If you guys know any online resource to identify the butterflies of China would you please send me the link.

I just upload some pictures here http://srilankabutterflies.net/gallery/butterflies-china Help me to identify those

Wish you all a very happy 2012.

Kind Regards,

Nayana

(Ps. Two days back had chance to chat with Peter and got to know the XTBG getting cold. As Chuck mentioned it is one of the GREAT tourist destinations. Glad to here all good news  and hope you all are doing well. )

Love XTBG

I really like it http://www.pfs-tropasia.org/

Thank YOU

Best regards,

Naya

Jerry is a small man, but often with a loud voice. He is good at long-distance announcement, which always shocked Orr. His typical dress is T-shirt in orange, or a long sleeve in camoflague.

IU Yongjie, Jimmy, got from his blog http://liuyongjie203.blog.163.com/album/#m=2&aid=83265574&pid=3217703708

Jimmy is a helpful person. There is one thing I remembered markablely. That’s when we were in the pomelo forest, the sun was burning, and we worked a whole day. Everyone of us was exhausted, like bathing in sweat. At the time we began to go back, I found I left my bag somewhere, LIU Yongjie just ran back and helped me find it, which made him drip sweat and slight sunstroke.

Jimmy went to steal pomelo with "two girls" at the last night we spent in XTBG

I heard that Jimmy already finished master degree in XTBG and will go to Zhejiang University for his doctor degree. He is the only person who successfully passs the doctoral entrance exam among all the people in XTBG. Besides this achievement in academy, Jimmy met his special girl during his oral quiz! Hoh, what a wonderful fate!

Hope everyone have the good luck as Jimmy!

This time let’s talk about WU Kai, the rain boy!

photo by MO Xiaoxue

Kevin is a doctoral candidate of Wuhan Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences. I remembered his hometown is Yunnan Province, and he finished undergraduate in Yunnan too. So he is half host when we were in Kunming, taking us to the famous cross bridge rice noodles, and helping Bhakata deal his visa problem.

Kevin is a happy, big guy, always looks energetic, full of curiosity about everything which makes him keep asking questions. On his self-introduction, Kevin showed every aspect of his dissertation of master degree to us. I guess it’s about some kind of Mimosa, a exotic species. When we were in spider group, it’s Kevin who took most difficult part, which was distinguishing the gender of spider, by the shape of their tiny sex organ through microscope. Here I want to quote a paragraph from Peter, the big writer to tell a funny story about Kevin:

For all of us attending this course, English is not a first language but today i witnessed something wickedly funny. I entered the EcologicalEvolution lab and saw this young scientist (AFEC-X participant) staring with the greatest concentration into a microscope. Underneath the lens was a tiny spider. There was light perspiration on his forehead as he struggled to analyze the specimen. Suddenly a smile broke out on his face and he nearly punched the air as he exclaimed. IT’S A BOY!!!

Well, Kevin has a nick name “Rain Man” in our spider group. When in field, we use a plastic pipe to inhale spiders, so there would unavoidable be some saliva in the pipe. But there was like hundreds litre in Kevin’s pipe! And Kevin liked swinging this pipe, which made his saliva flow everywhere, just like it was rainy! So Yen used Rain Man to call Kevin. It’s a very vivid describe.

And Kevin once asked HUA Xia, a girl, to buy him a swimming suit, it seemed very inappropriate….

Hope Kevin will do great in Wuhan, with his doctoral dissertation!

Well, first I want to tell you an intersting story. One day I received a e-mail from a totally stranger. His name was Tarbish and he found my blog of Navendu through Google, which “summarized very well Navendu’s character, and the place he has in other people’s heart“. Tarbish has never met Navendu, but they exchanged mails for identifying flowers at the webpage http://www.flowersofindia.net. He said my blog help him find the various mode of Navendu, which made me very happy and decided to keep writing, describing all of you in Afec-X!

OK, this time it would be  WU Lan and CAO Zijuan, the “two girls” as Orr always called.

the long and beautiful hair of CAO Zijuan, photoed by MO Xiaoxue

WU Lan and CAO Zijuan are both from Peking University, one of the best universities in China. They major in biology, especially on wildlife protecting. The characters of their major  make them running around, living in field for months, watching pandas mating, etc. It’s an amazing major, which I always dream about, but claims both healthy physical and emotional conditions. The two girls are from South China, appearing beautiful, slim, tender, whose occupation you might consider as teachers or nurses. Well, at least it’s my first impression about them. But as course going, I found them really powerful in the field. Really powerful women! Once we were in the rubber plantation, there are a lot climbing and downhill, I was after CAO Zijuan in the line, she climbed facilely through the way I would never try. WU Lan is amazing too, she gave us a lot of surprises, a fresh jackfruit as dessert for dinner,  picked by herself from the tree for example. WU Lan is good at photographing too, her camera has a large lens. I though she once snap a picture of mine, when I was seriously discussing the independent project with Chuck at the rubber plantation. WU Lan promised to post that pic to me, I guess she has forgotten this for a whole year and still forgetting it….

pretty smile of WU Lan, photoed by MO Xiaoxue

The most amazing thing about two girls happened on the last day we spend at Xishuangbanna. After the crazy party we had, they and LIU Yongjie (Jerry) and another boy rode on two motorcycles, running to the pumelo forest in the midnight, climbing up to the pumelo trees, picking as many pumelos as filling a whole gunny bag! Then each room of ours had a fresh pumelo! We had a pumelo party!

After our course, WU Lan and her family went to Tibet from Kunming. I believe she must enjoy the field and take a lot of pictures!

________________world cup________________________________

I’m not a big fan of football, but after yesterday’s game between German and Argentina, I decided to support German as much as I can! 4:0!! Maradona, you could sing “Don’t cry for me, Argentina” to confess, instead of streaking!

Well, first I want to tell you an intersting story. One day I received a e-mail from a totally stranger. His name was Tarbish and he found my blog of Navendu through Google, which “summarized very well Navendu’s character, and the place he has in other people’s heart“. Tarbish has never met Navendu, but they exchanged mails for identifying flowers at the webpage http://www.flowersofindia.net. He said my blog help him find the various mode of Navendu, which made me very happy and decided to keep writing, describing all of you in Afec-X!

OK, this time it would be  WU Lan and CAO Zijuan, the “two girls” as Orr always called.

the long and beautiful hair of CAO Zijuan, photoed by MO Xiaoxue

WU Lan and CAO Zijuan are both from Peking University, one of the best universities in China. They major in biology, especially on wildlife protecting. The characters of their major  make them running around, living in field for months, watching pandas mating, etc. It’s an amazing major, which I always dream about, but claims both healthy physical and emotional conditions. The two girls are from South China, appearing beautiful, slim, tender, whose occupation you might consider as teachers or nurses. Well, at least it’s my first impression about them. But as course going, I found them really powerful in the field. Really powerful women! Once we were in the rubber plantation, there are a lot climbing and downhill, I was after CAO Zijuan in the line, she climbed facilely through the way I would never try. WU Lan is amazing too, she gave us a lot of surprises, a fresh jackfruit as dessert for dinner,  picked by herself from the tree for example. WU Lan is good at photographing too, her camera has a large lens. I though she once snap a picture of mine, when I was seriously discussing the independent project with Chuck at the rubber plantation. WU Lan promised to post that pic to me, I guess she has forgotten this for a whole year and still forgetting it….

pretty smile of WU Lan, photoed by MO Xiaoxue

The most amazing thing about two girls happened on the last day we spend at Xishuangbanna. After the crazy party we had, they and LIU Yongjie (Jerry) and another boy rode on two motorcycles, running to the pumelo forest in the midnight, climbing up to the pumelo trees, picking as many pumelos as filling a whole gunny bag! Then each room of ours had a fresh pumelo! We had a pumelo party!

After our course, WU Lan and her family went to Tibet from Kunming. I believe she must enjoy the field and take a lot of pictures!

________________world cup________________________________

I’m not a big fan of football, but after yesterday’s game between German and Argentina, I decided to support German as much as I can! 4:0!! Maradona, you could sing “Don’t cry for me, Argentina” to confess, instead of streaking!

Kindly pass on to whoever might be interested. Thanks!

Chuck

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Hi, I am writing to inform you that there is a Korea government scholarship program(KGSP) for graduate.

I was wondering if you have anyone you want to recommend for ‘KGSP’program.

If there is anyone who is thought to be eligible for this please recommend him/her to department.

The applicant who finally selected by Korean government will start to their study at SNU Sept 1st 2011.

The applicant who wants to apply for KGSP is required to fill out the form attached.

▪ Available country for KGSP program

- Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippine, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Bangladeshi, Malaysia, Cambodia,

India, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan etc.

(*Any other country which is not specified above instance please let me know before application)

▪ Support details

- Tuition fees, Air fare, Living allowance(900,000/Month), Fund for Research, Printing fees for dissertation, Medical Insurance

▪ Qualifications

1. Nationality of applicant’s parents is not a Korean

2. Nationality of applicant is not a Korean.

3. Age for applicant is under 40(As of September 1st 2010)

4. Applicant is not being in college in Korea now or has ever attended college in Korea before.

5. The GPA from previously attended college is more than 80/100.

6. Applicant is required to have Bachelor/Master degree or expected to graduate September 1st, 2010.

▪ Duration for Study in Korea

- Master Course : total 3years (Korean language course 1year + degree course 2years)

- Ph.D. Course : total 4years (Korean language course 1year + degree course 3years)

- Combined Master/Ph.D. Course : total 5years (Korean language course 1year + degree course 4years)

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Kyung-mi Choi

Department of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University

599 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, KOREA

Office 02)880-6698     Fax 02)872-1993     C.P 011-9816-5159

website: http://biosci.snu.ac.kr/index_e.html

How you are doing..

Love XTBG

Miss UU

Naya.