Monday, June 20, 2005

Animal Planet


Well this week end was very hectic I was literally blown out of exertion…..puffing and panting. Singapore is truly a Asian country…..hot but a lot humid…..dats Sinagapore…..these were the words of the show presenter at the Jurong Bird Park and I totally agreed with him. Yes I visited all the birds and the animals of the animal kingdom on Saturday. It was really good…..now most of us would say hey these animals are already there in our zoos why go there waste da…???!!!but there us something more tham watching animals in enclosures these animals are left free in their enclosures and u are suppose to pass through them in their enclosures. Well atleast not the carnivorous animals which would like to eat us. First I visited the Jurong Bird Park. Saw a lot of birds all kinds of them parrots, eagles, falcons, macquae, owls,flamingos, cuckoo, mynah,……etc a huge place birds chirping around in their environments created by man successfully and me passing through that place getting close with these birdies. Good nahJ. At 3 PM there was a ALL STAR BIRD SHOW……..there was a splendid performance of the birds. They sang, mimicked,played a game of basket ball and flew really low and close to the audience, to give us a good feel about them. After half and hour of entertainment I moved on another show at 4PM, it was Birds of Prey. All the birds which prey on others meat were shown here kites, falcons, vultures, the secretairy bird…..etc. what they like, where are they found and showed us how they hunt. Here they allowed White Head Eagles to fly above us, man they were really low if I raised my hand a little bit I could have intercepted their flight path…..phew. I visited a few more birdies and at 5:30PM left the place for the Zoo or rather Night Safari. The bird park is far away from the city around one hour of journey.

To reach the zoo it took me nearly 45 minutes, there was already a huge Q for the safari. The zoo is very ideally located, I felt as though I was going into a dense forest rather than a zoo in the midst of concrete jungle. The place was good, here in Singapore it is still bright even at 7:30, I was a little disappointed as it was night safari and even at 7 PM it was broad daylight. But as we went in a tram the show kept on improving. We crossed into many animals and they left us in the middle of the zoo to go for a trail in the wild. It was spooky and very wild in the dark in the jungle and admist the wild animals. I could hear the lions roaming…..phew can get any weak hearted guy pissing in his pants. Then I saw two leapords they were relaxing in their enclosure least bothered of the homo sapiens. One of them was staring at us….thinking wait till I get my paws on u guys he he he…..in the trail there was a bat enclosure and the bats were hanging down upside down……..cool they just at one hand distance from me……keeeeeekkkkkkeeeeeeeeeee
After walking in the jungle I again again hopped on into the tram and again went around the zoo…..it was almost one and a half hour for the entire journey. At the end of the journey there was a show ANIMALS OF THE WILD…it was mind blowing. There was this guy Louie in the crowd, suddenly he gets up and says dat his pet is lost in the show and is 10 feet long, he scared the shit of his neighbours, and then he finally he found his he just screamed when he found the location of his pet and when he got it out it was a python man he had placed in the middle of the amphitheatre where the public were seated. It scared the hell of the people he was very funny and entertaining with his pet snake. It was 9:30 till the fun was over then I moved on to get back to my hotel. On the way back I munched on a fish burger and drank 100 PLUS it is like Red Bull.
By the time I reached my room it was mid night and just crashed on the bed

Next day I got up at 10 AM sigh was very sleepy. I got ready and went to Singapore History Museum. A place worth going to watch all those artifacts and history facts. It is on the banks of the Singapore Museum. I took a walk along the river and it was very beautiful. Skyscrapers, hotels the parliament house and palace. It was a good walk in the hot………phew. After that I wanted to go to The Philatelic Museum, it was a little far so I decide to go to Mustafa, SimLIM and Little India. I had my lunch in Little India and did a little bit of shopping and enquiries. Later I came to Mustafa and did a little more shopping and headed straight back to my room. Now I am watching Rush Hour 2 typing this mail to u ppl……

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