You see, with my iPod Nano hanging in the balance, I had no choice but to give in to the demands of the Emotion Vampire. So, as scheduled on Dec 29th 2005, we made our way to these places... BTW, I paid RM20.50 for around 8hrs of parking at KLCC carpark. DON'T BRING UP THE THING ABOUT OUTDOOR PARKING!! EMOTION VAMPIRE GOT A LOT OF DELICATE BARANG IN MY CAR BOOT, CANNOT EXPOSE TO SUN-1....!!!!

*Lalalala..... Some hours later... After nice makan... ( (burp) )*

The walk to the Aquaria from KLCC was very long. At some points, I thought Emotion Vampire would start to feel faint, but she felt better after a quick emotional  suck from me... We had to walk through some carpark to get to the place. I remembered EV (Emotion Vampire) made a remark about how lousy the walk through the carpark was but I said that if they did a really nice tunnel, they would waste valuable carpark space. We M'sians always think about $$ first, and then go "aiya!! forgot to do this..." and then they'll add in the other neccessary stuff.

Anyway, once we reached the place, there were some helpful signs leading us to the entrance of the GIFT SHOP!!!! Hahahaha... We did a double-take because we weren't sure if  we should go in and buy tickets from there and then, 'thru the magic of Narnia, we open some cupboard door and be transported to the actual acquarium...

So, we as jakun followed some crowds and reached another entrance. OMG, it was dark, the security guards outside didn't say anything but were friendly enough to say "Masuk-la" and show us where to buy the tickets. EV had MyKad and so, got us RM10 discount!! ** SONG!!! ** The cashier told us that got lucky draw, told us to masuk the entry once we cabut from the place. As usual, since EV more kiasu than me, she quickly started to fill up and said, "better do now, or else got crowd later, hard-le"

Once we got in, EV made a bee-line for the first thing she saw, some school of fish swimming very fast. She didn't even read any of the labels but quickly moved from exhibit to exhibit, in the speed of light. I was busy fiddling with my camera, since no flash is allowed (and its useless cause it will reflect back), I had to resort to "manual" no-flash mode.

EV was so excited.. The following is an excerpt of our conversation...

This was repeated a few more times, because we saw so many cool stuff. Like sharks, giant arowanas and things native to Malaysian waters, i.e. from freshwater to mangrove swamps and finally the deep seas. We saw lots of cool fish and large tortoises. It would have been cool to see a sea turtle, like what we saw in Sydney.

The Sydney aquarium was much larger, with sections dedicated to crocodiles (crocs in OZ slang) and a large undersea aquarium, where fishes swam in from the harbour. So cool to watch dozens of sharks lying right on the tank above you as you walk underneath.

I would have to say that this trip to Aquaria was definitely worth the RM28 spent.... EV and I both supported the aquarium by buying a couple of t-shirts too..

Go visit Aquaria KLCC!!! Oh yea, have a look at the pics I've posted too!