WE;the six flowers

Friday, June 29, 2007

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.

If you look carefully at one of the branches on the oil palm, you will notice this small thing sitting on the branch. It's actually a bird(parrot, maybe?). That whole oil palm was like suddenly filled with all those birds...seriously, there were altogether more than 7...At first there was only 1 or 2 and then for some reason they just kept coming...

The person to the far right is our tourguide for that day. Can't remember what her name was though...^^;

The Strangling Fig.

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

Saturday, June 23, 2007

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!