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HELLO ! :)
so i finally uploaded the new skin, hope you like it :)
i did this skin with a half wonky tablet so pls excuse the bad line quality. my pen was being wonky with me. hahahah. :D
natalie, pls add in cbox codes at the side, thanks.

love, trisha.

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Kay, Natalie. Here's the pictures I took for our Rainforest tourguide on 9 June.

Seeds from the strangling fig. Didn't pick them up though...they were kinda dirty and I had nowhere to put them in...

One of the people in the tourguide saw this interesting 'thing' so we went over to take a closer look. Our tourguide told us it was 2 moths MATING 0_o Soooo, they mate like...that?

A dog came along with us this time round. It's a silky terrier. The woman holding the 100 Plus can is the owner and the kid hugging the dog is her daughter. Guess what, the lady put the straw to the dog and the dog actually sipped the 100 Plus drink out of the can through the straw...A dog sipping a drink through a STRAW...XD Talk about a highly unusual dog...

That's the Coca Cola tree. Dunno why it's called that though.

This was a Golden Retriever me and Trisha saw at the end of the walk. Trisha said that it's fur coat was really good. It was kinda nice to feel his fur coat^^ Nice fluffy dog!

So yeah, that's all the pics I took. Trisha will fill in the remaining information another time, I guess?

Grace

Hey all (: Nat here. Mel gonna insert pictures later. M'kay.

Okay. So the on 2nd June, we went guiding again. Yes. Except this time we convinced Shuyi and Julia to let us lead. :D So anyway.
Mel and Gene were terrified because we were leading a bunch of teenagers like us, plus a lady that turned out to be their teacher. But they got calmed down pretty soon and were doing their thing.

On the way to the Evolution Garden, there were alot of plants but we didn't know that many. So Melissa picked up the 'chicken-egg' flower and asked them what it was. Then she explained why it was called a chicken-egg flower. 'Cause it was white and had a yellow centre. Then we took this walk up to the Evo Garden. Why was the trail so loooooonnnggg? It seemed like we couldn't wait to reach so we could start guiding for real and not look like we were unsure of what was outside the Garden. 'Cause we only know the stuff in it.

So when we got in we started explaining the things we did know. And we weren't that proffessional but we were pretty okay. Mostly for the ammonites, Mel explained. They're fossils of dead old things. And i explained about the 'trees of stone'. They are normal trees but had been compressed and buried. M'kay.

Afterwards, Gene did the Horsetail ferns, explaining how it can be rejoined; Mel did the cycads and water lillies, and she explained how the lillies were the first flowering plants; I did the Silver fern and told them how you could make thenm into tattoos. I think Gene got one. (:

We explained all that we knew. You know, tour guiding is mostly like trying to tell people all the cool stuff around the Evo Garden that you know. And you gotta make sure it sounds pretty cool and interesting, because under the intense heat of the early-morning, and the frequent jabs of mosquitoes, their attention span is suddenly decreased by a huge amount. So you need to keep the interest level at the maximum. Yes.

So tht is all for Evo Garden this week. Hopefully next week we'll go on learning and being great tour guides. To the Rainforest Tour peoples, please blog okay? Also, hope you guys get to be tour guides soon as well. Jia you hor! :D

Natalie, signing off. Bye all. (:

Okay, so we had time to spare and we walked to the Evolution Garden to take a look around.

Pretty interesting!

and MUCH bigger than the Rainforest Garden.

although you can say it was a rather mundane thing to do because we had no idea what was what.
BUT i'll still say that it was somewhat enriching, interesting, and whatever adjectives/vocabulary you can put inside here. :D hee.

i suppose this is what natalie gene and mel sees all the time but yeah! i think it still gets more interesting everytime, as different guides bring us around, all with different guiding techniques and of course different info!

GAHHH.
can i please please please do teh skin tmr?? my picture host thingy is having problems and i cant upload the background.
sorrry....
but ive done the skin already, all i need to do now is upload it and edit the html alilbittt.
-trisha.

Leik hay omg Mel found time to post. Woot.


The second trip was on 28/4/07. The group this time consisted of seven people, but two were not in the picture. Haha. The guide for this tour is Teck Seng, the person in the middle. We almost had no guide for that day but luckily he came. ^_^





















To your left, the imprint of spore sacs on a fern.
To your right, the spores themselves.
*shudder* Spores are creepy. That's why I don't like mushrooms. Ever since Primary school when we learned about fungi mmkay?

Omgwtfbbq what are those white cabbages? They are stromatolites, floating clumps of bacteria, the first living things that formed. Life was started by these bacteria cause they can photosynthesize (in your face chlorophyll >:E) and thus produce oxygen. These living fossils still exist somewhere in Australia waters where it's salty and shady.

A structure of a volcano. Innit pretty? The lavapool bubbles. o:

Cooksonia, one of the first few vascular plants that evolved. However, it's extinct :c

Teh pretty peacock fern~ It shines a metallic blue under shade.

The elephant fern or elephant foot fern, cause of its fat stumps.

A doggy's footprint! I wonder who it belongs to. <_<>_>


TEH NEXT WEEK TEH 5TH OF MAY.
Mhmm, contrast to the previous tour, there were three tour guides who arrived today, Shuyi, Teck Seng and Kee Meng. So they decided that Kee Meng would lead the group and give general information, Shuyi would touch up on the details and Teck Seng would just tag along :D And Gene didn't come :c She had a fever.
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Ok, so I didn't take many pictures. I wanted to listen to what all the guides were saying D: Kee Meng was very farney, he had all these odd stories and folklore about how the plants came to be. And when you seperate one section of a horsetail from another and put it back, it can still grow!!! Liek whoaaaa. I'm not going to go to details on the rest of the trip. IF YOU ALL WANNA KNOW, YOU SHOULD GO FOR TEH EVOLUTION GARDEN TOUR, YES.




















There were two lilies in the pond. One white, one pink. They were the first flowers to exist.


Okay, end of post. A picture of Mel and Natalie with no Gene. ;_;


A picture of the owner of the footprint from tour before. (Nah, not true. It's just a very cute and warm chow chow.)

Is it a) A happy patch that inserts happy in you so that you smile; or
b) Natalie sticking my happy mosquito patch that keeps mosquitos away on her face?
You decide.