Our day at the zoo

One sunny Saturday morning, we felt lazy so the missus and I gave our jogging session a miss (despite making a pact earlier to embark on a weekly MacRitchie run). So we decided to go to the zoo since it’s been quite a while when we were last there. Vel was ecstatic of course. Shouting ‘Zoo! Zoo!’ when she saw the road sign just as I was turning off the BKE. When we reached there we hung around the outside area as we wanted to get a shot of Vel to submit for the FACES! Search being organised by MCYS now.

Just as we were milling about the entrance, we chance upon a little sign publicising a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Reptile Garden! Woo hoo! But, crap, we missed a live appearance by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cowabunga!) a week earlier. Apparently, it’s reptile month the whole of March.

So we sign up and follow this little lady to the Reptile Garden to show us the Komodo Dragons. And we learned a few other things along the way. Like Gila Monster is pronounced as ‘yee-lah’, because it’s Spanish so the G is silent, which debunks the myth that the poor creature is actually crazy and goes around eating people. But still dangerous nonetheless. Also learned the difference between poisonous and venomous, though most people don’t really care and use the two terms interchangeably.

And the most amazing of all, I learn from a bespectacled, 10 year old girl (whom I’m damn sure will grow up to become a doctor, lawyer, architect, Wall Street stock broker, or some other high-flyer of some sort) what on earth is a ‘vertebrate’ and what constitutes a ‘cold blooded’ animal. Not that I didn’t know what it means to begin with, but it’s just some of the words that you know in general and never really stop to ponder in detail what it REALLY means. To end it all, Vel and I got to take a snap with a cute little python. Mummy was scared to go near the poor little misunderstood creature so she volunteered to take the photo (you can tell from the shot that her hands were shaking. Haha!).

The tour took us about an hour to complete and by then we were starving. So we head back out to the entrance for some pizza and KFC. But being the insensitive, irritating Singaporeans that we are, we bring our Hawaiian pizza (with ham!) into the KFC restaurant without realising that they were Halal. The manager was nice enough to give us a box to pack the pizza instead of chasing us out. That’s service for you.

We were quite zonked out by the time our lunch was over, so we head for home. As usual, Vel KO’ed in the car. Mummy and I fell flat on the bed the instant we reached home. More proof of our need for exercise instead of vegetating at home watching Korean dramas and playing video games. But it was a satisfying morning nonetheless.

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*DISCLAIMER: This is written to look like a composition with intro, body and conclusion. All the ingredients that go into making a great composition. So all my students who are reading this, PAY ATTENTION! And Kevin, stop forgetting to count your words!*