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Young Writers for A Better World

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Floral Complexity of Strophanthus caudatus

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Strophanthus caudatus , a liana, flowered recently in MacRitchie. It belongs to the family Apocynaceae - the same family to which belongs th...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010

New book: Trees of Tropical Asia

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Have you seen flowers that astound you with their quiet beauty and wished they speak to you and you knew them and call them by name? Or pick...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

Rare strangling fig hanging on

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A year or more had gone by since its host tree died and felled, but the strangling fig is still alive today. Good news though. This fig - Fi...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What is Explore?

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What is Explore, or rather, explore.org ? Thanks to Jon Kolker's introduction, I have found another new and exciting medium to learn and...
Friday, January 8, 2010

Felled

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If you can hear, my inner voice speaking behind these written words is soft to the point of void in a vacuum. I make the effort though. A g...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Trees that touch and inspire

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I planted the fig saplings more than a decade ago and she painted them years on as handsome trees that they have become. This is a sweet cha...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Two notable trees of MacRitchie Reservoir Park

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Two notable trees worthy of special attention can be found in MacRitchie Reservoir Park today. Both are mature trees and both coincidentally...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Aralidium pinnatifidum is NOT 'nationally extinct'

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Aralidium pinnatifidum is NOT 'Nationally Extinct'. It should not be. I am surprised the newly revised Red Data Book (2nd edition, ...
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Saturday, December 5, 2009

A Family Gathering

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I find myself in the field again today. Like so many times before it's like home. And it's the best home to be, this field of openne...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Rethinking Schools

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If you think the future belongs to our children and that a good start to solving any of tomorrow's problems created today (example, the ...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Wild Geese

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In this beautiful poem I finally found a voice that so closely echoed all that was whispering in my heart one distilling dawn by the remote ...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Dead Colugo found near Chestnut Drive

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This is a belated sad news: a colugo had been found dead by the roadside near Chestnut Drive on Monday morning of 22nd December 2008. Clare...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Trilobite Larvae: The Peter Pan of the Insect World

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On a recent outing up Buikit Timah Hill with some wonderfully-kind folks from sponsor SPRING SINGAPORE and beautiful kids from BEYOND, I had...
Saturday, October 25, 2008

New Book: The Bridge at the Edge of the World

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New Book Recommendation: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability - by ...
Friday, October 24, 2008

Consume Less!

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I was wondering what photo to use in this post of mine when I chanced upon the photo below: an outdoor toilet or 'jamban' in Pulau U...
Sunday, October 12, 2008

My Sundew Has Grown!

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My sundew has grown! It has caught its first insect! I am so proud : ) Take a close look. See how the red stalks rising from the leaf surf...
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