Anyway, on Friday, I joined my friends at Bukit Jalil (dejavu) for dinner. We had steamboat at a friend's place in one of the Vista apartments (IMU) and at the same time bid farewell to Weilun who would be flying back to Indon (future doctor okay!). We makan-ed until nearly 11pm... and yet there were still food left. Anyway we downed everything we cups and cups of soft drinks... not alcohol, I swear! I left a bit later and was home by 12.30am. It was about that time that I realised my pc was "fixed". All I could muttered was... OH.
I quickly got myself cleaned up, read a few chapters of my book (darn.. so close to the end), and had the lights turned off by 1.30am. I knew I had to get up early, try 6am. I will be going to the Zoo!! On other days, it (my conscience) will be like...
Zoo??!! Are you for real?? Not Zouk ar??
Soon it was 2.30pm... and then 3.30pm... and I was like...
What turf man.. Why am I still awake??
So after much tossing and turning, I on my night lamp and began reading a few more chapters. After awhile, I began yawning. Ah HA! That's my cue to sleep... I thought...
*Tick tock* *Tick tock* WHAT??? 4.30am??!
It was about then, after telling myself that if I do not get enough sleep, I was gonna be so exhausted at the zoo, that I decided to just on the light and finish my book. You see... I had volunteered my Saturday to help out the zookeepers at Zoo Negara. Last time I was there was about 10 years back. The irony is that the zoo is only about 5 minutes journey from my house! Anyway, by the time I finished my book, it was already 5.30am. So I just closed my eyes and tried to relax... I think I managed to doze off.. only a little, before my alarm blared at about 6am. *Stretches and jumps off bed*
So we started gathering at 7am (Evonne and Vee Mae (birthday girl) were there so early!) and then got our t-shirt. Quite nice colour I would say.
Then, we were briefed and divided into groups... Felt like kids the way we were seated...
Anyway, let me show you in sequence what we did in the Seladang enclosure (I was still running on adrenaline... so not scared at all).
Scooping the Seladangs bullshit and dumping it in the bin.
Huh... that sounds funny... yet it could be quite metaphorical to the Seladangs... (if you know what I mean ;))
The dung is quite a huge sucker. Soft... I think I got some on my hands... eww...
We also did clean up the rest of the enclosure. Took lots of hosing and raking.
Anyway, they would send the dung to this place where they will be turned into fertiliser for the plants around the zoo. Not for sale... I have asked.
More pictures of the mighty Seladangs.
I was switched groups 3 times before I was put under the supervision of the zookeeper in charged of...
Seladangs
I could have totally laughed at the irony and coincidence of this had I not have been running on adrenaline since morning. For the benefit of you whom have no idea what I mean... well... Seladangs happened to be on a certain school badge. And the students can also be called the Seladangs, because of their rarity and strengths like of these creatures.
For this particular Seladang, have a look at its horn. Weird huh? The pairs are completely 90 degrees to each other. I asked the zookeeper why was it like that. He said when this Seladang was a calf, it knocked its nuggen on this rock (also in the enclosure) real hard. So it became deformed like that.
For this particular Seladang, have a look at its horn. Weird huh? The pairs are completely 90 degrees to each other. I asked the zookeeper why was it like that. He said when this Seladang was a calf, it knocked its nuggen on this rock (also in the enclosure) real hard. So it became deformed like that.
Anyway, let me show you in sequence what we did in the Seladang enclosure (I was still running on adrenaline... so not scared at all).
Scooping the Seladangs bullshit and dumping it in the bin.
Huh... that sounds funny... yet it could be quite metaphorical to the Seladangs... (if you know what I mean ;))
The dung is quite a huge sucker. Soft... I think I got some on my hands... eww...
We also did clean up the rest of the enclosure. Took lots of hosing and raking.
Anyway, they would send the dung to this place where they will be turned into fertiliser for the plants around the zoo. Not for sale... I have asked.
More pictures of the mighty Seladangs.
We also fed the Seladangs (Twice! But I don't think enough. Once in the morning, another in the afternoon.). Along with them, we fed some deers and pademelons (These are cute!! Google them.)
Oh... and true story... I was nearly killed by one of the deers in the enclosure! I was preparing its food when one of the male deers got spooked. All I remember seeing was it running towards me with its antlers "aiming" for me. Again, I think it was because of the adrenaline, I nonchalantly dodged it. It ran passed me, narrowly missing me, instead colliding with the metal fence so hard, its nose started bleeding!! Poor Bambi...
Oh... and true story... I was nearly killed by one of the deers in the enclosure! I was preparing its food when one of the male deers got spooked. All I remember seeing was it running towards me with its antlers "aiming" for me. Again, I think it was because of the adrenaline, I nonchalantly dodged it. It ran passed me, narrowly missing me, instead colliding with the metal fence so hard, its nose started bleeding!! Poor Bambi...
We also had some time to go around by ourselves. And I realised that the animals there have learned to rely on the us, humans, too much for food. They seemed to have lost their instincts to hunt or scour for food by themselves. Okay they are trapped... maybe that's why. Anyway, I could fool them easily by just standing by their enclosure and they immediately thought that I was going to feed them, like these hippos and otters.
Some of us also had a chance to pose with a python. Mind you, this isn't the one at the patting zoo section, this one was from its cage. Luckily it wasn't that stressed, so we were allowed to take some pictures with it. However, I was pushing my luck, when I grabbed it by its neck (that would be the area near the head) and tried to outmuscle it. Luckily it didn't feel threatened.
So, at about 4.45am, I left, feeling dirty, sticky, smelly, unhygienic, yucky, itchy, but rather happy to have experienced this with Raleigh. I would say I enjoyed this experience. It really feels like being as a guest star (wtf) in one of the episodes of "Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe".
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Oh.. and at night, I went to Mandarin Hotel for dinner... (dejavu again). Then, went back home, by which I have completely exhausted myself out of adrenaline that I was essentially staying up because of will power. Hmm... that was why I was sooooo tired the whole of Sunday...
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