We are going to the Zoo Zoo Zoo. How about you you you??? You can come too too too. We are going to the Zoo Zoo Zoo...
Monday, September 22, 2008
My last trip to the zoo (or more specifically Night Safari) was on CPF Family Day Year 2007. I was pregnant with QiQi then. Did not go into the zoo at all cos there were games, food, shows and lucky draws organised by the Board. Too preoccupied with other things than animals... hehehe...
It was a lucky year for me cos I did win the 6th or 7th prize. It's nothing to be proud of la cos the prize was like S$30 NTUC vouchers only lo... super cheapstake but better than nothing... hehe... *No fish prawn also can*
Around evening time, the whole bunch of CPF staff headed to the Night Safari.
In my opinion, Night Safari was a total letdown...
- It was so packed with people - Full of CPF staff, tourists and Singaporeans. It's not the safari's fault but it totally killed and slashed my enthusiasm by half when I saw so many people rushing to go to the Night Safari.
- Needless for me to mention this point cos it comes hand in hand with this first. With so many people in the Night Safari, expect QUEUES!!!! It was queues after queues after queues. I got to queue to get in, queued to take the ride and queued to watch the performance. Arghhhh.... can die.
- The whole place was so dimly lit that I got a headache after the whole experience. The tour guide on the tram would ask you to turn left to see the ponies, turtles and otters and turn right to see the tigers, giraffes and elephants. All these turnings plus the extremely lousy lightings will really make your head and eyes turn lo... dun believe, go try.
Luckily for us, it was free la. I would not spend $20+ per person to go Night Safari cos I dun think it's worth it. One time is enough.
But zoo is a totally different story wor. I must say I truly and thorougly enjoyed myself. There were only 3 of us - Ah Long, QiQi and me but we all enjoyed ourselves. Goes to show one thing. You dun need a lot of people to have fun. You can create fun if you want. You can do it de everybody!!!
Back to my zoo trip. As I was saying, I had a great time. Thanks to the friendly zookeepers and staff. They were all so professional and full of smiles. It makes me feel real proud to be a Singaporean sia. Now who says Singapore service sucks???? I give full marks 10/10 to the service of Singapore Zoological Garden man.
Even before our car drove into the carpark of the zoo, we saw someone waving at us from afar. They actually had someone standing before the carpark waving hi to all guests. So thoughtful...
Then, it was the friendly photographers and zookeepers. I wun go on yakking about the superb, outstanding service Singapore Zoo has for its tourists le. You must go there to find out yourself. BUT get ready some insect repellent cos me kenna bitten by mosquitoes lo. Super itchy.
Here are some photos for your viewing again...
Step in only got photographer offering assistance to take photos for us... good la. The photographer did use her camera to take our photos as well but we never buy the photographs la cos too expensive liao...
1 for S$18
2 for S$30
3 for S$35
That's super expensive lo
And most importantly, my QiQi is not even looking at the camera... so pointless la
QiQi was fascinated by the mini waterfall. Took a lot of effort to take this picture.
To prevent QiQi from looking at the waterfall instead of the camera, clever Hot MaMa Ting carry her in front... wahahaha... clever right??? but very tedious lor...
Hohoho.... dun worry dun worry.... those monkeys are fake de.
Otters at the back. They like to 'kway show' wor... so cute... same as my QiQi... but my QiQi is adorable, not cute...
Daddy the lousy photographer. The photo turned out so dark hor also dunno how to adjust the setting a bit de wor. Cannot see my face lo cos I'm tanned mah... only can see QiQi's face... but she was not looking at the correct direction also la... so pointless...
See See See... QiQi wasn't looking la but at least the lightings was correct mah.
Honestly, I dunno what is this. But since it was like standing so near the edge, waiting for visitors to take pictures with her (I assume it's a she cos it's not colourful. Usually in the animal world, males are brighter in colours de, in case you dunno... wahaha), we wouldn't want to disappoint her la... hehehe...
Look how happy QiQi was. She's too young/small to be afraid.
QiQi looking at unknown creature, totally oblivious of the danger we might face... no la.. I was just exaggerating...
I'm sorry that this pic turned out to be 'animal-less'. There were supposed to be brown capuchin at the back de... Talk about lousy photography... wahahaha...
Ya la ya la... I'm the photographer for this pic la...
But people do make mistakes sometimes de wat
Okie... this is called Cotton Top Tamarin. They are a group of small monkeys found only in Central & South America.
This picture turned out blurred cos this Tamarin was actually very upclose and personal lo. There were no barriers or whatsoever in between us. I was so afraid that it would jump on me that I quickly snapped a pic and got out asap... wahahahaha... which explained the blurriness...
Okie... the Tamarin actually backed off a bit. It was initially super close to Qi. Again, she is too young to know what is danger. She's just being super fascinated with everything around her
Orang utan's feeding time. I thought the zookeepers would give them bananas and fruits but they only gave them water wor. Enough meh??
Look at QiQi's funny expression. Trying to imitate Orang utan... wahaha
Can you see two families??? wahahaha... Ah Meng's descendents and the Kor family.
My two "dears" with deers as background
It's my turn...
J for JEEBRA.... hahaha...
I see you, you see me... I love this picture although my posture like "PS-ing"
QiQi acting shy...
This QiQi... one moment acting shy... the other moment pulling my hair. She was using every bit of her strength to pull lo.
!&%&#)$^%$&#. You could find strands of hair in her hand after I finally managed to break away from her. Super pain!
Here comes the giraffes. These giraffes stood at the same old position, with their necks tilted at a certain same degree for the longest time I can imagine. Note that I did not take the following shots using continuous mode but the poses of the giraffes in all photos turned out to be the same... See how 'char taw' they are... hehehe...
Something popped into my mind. Do all tall figurings, be it humans or animals behave the same 'char taw' way??? Giraffes, Yao Ming????Yao Ming, Giraffes??? :Þ
Took some time to get ready for a shot. See.. there's no change in position of the giraffes
My QiQi was falling off but the giraffes were still at their same position
My QiQi changed 3 poses and the giraffes none. QiQi wins immunity!!! hehehe
Okie... it's children's world!!! Surprisingly, there were not many kids around so we almost had the whole playground to ourselves. Daddy Long helping QiQi in a slide
Kids wearing their diapers, playing with water. You got to be present to see the way these kids walked. Their diapers must be super heavy with all those water cos they couldn't run or even walk properly... so funny
Brought QiQi right in the centre of the water action. The water was freezing cold lo. I wonder how those mums allow their kids to play in the water... so cold...
Last picture of the day before we headed home. QiQi in swing.
We did not manage to complete our whole zoo journey though. There were still half the park to explore but we did not have the time. We came in too late (2+) and the park closes too early (6pm). Fear not, we will be back soon.... hehehe... See you!!!