Now u know why I dunno how to end my lessons with Joanna for good. Lols!
Joanna's mum is so nice! She is hardworking, generous, a great mum and most importantly, puts others before herself. I think Korean women are like this!
I wanna be like her too. :)
It was really a feast. Her mum taught me about Korean dishes. I admit there are some that tasted weird but out of courtesy I drank the weird soups and said they were nice with a weird smile on my face. Lol. I am so bad. She also ordered Bori Cha (Korean Barley Tea) for me. It tasted the same as our Chinese Tea. The Ginseng Tea was like our Ginseng Tea too!
I like it when they said Bori Cha. Their accent is so nice to hear. Lols.
While her mum was on the phone, I took out my phone and wanna take a photo of the dinner. Joanna said she wanna do it. She took off her shoes and stood on the chair to take this photo. Lols. It was a shaky photo but I appreciated her efforts.
I took another photo when she wasn't noticing!
She also asked me to take a photo of her and send it to her through Facebook. Lols. She added me a week ago but I didn't accept her friend request. I am not sure whether I should since I really don't want her to read any comments that I wrote about my friends or the posts I wrote. I mean I wanna stay as a serious teacher in her mind. Lol! :D I think I may accept her as my friend but limit her to viewing some items on my profile.
I was at Cineleisure and I saw all these cameras on display. Their designs are so nice, omg!
I began looking out for cameras ever since the last one spoiled. I was at the Electronics fair but was reluctant to spend few hundreds on a camera. Lol. And the thing about me is that I want my camera to have an appealing outward appearance. Aiyo!
I really really like this kind of camel colour on the camera. Looks so vintage u see!
Aiyo! I got a shock when I saw that the price was over $1,000. Simba said I am someone who don't know how to see or appreciate if the item is expensive or not. Lols. I thought it was a normal digital camera until Simba pointed out the lens that protrudes out of the camera.
Omg. Look at all of them. Something to die for really!
That weekend was a shopping day for me cos Simba suggested to go the Flea Market at *Scape!
I was shopping at 313 Somerset and bought nothing. I bought some accessories at Forever 21 though. Went scanning around for clothes through the whole 4 storeys of F21 but found nothing I like.
But the Flea Market became a heaven for me! Lols. I really like Blogshops clothes more than anything else.
Here is what I bought that day and they are so worth it!
- 3 accessories from F21 at $3 each.
- 2 hair ties from Cineleisure (my favorite place) at $1.50 each. I saw many girls wearing the telephone line design and I really like it!
- 1 suspender dress at $15!
- 1 polaroid lens cover at $28 (One of the things in my checklist that I can strike off.) I chose the camel color again! Simba wanted me to save the environment and thus I am not allowed to take any plastic bag when I buy things. The salesperson, being very kind-hearted, warned me about the sharp edges of the box that can hurt my handbag and so insisted that I should get a plastic bag for it. But I said it was okay and quickly stuffed it down my bag. Lols! He must be thinking that this woman doesn't know how to care for her bag.
- 1 Stitch polaroid album at $2!
Nice! Although I spent alot but I only buy things that are worth the price. :D
It's funny when I looked back at the facebook messages of the conversation between Simba and I.
All of them look like this:
Me: :)
Him: Hi!
Me: Hi~
Him: Hello!
Me: Hi!
It was endless "Hi"s. Lol!
I seldom checked Facebook and when he said hi in the message in his office, I didn't know! I wasn't on Facebook. When I saw his message, I said hi back and it was his turn to be busy. This continued on for many days. Lol. It really seemed like we don't have an actual conversation when I scrolled down through the message history.
Finally continuing my part 2 of the zoo visit!
Although it was around 3pm when we reached this elephant viewing area and Simba was rushing me as we had to hurry so as to finish viewing all the animals in the zoo, I sat there for some time to rest. Lol. I learnt to enjoy looking at animals after Simba told me how to. Cute right! I used to think that going to the zoo is taking photos of a few animals, reading their living habits from the information board, and then going off to other places. But Simba changed my mindset. Lols. He told me that these elephants were dancing. I would not have realize this myself! Indeed they were! They moved their limbs and swung their trunks in a rhythmic manner. So cute!
The best zoom I can get. They can coordinate and swing together their tails. Maybe they were singing to each other cos we kept hearing sounds coming from them.
I remembered Simba loves watching those live seafood in the tanks waiting to be cooked (so sad!) from outside those seafood restaurants. I would stand beside him and try very hard to understand why he likes watching them so much. Until one day, he said, "Hey, look at how the prawn moves. It uses its many legs to push against the water and moves upward bit by bit. Look at how agile it is! The coordination of these legs are so impressive!"
Then I realized he was observing the mechanism of animals' movements. Hahahahaha! I have never looked at animals this way before.
We took note of the timing to come back for the Rainforest Fights Back show later on. :D
Alot of tourists passed by and gave this weird expression. We must be the first ones to take a photo with a soft toy high up in these fake branches.
Oh there were so many tourists! We were the few locals.
I realized whichever country I go, I always see mostly angmohs and Japanese. I think these people really love travelling!
The orang-utan. Reminds me of the Circus Orang-utan in the Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
The enclosures are so big and the zookeepers have a way of making the penguins come near us and pose for us. :D I really like Singapore zoo!
The sea lions. So cute! They have such streamlined bodies. Reminds me of Pri 3 Science. Been teaching Joanna the characteristics of fishes that made them able to swim easily.
In the remembrance of Ah Meng.
And we reached the children's play area:
Saw the real Simba in the Souvenir shop. Ahhhh.. Excited! Have u watched The Lion King 3D? It is now on screens of Cathay cinemas. :D "Can you feel the love tonight? This is where we are..."
There were a few ponys chained in their stables. And the zookeeper always took one out from the stable into this sandy area for it to roll over and "parade" around. This is one beautiful pony. Children can ride on these ponys too!
His happiest moment. Lol.
Beside the stable were the Giant Rabbits Area. These rabbits are quite shy and often hide from us humans. But the enclosure is not very enclosed since u are able to touch the rabbits if u reach in close enough!
So cute these rabbits. I realized that I am not so afraid of animals, unlike the times when I was a child.
Simba really likes this pony with the brown and white pattern. Such a beautiful color combi I must say!
And this photo is so natural. The horses kept swaying their tails. :D
The goats! At least now we can get nearer to them but still we are not allowed to feed them. So Simba tricked them that the map he was holding is food for them. Poor hungry goat.
And we are at the stable for the horses.
We can get this close to them! They responded to your touch pretty fast so they may actually give u a scare. Although all of us know that horses don't bite but still we get scared by their sudden movements.
When one of the ponies stuck its head out, I asked Simba to pose with it.
He touched it but it turned and looked at him. Kind of scary!
Info about horses. Simba pointed out to me on what I have taught Joanna!
Remember that the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey is a mule.
The Komodo Dragon.
Creeps me out. Lols!
He wanted to touch it but the enclosure limited him.
He envied the zookeeper who went in freely to wash it and refill its artificial lake.
Alot of time Simba wondered why these animals wont escape since the fences are so low. Especially the giraffes! Why didn't they try to escape? I told Simba that these animals are used to being pets and they may die leaving these habitats.
We lost our way a little and landed up elsewhere but as I really really wanna see the sun bear, we made a detour and finally found it.
It was abit of disappointment since the sun bear moves too fast to be seen. It was kind of far away from the glass. Can't observe it further. I thought sun bears are larger than what I saw. But from the information board, I learnt that they are the smallest bears around!
We entered a hut that said, "Bats Observation". But didn't see any until I looked up!
All of them were hanging upside down from the ceiling. I knew bats are awake only at night but I am still so afraid that one may wake up and rush at me. The zoo is terrifying!
Lol. He used his phone accessory to attract the tortoise. It really wanted to catch his accessory. So cute. Simba has a way with animals.
Some animals made sounds and Simba would imitate these sounds, hoping to get a reply from them.
And one monkey really would reply him. So funny! I tried my best to cover his mouth but he was too enthuasistic to be stopped.
The giraffe which looked directly into my camera. I really think Singapore Zoo trained their animals for that.
The rhinoceros are so lazy!
They just kept sleeping! They lay on their stomachs to sleep, which is quite reasonable since laying on their backs would look like they are dead or something.
We also found ourselves into the Snake House but didn't stay long there as Simba doesn't really like snakes. He likes movements but snakes don't move much! I feel for those dead mice lying next to the snakes waiting to be eaten. :(
History of teddies!
The Rainforest Fights back show is so fascinating.
U see trained elephants, ducks, monkeys, squirrels.. and lots of others. Ducks will go in the direction u want them to. So cool!
On top of us are these black lines where birds and this animal can climb and move towards the main stage. Lol. A warning before the show starts was "Do not look up and open your mouths for your own safety." Lol! I thought that was funny. Imagine the faeces fell into your mouth! U will never want to go to the zoo ever again!
Shall stop here! Am so sorry! Age is catching up on me. So tired. Blogging soon k!
