hello!

haha got much to tell you about my geog field trip today!!

the first place we went to was sungei buloh wetland reserve! before 8.30am it's free entry but after that time it will be 50 cents for students i think. poor people! how do they earn anything like that? but yeah we reached there maybe a few mins before 8.30 so we didnt have to pay anything! we set off on our first trail on the back mangrove paths. there, we saw many types of mangrove roots (knee roots, prop roots, hanging roots, and many many more i cant remember now). we walked quite a lot, on mangrove boardwalk, seaward trail also. it was really fun...but initially we got bitten by a lot of mozzies! felt itchy and scratchy all over.

genevieve, serena, nabilah and i were all fooling around like crazy....our main topic being MATING. yup haha we're that lame. ms lee (one of the teachers...super funny) told us the last time she went SBWR, she saw spiders the size of a man's head! we were horrified. but serena was like, so cool i wanna see. so dunno how the topic switched to spiderman and i said ok then serena should get bitten by the spider and become spidergirl. serena then started calling me spidermandz! oh my..why so many people use that nickname huh? what's wrong with my real name? short and sweet what...anyway then we gave each other superhero names. like nabilah wanted to be batgirl and genevieve insisted on lobstergirl. red one somemore! then i reminded her, you know red lobster is dead and cooked? then she said never mind! weird la!

oh and guess what i was supposed to be group leader and take charge of the data loggers! but we forgot to bring one of the wires, it was left in school so basically we couldnt use the data loggers. so i was just carrying it around for nothing since it's group leader's responsibility. after lunch, we went to bukit timah nature reserve. we began the long ardous tiring ascent. it was better than climbing the stairs i tell you. ying ying, serene and i agreed that track, basketball and netball should come here and train. i tried doing launches for the steep parts but it was too tiring and i gave up. we were concentrating more on ascending as quickly as possible as compared to observing the fauna or flora. when we reached the top, we spotted a green snake! maybe like 30cm long. with triangular head. in the grass. a lot of people took pictures of it.

oh and when we reached the bottom, there was this store selling ice cream and cold drinks so he made good business, seeing as to how hot and flustered we were. guess what, monkey business took place! story goes like that : nabilah bought a bag of keropok and left it to damia to take care of it since she wanted to go to the toilet. then damia left it on the bench where she was sitting. as nabilah came out of the toilet, a monkey from above suddenly jumped down and grabbed the bag of keropok and ran off! then after that another monkey saw and chased after him. wanting to get the keropok but the first monkey ran off and we were treated to a monkey chase on the roof tops. haha. then they disappeared. nabilah's reaction was so cute! she was like 'hey, that's MY keropok' and 'excuse me!' to the monkeys when they were chasing after each other. haha. nice experience huh?

we returned back to school and spent about 1 hour at the stage area there, doing the data logger thing. you know salinity and pH value of water collected from sungei buloh in 3 diff areas. during that time i spotted kathleen and sangu collecting balls from the stallroom as well as weishan and charlene! i also spotted jkok and mrs yeo. haha. i went home after the geog thing. was so tired. and i didnt bring suitable shoes for training since i expected the geog trip to last past 5 pm. (after training). so yeah. that's how my field trip went. how was training today then?

mandy(: