Singapore Zoo

Hi fellow Sinagporeans. Okay nevermind that was random.

On the third day, we went to the Singapore Zoo. It was pretty interesting as instead of just going there to see the animals, we did:

1. A normal animal tour, except we got to wander around ourselves (ok fine, we did see the animals)
2. A behind-the-scenes tour. Our group got to see their wildlife research center, and we got to see how they took care of the animals. We got to see all their ultra spanking cool old cool equipment such as surgical operating tables and post-mortem tables. We got to see tapeworms, roundworms, and other animalian parasites in cute little glass bottles. Very cool.
3. We were supposed to see an elephant show but because of some incoherently inconsiderate humanoids, not including us, we didn't get to see them (awwwww...)

So pictures (again a slideshow):

So about change: When I last saw the zoo, it was really different from the zoo now. They changed a lot of stuff and it look much, much better now. The whole place looks more appealing and interesting. They also added a lot of information panels to give us information about the animals. From this, we can clearly see that change leads to progress as the change in this case really led to progress.

In the past, animals in the zoo were kept in cages for people to see. Currently, this has changed and now animals are nto kept in cages, but in an environment much more similar to their own. THis does not compromise the safety level. The animals also look more attractive; people will be more interested in them. In turn, the zoo would gain more popularity, as the zoo would look better. This example also supports the generalisation that change leads to progress.

That's all.

Singapore Museum

Ok now we'll talk about the Museum we (2 of us). After the super boring bus ride, we went to the Ancient Greek exhibition that was on at the time. There were lots of marble statue/statuettes and some pottery/claywork. The Greek were apparently very open-minded as a lot of the marble figures were nude.

So we saw a lot of nice cute stuff that was supposedly ancient and rare. Seriously, it's just marble-lous or something, aint' it?

So here's a simple photoslideshow we made:




Then we went to the Singapore Historical Museum or something like that. It was just this walk through a lot of exhibits (99 of them) and they gave us this 'companion' thingy in which we could key in numbers and it would play pre-recorded explanations of the exhibit.


Ok, about change, we clearly saw how change led to progress. In the Greek civilisation, there were many things that were similar to our current modern-day society, for example, the form of government they had back then was very similar to that of Singapore, it was a democratic government. However, they seemed to interpret democracy differently, i.e. only free (non-slave) males could be citizens. A change in the interpretation led to progress, our current situation is so much better. Also, a change in technology led to the development of so many cool inventions, making our lives so much more fun and easier.

The Greek had not the convenience of electricity, but now times have changed and we have electricity. In agriculture, the Greeks did not have much technology, now we even have hydroponics. Labour wise, the Greeks had slaves, we don't. Well, the Greeks were the ones who invented the idea of democracy, so we do owe our current peace/government/whatever to them.

Reflecting on these, we can somewhat say that change has lead to progress, in a way or another.

Hydroponics

Fine, we'll post about the hydroponics trip. We went to several (two) farms (several of us). It was (we think) very interesting. We don't know what else to say. Actually most of us didn't even go there. We were absent for that day. We gotta be honest kids, right?

Fine actually one of us went there. According to him, some lady went to talk to them about how their farm worked. There were two farms, one an organic one, another a hydroponic one. At the organic farm, Green Circle Eco-Farm, 41 Neo Tiew Road, the owner of the farm, a lady, spoke to us (him and the others) about organic food and stuff and stressed the fact that pesticides were not used in that farm unlike others. At the other farm, Oh Chin Huat Hydroponic Farm at Nee Soon Agrotechnology Parks, we (him and the others) were brought around the farm and saw lots and lots and lots of hydroponic plants. It was fascinating (at least we think it was).

That's all for the farm. Do we really need to talk about change? Fine.
In the organic farm, the method of growing farms was virtually prehistoric. In the hydroponic farm, it was super-high tech (at least we think so) and coolio. That symbolizes that change leads to progress. As seen, a change in the technology led to progress from prehistoric farming techniques to spanking cool new cool technology. Ok that's all.

What do we do first?

We created our blog and posted our first post at 1.19pm on 6 March 2008.
Now we don't know what else to do.... hmmm....

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