| Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
| the sweetest girl |
a few things in life can make you feel like a child again...
last Monday I visited the Manila Zoo. I was there to meet the zoo director for a project and no matter how much I tried to be within my "manager mindset"...the result was a giddy four-year-old squealing - oh look there's a llama! ooh a zebra! hipp-Oh!
The last time I was in the zoo, I was maybe four or five years old. My brother was not even born yet and we have photos with the elephants and giraffe. My dad's watch was stolen by a monkey and now more than twenty plus years, I find out that the monkey's name was Nancy. Apparently she is known to get watches but she has already died. A legend in the zoo nonetheless.
Then I met Mali. She's the baby elephant in the zoo. Very temperamental - like me - and even if she supposedly does not like red, she still needed those piles of peanuts on my hand. I saw her grab a coconut from my hand and just like dumbo, she placed her foot on it. A few seconds later, that coconut was history. Oh and I also got to touch a snake, even with much apprehension. My goal is to next time have the white boa around my neck.
We will be sponsoring the rehabilitation of the bird sanctuary. I just couldn't resist since I saw the ducks. In one area were two mallard ducks that made me jump for joy. I wanted to go in the cage and hug it, had I not been in heels whereas I would sink in the ground or trip, I would have been able to. Again, I have a next time. Next saturday - it's a date!
Thanks to our favorite photog, John - who has become Mali's boyfriend of sorts - I am a kid again and i can't wait to go back! All for just forty bucks.
find the hippo if you can...did you know hippos have killed more people than lions or tigers? They are amazingly fast and ruthless for such plump little things.
 snakes are soft...but i was still scared because an image of a frog popped into my head for some wierd reason...
 Margie and Mali It was such a hot day, she wanted an ice pop! John plays hide and seek. |
posted by maldita @ 10:07 PM  |
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Margiie! how can you love ducks and not like snakes? snakes are love =) Yay, use your corpcomm clout to help promote sustainable dev't & environmental initiatives at CMP!
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Wow! Didn't know the Zoo still exists. It was one of the fav places my barkada frequented during my childhood. We used to bike from my house to the Zoo to the breakwater at Roxas Blvd. Those were the days....
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aha! tiff has found my new blog na rin! hehe. hi dear. hope you're enjoying "retirement" from the workforce! what a lucky duck hehe :)
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Margiie! how can you love ducks and not like snakes? snakes are love =) Yay, use your corpcomm clout to help promote sustainable dev't & environmental initiatives at CMP!