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Bird Park
:Friday, April 08, 2005:

I was asked to bring that thai boy (samuel) around again. This time, I decided to bring him to the bird park...altho after much hesitation.. But I guess, I don't regret doing that.

Well, with birds as beautiful as this... I suppose that's a reason why I don't regret.

This shot took ages.. I guess the bird was camera shy.. Well, we're in the thunderstorm aviary, where you're in a dry area, but they simulate thunderstorms and you can see how the birds behave.. Some will come out and drink the rainwater, others bathe in the rain.. cute...

Just some other photos of birds...

Well, we walked along until we reached the ostriches.. and we spotted a small snake there.. Never seen a live one before.. SO i took a shot of it.

Its supposed ta be a bird park right? meerkats aren't birds!.. well, the ostriches are.... albeit flightless birds..

We went to the lory loft (before goign to the children's bird show, which amused samuel lots) to feed the lorys. The lorys are such cute birds.. This one was even posing for me at the counter, while I was getting bird feed.

Well, these two were too busy whispering sweet nothings to notice me. In fact, they were kissing and cudding (er.. I mean, the bird's equivalent of that..) which I was not fast enuf to snap a photo of..

Now to the scary part.. Samuel started holding out his bowl of bird feed and immediately, one red lory flew to his arm and started with it. He was rather petrified.. I thought one bird wasn't scary....

You're right. One wasn't.. Err, I mean, not until you walk to the centre (where practically all the birds are) and all start swarming toward you. Samuel tried to take a picture of me, but I looked away because the lory was nibbling at my neck and ear... so right at that moment, my neck moved away... wow.. that was scary.. Their claws dug into my forearm as they tried to balance themselves on it.. Petrified, the two of us retreated to the side, scaring away as many of these birds as possible.

Finally, when all were scared away, I found one bird and started feeding it. This one was balancing on the bowl of feed in my hand.

Cute right? err.. I took a pic of its but while its head dunked into the bowl to feed..

We had lunch there.. There was this crane or some other equivalent which kept eyeing our food. Despite being chased away by the waitress (who was quite chio) from time to time, it kept coming back... haha..

Well, I was saving my last shot, but I gave it up for this.. Before we went for the all star birds show (which was just as amusing for samuel, who has seen it only for hte first time) we went to the waterfall.. the highest man-made one in singapore. Well, I saved my last shot for the waterfall, but I guess nothing beats this.. THe birdkeeper was throwing bird feed all over the bridge.. and all the birds just flocked there... WOW!

Well, we did have quite some fun there. The main attraction today was the lory loft.. Quite fun feeding the birds.. Like, how often do you get a bird landing on your hand and feeding off you?

Well, in the evening, we went to attend the funeral of my father's sister's father-in-law... I heard he died because the paramedics from 995 were so inefficient.. they were dallying their time away when the onld man was choking on a fishball. Then they even called to ask 'urgent or not ar?'.... dotz... so in the end, the poor chap's face colour changed... adn he died on the ambulance.. while he was still struggling to stay alive, these paramedics were still strolling slowly to the house...... diao... Then in the end, because it was a choke, they had to report to the police and its become a police case.. in case the choke was purposefully induced by family members so that they can benefit from his insurance payoff or something..

Well, I spent my time while my parents talked to comfort them, just playing with my palm.. But I couldn't stop thinking about her.... I mean, my thoughts would somehow just go back to her.. I dreamt of her for the first time in my life... but yet, she seems so far. I woke up, and like many a time (when I had pleasant dreams) woke up really disappointed. Well, if she's not for me.... why does God want to torture me with her...its been five years already... :(

I shouldn't think too much....

The reversehaven spoke at 11:54 PM