Halo.. Second post today.. Haha.. Tpday os the fifth say of my zoo attachment.. And oso the second last day.. Haha.. I start to feel alittle reluctant to leave the zoo.. Haizs.. So sad.. Tmr last day le man.. Oh my god..='(

Yeah, I wan not late unlike ytd.. Reached AMK stn at 7.50am and meet Qun Jie, Samuel Cheong and Jia Jun.. Haha.. Then Chong Wei joined us few moments ltr.. Wth!! While waiting for Chong Wei, I suddenly had a tummy ache.. Went to the toilet.. Oso nv eat anything wrong leh.. Dunno wad happen to my weird stomach.. Haha.. But it was fine after visiting the toilet..=X

Then boarded the bus at 8.15am and reached the zoo abt 40 mins ltr.. Haha.. I thought I was early man.. So I strolled slowly to my station.. Wth!! Wei Jie is more earlier than me.. He was already helping zookeeper Andrew with the cleaning of the giraffe enclosure.. Haha.. he told me he met his frinds at 7.40am.. Wah, so damn early man.. Haha.. Is he desperate for work???=X

Haha.. Anyway, I got into work almost immediately.. When I reached my office, I quickly changed into my boots and went to help Wei Jie and zookeeper Andrew with the cleaning.. They look so pathetic there.. Cos only two person cleaning the big and large giraffe enclosure.. Haha.. TT "

Help sweep away the leaves off the pathway and also help Andrew with the carrying of old leaves out of the enclosure and new ones into it.. Haha.. Cool.. Helpme train my muscles.. Haha..=X

Next, is a more challenging part.. Hahaha.. Erm I dunno how I shd say it.. Hmm hmm hmm... Ok I shall say it as clearly as possible.. Haha.. I have to pull a pile of tree branches up a tree via a pulley as giraffes are tall so we can't possibly lay the leaves at a low height, the giraffes can't eat like tt..=X

So a special pully system is deisgn so that we can place the leaves high up and easier for the giraffes to enjoy their food.. Haha.. But it's tough to pull the tree leaves up as u have to pull the string to transfer the leaves high up..=X

Wah, pull until my hand got blisters man.. Haha.. But it's a good experience for me lar.. Haha.. At least I know how life is like to be a zookeeper.. Haha.. I was sweating profusely tt time while pulling the tree leaves up lor.. Haha.. It's tough!!!!X.X

Haha.. Next we did the cleaning of the antelopes' enclosure, yet again.. Haha.. I guess this would be our daily job.. Haha..=X Cos the first two days, I don't have to do this area cleaning.. Haha.. But it's tough to clean up the antelopes' enclosure man.. Cos their enclosure is located at a place where they are many trees..And leaves are always falling non-stop from the tress into the enclosure.. And anothe problem is tt the poo of the antelopes are very small and very difficult to clean up and they are found everywhere.. X.X

Wei Jie and I really had a "great" time cleaning tt area.. Haha.. We spent abt one hour there trying to make the area as clean as we can, but to no avail.. Haha.. Then we very piss so juz anyhow clean up wadever things tt crossed our eyes, and left quickly..=X

Haha.. Next up, we went to the zebra enclosure to clean it.. Whoa, it seems tt now we have a so called standard time table as wad I did today was exactly was I did ytd.. And the timing for which I did these things were almost the same..Haha.. O.O

Then after cleaning the enclosure, I went back to the office and thoroughly clean the place one more time before going for my lunch.. Haha.. Whoa, I was busy doing work the whole morning.. I dun even had the tea break we suppose to have.. Haha.. But it's ok.. Haha.. =D

Had chicken chop for lunch.. Quite nice.. Haha.. I think Ulu Ulu restaurant in the night safari not bad man.. Haha.. Lunch is able to keep mme full for the whole afternoon.. Haha..=)

After lunch, we had the Rhino feeding, but I wasn't there to feed it as I had other work to do.. I had to prepare for the area cleaning for the rhino.. Haha.. But soon acfter, I learnt tt the area cleaning will be delayed as the zookeepers have to take blood test again of another rhino.. I think this is cool as I dunno animals actually do need to take blood tests like humans do.. This is an interesting.. But the purpose of taking blood tests in animals is the same as humans.. It is to determine whether the particular animal has contracted any virus or disease.. Haha.. Cool! =D

Haha.. After that, zookeeper Thomas drove a bunkie to our station and we put bags of sands onto it.. We are going to replenish the sand of the giraffes' exhibit.. Haha.. Cos I think due to erosion, much of the sand there had been gone.. So there's a need to replenish it.. Haha..=X

Oh yeah, and teh bags of sands are really heavy!!! Had a hard time carrying up the bunkie.. Haha.. But still managed to get the job done.. Haha.. Then we were asked to sit on the bunkie as Thomas drove us to the giraffe exhibit.. It's so fun to be sitting on the bunkie.. Haha.. The first time man.. Haha.. Then aft tt we went to Rainforest Kidz World.. The place was big and I think it's for kids to have fun there.. Have many diff games station there.. Haha..

And when we were back to our office.. It's almost the feeding time for the giraffe.. And I was very looking forward to it.. But something happened and tt make me more interested in tt thing than the giraffe feeding.. Haha.. Guess wad?? Haha.. It's the birth of a baby Nyala.. Haha.. I took a video of it but I dun think it can be seen clearly as my camera had reached its maximum zoom.. Haha..=X

It's the second time in this week tt I had observed the birth of a baby Nyala.. On Tuesday, even though I didn't saw the baby Nyala coming out of its mother's womb, but I saw the new born baby Nyala.. The mother Nyala was licking the baby Nyala profusely to keep it dry so tt it is able to stand.. Haha.. I also saw it suckle the milk from its mother.. Haha.. So cool..^^

And today, I observed another birth of a baby Nyala.. Haha.. Haha.. So cool.. And zookeeper Thomas told me tt this is the first time the mother Nyala gave birth in the day.. Normally, it give birth in the night.. Then he said tt Im very lucky as once I come here to work, there is two birth in the day for me to see.. Haha.. I wonder if the other mother Nyalas will give birth in the day when Im not around next week... Haha..=X

The birth today took two hours plus man.. Haha.. At first, the mother Nyala only pushed put the feet of the baby Nyala.. And it paused for a long time before continuing pushing it.. And finally after a long wait, it finally gave birth and I had the chance to take the video of the birth and also the suckling of milk from the baby Nyala.. Haha..=D

Oh no!!! It's my last day tmr.. So sad.. I wished this attachment could be longer.. I will surely miss the zookeeprs in my section and Im sure to visit them again.. And also, I will be back after my o levels to do volunteer work in the zoo.. Hope to see them again..='(

I'm gonna treasure my time with them tmr.. This one week attachment has been put to good use by me and I have learnt alot of things.. Ok lar,, I shall blog till here.. Blog tmr then.. Seeyou..=)
JJ-ed