You know how sometimes you take pictures when you are at a restaurant and then ages later you download them from your handphone and you can’t remember what that picture was or where it was taken. well it happen to me and I finally found out where I took the picture and where. Here’s the Jedi Mudster !! a really awesome dessert !!
Went to the Zoo recently with the family. What a start to the trip, as soon as we left the house I forgot my handphone and then the misses forgot the keys and then the helper forgot the kids pacifier so even before I could get 1 km away I had to make 3 loops, but lucky it was near the house that we forgot all these things. So we arrived at the Singapore Zoological Gardens at around 11am. We decided to head towards the White Tiger enclosure. But then found out that it was under renovation so that was that. had our lunch break at the Ah Meng Cafe, which was Nigel’s favourite place. He was not too keen on the animals in the zoo. Don’t seem to be very interested slept along the way even. We got to see the Australian outback, some crocodiles and lots of birds. We also managed to get to the wild cats area for the lions and cheetahs. But the place where we spent most of our time was at the Monkey exhibits, that was Natalie’s favourite place, she literally went ape (pun intended) over the monkeys, kept point and making all the little baby noises. All the other animals did not strike her fancy except for the monkeys. We did not managed to get far did not even get to the children’s animal area as the sky was getting dark and it was about 3pm and the kids were getting tired so we left the zoo.
A Very colourful picture of 2 parrots.
Another bird photo, i think it’s a crane or something.
Even more bird pictures, this one was a bird picking in a hole on a Rhino’s back !!
A Kangaroo in the Australian outback section. Went with little Natalie to view this as Nigel was sleeping !
Does this look fake to you, well it does too me but it’s a real Crocodile basking in the sun.
Something right out of Discovery Channel’s Meerkat Manor !!
Here’s the gang walking in the Zoo.
And the missus with the Monkey that was just walking along the railings. Kept asking her to get closer but she dare not !
Natalie’s favourite exhibit the Monkeys and here are the Orang Utan’s playing.
As you can see little Natalie is so engrossed with the Monkey’s !!! She was absolutely fascinated by them.
More monkey’s we stay at this enclosure for a while for the little girl to get her fill of what the monkey’s were doing.
One of the great things about the Singapore zoo is that they have this open concept of enclosing the animals and they use natural barriers and some even no barriers. As in this case this was an Orang Utan taken from below, meaning we were actually walking under it and it could at any time just swing down and land beside you !
Images of some monkey’s fighting which ended with one of them falling into the pond.
Wow .. 3rd post of the day, I think this is the first time I ever submitted 3 post in a day. But its catch up time I guess. Anyway, watched the Manny Pacquiao vs Antonio Margarito Boxing match this morning. Actually I did not even knew about the match until Friday when I wanted to cancel my Starhub Sports channel and they had this on their phone log which was an interesting marketing ploy. So I finally got to see the “pacman” in action live ! They had a few smaller fights before the main event. So Let’s Get Ready to Rumble ….. as the announcer said. After all that hype and even when Manny was smaller, lighter, had less reach, it was still a one sided affair, it was all Manny from start to finish. Margarito had a cut below his right eye and both his eyes were almost swollen shut, many times either the doctor or referee had to check that he could see before continuing the fight. It was really one sided and even in the 10th round there was a time where not only the announcers were hoping the ref would stop the fight but after a flurry of blows, Manny looked to the ref with that why don’t you stop the fight look. In the end Margarito hanged in there till the end and made it to the 12th round. The Pacman won and he has 8 titles now to his name outstanding fight !
This update is a long time coming but finally getting round to updating the blog. We had a small party over Halloween (Oct 31st) with some friends and relatives. I bought for my 2 little ones Star Wars outfits, the little boy was Darth Vader and the little girl was Princess Leia. The outfit for the girl was a little big but luckily we could fold it and she looked adorable in it with the 2 'Leia' hair buns. The Boy really did not like his helmet and kept flicking it off, although it was made of cloth. The Vader costume came with cape and helmet and I got him a glow-in-the-dark sword to act as a lightsaber but he got a little hot in his costume and had to change out.
The party started in the afternoon, we had friends come over to help decorate and prepare the goodie bags of sweats. Food was catered, great food incidentally I think it was from Mum's Kitchen, the missus did the ordering. Oh she came in her big grey 'Rat' hat costume, but she keeps insisting that it's a chinchilla but I think it's a big floppy ear rat.
The kids all came dressed up as witches and pumpkins which seem to be the 2 most common characters. We even had a werewolf. The parents did their bit in dressing up as well. Some came with outfits bought overseas !!
There was even a Pinata and all the kids had a good time whacking it and it finally broke there goes Barney’s head and the kids all rushed in to grab the sweets. Poor Barney lost his Head and no one bothered about him !!
More sweets were given out and in the end I think all the kids went home with sweets to last them the entire year. My little ones even had their own baby juice since they could not eat the candies.
