Monkey Behaviour

Documentaries by Sir David Attenborough have been part of my daily life since I embarked on my third year in uni. Majoring in Biology had enabled me to see biodiversity in a whole new perspective. Now, I am so into the documentaries that I will watch them every Wednesday in Okto Animal Night. Yesterday's episode of the Life in Mammals was very engaging in the sense its super related to my behavioral bio module. Instead of the example on birds shown during the lecture documentaries, yesterday was about monkeys exhibiting similar behaviour as some birds.


It's amazing that how different species of monkeys co-operate with each other for anti-predation alliances and not squabbling within themselves for food (since they are on different diets). Very entertaining as you'll see cases of social hierachy and infidelity amongst the monkeys which is so so similar to some of human's behaviour especially these are the intelligent mammals. They are indeed social climbers. lol~


http://www.videosift.com/video/David-Attenborough-Life-of-Mammals-9-The-Social-Climbers

Singlish

I have come across this pod cast by Mr Brown recently which is rather intriguing in regards of the recent article where MM lee says, Chinese S’poreans should focus on learning Mandarin well.


http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20090317/tap-920-singaporeans-focus-learning-mand-231650b.html


Yes, I agree that we should buck up on our Mandrain since most of us did not speak proper Mandrain or English in school. Yet, how many of us are truly billinguals?


This is one of the master piece by Mr Brown recently that is absolutely hilarious despite I have already listened it for two times. Well, Mr Brown had portrayed the future SGreans who are unable to speak Singlish, but well-versed in both English and Chinese. Look at what happen in year 2020 when these future SGreans enter army without knowing the army language, that is basically Singlish.


However, I must warn you first that the pod cast may contain certain disturbing languages that is already sensored by them. Don't treat it too seriously as it's suppose to be light-hearted.
Enjoy!


http://www.mrbrownshow.com/2009/03/30/the-mrbrown-show-army-fighting-language/


However, if you have time you might want to read this paricular blog post which also have some rather interesting view about his thought on Singlish which unfortunately had pointed out some real life situation. So true.

http://myworldandme.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/mm-lee-says-speak-more-mandarin-i-say-speak-more-dialect-and-singlish/

But still, the ability to speak proper English would definately bring us more benefits in many situations especially in foreign land where nobody can understand our Singaporean language. This is what most of us knew deep down in our hearts although we might still be embracing Singlish in our daily life. Anyway, it's just my 2 cents worth. ;p