the odd visit..

well-well, the recent haze attack aside, and the now-and-then afternoon showers here-and-there, we managed to make it nevertheless, to the zoo today.
yup... me, sis and yang... to the Zoo Negara.. located just a short drive away from our homeplace.
(btw, had been making trips to places nearby the house lately... ^^)

so, after a lot of pestering and attempts at 'con'-vincing ppl around me, i finally got my sis to agree. yes, she'd go to the zoo with me, together with Yang, finally. hehehe.... great.
so there i was telling my mates at the office about my elaborate plan for the weekend...

jess: the last time i went, it was smelly la... they have very few staffs working there.. (deciphered: the whole place's run down).
steven: you'd better not go on the weekends.. crowd's terrible! (deciphered: the place's run down but still packed???..)
jen: but i'm going this saturday! they close at 5pm la. how to go on weekdays then???

in a nutshell then:
met with a lot of hesitations and even resistance when i brought up the subject of visiting the national zoo (i'd been initiating this idea since a few months back..)
very often, it was compared to other better zoos around the region at point blank... especially that one across the straits, fully run with a night safari in tow (been there twice myself... =P)
very often, it was painted with an immediate impression of how it's still like, maybe roughly 10 years ago (with time, things change and improve.. dont they?)
and very often, ppl just dont GET why i would suggest going to the Zoo?? of all places too! (beats me, but, i seriously did want to go see for myself, the local zoo that i'd only been to once, when i was still a very, very small kid).

of coz, there were still some positive response from my mates.... (one to be exact). yvonne mentioned that her daughter suggested that she bring her there this sunday... so i sort of clapped-my-hand-to-my-chest and 'volunteered' to check the place out first! =P
so behold:

amusing... finally we were inside the zoo.. amidst all earlier gloom and doom of the impending rain clouds...

L: Yang walking past the gibbon display (not thaat smelly lar, ok-ok larh)....
R: after a so-so lunch at 'the Wild Restaurant' (we think it was the ex-KFC, and we think the zoo could use some better restaurants inside)..

pull & bear. Oops... i mean, Bull and Bear... their enclosures somewhat lack creativity, but still, acceptable i guess... at least the animals were up and walking around! ^^

Yang's favourite. he insisted we go see his 'fren'... the giraffes... and the elephants. :)
the giraffes were indeed in good shape. their enclosures were wide and airy too... both were favourites with the crowd there too...

a good shot, i tink~!!! Mom and Son - mother giraffe and baby giraffe too!

the Multi-Animal Show @ 3pm daily! ~that's the sealion, the 'star' of the show... and the background, the 'amphitheatre' for the animal shows... not bad at all!

some generous visitors offering rm10 for a taste of the show.. a flying 'cockatoo' will fly towards you and nib your note, then make a u-turn back to its trainer. in fact, we could see many hands waving their red notes in the air... unfortunately, the bird chooses its notes... not everyone is up to its standards kut....

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we thought we could cover the whole area within that few short hours. but alas, by 4pm the clouds were already a very dark shade of black, and thunder were already sounding its final warning. we missed the leopards, tigers, and kangaroos... (they were all in the map that we bought for rm2). by then also, we were all pretty worn out too.. our next trip to the zoo? well, maybe 5 years from now.... =)

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http://www.zoonegara.org.my

another itch scratched...