Fathi
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F1 in the zoo
DATE: Sunday, March 30, 2008 | TIME: 3/30/2008 09:53:00 PM
Such a fun day today. Firstly woke up early coz me and family going to zoo. Haha. Yeah it's childish but i haven't been there in 5 years. I think i should make it a point to visit once a year. Haha. Well, met a lot of animals. Tigers, lions, elephants, monkeys and the different types, alligators, cheetahs, jaguars, giant turtles, polar bears and the other kindsof bears, snakes(especially anaconda), manetes, otters, deers, dewgongs, penguins, lizards and dragons, foxes, giraffes, rhinoceros, kangaroos, ostriches, emus and zebras. Maybe some of them were left out.
Okay, let's start the tour. The first were the white tigers. Haha, they were fighting over higher grounds. The lions didn't move much coz when we reached them, it was raining and they were just in their caves, yawning. The elephants were doing some stretches coz they were preparing to do a show and they even did some poses for the camera. Wanted to ride 1 but the queue was so long that i didn't even bother. The monkeys, oh there were so many of them but i remember the orang utan coz they were walking around freely and swinging from tree to tree. Haha, one of them had fur that looked like a coat! Comparing their hand size to ours, theirs were much bigger, at least more than mine, haha. Alligators didn't do much so...cheetahs were angry i think coz a lot of people were knocking on the glass and one of the cheetahs rammed the glass wall to scare them off, poor cats. Jaguars were almost fighting but when it rained, they just sat together on a log and slept through the rain, so cute. Giant turtles were so slow moving and big too. Wanted to touch them but dad and bro moved away so quickly that i didn't get the chance. But they were cute though.
They did a show on polar bears telling us some info about Inuk(1 of the polar bears) about their diet, size and everything. Once, it weighed less than 300g but no it weighs 300kg i think. Haha, such a big difference! And they threw live fishes to Inuk to feed it and luckily got to see it do some sort of hunting. The person said that some fishes die upon entering the water because of heart attack! Haha. Funny. At the snakes part was so inteesting to see so many different snakes like the king cobra, the rattlesnake and especially the anaconda which was as long as 9 meters! Scary but also some sort of pity to see them in captivity. Manetes,dewgongs and penguins were all in the same location so just watched them splash around in the water except for the penguin which was in a different place which was air-conditioned. The penguins were incubating their eggs! Lucky enough to see them. The otters were very cute coz they were small and swimming in a small pool and they would jump in and out of the pool. Haha.
The lizards and dragons were absent cos they were hiding in their caves to cool down from the then hot weather. Interesting to note that a komodo dragons' saliva has more than 50 types of bacteria in it so if a prey was bitten but to escape, it would die sooner or later because of the infection. Also, that the young that have just hatched must climb a tree or get to higher grounds to escape being eaten by their parents! Tough childhood. The foxes was also interesting cos there was a perfume smell created by the male fox to attract a mate and it smelt rather nice. Didn't get a good look at the giraffe except that they were all standing together in a circle and looking out at us.
Rhinoceros, as i just found out, are very heaty animals. When it rained, the rhinos' body was so hot that the rain turned to water vapour instantly so there was a shroud of steam around the rihno's body! Haha, interesting to see though. Also, one of the rhinos was named by the Singapore Armed Forces(SAF) football club. The kangaroos and ostriches were in the same area where they roamed freely. Was it an ostrich or an emu? Anyway, the kangaroos received much more attention than the birds so i went to it and just looked at it and talked to it. Haha, lame and somehow moving. The zebras were just eating when we came so didn't bother looking at it.
That's all for the zoo tour so went to KFC after that to eat lunch and went to town to just walk about with bros while dad went home to prepare for work. Then, i think i saw Mag...Hmm... She was looking at me funny but i just turned away after a short glimpse. Went to some cosplay shops, toys r' us, weapons shop and some other shops which i can't remember.
Oh yeah! In town, near the Esplanade, there was this big crowd lining up parallel to the road and there was this loud music playing. Thought it was a marching band or something which it was but then i saw this tent with crew workers in it which must mean only one thing. F1! Haha. Yup. It was a demostration of the F1 car performance. Damn it was fast and damn it was loud. i almost went deaf for a second then. It made a speed down a road then made a u-turn and sped down the same road again and again. Also made some 360 degress turns where it rev'd it's engine up so loud! Hahaha. Really liked the showcase but some kids were screaming and crying where they were holding their ears screaming 'its too loud'. Poor babies. Haha. But other than that, it was really exciting. Now i see what the big fuss is all about.