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Paid 2 Ringgit for car park, 7 Ringgit for entrance fee, and I’m already in the zoo, ready to shoot headshots.

Basically I think the collections are good. With an emphasize of species of kancils and deers, and surprisingly more tigers than national zoo!

Since my zoo frenzy wasn’t quite over yet, plus I visited the crocodile farm with very close contact to birds and etc, this visit to the zoo didn’t really wow me much.

I went around 4pm, hoping that the animals would wake up from their afternoon nap, but too bad, most of them are still napping. Grrr..

However, have a look at what I’ve got.

The birds collection is good. But I have the fences. The openings are SO SMALL! It is like not bigger than 2cm x 4cm. Too tight lah, and my lens can’t really focus properly. Grrr.

The glass panes aren’t clean properly. Wish large patches of whites which I don’t know is due to what. Making photography a pain in the ass.

And I have to take a pic of this Iguana. Shit. They let it lie around freely at the area where people are suppose to put their hands when they look into the pond to see what is there. I seriously got a fright that the f word almost flew out from my mouth. So damn ugly.

Cute red panda. To balance back that ugly iguana’s aura up there.

Another cute creature.

And I’m happy I capture some of the kings of the forest.

I think I generally like predators more. Hmm :)

A well spent 600 Ringgit for a 55-200mm Tamron right?

Sorry for the long hiatus without any post. Had been busy and am happy that I survived my first ortho oncall. It was almost nightmare. Note the word ‘almost’.

Anyway, Cheryl came to visit me last weekend. And me as the 5 month old pseudo malaccan, brought her family and her around this small town.

On the first day, I woke up early and manage to get some morning view of the town, as warm up.

If you are truly melaka people, try to guess where this above pic is taken. Haha.

The entrance to the red town at 8.30am in the morning. Very peaceful and full of those ‘morning’ feel. I don’t know what I’m talking about.

They arrived around noon, and I brought them to Jonker street for some durian chendol and rendang mee at shop no.88. They seem to like the food, those kind of food that I like.

And we had a walk and visiting shops along Jonker street. It was noon, hot, but that was the first time I actually have a look at what they are selling inside those shops (usually just walk by).

Some random paparazzi frenzy.

Brought them to eat Asam Pedas in Kota Laksamana after that. No pictures taken. Was day dreaming :)

The next day, woke up and brought them to You Ee for breakfast. Later on visited A Famosa and those area around that.

Lunch was in Makko. Again, no pics because I was day dreaming. The heat is too much to bear. However, they certainly like that sago dessert with lotsa gula melaka.

Went back for nap, and afternoon, when I was on the way to fetch them out for dinner, I saw this.

So many people playing kites! One day, I will fly mine, with my wishes written on the kite. Hehe. I bought one half a month ago and it is still inside my room, awaiting time for departure.

Sigh.

Dinner was in Portuguese Settlement for seafood.

Pictures before meal.

Later on, went back to Jonker for that Melaka river boat ride!

And said bye bye at the entrance of Jonker street early at night as I have to be oncall the next day :(

Anyway, some shots of that beautiful night, with its big big moon.

Good night!

Waiting for next tour guide experience!

Had wanted to visit the Taman Rama-Rama but when I drove all the way there, what I saw was just a construction site. I guess they are still managing. I wonder where is that old Taman Rama-Rama. Anyway, I was quite sceptical about the Taman Buaya actually. It is small, and well, there are lotsa crocodiles but they are all bored, hiding in the shades from the afternoon burning sun.

Air yang tenang, jangan disangka, tiada buaya.

I took loads of buaya/crocodile pics. But I guess not everybody is a fan of crocs. I like the eyes but I don’t really like the whole idea of this creature. They are kinda… well… ugly.

Haha.

And they have a small collections of snakes and lizards.

Nice? Hehe.

And I was surprise to find this big cage in the croc farm with some beautiful parrots, birds and ducks.

Like fake right?

But beautiful ducklings do exist, who would care to be a swan. LOL.

Would like to name this pic the 3 brothers. Very very colorful and cheerful creatures.

They even french kiss, tongued each other..

Of course, some 100 pics were taken. And I think these are some of the nice ones. Enjoy!

Enjoy the pics :)

Eating that chocolate coated grapes.

Very very nice lo han gor.

The uncle who sells that curry mee at the dunno which corner of Jonker street. Saja wanna make him famous.

If you did notice a small difference in the pics taken this time, it is because I bought this…

50mm finally. But I wonder I would spend another cent on photography or not. LOL. Need to save for more important purposes!

Went KL for the first time with family.

2 people, same place, yet didn’t meet up. Stress.

Father and sons time.

Thanks Mum for this, even thou I gotta pay back. Stress x 2.

Now I gotta figure how to convert the CF card into Mac compatible. Sigh. Meaning once I use Mac, I can’t change it back to the Windows one? Haiyo. Somebody be my sifu can or not. Auntie Z2 not helping nih, she busy.

Don’t know whether I wrote that hochiak correctly or not.

Anyway.

Real time update:

I got my SPA surat perlantikan yesterday. And this morning I finished up with my Surat Akuan Sumpah at the court today. Actually this is the second time I’m there. First time there was to accompany Pei Tong to sumpah to become a dedicated Pharmacist. This time my turn to go alone to sumpah as a good government servant. LOL.

Later on went to Kluang Clinic to do my medical check-up. Kena bully because I’m a future doc. They said next time when i work that time don’t push the patients to them wor. I don’t know what that means but I think I better try not to do something of that kind.

Back to blogging:

Penang food! (All these happened almost few weeks ago).

Clarissa father brought all of us all the way to Tambun for some very famous and fresh seafood.

Prawns. Tak tau apa prawns.

Don’t know what is this but involved a lot of korek-ing, digging, and picking.

A picture of the boss. Thank you very much for the feast. I ate non-stop.

Well, for those who knows me, I don’t eat a lot but when I eat, I can eat very long, thus end up with a lot also. But in the slow fashion.

The other day the dinner was at this nice seaside hawker center.

Thomas with weird pose.

Harwin buat buat macho.

Nice or not?

And the food…

O-chiennnnn

You know what is this lah..

Mee Jawa.

Ok, kinda lazy with food pics. I’m not good with it. Let me research more and start to take nicer pics first. Totally fail in food photography lah.

Anyway, hopefully you guys are entertained. I think my blog readership falling down. Don’t know what to do, so give you all some food pics first. Till next update!

Going KL again.. =)

Blogging backwards.

Since I didn’t blog much about my previous Penang trip, allow me to show you what I did when I was there on that island. My first destination was suggested by Clarissa to visit this rumah Peranakan which is somewhere in town -lah. I don’t know where. Gotta pay entrance fee to see the house one.

If you don’t know what is peranakan, I suggest you to watch the late Yasmin Ahmad’s movie - Sepet, which got a very good description of who is peranakan and what they did to the local malay girls. I still remember the scene is somewhere when the main character’s friend got into an accident and end up in the hospital.

Anyway, we were greeted by an Indian immigrant who walk us thru the house with a very thick Indian accent.

Apparently the house is very very old, with a lot of ancestors’ drawings and pictures, and the whole house is now a few million. I guess. Hehe. My facts are pretty bad because I can hardly remember what he said that day.

Anyway, it might look really small from the outside but there are so many turnings and big rooms that it is almost like a big bungalow d. Can easily got lost inside. Well, a house with a private temple and 2 dining rooms (for English and Chinese style) is considered big for me -lah.

The Chinese-style dining room for foreigners when they come to visit the house.

The English-style dining room when Chinese come to visit the house.

And for me I like the antiques a lot. Have a look at this impressive radio.

There is another big antique camera lying around.

The old ka-chang used in the kitchen.

And the impressive windows crafting.

The opening at the ground floor of the house.

Besides room, they also exhibits stuffs that the Peranakan people used. Stuffs like earrings, curtains, hangers, and etc. I feel a bit cheated because I was toured by an immigrant -lah. Sometimes I start to doubt the things that he said because he doesn’t understand the culture, he doesn’t understand our culture and how come he is telling this to us? Weird right?

Anyway, it was quite a pleasant trip, even thou I feel cheated by the things that tour guide told me. They should put a better person to in charge of this whole thing.

More Penang posts to come!

The first picture says it all.

A love shape cloud?

A lake where all those flamingos rest.

Before going to the zoo, I had accidentally read an article on the paper saying that the zoo is losing money fast as animals are dying away, without proper care.

I like buildings and places like that. Zoo, museums and etc. They provide things that amuses people. And I like to be amused.

The cute rabbit that Erica likes.

Don’t do this. Do not feed the animals by yourself! But I was amused by the long tongue. Haha.

And these poor fellas with their pity looks in cages.

And the small butterfly farm.

I think the animals are dying fast. I hope the zoo’s management is seriously going to look into this matter. It is sad to walk in to a zoo to only see a male and female lion, a tiger, a puma, a few leopards. I expected more. I think the Aquaria had a better collections of animals to see.

Anyway, an educational day. LOL.

Had my SPA interview as a Pegawai Perubatan on the 6th of August. It was quite scary waiting for my turn especially when my interviewer’s room is one of the slowest. But the process was pleasant and I answered honestly.

Later after that I went Maluri for dinner with Erica. Had some cheese rendang rice but didn’t brought my camera along! Next time -lah.

The next day at night we went to look out point again. LOL. Different people, same table.

A tilt.

No more frowning pic. Kena sound liao.

Dr Law & Lau.

Strong high tech Nokia flashlight.

Visited Aquaria today. Hehe.

To sum things up, errr.. I think it is pretty good la. I got wow here and there, it means it is good right?

I do not really like big underwater creatures.

I can’t swim peacefully when they draw something at the floor of the swimming pool. Animals like dolphins, whales n etc. I got phobia. Super phobia.

Anyway, in Aquaria you can see dangerous creatures like this…

Super phobia like this one up here.

This fella here looks like stone. I bet it can easily bit my finger off.

And lotsa other big big scary stuffs and spiders and scorpions and buaya and lizards that I do not wish to put here to pollute my blog.

Fast fast jump to the cute creatures. Like this one…

Haha. So red like it is drunk.

Someone’s favorite.

And they have creatures which look harmless but actually very deadly. For example:

Lotsa meat-eating Piranhas.

And this…

*Shiver*

I still prefer disturbing her… and the turtle….