martes, marzo 20, 2007

I'm So Hungry.

I do not like rhetorical writing one bit. I suck amazingly and astonishingly at it. Writing narratives i'm fine, putting rubbish into words i love, but my writing trips over its own feet and flattens itself when i'm asked to point out fallacies and put my critical thinking skills into words. The only type of writing that is really useful and i have to be expertly lousy at it. Why? Tell me why??
*looks into the heavens*

Oh! I find it quite interesting that i never had a nosebleed until a few days ago. It was rather exciting in a wondrous kind of way, like Wah... There's blood in my nose! So this is what i would look like if i got into a fight, and other such wonderments. After soaking several pieces of tissue paper in patches with my blood, and then stopping to admire the artistic effect on the tissue when spread out, i realised that one of my favourite colours is Blood-red. Fresh blood-red. Okay i'm not trying to be a blood-thirsty weirdo right now, but really, blood-red is one of the colours i could just stare at mesmerized. It's so strong and fresh and passionate and determined to be red. It must be why red is the colour of love and of hate and of revolution and of danger. Now i want a blood-red dress. *schemes*

I cut open a sea urchin today and looked at its innards. This is how you do it:

With the sea urchin (dead) sitting right side up ie. anus up, pierce the outer covering shallowly on it's side and cut around the body and remove the top, so that the innards sit in the lower half of the 'cup'.

Observe how most of the innards is gonad ie. sex organs - a good 2/3. Then get rid of them by scooping/scraping them out gently with a blunt instrument. A dissection probe-thing or your finger works just fine. The gonads have a consistency of jam so this should be easy, but take care not to stab the intestines or rip a portion out in an overenthusiastic attempt.

Note how the gut (stomach and intestine) is looped and folded. The lower loop is the stomach and the upper one is the intestine. Observe the Aristotle's lantern, the 'jaw', and it's structure related musculature.

Look for other organs i cannot remember the names of.

Throw disemboweled sea urchin into biological waste bin.

Wash hands with pink smelly soap.

Poke around in the starfish tank for a while and disturb the fat pink anemone at the side of the tank.

Wash hands again.

Go home.

3 Comments:

Blogger sheng! said...

heys so fun. wat u studyin again.. bachelor in animal cutting? cool stuff. wahhaha

and once i also jus happiyl allowed my nose to bleed all it desired. go see my pics. wahahah

12:35 a. m.  
Blogger Daryl said...

eh.. so fun la.. where got just poke poke and go home.. =) hahah. eh.. now i poke poke you and ask you come home faster leh =)

8:44 a. m.  
Blogger the little thoughts of a little person. said...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SO FUNNY DISTURB THE FAT PINK ANEMONE ON THE SIDE

5:34 p. m.  

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