Post Examination Utterings and Module Review Part 2

Continuing from below...

LSM 2251 had 2 field trips one to Labodor Beach and another one in Pulau Ubin. I had a fun time doing field trips. Maybe i should make field biology a career. After that, however, we had to do the field reports. Basically, for the labodor beach, we went to see the various distribution of flora and fauna in the littoral zone (explanations another time). My practical group split up into 3 sub groups and I worked in the group focusing on the lowest littoral zone. There was a diversity of animals in our quadrants and my group had a highest diversity of animals of all. We found a lot of different types of crabs both large and small.

3 days later, ( the field trips took place on e-learning week) on one lovely sat morning, I woke up at 5.30am ( first time that i woke up these early since I ORDed). I waited at Boon Keng MRT together with a few of my fellow students and TAs. I was expecting a big bus for transport but i saw a minibus instead.=( We quickly reached the ferry terminal at Changi at 8am. At a Pulau Ubin, we stopped at the visitors center and took a ferry there. We focused on looking at the bird and butterflies and looked at the diversity of habitats like secondary forest, degraded land and mangroves etc. Halfway through our trip, it rained and we took shelter underneath a drink stall. The interesting thing about the stall is that 12 different mangrove plants can be found nearby, so you can get and learn to know mangrove plants in Singapore and Tropical East Asian region. Shortly after the rain, we went a bit further and we retraced our steps back to the jetty.

The first lecturer for this module, Mr Siva has a good way of making our lectures more interesting. I look forward to his lectures every week when he is lecturing. He is very experienced in the biodiversity scene in Singapore and he uses his experience to make  his lectures more enriching. Lala.. I look forward in taking his other modules in yr 3 and 4.=)

Well, i think i will talk about my other modules another time.. Cheerio!!!