I don’t blame my mum for my size.
She makes fantastic cakes and other goodies.
I… just… cannot… resist.
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It’s been quiet around here.
July has been a busy month. Didn’t help that I was ill two weekends ago.
That’s the third time I’ve fallen ill during the weekend this year.
I’m also gaining weight, as one of my colleagues never fails to point out.
It’s time to get moving.
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The photo above shows Saving Gaia winner and fellow Toddycat Marcus Tay talking to kids about Pangolins this morning at EnviroFest.
The pangolin was there, among other animals specimens, at the Toddycats booth. Most visitors to our booth are surprised to find out that all the specimens on display can be found in Singapore!
The booth is definitely a hit among the kids, who drag their parents along sometimes. The location of EnviroFest - in front of Toa Payoh Community Library - lends itself to being a kid-rich environment. Heh.
While annotating the photos of the respective organisations’ booths, I found out that NParks has redesigned its website.
Much nicer than the old one. I was going to pan the navigation though, as there seemed to be more steps to get to the individual park pages. Parks > North/South/East/West/Offshore Islands (or use the embedded Google Map!) > then click on the park.
Then I realised there are quick links to the parks if you scroll down. Hmmm… that should be right above on the website!
One more thing, if you’ve ever linked to anything on their website, it is quite likely that the link is now broken.
Oh, anyone recognise the lady in the photo on the website?
UPDATE I’ve been exploring NParks use of Google Maps. The Green Map is quite nice. The Park Connectors can be improved though. It doesn’t show the full connections, especially for the Eastern Coastal Park Connector.
And get this, they’ve linked to my Google Map from their Southern Ridges page!
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If the lady above looks sort of familiar, she’s the actress who played Winnie Cooper in The Wonder Years.
I was aware she is some sort of maths whiz, but I didn’t know she had a book out.
The question is, who is going to buy her book? *scratch chin* Definitely not Singaporean students. “Fractions, decimals and percents”? Our primary school students eat those (unfortunately) for recess. Perhaps I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.
While I have no idea what’s in the book, maybe something like this would have gotten me interested in mathematics. Sine, cosine, tangent, what? Differentiation? Integration? Proving this equals that?
Could never see how it was applicable in my life, and I still wonder how knowing (or at least, trying to know) all that helped me. The exception was statistics, which was mildly intriguing and probably the only reason I didn’t fail both O and A Level Mathematics.
Thanks, Kevin - incidentally, the male lead character’s name in The Wonder Years - for this (reminder of Danica McKellar, not Mathematics) little blast from the past. =)
Original photo by Kevin Lim, from here, reproduced under a cc by-nc-sa 2.0 license.
Similar PostsI finally got my hands on the tickets for Singapore’s first Formula 1 race. Yes, I realise the irony of a post about Formula 1 just after one about Envirofest, but I don’t claim to be an environmental saint.
Unfortunately, the tickets came in a big box, meant for 10 sets - the maximum any individual can buy.
Inside, mostly empty space, since I bought two sets of tickets.
The actual ticket holder: still lots of paper being used.
Inside, a pass for each day of the race: Friday (practice), Saturday (qualifying) and Sunday (race day).
Now, I feel I need to do some penance for my participation in this environmental monstrosity…
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