visit to the singapore zoo!!!

whee!! what a perfect chance to relive childhood, but to visit places which i was last there back in primary school.. so how long was it?? say almost coming to 20 years??

anyway, this visit was done after so many years with my dearest chickadees!! *muackz*.. eunice, who has been to the zoo 4 times since the year began.. we were wondering if she should have become a friend of the zoo.. huiran, my other twin.. suren & samuel, whom we had to convince to go late for pottery class, so they could come along too.. =)

we started the whole trip by running to the giraffe enclosure, so that we could catch the feeding session.. gosh!! the giraffe's tongue is really long.. and looked really slimy too.. the zebras shifted house, coz their old home was closed for renovation.. the king of the jungle looked so relaxed in its original position, it actually resembled a stone.. opps!! did i just say that too loudly?? =P

and then there was the splash show, whereby the sealions, penguins and manatees were swimming around and showing off their nature.. we were really appalled at the behaviour of the pelican, which was sticking its head into the water and biting at the passing manatee!!! horrid behaviour!!

the komodo dragons moved house as well.. and we never found out where they disappeared to.. however, we found ourselves looking at giant tortoises, which were lumbering along.. wait, correction.. inching along from one point to another.. we were wondering, what if one ended up on us, would we be crushed instead..

suren & samuel left early, while the 3 of us decided to make our money worth every cent, we performed an 'amazing race' session round the zoo, that left us tired and sweaty..

we went for the elephant show and even got around feeding the elephants.. not for free, of course, but 5 bucks for 4 baby bananas & 1 carrot.. talk about expensive!! we visited the polar bear enclosure and saw it biting on a huge piece of ice!!! oh, we watched the entire splash show again!! and we figured that the zoo helpers kind of pick more foreigners as volunteers for the show than locals.. well, what can we say to free publicity??

finaly stop was the fragile forest, which reminded me so much of the tropical enclosure in mainau, konstanz.. humid, with butterflies fluttering around.. however, in this one that we visited, the butterflies somehow all went into hiding.. oh, the grossest thing of all, was this particular glass enclosure which we went passed.. hissing cockroaches from madagascar!!! i didn't even dare to go near the enclosure.. but a distant look to it appeared to me that the entire enclosure was fillled up!! enough said that.. i'm grossed out enough..

oh, and we did a really cheapo thing.. instead of purchasing the photos which were taken by the zoo photographers for an exorbitant prices, we went back and posed in front of the same setting and took our own photo!! =P



thank you girls for coming with me and making this trip all the different for me as well!! muackz!! anyway, apparently the cheetah enclosure is closed for renovations as well, and we said that we will return to the zoo next june, when the enclosure is done.. so till then!! =)