Let’s go to the zoo

I like to go to the zoo when I have some free time. Sometime, I just like to see animals more than people. Security is so bad of late, mat rempit assaults, students got raped, these sort of bad news don’t seem to stop appearing everyday when I flip through the newspaper. I wonder what the police are busy about. Too busy for the by-elections I supposed, the Star reported recently that the 5 by-elections carried out recently have cost the taxpayers some 33 million ringgit. That is a lot of money, and the money spent by the Police force was a whooping RM 31 million. The money was reportedly paid for temporary bases and tents, logistics and transportation, rental, electricity and outstation allowances.

These by-elections, except for those needed due to the decease of the Member of Parliament, are unnecessary as they are draining our resources and money. The politicians seem unworried about that. Just as we have seen the three by-elections concluded in April 7, another joker tenders resignation to give way to another by-election. How much is this one going to cost us?

Remember the TV commercial many years ago promoting people visiting zoo? The theme song goes like this, “let’s go to the zoo, a lot of things to do…..” So, why not just bring your family and go to zoo so that you can momentarily forget about the ugly politicians putting up so many sandiwara and the bad news on mat rempit assaults, rape or murder cases and so on. Looking at the animals, you will know how ugly and complicated the Homo sapiens are. Animals are simple, they only think about their stomachs and nothing else. Just like the predators preying upon other animals, you won’t think anything wrong with that. That’s nature, as Charles Darwin said, survivor of the fittest, just that Homo sapiens always go beyond that.

These two eagles were fighthing when I managed to take the picture. They could be mating, I'm not sure, but the bottom one certainly were crying as though it was in great pain, or great enjoyment, I'm not sure.