I've realized that chinese food is still the best as compared to western. There's a bit of soup, warm steamed veggies, non-fried roast meat and things such as 葱油饼，饺子，小笼蒸包，拉面，炸酱面...花样实在太多了。中餐可以吃到不油腻的食品，也可以吃到新鲜的蔬菜，吃了让人感到非常舒服。生病的时侯最好吃的好吃的还是中餐，因为他有汤有水，伤心的时侯最好吃的也还是中餐，因为吃了让人觉得心平气和。中餐的种类繁多，不想西餐的那么油腻，简简单单，不用大块大块的肉，也没有冷冷乏味的veggie salad。

I think each year as I grow older, i do not really feel any more different than the previous year. I think what matters when you grow older, is the way your thinking changes, the way your maturity grows each year because of the things you've experienced each year. Some people grow older year by year but actually their maturity level is still that of a 10 year old sometimes. My dad told me that we shouldn't have a grand celebration currently because of the Sichuan earthquake and China has also annouced 3 days of mourning for all those suffering in Sichuan. I donated $20 to China Embassy and I extend my sympathy towards all those who lost their kins from the earthquake but frankly I feel that the reason of the numerous natural disasters recently is because mother earth is angry at all the things that we've been doing to her for the past century or even longer. We've been polluting the water, chopping off her trees, releasing toxic gases into the ozone layer, killing so many species of birds/plants and animals annually and killing our own kind as well. Nothing happens without a reason...it's time that we actually think about why these disasters increase in number, with greater severity each time and how we can do something to prevent tragedies like this from happening again, instead of only mourning for the people who suffered from them.

Things we did for biodiversity so far:

This picture has already been shrunk. Please refrain from looking at it if you find it disgusting etc. It's a dissection of a frog, with labels showing its stomach, colon, bladder, ileum, spleen, heart, gall baller, lungs etc. Oh not to mention that its heart was beating the entire 2 hours while I was staring at it mounted on a piece of styrofoam. The poor froggie is was already dead and sacrificed itself for the name of science but for some reason, my bio teacher said that "heart beating" is a reflex action.

If you find this traumatising, um please do think of me cos besides the beating, there's bleeding too.

Here's a flower crab preserved by formaldehyde and mounted on a styrofoam to dry and preserve its shape.

Me and michmich's cricket specimen.

Preserved quail's egg. So cute to preserve an egg on my bday.

The egg yolk and egg white have already been pumped out using an air pump.