ZOO TAMAN TERUNTUM ... part 3

 

mega weaverbird nest

kalau tidak ada - berada, takkan tempua bersarang rendah
(malay proverb)

err ... the road not taken?

KUANTAN MINI ZOO ... part 2

 Salam and good day,

more pics from Teruntum Zoo, aka Kuantan Mini Zoo.

walking the dinosaurs

hello Bambi

hello Kong

Blast from the past - Walk The Dinosaur (Was (Not Was) courtesy of youtube

more to come ... 

THE HYBRID THEORY ... Kuantan Mini Zoo

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Visited our upgraded Mini Zoo yesterday with my grandson. Pleasantly surprised,I must say.

Apparently, it's the first hybrid zoo in Malaysia. Hybrid in that it combines both live animals and replicas of pre historic predators. Worth a visit. I'm just going to post pictures of the Mini Zoo... in mini packages. 

entrance

in Middle Earth now ... The Hobbit house

close encounter of the third kind

blast from the past

more pics in the next instalment of The Hybrid Zoo.

NOT SUPERMOON

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I don't know if you still remember this post... starry night which I wrote last year. In that post, I mentioned that it was the second most wonderful thing I have ever seen. I also said I would write about the most wonderful thing I have ever seen, soon. Well... not so soon apparently, but here it is... the most wonderful thing I have ever seen.
I'm writing this in the wake of the Super Moon phenomenon last week, not because I could not see a thing on account of the sky being totally overcast that particular night...but because it involves the same celestial body orbiting the earth.

Blood Moon. Image from Google

It was quite a few years back, I don't remember exactly what year it was, but it was way before cell phones have cameras... hence, no photos.  It was actually the year when there was a full Lunar Eclipse. I remember watching the eclipse from the balcony at my mother's house. To say it was mind blowing would be an understatement. It was more than mind blowing ... it was breathtaking...
to see the moon devoid of any light... was beyond my imagination. The moon was no longer just a flat bright surface...I could actually see the spherical shape of moon, which we don't normally see when it is brightly lit. The colour was a mixture of orange and red or brown and it was the size of a basketball. Actually, it was exactly like looking at a basketball suspended in the sky... spinning... Yes... i could see the orange moon spinning in the sky... truly majestic, imagine a basketball floating and spinning in the sky... magical and humbling.
I vaguely heard my mom saying ... bulan sedang sakit, and the old nyonya next door telling us,,, itu naga sudah telan bulan... not very scientific, but then scientists also call it Blood Moon... not very scientific either.
Well, scientific or not, it will always remain as the most amazing thing I have ever seen.   

STARRY NIGHT .... a kind of magic

https://www.google.com/

Salam and good day.
Its nearly the middle of December, and the weather is still unseasonably warm... with the occasional rain once or twice a week, except for the wind... which is common during this monsoon season. The Northeast wind which usually announces its arrival with the rain knocking at our doorsteps seems to have misplaced its companion somewhere along its journey towards the Southwest. But I have no doubt that the rain will come eventually... hopefully not with a vengeance.

Tonight is a particularly windy night. The air is chilly and the sky is overcast... with the promise of rain. Tonight,,, there are no stars to be seen ... but that,s okay, because last night has more than made up for tonight's lack of twinkle,

Last night... the sky was beautiful... clear... cloudless ... covered with stars... scattered with constellations... I'm quite sure I saw Orion there... and some other constellations which I do not recognize. Seeing diamonds in the sky and being visited by Orion was cosmic but what was even more awe inspiring was that i saw a shooting star... twice..

I have never seen a shooting star before .... so imagine how shocked I was when i suddenly saw a streak of light disappearing behind my roof. My first thought was... I must be a plane... but planes have blinking lights... then I thought maybe it was the remnant of a firework... but i didn't hear any firework sounds. so.. I gazed up into the sky... contemplating on whether that was a shooting star I just saw, at the same time, mesmerized by the three stars forming Orion's belt... when suddenly another streak of light appeared across the sky. WOW!!!... So... it was a shooting star that I saw. It was divinely majestic. It was awe inspiring. It lifted my spirits... I could actually physically feel my spirits being lifted higher... I felt hopeful all of a sudden. That was the most wonderful thing I have ever seen in my entire life... well... actually, that was the second most wonderful thing I have ever seen. The first? I will tell you about it... in the next post... really I will... i just can't promise when.

Eh?... what was the question again? What was I doing outside at nearly eleven o'clock at night?  Oh... it was my grandson... he said he felt hot and sweaty so... he wanted to wash his body... translated... he wants to run around splashing water all over the place ... though he did stood beside me... gazing up into the sky... saying... I love the stars ... before continuing his spree... and I chose not to burden his three year old mind with philosophy at that moment.

It's funny how a streak in the sky which lasted not more than two seconds made me feel hopeful.

ps: sorry this post is a bit wordy. Too sleepy to upload pics ... :-D

anyway ... this is what I need...

    QUEEN - A KIND OF MAGIC