A date with Pandas
Cheers to the weekend. Nothing beats than a little surprise from my man who has decided to bring me to look for my "good friends' (pandas). And furthermore, with these two staff tickets, we were entitled to a 50% off! So in other words, we paid 2 person with a price of 1. Good deal uh?
The weather show no mercy to us! It was scorching hot till the extend that I regretted bringing an umbrella and sun screen lotion with me. It was kinda surprised because people like me who loves to sun tan but absolutely cannot withstand this kind of temperature. Weird is me, I know!
So our journey started off with so many people queuing for bus 138 from AMK interchange. Disappointed to the fact that they mentioned that all BOAT RIDES were fully booked so there's weren't any time slots for us. HAIS, half of my mood got dampened though but encouraging myself that paying for $25 for 2 pax is worth it. Oh well!
The queue for buying the tickets were super duper long so why not take this time to camwhore with my dslr camera. HAHAHA. Good hair day but not a good face mood. My pimple outbreak came the day before. But thanks to my dslr, it covered well with the pixel/HD/lighting.
Here to my ootd for today! Simple casual wear la, so i'm not going to elaborate more (: But taking ootd under the hot sun is really losing my patience.
We requested one stranger to take a picture of us but looking at the way he holds the camera frightened us. HAHA. Deep inside we were like " The photo captured by him will be a weird one". But yeah, picture out without our legs. HAHA. Not to bad for a first timer, I guess.
Let the journey begins (:
You get to see how wildlife at the Amazon Flooded Forests behave as they traverse and swim up and down to the lower and upper depths. Totally breathtaking and I had a few moments I was just enchanted by everything.
We went into this Monkey enclosure and it was quite exciting because there was no glass panels nor bars separating the visitors and monkeys. The monkeys came quite near us I was so afraid they would perch themselves on my shoulder or something.
I guess it's true that when couples stay together for a period of time, they start to look alike. Didn't used to believe in it but I get quite abit of feedback from friends that we are starting to speak and look alike (hopefully it's not a bad thing!)
His expression is for this picture really cracked me up. That innocent blur blur face. HAHA
Afterwards was tea time at Mama Panda Kitchen!
This wonton taste kinda special with the gravy that they had. Spicy enough!
Spring rolls that taste just alright.
Mango Pudding and Longan Pudding, refreshing treat!
Everyone just goes crazy when they see the Panda Pau because it is so freaking cute. It tastes pretty awesome. I mean how amazing can red bean pau taste right? But the design is really a big thumbs up. The black parts of the Panda Pau are Chocolate Flavoured Pau. The Pau is soft and fluffy but is pretty dry and hard but it is such a cute photogenic dish!
The Panda Pau is sold in limited numbers a day – just 200! So it’s something you definitely should have when you visit River Safari, just for the novelty of it and to Instagram the heck out of it. It’s about $3.90 I think. I thought that it was a plain bun, so I was actually surprised it contained tau sar and chocolate custard. Good enough.
And the highlight was the pandas of course!
This is the exhibit I’ve been waiting to visit for so long! I mean, I’m not one of the panda crazed people, but the hype about Jia Jia and Kai Kai is mad. People actually crowded around the Singapore Zoo to welcome the Giant Pandas which were housed in (completely opaque) boxes as they were transported to their new home, the Giant Panda Forest. This was like in the wee hours of the morning. Gosh. These two pandas are popular!
The red pandas and pandas are placed in an air conditioned greenhouse specially created for them. The moment you stepped in you are greeted with a gush of cool and fresh air with very soft instrumental music.
Here is Kaikai. Dude was busy eating bamboos when we saw him and didn't bother much with us. But I'm just glad at least he wasn't motionlessly sleeping, that would have been so boring to watch.
FYI: Jia Jia and Kai Kai do not stay in the same enclosure as Giant Pandas are terribly hard to mate. The male and female mating window is very small and it takes a lot of effort to ensure they are synced. On top of that, much like humans, if they see the same female or male counterpart too often, they get bored. Much like us with our declining birthrate, pandas do not do well when they are bored with their other halves. They are kept apart to make sure that when their mating period arrives, they are all ready to get some major sexy time.
FYI: Jia Jia and Kai Kai do not stay in the same enclosure as Giant Pandas are terribly hard to mate. The male and female mating window is very small and it takes a lot of effort to ensure they are synced. On top of that, much like humans, if they see the same female or male counterpart too often, they get bored. Much like us with our declining birthrate, pandas do not do well when they are bored with their other halves. They are kept apart to make sure that when their mating period arrives, they are all ready to get some major sexy time.
Okay so apparently Jia Jia is like the shy panda of the two. She was in her den sleeping and the only way I could have a look at her was through a CC TV. She looks like she’s loving her den. Seriously, she’s sprawled nicely on the ground, chillaxing like a boss. Pandas have really got it good, huh!
To be honest though, I really loved the Red Pandas. I thought they were cuter and reminded me of Firefox. SO FLUFFY! The fox-like faces are just adorable. HEY FOXY LAY-DEH!
Red pandas are so cute. They didn't do much except laze on the tree and be cute . HAHA, really feel like squishing their tails.
Jumped for joy! The background is really nice to take picture.
I have no idea why I posed this for him.
So the retarded him followed my steps, and imitated me. HAHA. He did a good job by showing me his act cute face.
He found his best friend here. Tell me why they look so alike?
Im good at glowing in the dark. HAHA
In all, I did enjoy observing the pandas, red pandas, crazy big manatees, and the giant river otters. Many of the animals we came across were sleeping, but thats probably a time issue. We also learned some cool facts about animals (some hard to forget), and had a lot of fun making tons of jokes along the way and also our all time cam-whoring, doing funny face infront of the camera. If you ask me if the River Safari is fun, I will probably tell you I can't say for certain, but its the company you have with you as you make your way around that makes it fun.
Next up, in the evening, his cousins came over from Gemas. To welcome them warmly, we dined in at this Northpoint chinese cuisine restaurant along with his mum. So those are what we ordered. Too much sinful food I had on that day, sorry tummy!
Alright, till then (:
