oof. MY LEG HURTS LIKE HELL! Went to the zoo today! so fun! initially, it was just me and kel left. em didnt wanna go to the zoo so earrly. and pengster was at changi airport for god knows what reason so she cant make it. The 2 of us were there at 850! There were sooo few pple i thought the zoo wasnt open yet hahas! so we ventured in and we took another trail. It wasnt the usual trail i always walked which was the goats then the camels and sunbears and polar bears and blah. This time we took the other route. The 1st enclosed animal we saw were the LAMAS! hahas they looked wierd! We walked slowly and were voila at the pygmy hippo enclosure. There was no more big fish or baby stingrays. How sad! Kel and i decided to not go thru primate trail cos it was scary. we decided to wait for em to come b4 going to primate trail. we walked around and saw alot of animals! The white tiger looked so majestic! I just love the way it looks. Was reading the small little board regarding the white tigers. It happens that the white tigers belong to a kind of gene mutation. They are formed because of homozygous recessive genes! Interesting! And they're just white, not albino. hahas me and kel actually went inside Hamadryas Baboons. But it was soo scary and quiet we decided to wait till later. hahas were blaming em and peng for leaving us alone. the statues outside Hamadryas Baboons looked retarded! One had breasts and they were seriously out of shape hahas. Then we went to see the Elephants of Asia was actually quite a distance away when i saw it so i thought it was indian words. How dumb! We went in and saw two elephants bathing each other. Slowly we walked and reached this elephant thingey. Some kind of room. It was air-conditioned. They were showing some elephant documentary. Hahas then we saw the elephants boobies. So saggy and small! Hahas and wrinkled! After that, we passed by the shaw amphi-theatre. Saw two other elephants inside the pool area where the pink hippose used to be. They finished having their bath. So they were like really near the pavement. Was bloody scared. Hahas the zookeeper got us and a few other visitors to gather around and started telling us all about elephants and blah. Said that those 2 elephants were very well tamed and that the bigger 1 was their pioneer elephant. She was from Sri Lanka and shes 35 yrs old. Her name is Komali. Blah Blah. The smaller 1 was 19 yrs old. Shes from Malaysia. Hahas while she was talking, saw a few chicks and their mother hen running around. The chicks were sooo adorable. Hahahs was kinda rude cos i was too amused by the chicks to look and listen to her. ahahs then she wanted me to touch the elephants. wahs eech. SCARY! Their trunks were already getting me all jumpy and stuff. Have this kind of phobia. Elephant with water filled in their trunks ready to spray u. Hahas everytime their trunk came up i'd jump. hahas! finally, the lady convinced me to go touch the elephants. Touched it. Felt kind of wierd. The hair was kind of coarse. So touched for awhile and faster ran back to Kel. Then she wanted me to FEED the elephants! I was like no no no. I cant. V scary. She say that this free feeding of bananas to the elephants was only for breakfast and that i would be v lucky to get to feed them blah blah. Hahas she had to take my hand and we fed the elephant the banana together. It wasnt that bad after all. So after that we left and the elephants had to go back to their home and get ready for their elephant show at 1130. Since we had still quite alot of time on our hands b4 the primate show, we went to see the Komodo Dragons. Then the snakes. Hahas kel and i were seriously straining our eyes trying to look for those higly camouflaged snakes. It was almost 1030. Kel and i made our way back to shaw amphi-theatre to watch the Primate show! hahas but we couldnt get back! we were kinda confused. we walked here and there but couldnt get back! saw the small mammals. They were irresistably cuddly! So we walked here and there but couldnt find the way to the amphi theatre. Hahas walked thru the snakes enclosure for about 3 times! Kel actually thought of going into the snake encounter. was a definite no no. the lizards were running around loose. 4get it. No way was i stepping foot inside. Walked around the same area for 10 mins. Kept mistaking big cats for small mammals hahas kel kept on laughing at me. said that the big cats turned in to small mammals. walked half way and kel suddenly froze and gave me that super shocked look on her face. She started jumping around and her voice was thick with disgust, i stepped on a fish! ahhh! its so squeeshy!. Finally found our way out and reached the amphi theatre at 1020. Em was calling. Saying she wd be reaching at around 11+. Watched the primate show, Touched the snakes! Wasnt abit scaly at all. Felt so smooth and nice. Couldnt get my fingers off the boa constrictors skin hahas walked all the way to the entrance aft that then em called and said she was still at her house bus stop waiting for the bus!! Hahas aft coming out frm the amphi theatre the small kids around the sealion enclosure were trying to mimic the sealion urgh urgh hahas how comical! okays. shall just stop here. will update again. watch out for the zoo part II tmr!