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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Went to NUS Anatomy Museum today((:
The foetus-es were not as bad, i thought it would be far more scarier. but it was not.
all the body parts were quite interesting. We saw how the rectus muscles look like in real life, we saw how big the heart is, how small the hypothalamus was and there's the thalamus too, then saw how big the liver is, the folds of the duodenum, the brain ( the smallest one we saw is smaller than a green bean! ), the nerves, the different veins and arteries, the cross-sections of body parts ( brain, hand, toes, foot, fingers, ears, etc. ), deformed babies ( siamese twins, conjoined twins, two with their intestines developed outside their body, one without neck, one with one an eye and a huge wide "hole" for a mouth, another with the brain joined to his back, another with no legs, etc. ). poor babies)):

On the way there, the bus was filled with people.
XinFeng, Roopali, Marion and me got the 5-seats at the last row ( left the middle seat empty, then JiYin don't want to sit in the middle, which is facing the aisle, for "safety" reason. Then Mr Low came over to sit between me and Roo. ) Got to know some "interesting" facts, he was a scout and studied in NUS.

When we reached the building called Medical MD 10, NUS, got off the bus and it was drizzling. ( adding on, there were 40 biology students who went on this trip. Average of 13 people from the 3 biology classes. ) Went into the building ( the place had the feeling of the schools in japan((: ) and got to the 2nd floor. Got to know that a Histology Lab is for students experimenting with blood cells ( which means there must be a centrifudge in there((: ). When we got in, was welcomed by a prof ( whose name escapes me ).

Next was a presentation by a neuroscientist, Prof. Tay. He talked about Evolution. ( now i have different versions of how man came about: Developed from a single cell, evolved from apes, created by God. Prof Tay also said that if you believe in God, evolution will not exist.) Learnt about a known-to-be-extinct fish, that have loped fins ( tetrapod or something ), only found in the deep sea ( and cannot survive once it comes up to the surface ) was once again found. Then also learnt that dinosaurs are reptiles that are warm-blooded as their heart have 4 chambers ( reptiles have 3 1/2 chambers ).

During the presentation, learnt about the Peking Man, the Java Man and the Ape-like Man. Also, i have learnt that everyone of us may be of African Origin. The lands of Earth was known to be joined once, that these man-like creatures migrated from place to place which then resulted in then being found in different places of Earth. Then there was once the fossils of a creature whom a professor, used her for his research, called Mary. The fossils of her skull was found intact at Nile River ( i think ) and then the rest of her body parts were found further down. AND SO, he came up with the idea that Mary was about to cross the river but the currents were too strong and washed her off instead. Thus over time, fossils of her was found.

I signed twice at the guest book((:
Guess why? one was just my signature and a phrase: " was here", the other was my name and...
haha, it's a secret that only 4 person knows of so far. Two person read it by accident ( i tried my best and waited for everyone to go out of the room but they were still in at that point of time. Had no choice but to jot it down, with the two person around, in a rush when Ms Shen was rushing us to vacate the room. )
Mr Low signed too, and added "again" and said it was fun((: he goes there almost every year with the secondary threes i think. haha~

No dance today, yay!
biology and additional mathematics tests on friday.
friday's the last day of headstart.
Maths tuition starts tomorrow.

Have to start studying soon. Especially chemistry, social studies and elective geography.
NJC had a 5-points entry score this year. i hope it increases terribly to at least 8-points.
:PP
All my closer friends are opting for polytechnics.
i'll probably die when i enter the school, get sleepless nights and so on.
okay, i think i'll go downstairs and watch TV with myfamily already((:
bye.

By ZhiXin.♥
@ 8:36 PM