A Golden Opportunity Seized

Like I said in the earlier post, I will be going to the zoo. The reason it being so great is that I went with the Exchange Student's from Japan and Indonesia. WOOHOO!

So we were to meet at the zoo at 9am. I together with Yee Chang had no transport so we had to follow Wee Jin. Wee in told me to be ready by 8, but he only came at 8.30. no matter, as long as we made it to the zoo I'm happy.

We reached the zoo and met up with the last year's KAYAF troupe, together with some form 4's and of coarse the Japanese and Indonesian students. Very Nice!



After paying the ticket fee, which was RM5 (I'm a Malaysian student, don't i get a discount?) we proceeded to conquer the zoo.



The 1st animal we saw was an small alligator. I don't think the jap's have gone to a zoo before cause that together with every animal they saw were 'ka-wa-i'. Everything! The birds, the monkeys....LOL

After walking around looking at animals, watching zebra's fight and rhino's rampage, not to mention Jackson's hand being licked "clean" by a pony we proceeded to the performance area.

Jackson's friend the pony

Someone got bored and decided to give a pre-performance...



Anyway, the performance was quite decent, but since i watched it before it was not that exciting.





But for the Jap's everything was "su-geh!". They were watching the whole show with their mouths open. Especially when the orang utan came out.....

After that we continued our tour of the zoo. Saw animals,

more animals,



and even more animals.

Eventually we got bored and started taking photos. Ahem....

From left : Mina, Yuri, Yukiko

Wee Jin, Koyo, Me

Me & Hiro

Back : Kin Mun. Kurumi, Bok, Yee Chang

Front: Risa, Yuri, Kaho, Me

The exchange students then wanted to go for the elephant ride. Probally never seen a live elephant in their lives, with the exception of the Indonesian students....

The fun was at the tiger and lion pens. The area was seperated by electric fences. Some of us got couragous and decided to......

Ever gone on a tram ride? It boring and bumby and people hardy talk. Anyway Koyo was sitting next to me so i striked up a conversation by asking him about anime. Seemed that he was a fan of naruto.(i have a feeling that all japanese are...) So i whipped out my hp and played some of the opening theme songs. To my suprise he got so excited that he started singing along! He even nudged Kurumi who was sitting in front and then she joined in too! Damn! Anime connects! They were singing to all the songs that i was playing. WOW! But they seemed suprised that I had anime songs in my hp. Kurumi was like "sugeh!" ever time i switched a song. Is it so suprising that a Malaysian listens to anime songs? I mean they listen to English songs......


Then it started to rain. So sad. So we took refuge under the shelter near the entrance. There we started talking with the other Jap's mainly Kaho and Hiroe. Found out that Hiro was a player of Final Fantasy 12. She even asked me what was my fav character which was most definantly Baltheir. When i told her that I had played for 120 hours and still not yet finished the game she just giggled. (no idea what that means) Also found out the Kaho was a fan of gundam and her fav anime was Reborn. Oh yeah! Anime AND rpg's connect!

Sheltering from the rain

One thing i noticed, there was a clear line between the Jap's and Indon's. It was like we were giving the most attention to the Jap's. (Which is true). Well, the Bible said that man cannot serve to masters. Either he loves one and hate's the other, or hates one and loves the other. Once again the words of the Bible are proven to be consistent and true.


Well it was tiring walking around for 3 hours in the zoo, and our tummies were starting to rumble. It was decided that we(the form 5's) take the Jap's out for lunch. The Indonesian's had their own agenda. So we decided to take them to a restorant in Dataran Pahlawan. Where i found out the Yukiko was a big fan of Michael Jackson. Anime, Rpg's AND music connect.

From left : Kin Mun, Koyo Ulema, Yee Chang, Kye Sheng, Bok Chek Wai, Hiro, Jin Yoong, Mina Nishinohara, Sang Huat, Yukiko Hayami

From left : Wee Kem, Jackson, Yuri, Risa Kawabata, Kaho Horikiri, Kurumi Maezono, Joel Yong, Wen Hao, Alvin Poh, Wee Jin

After lunch they wanted to but some souviners. So we took them to the Heritage Bazaar. Yukiko wanted to buy some shirts for her sisters and some of then wanted batik handkerchiefs. Well they shopped and shopped till they dropped. And we tagged along and helped to haggle.

Then came the hard part. The goodbye. For Yee Chang, Wee Jin and Me. The KAYAF had special privillages. They were still going for the farewell dinner. I'm not jealous. (DAMN YOU KAYAF troupe!!!) But for me it would be last time seeing them. Haiz.... So sad, so sad, so sad.

Now the inner flame within me is burning brighter. My will to go to Japan is stronger. I will and i must go to Japan!


But first I have to make sure that I know people there when i go. So what should I say when i email them...HMM....

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