one of the things i should not be doing after O's

I just got back from attending a talk at UBD
I'm not surprised that only about 20 people turned up
It was about
South Western Sri Lanka's tropical rain forest and biodiversity hoptspot
(i have no idea what that means either) given by

Nimal Gunatilleke.

No offence la but its hard to understand something so new from someone's accent that you can't catch.

The beginning was just all about statistics, graphs and charts; and about how the earth's crust was broken up and so on.

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And the ONLY interesting part was about animals

Sri Lankan elephants

There's even an elephant orphanage

because of conflicts between villagers and wild life.

When and if the mother elephants get shot by the villagers

and the baby elephants are sent to the orphanages

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Sri Lanka draws alot of Dragonfly watchers

cause they have 52 different types of dragonflies

that are not found anywhere else in the world

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And there's this unusual frog (Philautus)

that lays eggs on leaves or bury them under the soil

and the tadpoles develop in the egg itself

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The Serendip Scops is the most recently discovered owl

Looks kinda like Harry Potter's owl doesn't it??

xD

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And these freaking SNAIL SHELLS

can be sold at 6 euros per piece

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Then he continues more abt statistics....

Well tomorrow there's one about spiders and their habitat and how they hunt

Would be so much better.

Anyone wanna go??

It's at

Room FSM 2.18

Facaulty of Science

University of Brunei Darussalam

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and before I go,

I'd like to wish

Wong Shi Ning

a Happy 17th birthday

~1811~