KL Bird Park

Date of Visit: 16th February 2018

Nasrul has been planning to do a video shoot for his little project "Short Stories" about 2 weeks ago. The shoot has to be on the first day of Chinese New Year as his theme would be focusing on the celebration. I said okay as he sounded that a visit to KL Bird's Park would be a good idea too. Honestly, I've never been there before, in fact none of us are. Hubby paid for an entrance fee of RM27/adult price. That fee is applicable only for Malaysian by showing a Mykad as a prove of citizenship. Foreigner has to pay an entrance fee of RM67/pax for adult and RM45 for childrens.

Ticket booth and display guide seated on the left side of the main entrance

Isn't she gorgeous?

I'm giving you the link to their website so that you would be able to learn more about the park and the birds that became an inhabitant inside. The link is here, just right click "klbirdpark-website" and you are most welcome to visit any day of the year. Do not wear heavy clothing as Malaysia's weather is quite humid. Bring an umbrella just in case the rains suddenly decided to join you too.

Love Aviary on Zone A

Brahminy Land

Areas to cover inside is not that huge but it's good to take your own sweet time exploring the areas. There are 4 zones altogether. My most favorites among all was when I spotted the black swans for the first time in Bulbul land. It was 2 of them swimming peacefully with the koi fishes. They were placed in a secured fencing as I believe these 2 are the precious property of the park. Besides, there are also a Hornbill Park, world of Parrots, Hunter booth where the owls will be staring at you like a haunted ghost, Flamingo Pond and areas for you to rest while having drinks surrounded with friendly birds and children had a special area to play as well as there is a children's playground near the Waterfall Aviary.

The ticket counter will provide you with an illustrated pamphlet as a guide into all the areas mentioned above. Love Aviary is the first area that you may encounter after passing the security guard. Do not get too excited seeing the peacock as many of them are actually wandering and walks freely so you can play with them at other parts of the zones. But I too was overly excited when I first saw one peacock that expanded her flaws. She was as gorgeous as the rainbow sky. Trust me, I wasn't the only one who acted like that. Hubby did that too. He cant seem to have enough of seeing their beauty from that close distance.

Nasrul had many times disturbed our moments of happiness as he was so eager to get a footage of the Chinese New Year celebration at Petaling Street. He changed his story saying that he never intended to explore the caged birds. He just wanted to get some footage outside the Bird's Park and shooting a free birds that flew at the time of sunset. We couldn't enjoyed more than what we could do in about less than 1 hour inside the birds park due to his nagging. He kept on pestering us to be focus on his objective instead. He was the one dragging us out from the house. Due to that disturbance, hubby and I made a promise to revisit just the 2 of us next time. We could do a peaceful tour inside the butterflies park should we come near the lake garden areas without Nasrul. I wanted to explore the National Planetarium (blue domed structure) that is located on top of the hill adjacent to the KL Bird's Park. There is also a ceramic museum, worth to visit located just next to the National Mosque.  Till then, I hope you may find this entry meaningful, to either a local Malaysian and/or tourist who visited Malaysia for the first time,

It was a feeding time at the Hunter Booth when we arrived

Flamingo Pond

Bulbul Land

2 Black Swans among the Koi Fishes

A group of Pink (hot leg) Flamingo

My Rose Garden

Date: 16th February 2018

There's a wise saying that a rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness, know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again. The rose is a flower of love. I, myself is a huge fan of roses. I used to envy those who has a huge roses tree climbed up at their house, the one that I saw while passing by in one of a beautiful house in Verona, Italy way back in 2005. Ever since then, I hope 1 day, I too be able to have them in my yard. And now those dream did come true. Almighty, thank you for the blessing, I'm indeed grateful beyond words.

This 1 has a romantic peach color came into it's pure white stalk sometime.. one of my favorite

A rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus Rosa, in the family Rosaceae, or the flower it bears. There are over a hundred species and thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be erect shrubs, climbing or trailing with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers vary in size and shape and are usually large and showy, in colors ranging from white through yellows and reds. I have all those colors planted and now blooming in my rose box garden. 

This one change colors from the moment it started blooming till till the last petals drop

Sadly, not all species can be plant in my garden as most species are native to Asia, with smaller numbers native to Europe, North America, and northwestern Africa. Species, cultivars and hybrids are all widely grown for their beauty and often are fragrant. Take notice that not all roses are fragrant as you might think they are. Roses have acquired cultural significance in many societies. Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach seven meters in height. I observed that the red roses that I plant can actually climb as tall as that (7 meters). Without trimming, it has climbed to almost 3 meters at present. I'm sure with proper support and fertilizers it can grow up bigger and stronger too.

Different species hybridize easily, and this has been used in the development of the wide range of garden roses. The name rose comes from French word, itself from Latin, "ROSA", which was perhaps borrowed from Oscan, from Greek, itself borrowed from the language of Old Persian, related to Avestan, Sogdian and Parthian languages. Okay, had to stop now. I'm sharing with you in this post some of their photos snapped when the petals were at its glory! full bloom! Obviously my pride and joy!

Looking for a lot more colorful roses to fill up the rose box