Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Journal of Virtual tour in Chek Jawa



I found out that virtual tour in Chek Jawa made me learnt a lot .I also found out that Chek Jawa isn't located in Indonesia , because the " Jawa " word made me
remembered about the Jawa island in Indonesia . It is located in Pulau Ubin , Singapore .

After I went on a few websites , I found out that Hermit Crab (Clibanarius sp.) is the most interesting animal I have ever known . Hermit Crabs are well-known for living in abandoned shells.This is because hermit crabs don't have a hard shell over their abdomens. On Chek Jawa, hermit crabs can get very large. This species come in red, orange and blue .


These are some pictures of Hermit Crabs





These are the pictures .

Hermit crabs have only two pairs of walking legs. The last pairs of legs are reduce and used to hold onto the shell walls. One of the pincers may be enlargedand used to block the shell entrance. Hermit crabs are scavengers with a very good sense of smell to find decaying plants or animals .
Most species of hermit crabs have long soft abdomens which are protected from predators by the adaptation of carrying around a salvaged empty seashell, into which the whole crab's body can retract .
Taken from Google©
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Monday, February 2, 2009

Phobias

Acrophobia- Fear of heights & Thermophobia - Fear of heat .






Everybody have fears , fear of darkness , insects , or even numbers .My worst fear is height and heat .
I started to fear heat when i was in primary 4 .I was scalded by a hot iron when the maid in our house was ironing .She put the iron beside the ladder and when i sprinted to the ladder , i fell down and my body touched by the iron .I took 2 months to recover from the scar in my body and by the time i recovered , I did not dare to have any hot things beside me .


For my fear of height , I suffered from it when I was in Primary 6 .I was having holiday with my parents in Penang , and because of that holiday I was trapped in the lift of the hotel we stayed at .The lift has transparent wall and I was on the 19th floor .I took a look below and felt my legs were trembling .I was trapped and closed my eyes for 3 hours for I feared that the lift might fall down .I was finally rescued after trapped in for hours and from that time , I shall tremble whenever I looked down from high places .


Now , as I know that I has those two phobias , I would try as much as possible to avoid hot things and high places .