Saturday, January 11, 2014

The Highlight of My Bali-Explore This Time: ANIMALS!!




 Welcome to Bali Safari! This is a story of my visit there in December, 2013. Well, it's not Fiona if you don't find any weird, awkward or funny experience in between. So, I'll just start with that first.


Right after the fun Safari Tour, my mom, my brother and I were the last group to take pictures near a fake safari bus. Well, apparently almost the last. There was this Australian guy approached me when I was about to change place with my brother, saying something super fast like, "Bla..bla..Canwetakephotosofyou bla..bla..here?with bla..bla..together?" I stared at him for a moment and he repeated the question in the same nervous speed. Since I thought it would be rude to ask again, I took a guess as hint: Ohh! He kindly offers help to take our picture so that the three of us could be in the same frame! So I cheerfully said, "SURE! Thanks." while giving him my android and my mom's blackberry. He gave our smartphones a stare of confusion but then immediately gave the blackberry to another guy and they took pictures of the three of us. He then gave my Android back and I thanked him again. It seemed to me that he wanted to ask something again, probably help, so I offered,"Wanna take turn? We can take pictures of you too, the three of you!" Sometimes women just like to suggest ideas before men finish their sentences. And to that he stared blankly at me, looked down at his shoes, then to everything else except me and said,"Yeah..sure.."

After parting for an hour or so, a sudden realization hit me. Squinting, I asked  mom and my brother, "Did that guy really offer a hand to take our pictures or he actually wanted to have his picture taken together with us? or worse..with me?" I was sooooo slow oh my God that was embarrassing. To add the awkwardness, I kept running into him almost everywhere. the whole day. He had that rejected kind of face and I was standing there trying to make apology sentences in my head, in case there was a right timing to say it.
Well, never happened.
Three of them ran very fast. Every single time. :|



 The Orang Utan's name is Happy. The last time I went there I just entered University. Glad to see her again the year I graduated. :)

  I purposely took the queue twice just to get a picture where he is wide awake, and every time he saw me, he just lied down. The staff politely asked me to stop trying provoking the back of his head. Probably he was like that because I kept calling him Kim Jong Kook (The "Commander" in Running Man).

 Cockatoos. Cockatoos love beanies. Actually, they just pick on any head.


 Now to close the story of our tour that day: our car burned while running on the road. The smoke was already thick outside before it came in. Once we felt the smoke, we grabbed anything on sight the second we pulled over before jumping out of car like mad cows. Not mentioning the panic coughing. We waited for the technician from Denpasar (two hours away), then we waited again for a borrowed car my stepdad sent (an hour away). Interesting. The people's faces when they watched us jumping out of car were very interesting. I couldn't forget that lol.







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