OK...this may come quite late.... but more stuff on what I did for the holidays
On the 16th of July, I had the pleasure of attending a talk about Alfred Russel Wallace by the author Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. Wallace was a contemporary of Charles Darwin who travelled in the Amazon and South East Asia. He was quite productive for 8 years in which he collected 125660 specimens including 212 new bird species, 900 new beetle species and 200 new species of ants. Besides that, he was a codiscoverer of evolution by natural selection together with Charles Darwin. The talk examines his journeys through the Amazon and the South East Asia rainforests abd also examined the reasons why Wallace became obscure in the history of science and Darwin has been lionized as one of the greatest biologists in history.(Conspiracy? Later in life Darwin lobbied hard for a pension to be given to Wallace. Was Darwin doing this because he was feeling guilty of plagarizing or because he was just nice? You should make up your mind =))
On the 23rd of July, I went to JB with my sister and her boyfriend. It was my first overseas trip. We hung out at the shopping centre close to the immigration centre for lunch and we went shopping for cheaper goods. We ate at the HK cafe and I had pasta with bacon for lunch. I found it quite fun and would love to go there again soon.
