Zoo internship - week 2

hmm.. second week's come and gone.. not too bad. the more interesting days i had last week was tues, thurs and sat. interesting becuz there was filming at the zoo and i can to bring them ard and watch them do their stuff.

On tues and thurs, this filming crew from Dua M Pte Ltd came. They were doing a show which is airing on kids central every Saturday at 1pm. It’s called ‘no problem bureau’.

At first when I saw them it was a little weird cuz it’s my first time bringing a filming crew ard so being the nervous sort, I was going a little crazy.. and plus I dun watch kids central so I din expect them to be dressed the way they were. Heh.. see photos to know what I mean. Anyway, it was not too bad. The crew was really friendly.

OH!! I almost forgot.. I just passed my buggy driving test on Tuesday morning!! Was supposed to drive this filming crew ard but I really wasn’t too confident. Haha.. and plus my supervisor wasn’t too sure I can drive yet.. so haha.. but anyway, the driving thing really made my day.. :):)

On thurs, the same crew came back to finish their filming.. so it was pretty nice too.. just watching them and laughing along. Haha..

Oh.. and apparently they’re quite a hit with the kids. Like they’ll be kindergarten kids walking pass them and shouting “Yugo or Yuko (name of girl) and Mego (name of guy), Saturday, kids central, 1pm.. No Problem…” haha.. so it was quite nice. Like they’re really famous.. haha..


they were filming and i was keeping myself busy, taking photos of them and the animals. :)


they keep having to stop their filming cuz the kids were shouting and waving at them. haha..

there was this scene with one of our zookeepers. he was so funny! he was telling me that he did national geographic and animal planet before but never kids central. so the producer was asking them to relax and be more animated. it was hilarious. haha.. i took quite a number of videos. but i dun think i'll upload. heee..

here are some picures of some animals that i took.. this is a picture of merkats. there're really quite cute. one of the animals i love.. hee.. they always stand up to keep a lookout for predators and all.. doing sentry duty. :)

common iguana. this was allowed to roam at the fragile forest exhibit. i was pretty close to it.. and it was pretty big..

2-toed sloths enjoying fruits. this was also taken at the fragile forest.

these are like fruit bats. there's a name for them but i cant rem. haha.. they pretty harmless..
smiggle. haha! it's actually a little baboon.. i took so many pictures of this little guy.. he's cute.
banded mongoose. they're quite similar to merkats i think. but these are pretty smelly.. cuz they like to use urine to mark out what's theirs.. and they use it pretty often too..
check this orang utan out.. it was so bored of pple lining up to take pictures with them.. it was just looking at its nails, puffing its cheeks, lying ard.. haha.

ring-tailed lemur.. this animal was jumping all ard.. freaked me out a bit actually but i realise it doesn't really attack unless u provoke it.. which is like most other animals.
rrrraaarrrr... tiger!! heee. nice picture huh!!
it's actually just a paper bag.. can u tell? haha.. there are only white tigers at the singapore zoo.. which are so so so so pretty.. i absolutely love them.. the orange ones are found at the night safari i think.

ok..that's the summary of my week 2 of internship at the zooo zoo zooo.. :) i'm actually blogging in the office because my supervisor is not in today and she din leave work for me.. hmm.. i should msg her later or something. oh well.. btw, can check out the "no problem bureau" show on sat.. think the one on the zoo is airing this coming sat..

ZOooOOOoooO - week one.

The night before I started work, I was really really excited and worried. And my mind wondered a lot.. i purposely went to bed late so that hopefully I’ll just be too tired to think and just fall asleep but it din work at all. In the end, I only slept like 2 hrs before having to get up to get ready for work.

When I got there, I was kinda nervous just thinking of meeting pple and my supervisor. And when I got there, it seems like my supervisor decided not to meet me that day. She took that day off cuz tues was labor day so that she can have a long weekend. Great. And she left me a list of 3 things to do for that day with someone else.

1. walk around the park
2. watch the animal shows and feeding sessions
3. visit the night safari and zoo websites

so while the rest of the interns were introduced to the office pple and all, I was pretty much alone.. really lonely.. and I realized that corp comms.. (I’m in the corp cmms department btw, which is under marketing.) had only 2 pple. Me and my supervisor! Great. So anyway, I was kinda relieved that my first day was not too bad la. Just walking ard, take my time n all. And lionel came to accompany me in the afternoon to watch some animal shows and went for dinner with me. So first day was pretty great.

Wed, my second day at work. It was also the day I really get to meet my supervisor. Was still nervous although she was the one who interviewed me. Because on the first day of work, I heard that the previous intern under her left me a message, wishing me good luck and all cuz my supervisor is a pretty hard woman to work under. Hmm.. so far, not too bad I guess.

Anyway, I guess I’m not used to it yet but everyone pretty much communicates over email. Even my supervisor when she wants me to do something, she would inform me via email.

Let’s take this for example:
The first email I got from her asking me to do stuff was that wed. she had this email from ochre pictures or something to come to the zoo to do some interview. She conveniently told them to contact me when they are at the entrance and forwarded me the mail. Wahhhh.. when I saw the mail. I was like “HUH?!?! Like that also can??” and my heart was racing like mad after that. Haha. But it turned out pretty fun. One of them was my friend from work n travel. Haha. Small world. And it was nice just listening to them interview the keepers. The keepers are all pretty friendly and really interesting. I cant help but wonder why I’m not doing their job but stuck in an office. I envy them. Sigh.. oh well.

Thursday and Friday was pretty ok too. Replied to the public’s feedbacks, brought more media pple ard, read magazines on the zoo. Yup.

Oh.. and anyway, meals are provided for staff.. but I haven been having a great appetite. So as usual, the interns I eat with, they’re like “no wonder u’re so skinny..” argh.. to everyone who said that or want to say that to me.. “NO it’s not cuz I dun eat much. I dun eat a lot during main meals cuz I eat way too much junk. I cant help that my dad is skinny that’s why I’m skinny. And NO, I’m not on a diet. I just get sick of food easily so I cant finish my food. I need variety. Arghhhh!!” haha.. chill ya chill. :p

hmm.. let's see..
mon: had sweet n sour fish, 2 kinds of veg and rice.
wed: mee rebus (that i totally dun eat.)
thurs: chicken chop, veg, butter rice
fri: nasi lemak.
not toooo bad for now i guess.. monday is chicken rice!!! whooopeee..


anyway, i know this is a long post. haha. haven been blogging laa. anyway, here are some photos. enjoy...


this was taken on the first day.. i usually sleep on the bus but i was way too excited to be sleeping. i managed to take this as the bus was turning in to the zoo. the sbs bus felt like a staff bus for the zoo cuz at that time, pretty much everyone going there were going to work. i was 40 mins early on the first day..


this is the corporate office. a look behind the wooden door which separates the public from the office. haha. it's pretty cool. everything is glass.. i think it's cuz of the open concept that they have. and outside of the office is like a pond thing with huge trees. nice huh..

this is my table, my computer, my phone . and if u look carefully, to the left, i have my junk food. haha! not alot la.. but sufficient for now. i keep bringing stuff in.

like i said, i was walking alone in the park on monday morning. so i can only take photos of myself. haha. i look cock-eyed man..

crocodile!!! eeks. it was really near man.. scary.. one of the animals that i'm scared of most is the crocodile. i cant stand them.. they freak me out.. and this one was really really near. i felt like i can drop in anytime man..

that's lionel with paul.. haha.. check out the nose man..

OTTERS!! managed to catch the otters feeding. cute!! they had this bucket full of fish and each took turns to take one out then swim away to enjoy.. and they'll swim back to get more..

baboooooons. check out this dude out. check out what he's doing. compare this picture with the one following it. heh. i took a video actually. but not gonna put it up.

on thurs, i brought someone to take photos of the polar bears. and i regretted not taking my camera with me. so on friday, someone else wanted to see the polar bears.. so i decided to take the camera with me. so while the professional was snapping away, i was too!! haha. of cuz the photographer was a little amused but i just smiled and carried on. haha! oooooops. oh well. interns can be forgiven. heh!

so anyway, inuka is the son of sheba, who is bigger than her. and he just went through moulting and his new fur is growing back so he is a little blackish..

inuka enjoying his fish!
so that's abt it for now i guess. :) one week down.. 13 more weeks to goooo~~~ yikes. haha! i wish it was a little shorter actually. but oh well.

PS: i dunno what's up with the underlining at the front of this post.. i cant seem to get rid of it.. argh.