Archive for August 2008
Snake Attack at KL bird park
I was wondering the bird park and was beginning to think it was time to head home when I was at the duck pond enclosure. I’ll be honest,it was pretty boring there, the ducks looked so plain and the waters were murky and dirty. I had hoped it was clear so I could play with reflection, the pond was separated into 2 halves. One half housed the flamingos while one half housed the ducks.
Each half was separated by a huge net, everyone else was at the far end of the flamingo side. I was on the duck pond side. There was a tourist couple there as well. It was still cloudy so everything appeared greyed out.
I had trained my lens on one of the ducks in the pond thinking I would take one more shot before going home when all of a sudden the duck tried to fly off but couldn’t and then the duck cried out in fright when out from the water a brownish coil appeared to wrap around it rendering it immobile. It had been caught by a snake!
Bird Park KL
In retrospec, I’m so glad I did (but more on that in my next entry, this one is just about the sights and birds of this place).
I must say considering how shoddy the Malaysian government works, I half-heartedly expected the place to be only filled with Pigeons and crows only. But to my surprise I found many species of birds (as well as reptile but that’s another story).
I’ll the photos to do talking on what I saw. Basically the whole area has a very high up net place over it in order to prevent the birds from escaping. There are about 4 zones which reflect the type of environment of each of the birds there (too bad there is no artic zone).
Each zone is then separated by its own net as well as doors. Only the flightless birds section did not have any net over them.
Butterfly Park in KL
I left at about 8am and getting there wasn’t so hard, although I wish the maps on sell in the bookstores would actually be updated. Fortunately after staying in KL for over 4 months now I have come to learn on how to actually guess which bleeding turn to take instead of blindly following the map. Also since tomorrow is going to be Malaysia’s natonal day, some of the roads have been closed off for the national parade (particularly the Sultan Ismail road).
In any case, I managed to reach the Butterfly Park at roughly 8:30am but it would only open at 9am. So after waiting for bleeding 30 minutes I went it.
For a while I went around the park and a strange though had occurred to me, “Where were all the butterfly?” I didn’t see a single one for quite a while. It was only after an hour later did the butterflies started to make their appearance for their daily routine.
So without further ado, here are the shots I took
Ayanami Rei by Kotobukiya and by Yamato
Malaysian International fireworks competition 2008
I went to last Saturday’s competition at Putrajaya with a friend and I have to say, I was rather impressed by the show.
This event is spans over a few weeks by different countries competing for first place. The reason why it spans over a few weeks is because preparations can take many days. Hence the reason for the huge gaps in between performing countries.
The event is actually held at the Putrajaya International Convention Center (PICC). Its about 45 minutes drive from Petaling Jaya, why is the event being held so far from anywhere? to reduce the lightly hood of any incidents should something unexpected happen as well as reduce light pollution from the city. Although I suspect its to draw people to Malaysia’s rarely seen and used Putrajaya sector which to me feels like a big white elephant.
The competing countries are: (each on a different date)
- Team Malaysia (12 August 2008)
- Team China (16 August 2008)
- Team Canada (20 August 2008)
- Team Spain (24 August 2008)
With the Grand finale on the 29 August 2008. I have so far only gone to Team China show as the Malaysian team was on the 12 of August which is a week day.
