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On a recent team outing to the recently reopened Oceanarium, besides looking at a bunch of colourful sea creatures, I also found myself quite intrigued by the first exhibition, which charts the cellular evolution of life from single-celled organisms all the way to tetrapods and beyond. And it reminded me of this meme/fact that recently once more appeared on a social media feed: The T-Rex was closer to the invention of the iPhone than it was to the Stegosaurus. These are perhaps the two most immediately nameable dinos that most people know. And I suspect most of us think of dinosaurs in a monosemic manner: "Oh right, dinosaurs. They go rawr." This is probably not helped by the fact that children's books probably put the T-Rex and Stegosaurus on the same page, and I'm guessing many of our impression of dinosaurs is also formed more by Jurassic Park than by going to Natural Science Museums. But this fact is a reminder on the vastness of time, and the slowness of biological development. It is also, to me, a reminder of the smallness of mankind. We've been around, species: homo sapien, about 300,000 years. Earth was formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago, life is thought to have begun about 4 billion years ago, with the earliest undisputed record of life dating back to about 3.5 billion years ago. While humanity is clearly disposed to putting homo sapiens front and centre of everything that happens, in that geological context we are but a speck. It's easy to forget just how many 0s are in a billion. In the context of life on earth, humanity represents just 0.00008% of that total time. Think about that.

Recently my kid is on a dino craze for some reason. lol. been bugging me to bring her see dinosaur after some googling then i realised we actually have real dinosaur bones in singapore! ( yes i know i'm Sua Gu) didn't even know that there was a lee kong chian natural history museum. hahaha. Tickets are generally affordable. got discount for singaporeans/pr. got a very nice souvenir shop with lotsa education toys. my kid made a small whole in my wallet. haha the dinos were very impressive. huge! every 30min or so there is a laser show with sound effects. quite interesting. i was surprised that my kid could tell me the names of the dinos. What the hell are they teaching to 3 yr old kids in school nowadays?? after from the dino bones. there are alot of others educational exhibits too for budding paleontologists. apart from my kid, think my maids were the happiest. hahaaha hope you guys find this useful. maybe can plan a trip during the upcoming school holidays. Address:Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum National University of Singapore 2 Conservatory Drive Singapore 117377 Tickets can be book via sistic http://www.sistic.com.sg/events/lkc2015 Singaporean / Permanent Resident (PR)Ticket S$15 - Adult S$8 - Child / Student / Snr Citizen / NSF

wonder is the price of $148/$108/$78/$48 worth it or not?.. anyone going?..... im thinking of getting the $108 type since no point to go there and sit too far behind.... .. but for 3 person, it cost more than $300 already.... quite steep actually.... anyone watch it overseas before?.... http://www.sistic.com.sg/portal/dt?dt.isPo...entCode=wwd1210 http://www.dinosaurlive.com.sg/dinosaurs-synopsis.htm

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