The term colour blindness can be misleading sometimes. Most people who are colour blind are not blind to all colours, but just have a colour deficiency that makes it difficult for them to differentiate colours.

There are many different types of colour blindness, but the most common is the difficulty in differentiating the colours red, green and yellow. This is called "red-green" colour blindness. Other forms of colour blindness are difficulty in differentiating blue from yellow, or where everything appears grey.

Mock strawberries

Mock strawberries as they would appear to people with red-green colour blindness
Roughly 1 in 10 men are fully or partly colour blind, meaning that one of the three types of colour detectors in their eyes is either faulty or missing altogether. The condition is hereditary and sex linked. Fathers will pass the gene to their daughters, and not their sons. Mothers can pass it to all their children. However, because women can be unaffected carriers, men are at least 20 times more likely than women to develop colour blindness.

9% of men and 0.5% of women are colour blind.
I'm part of the 0.5%. ):

But there is evidence that people with colour blindness are much better than average at certain jobs. They are very good at finding green things hidden against green backgrounds, such as grass or leaves. They tend to find things by shape and get less confused by camouflage. Because of this, colour blind entomologists still catch lots of bugs and in wartime, armies prize their colour blind snipers and spotters.

Geography is the way to go!
I'm more than determined than ever that I'm going to work in the parks in future. Maybe NParks, so I'll be in the reserves often.

Took my 2nd jab today.
The doctor kept asking me how painful the first jab was because he knows I hate injections. He changed the needle for me! To the smallest one again.
He asked if I wanted to take a blood test right there and then so that I'd know if I need a hepatitis jab, then started laughing because he knew I'd say no.

1 more jab and I'll be done!
I seriously don't understand how people can get used to having injections. The idea of it freaks me out.


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I received an email from International Rivers today!
My voice was heard when I signed the petition to stop the construction of the Xayaburi Dam. They halted all construction activities and had the staff and equipments withdrawn. (: (:

"The Xayaburi Dam, if built, would forcibly resettle over 2,100 people and directly affect over 202,000 people, and could threaten the extinction of approximately 41 fish species, including the critically endangered Mekong Giant Catfish. An additional 23 to 100 migratory fish species would be threatened through a blocked fish migration route. These impacts in turn will affect the livelihoods and food security of millions of people in the region."

This is not a positive sign for the Mekong River.
There're so many dams built across the river already. WHY WOULD THEY WANT TO BUILD ANOTHER ONE?

This is taken from International Rivers
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2486/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6507

Save the Mekong!

On the 19th of April, a crucial decision will be made over the fate of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia. The governments of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam will decide whether to build the first dam on the lower Mekong mainstream, the Xayaburi Dam. Located in northern Laos, this dam is the first of 11 large hydropower dams that – if built – would devastate the world’s most productive freshwater fishery.

The Xayaburi Dam would unleash massive ecological change to a river that feeds millions of people. It would forcibly resettle over 2,100 people and directly affect over 202,000 people, and could drive critically endangered fish species, such as the Mekong Giant Catfish, to extinction.

The region’s governments are divided about whether or not to approve the Xayaburi Dam – your voice can make a difference. Please send the governments a message today letting them know that the citizens of the world care about a free-flowing Mekong River.

CLICK HERE to demand the cancellation of the Xayaburi Dam!

Yellowhead Jawfish
A male incubating the female's eggs in its mouth.

Girl 1: Ugh I feel so fat!
Girl 2: OMG. Are you serious?! You're so not fat.
Girl 1: Look at my thighs!
Girl 2: Look at MY thighs.
Girl 1: Come on, you're so skinny!
Girl 2: So are you.

Familiar?

Researchers found that nearly all women engaged in fat talk with their friends, and that about a third of them did so frequently — regardless of whether they were actually overweight or not. Mostly, women complained to their friends about feeling fat or bloated, or about feeling guilty for not going to the gym or eating too much. For many, it was a way to reassure or to be reassured that in fact they weren't fat at all.

The predictable back-and-forth argument between two women where each denies that the other is fat was the most typical content of fat talk conversations. When asked how they felt about fat talk, the majority of women indicated that it made them feel better about themselves — that it helps to know that I'm not the only one who feels bad about my body.
Yet the study showed that women who complained about their weight more often — even if they were thin — were more likely to have greater dissatisfaction with their bodies. They were also more likely to buy into the media's thin ideal. Of course, it could be that it isn't fat talk that makes women feel worse; rather, it's that people who feel badly about their bodies to start are simply more likely to complain about them.
Still, the habit doesn't appear to help women improve self-esteem or change their underlying attitudes about body weight.

"Although social support and empathy are usually viewed as psychologically healthy constructs, constant reminders that one's normal-weight or underweight friends also feel fat may not be helpful in the long run. Such fat talk simply serves to reinforce the thin body ideal and the notion that disliking one's body is normative for women. Women come to expect this type of talk from their peers and likely feel pressured to engage in it."

The researchers found, despite the fact that so many women used fat talk to seek reassurance from friends, several women in our sample remarked ... that they do not believe their friends when the friends tell them that they are not fat.

From TIMES


I do this sometimes with friends on those feel-fat-days. But I don't like it when people say that I'm fat. Seriously. I get comments like Can you stop eating so much/ Your arms damn fat/ You need to go on a diet.

Seriously. I don't think I need to go on a diet.
I'm not even overweight. All of you have been brainwashed by the media that being skinny is healthy.

Read the article above and repeat to yourself. I AM NOT FAT.

Apply my motto to your life:
EAT, LIVE AND DIE.

You'll be a happier person.

Me: Wah dad, they're introducing a new module. Field studies to Fiji!

Dad: Hahahaha and you signed up for the one to Thailand.

Me: What? I want to go for the Thailand one. But if they open up the Fiji module, I'll sign up for it if I can go.

Dad: Japan and Thailand. Hahaha.

Me: Fuji's in Japan. Fiji's a nation on its own.

Dad: Oh ya oh ya. Where is Fiji on the map?

Me: Don't know.

Dad: WHAT!!!! Study Geog and you don't know.

Me: I'm studying about rock processes and stuff. I don't study maps.

Dad: Geog students MUST know.

Me: You know where's Pedra Branca?

Dad: Island la. Owned by Malaysia.

Me: No! It's Singapore's.

Me: And it's a piece of rock. Not an island.

Dad: I know, recently acquired by Singapore only. And how I know? They say it's an island.

I don't know why people always associated geog students to map. If you don't know how to read a map, you're not a geog student. And my dad's always trying to win in these kind of discussions, only to find excuses for himself when he says the wrong things. Hahahaha.

Dad, even if I can't read the world map, I'm still a geog student.

Speaking of which, the school's changing the curriculum for geog majors. They're introducing a new level 3000 module COMPULSORY for all majors. ): I've just taken my 4th level 3000 module and I'm done with it because the field studies module makes up 2 level 3000 modules. Now I've got to take one more. If I had known, I wouldn't have taken it this sem.
And why are they only introducing the Fiji field studies now!