Rest of NZ photos

I am too lazy to post up my NZ pictures.. :P

You can view them from facebook account at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=129936&id=744774146&l=805d590487


Something to excite me.. I am finally going back to Singapore in 5 days time.. :) Yipee! SO... What I am going to do during the next 5 days would be to:

1) Packed my luggage
2) Buy whatever things I am asked to buy. i.e. Mum's cherries.
3) Clean up my room
4) Clean up the garden
5) Show Joanne's family around Hobart for 2 days

Steph, Cheryl and I visited Salamanca today and guess who we saw.....


Edmund Chen, Xiangyun and their two children.

Steph and I saw this goodlooking man buying sausages from one of the stores and we were like hinting Cheryl about it. Suddenly, both of us wonder why the guy look so much like Edmund Chen. Behold, Xiangyun turned around and we were like shouting "Confirm". For a moment, our view seems starstruck.. The son turned around and looked straight into our eyes. I think he overheard our conversation.
Cheryl was so funny.. She exclaimed aloud that this is her first time seeing celebs.. Hahhaa.

Anyway, Steph and I bought 1 custard donut each and a large tub of leatherwood honey for Da gu.. We continue to walk around the market; hoping for a 2nd chance to be star-struck again. Hahhaa. The next minute, we saw Edmund and his son again. After 10minutes, we saw Xiangyun telling his son that she needs to find the toilet. Hahhaa. I looked at Cheryl and told her that this is her chance of helping a celeb by showing her the way to the toilet. Hahahaa.

That's all for now.. :)

1st Day at ChristChurch

I find it really hard to blog without a specific theme. I.e. Usually such post end up being very random and uninteresting. On top of that, I no longer feel free to blog about what I feel nowadays; constraint is the word.
Perhaps I should just shut down this blog or privatise it. ..


Alright.. pardon me for the unchronological posting..

New Zealand Botanic Garden

Cosmos

Cornflower

Giant Rose Sculpture

Roses taken at the rose garden. Some of the rose hybrids were even older than us.

Mama duck with her 2 ducklings.. ...

Little duckling....

I thought this library was pretty interesting... :)

We had our brekky at one of the finest breakfast restaurant in Christchurch.

Upon reaching it, we realized that the price was abit too high for our budget trip.

Steph, Me and Lester

June and Joanne

My berri-licious smoothie..

Large,white, soft and fluffy pancakes that we ordered to share.

Yes. it was a budget breakfast at a fine restaurant. "*Bo Bian" Students mah..

*Bo bian= Hokkien word for not having a choice.

That's all for now.. Will post more soon.

Work Experience at Tassal new hatchery (Part 4)

Remember my previous post on the work experience at Russell Falls http://jonpohgene.blogspot.com/2009/06/wonderful-work-experience.html

Oh well .. if you do.. then you probably remember those eggs that I have worked with.

Oh well.. I was really happy to find out that they have grown into such amazing juvenile salmon.

Photos of the juvenile fish

Taaa.. Hope you find them interesting just like I do. :)

Work Experience at Tassal's new hatchery (Part 3)

Sorry guys. I have decided to delete part of post of what might seems confidential.. But seriously, most of it are common textbook knowledge or patented products by manufacturers and thus should not pose too much of a threat. Hope you will still enjoy it. :)

Work Experience at Tassal's new hatchery (Part 2)

Here's a picture of the microparticulate pellet feed used for feeding the salmon frys during their first feeding period. It is pretty much like powder food if you would like to put it that way. The salmon fry uses their chemo-senses to detect the pellets and will be required to start feeding within a certain period of time after they have exhaust their yolk sac supply. Any fish that fails to do so within that window period will enter into the "point of no-return" and will eventually die off.

More pictures...............

Work Experience at Tassal's new hatchery (Part 1)

Thought I should post something on my work experience at Tassal's new hatchery at Ranelagh.

Firstly, I am very grateful to be given this job at such a short notice to the company. Once again, Tassal has been really gracious and kind enough to offer me a work experience at their new hatchery for a proposed short period of time (had to get ready for my NZ trip).

I have decided to post various parts of my work experience in a series of posts.

The salmon frys are kept in drawer-like compartments that allow them to be kept in high density over a given surface area; pretty much like our HDB in Singapore. :P

Some facts:

Do you know that it takes approximately 3 months for the salmon fry to hatch from its egg (This is greatly dependent on the temperature of the water; thus the age of the eggs are measured in degree days. And a salmon fry is able to take pellet food immediately and does not require weaning from live food (rotifers, daphinas). This allows farmers to grow them much easier; saving the hassle of having to culture other microplankton food.