I made a trip to the Singapore Jurong Bird Park recently. I know what you’re thinking! Yikes, who wants to go visit birds right? It’s a shame that many Singaporeans find the Bird Park boring. We tend to go there only on school excursions and rarely make a return trip during our adulthood. In fact, it was my first trip there in more than a decade! Most of the visitors I saw were tourists! In actual fact, I was pretty psyched! My main purpose in going to the Bird Park was to visit the emperor penguins. Why? Because everything about them is cute! The way they look, stand, or waddle — it’s all too cute! Especially after movies such as March of the Penguins, Happy Feet, or even Madagascar, penguins have risen up my pecking order. (I will blog about the birds in the order that I saw them.) Of course, we made our first stop at the “penguin expedition” (it’s also the first stop from the main entrance). This is a darkened place where 5 species of penguins live in a cold glass enclosure. There’s ice, rocks, cliffs, burrows and a pool. The two little ones in front are [...]

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