping around? But all in all it's good entertainment. Not to mention that he is really great in what he teaches. He is probably the prof with the best enunciation so far. All the other profs, caucasion, hongkong, chinese or not, I don't get what they're talking about. This plant bio prof, reminds me of those people on discovery channel or nation geographic. Perfect and clear english, with great explanations about nature. Rare find.

Anyway back to bukit timah field trip. We saw several plants like the 'cheng teng' plant. It's a dessert plant, because the glutinous substances around the seed, is actually used to make cheng teng, a chinese dessert. Yum. We also saw dipterocarp trees, ferns, and animals! The monkeys were adorable, and we even spotted a few flying lemurs. Flying lemurs are super cute, just clinging onto the tree like koala bears. Haha. I haven't had the time to upload photos. In a while ok?

I also had my first jc2 tuition. It was a disaster actually, because the syllabus has changed so much until there're actually things that I had NEVER learnt before, even in UNIVERSITY. Sure, we did learn about the lac operon, but we learnt about the activation and regulation. These jc2 kids learn about a totally different aspect of lac operon. We also did learn HIV virus as a whole. But they're learning sooooooo specifically about just this single HIV enzyme called the HIV protease. In uni, we prob just touched and go, but they went into great detail about it. Sigh. I've got to read up so much on my own =(

I need to try to study consistently. Go go go! So far I'm only up to date with developmental and plant biology. Bleah.

10:04 AM