So today is National Hug Your Cat Day!

BabyChivas, which corner are you curling up this time? Mommy's coming for you hehe!

Cuddling Chivas in my arms today

When I woke up, buddy Pam retweeted UberFacts' tweet about National Hug Your Cat Day and tagged me in it 🙂

To celebrate, I ran to the living room to squeeze that mischievous furball, my bundle of joy 

Gave him a few treats & his favorite can of tuna… and then hugged/squeezed/cuddled him again!

Rubbed his belly… and then hugged/squeezed/cuddled him again!

Brushed his fur & scratched him behind his ears.. and then hugged/squeezed/cuddled him again!

Hugging him everyday as a pastime 

But if you're a true cat lover and a loving parent of your kitty, this day wouldn't strike any significance to you.

Just like me, because I hug my furkid Chivas everyday – several times even!

Hugging him when he was still a  tiny 4 month old kitten 

For those who doesn't know my babyChivas, I've blogged about him here late last year 🙂

He's the kitten of both purebred parents daddy American Curl & mommy a Ragdoll

SO GO HUG YOUR KITTEH!! 

This is insane! Out from 9am – 11pm and at least 10 hours of non-stop walking has really taken its toll on me.

I'm maxed out tired to the bone now – resting while transferring photos and blogging this post.

Yeahyeah, I know I should probably hit the sack by now but being me, it is imperative that I blog an immediate snippet before the entire blogpost… because who knows, this might take another million years to be up LOL

I love my new prezzie! An adorable, furry, soft tigga hat to keep my head warm

So anyway! I was at the Melbourne Zoo in Royal Park for almost 5 hours; was impossible to cover every nook and cranny

I reckon it would be safe to say that almost the entire animal kingdom reside within the walls of that zoo

From the smallest of insects…..

…to the biggest of animals!

My whole afternoon was spent exploring the entire zoo hunting down the animals to take photos of.

I swear felt like Dora the Explorer LOL! But the fact that I'm lacking the binoculars and knapsack doesn't come in the way for I think I made up for it with a big-ass DSLR camera and a slingbag 😛 😛

And… the King of the Jungle! (yes, if you're wondering… I was THAT close to Simba here)

It was incredible, better than any zoo I've ever been! Melbourne Zoo is massive and the entire place was an extremely close-to-real-life makeshift rainforest dessert ocean underground grassland antartic tropics aviary all in one.

Unlike many *cough* places *cough* that my fellow Malaysians know….

There are certain zoos in particular who mistreat their animals, cooping them up in tiny cages with restricted space to exercise, not cleaning their already miserable cages and drugging them to ensure their benevolence during photo-opportunities.

Oh and yes, I know I owe everyone a photo of a kangaroo ever since I set foot in Australia

So… ta-daa! 😀 Here it is, shot in the zoo earlier today

Plenty more photos of the glorious (and even the unglorious, ugly, often overlooked) members of the animal kingdom to come! I did, as usual, took truckloads of photos.

And the most tedious part is filtering & batch processing them all. Bleh.

Headed to the Tutankhamun exhibition after that for another 3 hours!

On the right: a bag of Egyptian souvenirs I bought. On the left: a replica of Tutankhamun's skull

Verdict? It was magnificent and we were clearly in awe with everything they had to offer. Everyone was clearly enthused with the displays, footages, ancient relics, hieroglyphs, statues, fragile mummified skeletons,  and the like. More to come, I promise!

If you're an avid lover of Egyptian civilization like I am, you'll be star struck.

And now do you still wonder why I had the Eye of Horus tattooed on my left wrist? 😉

Rawr!!!! So yeah, I know it has been a few days since my last update.

Had been so occupied, you have no idea!

Lotsa things happen and everyday is likened to unfurling, pleasant dreams and memories

But for today, I wanna share the pictures I shot from the Jungle Party which I attended with my mates!

Ya ready to get down wild and vicious animal style? 😀 😀

So we were all getting ready for the event, dressing up, making up, putting on props and taking pictures!

Managed to only take 2 piccies before the party – as everyone else were still busy dolling up

Deanna aka lioness and I

Clayton aka Tarzan and I 😀

Again, it was a rainy and cold night this time.

So off we went in Clayton's car and zoomed off to the party!

Laura aka WWF Panda and I!

The jungle trekkers Josh (and his friend) and I!

It was awesome fun throughout the night.

A different version of a masquerade party, if I do say so myself. Cos so many peeps came in full-fledged make up and masks that it's honestly difficult to recognize who it was!

Check it out :

Who's behind the mask? 😛

2 TIGERS VS. 1 LEOPARD SHOWDOWN!

Leopard vs tiger showdown!

Also, I freakin' love how the culture here in Australia is conditioned in a way that everybody rocks up ACCORDING TO THE THEME of any parties instead of being a spoilsport and not dressing up nor looking the part at all.

Yeah well, back home in Malaysia, only the party heads dress up while the rest doesn't give two hoots to even party along with the theme.

A zebra, leopard and tiger on the loose!

Jungle natives and I!

Here's a piccie with me and my gurls 😀

 LOL see the sniper in the bush drinking a can of Smirnoff ahahahaha

Boomboombooom!

Environmentalists going green!? 😀 😀 hahaha

See that creepy guy in the background lolol

Say helloooo to my awesome housie, Milly! 😀

She's looking so fine in her leopard top

One of my best buddies here, Verity the leopard! 😀

Rawrrrr!

More leopard gurls in the house!

OMG SUPER CUTE! Bumped into Laura aka Dora the Explorer!!!

Loves!

With Jade… also a fellow leopard tonight 😀

Rawrrrr

Now this, I swear, is something I will never dare to wear!

It's a really hawt one-piece suit … she has guts 😉

Now, with so many jungle animals around, who's there to catch 'em all?

ASH KETCHUM WITH HIS POKEBALLS OF COURSE!

Gotta catch 'em all

I'm not sure what Jack Gamble is tonight, but my 2 cents tells me it's either a bee or a baby tigga.

But then again bees don't have ears. So, bright yellow baby tigga it is! 😀

snake! For a change, snake skin girl!

Oh and, remind me (and yourself, if you ever go to a Jungle-themed party) to never wear leopard prints.

Because for chrissakes, you'll see like 60% of people rocking up in that and you wouldn't wanna be just another common face in the crowd!

Or unless you do 🙂

See Vanessa's epic make up!

Melikey 😀 😀 Whiskers and look at the nose too!

Here's looking at you!

Blurry piccie but yeah, Abraham the bush and I! 🙂

With Danny the….. Mexican lost soul in the jungle LOLOL

So like all the parties we go too, we let loose, dance the night away and get ourselves so smashed that it's epic!

Phew I had lotsa tequila and vodka shots on this night that by the end of the party, I was getting a tad woozy 🙁

Thankfully, Deanna walked me home though 😀

thanks gurl! xx

Wokay! That's all for tonight.

More updates soon. Also, my apologies to certain prudes if the dress I'm wearing is a little revealing though.

After all, that's how we roll – getting down wild at jungle party! RAWWWRRR!