!: Day 2 With Best Friend at Night Safari

We planned to meet again - as Chinh would be departing Singapore in the next few days. In fact, I had regaled him with the magical stories of nocturnal animals in Night Safari the day before.

So, what's so magical about these animals? I have no idea either.

Back to topic. Earlier in the day, I sat for an amplitude in Temasek Polytechnic and an interview since design course was my first choice in TP. The test was an assessment of my creativity and suitability in that course. So, what happened next?

I think I have screwed it. Big time. In all honesty, who cares? It does not affect me if I were not to be chosen. Tôi không thích khóa học. Tôi không thực sự quan tâm. One of the interviewers was absolutely right that I attended the course test and interview for the sake of getting a place in TP.

All I wanted to do during that point of time was to meet my good friend as soon as possble!! It was all my fault. I should not have arranged the wrong time with him. He did not deserve to wait for an hour because of my bad sense of time! *Sorry* So glad that Chinh was very generous and forgiving as he told me that he would be waiting for me and that I did not have to fret.

Look, any Singaporean would have been fuming mad if they were to be made waiting for an hour. Even I will get mad at people who do that to me! C'mon, it is human nature to get angry, right? Come to think of it, we all make mistakes and we deserve to be forgiven because we are not saints. I am not trying to tell how glamorous being tardy is; as all I wish I could do is to say how this vietnamese friend had warmed my heart.

Anyway, Chinh tagged a friend called Sunny along with him (whom I thought he looked somewhat familiar) and we became friends! It is probably one of the most embarrassing experiences to get lost in Singapore, especially when I had two foreign friends with me! I did not know where and how to get to Night Safari!

Sunny said that an SMRT staff told him that he could hitch a bus from Ang Mo Kio Station. Seriously?Well, whoever advised him that bus trip is ridiculous! Just imagine the ridiculous amount of time which he would spend on that bus ride! The journey would take at least two hours if you stay faraway from Ang Mo Kio! C'mon, this is so ridiculous!

In actuality, my sense of direction is atrocious, too. I do not have the god-damn rights to criticize anyone, right? At first, I thought we could take the bus at Boon Lay and then transferred to a bus from the bus interchange. Boy, was I wrong. In the end, we took a bus from Choa Chu Kang instead as I was advised by the staff in SMRT . Embarrassing much. The two friends were already fatigue from the long wait at the MRT station; and now I delayed it even longer. So helpless when I saw how tired they were. I turned and gave them an embarrassing smile and assured them we would be reaching Night Safari soon.

Phew. Luckily, they were fine.. At least they did not grumble in front of me.. Still, embarrassing much !!*__* I swear that an adequate homework must be done before I could even volunteer to tour my foreign friends around Singapore. Their smiles were fading by the time when we reached the bus interchange at Choa Chu kang.

Well, they did not seem excited when they reached the destination as it was obviously the bus ride which caused them such tiredness. Anyway I purchased their tickets to atone for my mistakes. Chinh was like, I have to pay you back for the mistake.. And of course, I turned him down and told him that it was okay because he is my friend..

The trip to Night Safari would be meaningless without a ride on the 45 minute guided tram tour! Well, the tickets were exorbitant, but they worth it as long as the journey on the tram could put a smile on their faces.

During the journey, Chinh held on to my camera and captured whatever animals he could see.. There, we found the tigers, the lions, the buffalos, the tapirs, the antelopes, the deers etc. Pardon, I am not a zoologist and I have no clue what their real names are.. Anyway, it was such an exciting ride and all of us had fun.

The rest of the night, we journeyed through the specially-lit streets and did some window shopping there. Honestly, there's nothing much at Night Safari besides the rides and the walking trail. If you have decided to visit Night Safari, you must take a ride on the tram! During some parts of the journey, do get down and explore the walking trails in there!! Well, we did not get to go down because Sunny preferred to sit through the whole tram journey!