Sunday, July 15, 2007
JUMANJI!
Ok, not really lar. It's just that we (me and Jess) went to the ZOO today! WHAHAHAHA. I felt like a kid today. Such a pity that I felt lethargic for most of the time. My mind was in some kind of haze and I was mostly walking around in a kinda daze. GOMEN Jess! Did I spoil your trip? I meant to be as enthusiastic as possible leh! :x I know how much you wanted to come see the moo-moos and the caw-caws and the eek-eeks. But I think I had lots of fun taking all the pictures. Sorry if I made you frustrated also, haha, I know I was maniacally taking lots of pictures, and most of them weren't really that good anyway. But a Zoo blog entry wouldn't be the same without pictures, and since I'm finally feeling hale and healthy upon reaching home, I shall upload all my zoo pictures immediately and post up the better ones.
I just hope they're not all blurry, especially the tiger ones. OMG the tiger ones were pure love. I don't have many pictures of birds though, because the Princess didn't like going into the bird exhibits. LOL. And we missed the reptiles and the peacocks, but I reasoned that all the reptailes are busy hibernating anyway, and I felt much better. I know Jess feels devastated because she didn't get to see her beloved crocodiles and the iguana that she says looks alot like me. (I almost bashed her for that, except that I knew the zoo staff would restrain me and call the police...)
Oh yeah, before I start posting the piccies, I just wanna say that I managed to pay Jess back for her Trojan.M virus trick. HAHA. I told her there was bird shit on her jacket and she believed me. OMG I feel so moved by the power of our deep friendship. HEHEHE. HOHOHO. HAHAHA.
Here's one of the first few animals we saw: a snow leopard. Cute right? I've always had a soft spot for cats, whether big or small. That's why I'm always so gleefully happy every time I come to the zoo and look at the cat exhibits. HAHA. You can say I sorta "get high". This first big cat was pretty cool, I liked that it was white. I've always thought white animals have some sort of mystery around them, but that may be due to the fact that white is not a very common colour among animals. :)
This was the bear exhibit. Although we didn't linger here very long, I feel that the bears needed some photo time. :) Hey, after all, one of the most greatest inventions on Planet Earth was the teddy bear. You'd think the creatures who inspired such ideas deserved some respect. LOL. I'm NOT crapping. I'm being totally serious. It's just sometimes people laugh when I'm talking about serious things. Why arh? O_o
The Four Kings of the Savannah. HAHA. When we arrived at this exhibit, Jess was like, "Why all of them got the same expression one? So funny!" And then went on to remark that they looked like F4. O_o So hilarious lar, but I have to admit, those "kings" look really fat and lazy. Plus there weren't any lionesses around either, so I have no idea what they're looking so high and mighty about. Jess says that lions got very popular after Lion King scored at the box offices. I'd have to agree with that.
I call this picture the 2-in-1, because I managed to get a giraffe and an ostrich in the same shot. HAHA.
Ahhh. Australia's signature animals: the kangaroos, or kangaroosies. :D They were so kawaii! I have some close-up shots of other roos, but this species is my fave. They look so cute yet majestic and so humble. Haha, that's what I like about roos: they look so harmless and adorable, but they can put up a heck of a fight. :) MY ASPIRATION!!! *ahem*
Pure kawaii-ness! My heart melted when I saw this wombat. It was TOO TOO adorable! Just like a gigantic hamster. :P A snub-nosed shy little cutie.
What's the big deal about two ducks? Well, when I took this picture, it reminded me of the movie "Spurn Left, Spurn Right", the one that comes after "Turn Left, Turn Right". HAHA. I know, weird right, but I thought it's an interesting fact. If you think I'm wuliao THEN WHY ARE YOU READING MY BLOG IN THE FIRST PLACE??? My blog has always been the wellspring of wu-liaoness. So if you can't stand it, too bad. My other posts won't be much better. ;X
OMG *swoons and faints* The star attraction! <333 For me at least, lol. Everyone was like pushing and shoving to get a good look into the tiger exhibit. Where can I start? I love every bit of these majestic and powerful creatures. Their presence is so powerful and inexplicably commanding, yet they're still an endangered species. I can't fathom why people can find it in their hearts to slaughter these beautiful creatures, so sleek and so graceful. If ever I have a second life, I'd like to be reborn as a tiger. Jess asked me who would win in a fight: a lion or a tiger. Realistically, I think the tiger would win, because their one of the biggest most powerful predatory cats that exist. But then again, we'd never knw, right? Since tigers live in tropical rainforests and lions live on the dry plains of Africa. Oh well. It's nice to wonder about this though. Feels something like the question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The sun's rays look photoshopped right? Haha, I'm proud to say that they're not. I just managed to catch the evening sun at just the right angle. It was just a pleasant coincidence that those elephants busy feeding each other are in the picture. HOHO. So huge yet so lovable. I remembered when I was in Thailand I fed the elephants there pineapple husks and bananas. So fun. It's like they eat anything. :)
These orang utans were showing off can! Think they so pro... ok, actually they were la. HAHA. I just chose to put up this particular picture because he/she looks stupid right now. It looks like it was warming up la, just hanging there. We had fun watching the orang utan exhibit, since these monkeys never stayed still. We spent our time there watching them clamber up and down and up and left and right and down and left and up. So fun!
Oh, this arh? This is a very rare breed of albino gorilla. This particularly rare species (it's the only one of its kind in the whole entire world) has a psychological anomaly: it believes it can fly. So, as a result, this particular species of gorilla constantly spends its time flapping its arms while walking around the zoo, making weird noises as it goes along. This species of albino gorilla is pretty harmless, therefore it's given alot of freedom to run amok. :D Oh, and its favourite colour is pink. Just so you know.
Feeding frenzy arh!!! PANIC PANIC. It was feeding time, and all those parakeets (I think) were SO SO SO damn noisy lah. Their only saving grace was the vivid colours on their feathers. Other then that, they were like all beauty and no brains, just flapping and screeching and making havoc like those fangirls you see in manga, constantly gathering around some shuaige and going "NYAH~!". O_o;;
Lookie, a meerkat! Haha, it looks more chubbier than Timon on the Lion King. Oh well, the rounder the better, haha. The fatter the cuter. XD So chubby! I felt like squishing it. *ahem* In a good way, not the squash-flat-and-die way.
OMGWTFLOL. #&$%@! Look mom! I folded a paper swan and it turned into a REAL one! I'm SO UBER-TALENTED! I'm a tensai, a genius! Everyone stand in awe of the only person in the world to ever turn dead matter into a living thing. SQUUEEEEE!!! *faints*
I love buying exotic soft toy animals. This zoo trip was no different, haha. I brought back a small little Red Panda, and it looks like a cross between a raccoon, a cat and a bear. HAHA. I've decided, after much serious and profound deliberation, to name him Benji. Jess wanted me to name him Pee Pee, and I gave her the "Look" (c). So right now, in my room, I have my giraffe soft toy called Wuffle, my unicorn I have yet to name and my red panda, Benji. :) I'll probably forget these names and rename them in the future, but for now, I feel these names fit them best.
After being surrounded by a real jungle, we set off for the concrete jungle where we ate at Chilli Padi at Melbourne Central. WTH??? It was like such a high-class place can? We were a little intimidated at first, but the waitors and waitresses there were really professional, so that made our experience more enjoyable. But one bowl of laksa cost us $14??? @%$#! At keast the bread and butter pudding we had for dessert was good, although I couldn't seem to taste any bread in the pudding.
***TODAY WAS THE FIRST TIME IN A FEW YEARS I ATE A CINNAMON BUN FROM ST CINNAMON!!!*** I was reminiscing the past while munching on all the savoury sweetness of my sticky yummy bun. HAHA.
Gah. My eyes are almost shutting down *the Windows shutting-down jingle plays*. GOOD NIGHT and oyasumi everyone! <3 See you next time and hope you all enjoy all my gorgeous pics and recognise how talented I am.
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