What do 'Banana', 'Peach' and 'Tangerin' have in common, besides being names of common fruits?
You can't guess this, man. They are sexy names for exotic
snake species too. Yes, you eyes aren't playin tricks on you. Some snakes are called 'Banana', some are 'Peach', while some of their reptilian brothers are named after the orange-lookalikes.
This is no bull-shit, I'm serious. There's this reptilian exhibition held in 1 Utama which we - seowqj & me - spontaneously decided to visit immediately after having fun with melted iceh-cream (which, according to smart-seowqj, looked like some pasta sauce) on waffles.
So it wasn't all about snakes, or solely reptiles for that matter. What so non-reptilian about the "Reptilian Exhibition" was that there were amphibians, mammals and birds too. Now I really never thought the three latter classes are of ANY connections with reptiles, ey.
They say, a picture speaks a thousand words. I shall save saliva and let the pictures do the talking.
The very reptilian reptiles. The BIGGEST stars amoungst snake exhibits. Don't you just think they are SO
FAT??!!
This gained one frame because of it's uncanny resemblance to... uhm... a lump of animal waste.
The non-reptilian birdie that was supposed to be very, very sexy and exotic and pretty and, and... Nevermind, now that the camera doesn't do justice to that poor bird. It was uglified!
Now I have a BIG issue with this parrot. It SCREAMED out of a sudden when I was so interested in one of the reptiles that I literally JUMPED out of my skin. Okay, literally jumped, but on the spot. I did not shed my skin like the reptiles do. And THIS parrot is perhaps the vain-est parrot on earth, man! It kept posing non-stop for us to take photos of it. But it sort of changed its poses far too quickly, that seowqj had extreme difficulty in snapping ONE shot without that vain bird moving and blurring its own image.
And this is yours truly, with her million-dollar face of that million-dollar smile!
Flaunt your wing, birdie! But one queer thing about this bird, is that it only spreads ONE wing at a time. What's with its right-left coordination, ey?
And this is he, doing an excellent job at concealling his shaking knees because apparently the parrot took quite some time to stop moving and he's been bending to an awkward position for far too long. So not fair apparently the bird was a female and she loves him, but not me.
All in all the exhibition was a little too small, but we did have a great time laughing at everything we could laugh at. There were indeed quite a number of animals we as urban dwellers do not normally encounter. There was this beautiful fox lying in the cage, ever so seductively like all foxes do. Yet I had taken no pictures of the fox, because I got so high at seeing a fox that I forgot I was actually holding onto a camera phone.
That somehow concluded our (adventurous) attempt in getting more acquainted with Mother Nature, and kick-started my window-shopping marathon. Since I started working I have not shopped at all, with the exception of CNY of course. So what do you think happened when the shopaholic me was unleashed, in 1 Utama to be exact? Ha, poor seowqj had to put up with darting from shops to shops and exclaiming at everything that 'blings'. And in the end, I had to bid 1U goodbye, however reluctantly and unwillingly, because seowqj had bible studies and I had to feed my growling stomach.
If there's ONE thing seowqj (as with you boys out there) learnt today, that would be shopping (preferrably with a girl) is actually a GOOD exercise for your legs! At the end of the day that seowqj was lamenting again and again about how his feet ached from walking. As for me, I wished I could conquer the entire 1U in one day. It was a pity we did not manage to cover ALL parts of the big building.
Calling all of you out there who want more toned, firmer legs, join my shopping trips today!
