my navel does not look like a navel orange, and so i've been sitting here...

...and studying ECO solidly for the last hour or so.
that's about as far as my concentration goes.
i realised two things during the time i spent studying:

1. it's much more fun to study in the sun!

see? it even rhymes!
say it over and over again again to yourself. out loud. right now.i dare you.
i realised this due to the fact that it was kinda cloudy earlier
and because of that i could see the changes in light on my eco textbook.

i pretty much live in my kitchen cause it's so central to everything in my house.
e.g. the living room where the tv is airing wimbledon and obscure late night foreign movies (read, kinky porn with a bit of mindfuck... loljokes...), the kitchen bit of the kitchen with the food and the juice as the dining table is also in the kitchen, my shit- incidentally it covers over 80% of the dining table... maybe even 90%? and the bathroom which is on the other side of the kitchen.
anyways, there are two windows in the kitchen and i study in front of them so that i get a lot of light.
i like steph's house cause it has giant windows which let in a lot of light.
the light kept on changing and whenever it went cloudy i couldn't study as well.
when it was sunny i was like YAY! and cound concentrate a bit better =)

2. what applies to mandarins can be applied to oranges.

it's one of those things that seems obvious but you never really think about it...
mandarins are orange. so are oranges.
that seems pretty obvious, right?
but have you ever actually really thought about it?
the point of this was to demonstrate that you can sit there peeling off the white thingos on oranges like you can do to mandarins!

a quick wiki lesson!
the white part of the rind is called teh pericarp which is made up of three components: the exocarp, the mesocarp and the endocarp.
from the wiki FRUIT ANATOMY page, i gather that the exocarp of an orange is the orange peel, the mesocarp would be the white stuff that i was just talking about, and the endocarp is the membranous bit that we eat :D!
the white part is also known as the albedo.
for those that argue it's good for you to eat... it is.
it contains pectin and as much vitamin c as the flesh.

However... pectin increases volume and viscoscity of stool so it is used used against constipation and diarrhea.

my stools are fine, thanks.
i don't think i need an increase in the volume and viscoscity of my stools.
though i wouldn't say the same for some other people in our group... no shizz.!

i think i'll avoid white stuff on oranges and mandarins like the plague now.

Another interesting thing related to oranges is the history and shizz of the navel orange.

wiki:
A single mutation in 1820 in an orchard of sweet oranges planted at a monastery in Brazil yielded the navel orange, also known as the Washington, Riverside, or Bahia navel. The mutation causes the orange to develop a second orange at the base of the original fruit, opposite the stem, as a conjoined twin in a set of smaller segments embedded within the peel of the larger orange. From the outside, it looks similar to the human navel, hence its name.

Because the mutation left the fruit seedless, and therefore sterile, the only means available to cultivate more of this new variety is to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus tree. Two such cuttings of the original tree were transplanted to Riverside, California in 1870, which eventually led to worldwide popularity.

Today, navel oranges continue to be produced via cutting and grafting. This does not allow for the usual selective breeding methodologies, and so not only do the navel oranges of today have exactly the same genetic makeup as the original tree, and are therefore clones, all navel oranges can be considered to be the fruit of that single nearly two hundred year-old tree. This is similar to the common yellow seedless banana, the Cavendish. On rare occasions, however, further mutations can lead to new varieties.

GEDDIT?
every time you eat a navel orange, like i am right now,
you are eating a clone of an orange from the original navel orange tree in Brazil.
you are eating an orange that's kinda almost 200 years old.
FRICKEN AMAZING O___O!

i think i have a new passion for oranges, and life, now.