PR, Baboons, Polar Bears, Pigs and Orang Utans
Last Saturday, (15th Sept), was a busy day for us. We woke up at 5.30am, got out of the house by 6am, reached ICA (Immigrations and Checkpoint Authority) before 6.30am. Just to.... get into a crazy queue. Now I'm not sure whether Sporeans are kiasu (scared to lose) or are the foreigners kiasu. This is because, when we reached there, there were easily about 20++ people in front of our queue. Talking about kiasu-ism. So, in order to beat the queue, we have to be more kiasu than them, this was what our dear Msian friend told us. Hehehe. Thank God we went on Thursday to take our photos, else we will have to wait longer. We waited for the office to open at 8am.
By then, the queue was extremely long that it was out of our sight. The minute the door opened, I ran up the escalator, and Jason took the lift. Our friend advised us to take the lift to avoid the stampede, and it'll be faster. I took 2 steps at a time right up to the 5th floor. By the time I reached, there were two persons in front of me, and behind Jason. I joined him after that, in the queue, to queue for our queue tickets. Imagine that! After all the running and panting, we finally got our queue tickets, 4018 and 4019. Yeah, we are applying separately as we see more pros than cons in this.
And before long, by about 8.30am ~ 8.45am, we were done. Yes, we were done! I couldn't believe it. Even SP was shocked. We went back after that, changed to our shorts and headed for AMK station to meet up with SP & RS to go to the zoo... Yups, she got the free ticket from AMD, and she's allowed to bring in 4 people per entry. Good eh?
It was a rainy day, and thank God it stopped when we reached the zoo at about 11.30am. Nice and superb weather. We didn't sweat a bit. We were quite fascinated by the sea lions at the animal show... Some pics taken...Didn't take many though, because I had to use my N73.. :( But was rather fascinated with some of the tourists who went there with their huge DSLR cameras. Some of their lenses were about a meter long. And yeah, did a survey. Perhaps, out of 10 DLSRs I saw, 8 were Nikon, the other 2 were Canons. :) Long live Nikon. :P
Us at the entrance of the zoo
Nice white tigers. Love their fur.
Us in front of the wallaby (something like a kangaroo). (yeah, yeah, I know I put on weight.)
The red-butt baboons. They were on heat I think because of the redness of their butts. hehehe.
I like the hedges. It's so well maintained and lovely.
Orang utans in the air
Sea lions at the animal show
Some more sea lions
More pics on my Multiply site
Posted in: how to, Life and Living, zoo on 18 September 2007 at at 10:16 am
the last time i was there, it rained and we spent an hour plus in the polar bear enclosure watching the bears swim aimlessly.. i heard the bears aren't there anymore. at least we got free passes as well. and the ben and jerry's made it worth while. ;)
Hehe.. the last time I was there, it was back in 1995. After we left, one polar bear died. Oh yeah, forgot to take pics of the polar bear coz the show was on, and we were happily eating our packed KFC while watching them. hehe. There's 2 of them, mom & son. Mom is already 26 yrs if not mistaken. the son is huge.