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Singapore was great! Alas, I didn't actually have time to see much of the city in its own right, but I did manage to get along to the Night Safari, run by the zoo. If you're ever there, you must go to the Night Safari - it was wonderful! Many cool animals to see (including an armadillo!), and it's very well laid out and informative. There was also a stall where you could stick your feet into a fish tank, and all the fish would groom your skin. Apparently, it tickled but felt great afterwards... I didn't get around to giving it a go, but it certainly looked weird from an observer's perspective!

The colloquium was pretty busy, and incorporated many speakers from a range of countries and backgrounds, talking on many issues currently faced by the collaboration, and what might be done about them. There were also about 20 workshops per day to choose from, which made decisions about which to attend very challenging! I helped to present a poster, and I had the chance to meet some very interesting, and potentially useful, people, from both Australia and overseas. I networked like the social butterfly I can sometimes be, and unearthed a couple of potential postgrad supervisors. \o/

I'm glad to be home, though. I got sick of the food for a start; I enjoy various Asian dishes once in a while, but they are very meat-oriented (even the "vegetarian" options usually contained meat in some form or another).

*yawn*

Trivia Night last night was very entertaining! Thanks to