Bridge to the southest point of Aisan continent
Palm and beach
again Frangipani, in red
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鹦鹉螺 Nautilus pompilius
I didn't see it clear in Dalian Aquarium, they hide too far back. Now it is clear
And this is the inside struture, a lot of little air rooms, work exactly the way of submarine. Actually said submarine is invented based on the old old Nautilus pompilius. The first submarine is named after Nautilus pompilius?
This picture took in Dalian shell museum in Jan.
Again this cool general! It happens he's just upside down. ;)
Let me check with previous page, so we can match the bottom side with the back.
See the back image at: 鲎 Limulus
Limulus polyphemus ?
Horseshoe Crab
Jellyfish, cuttlefish and octopus. 水母，鱿鱼乌贼，章鱼 Very confusing
This is cuttlefish. Now I get some sense. octopus is the one can fight with whale (very impressive, em, I must put on shell museum pics later)
All cuttlefish stay in the watter can motionless (skirt edge waving), eyes sleeping.
Note, it is now yellow.
Minutes later when I turn back, the same guy turns purple!
Australian weedy seadragon 草海龙
丝管介绍过的：Sea Dragons
Leafy seadragon 叶海龙
sorry, effect very bad, so adjust the colorlevel a lot to make it clear
jellyfish always looks dreamy, this beautiful pink one
But actually this kind is stingy, the long strings from the cap will burn your skin if touch, according to the descrioption
again sea star attach to glass wall, little feet hold on
At sand beach, I think of Denise's wondelful sand objects
They are so nice, but very difficult
:p, so I can only photo some ugly footprints to show respect (not a nice way although)
People playing in the bay
Looking at sea
Peacock over roof
night palm
The fancy music fountain show. Best things cant show on photo. :)
The star in the fountain show, 'It's my world~~, it's my world~~~' :)
Funny Mr cow in Monk Tang dressing
十二生肖里面的老牛在这里穿成了唐僧状，很搞笑
临近万赛节（一个佛教节日），尽管这满棚子的灯笼红通通写满吉祥话，晚上看过去却阴风阵阵、鬼气森森。不知道这万赛节究竟干的是什么，这样诡异。
Although these red lantern hanging with lucky words, it thrills me, the sense of ghosts wandering arround, wierd. It's a Vesak Day coming here.
pottery paintings at Dubby Ghauht submay station.
Dubby Ghauht submay station
Canation for mother's day
Dubby Ghauht interchange, the station to change line to China town and little India
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Two living fossils, Nautilus and Limulus: It is always exiting to see animals that almost haven't changed for such a long time.
Limulus belongs to the order Xiphosura 剑尾目 which exists since Silur (410 - 440 million years ago, 希留利亚纪(Silurian age)). Btw: I just have read that Limulus lives at coasts of North and Central America, and the very similar Carcinoscorpius and Tachypleus live in Southeast and East Asia.
Ancestors of Nautilus 鹦鹉螺 are known from Devon (泥盘纪, Devonian), about 360-410 million years ago. Except of Nautilus' closest relatives (Nautilina) they all became extinct at the end of Trias (about 210 Million years ago 三叠纪 (Triassic)).
(Info about Geologic Time Scale)
The sea dragons are beautiful, so colourful and fragile. And so is the jelly fish, like floating weightless. I like the look of jelly fish, they are interesting animals. I'm happy to see that you also are fascinated by them. Unfortunately I made the experience that many people don't like them, they think they are ugly, dangerous and nasty. I can't understand that. People admire dangerous tigers, poisonous sea shells/snails and birds of prey, but they disgust snakes, spiders and jelly fish...
Santosa beach seems to have a very fine sand quality, nice for bathing. It is different from 'our' beach in Denmark which has many different grain sizes: from fine sand to big pebbles, everything. It is not so nice for the feet but even nicer for your eye.
Furthermore it has differrent colours. Flintstone 燧石,打火石 and Magnetit 磁铁矿 add a dark component to white quartz 石英 and lime/chalk 石灰石. I'll write something about it in my guestbook.
The red lanterns indeed look thrilling. What is Vesak Day about?
Denise
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2005-5-29 19:48
Em, Vesak Day is Buddha Day
Something like Buddha's birthday? No, sorry, it is the Enlightment day under that famous Bodhi Tree 2500 years ago. To honour Buddha's universal peace harmony ideas I suppose, according to The Significance of Vesak - Buddha Day
But before go to SG, I never heard of Vesak day. And SG Chinese girl in our course gets puzzled that we dont have Vesak day as holiday since China actually is somehow Buddhism country. Of course, firstly we are communism country, maybe that's the reason. :D
But in my memory, Buddha's flower like my grandma, they will celebrate Kwan-yin's birthday (the female symbol of great mercy, original male figure in India), it's someday in our lunar calendar. O, we also have a day for all flower's birthday (an abstract birthday for all of them, we call hundred of(means all) flowers' birthay). I dont remember the exact date, people will hange red string onto tree branchs to make them happy, a means of greeting to the trees/flowers. But now less people do that. My grandma always knew that, but modern people care less about such things.
Seems Buddha people have quite some events for Vesak day, but that day it feels weird, nothing of universal peace, maybe peace for the ghost side of world, I don't know.
And I forgot to say, the sand beach in Santosa is man-made, so they use all refined sands. SG is a business harbour, so its natural beach is not very nice, somehow poluted.
评论人：乱看 评论日期：2005-5-30 8:50
Ah, that's the reason why the sand is so fine. I already was wondering...
Thank you for the information on Vesak Day. Buddhism has fascinated me for a while already, but I never knew how to know more about it, how to gain access to the right informations, didn't know which literature is reliable (I am too distrustful ;-)) Maybe I should browse buddhanet a bit.
When you have found out which date the flowers' birthday is, could you please tell me? I really liked to know that :-)
Denise
评论人：dropin 评论日期：2005-6-2 2:36
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