Aquaria KLCC

I know I know, its been awhile you guys see my face appearing on OurCoffeestops.com xD I wonder how many still remember me anyway~

Right, let’s get to the point. Recently, I have been recruited into the Sunway ACCA Club for the 2009 board, having taken over the Photography department from the previous head, Jo Lynn. I must say that it was an honour to be trusted with such responsibility.

For the record, the Sunway ACCA Club is just like any other programmes’ student council. We plan activities as well as representing the students in voicing out their opinions throughout their daily struggle in their ACCA studies.

Over the year, the SAC Board of 2008 have been helping out with this orphanage in PJ. Last Thursday (11th December), they took the children for an ‘annual trip’ with the members of the new board tagging along.

Destination: Aquaria KLCC!

We gathered in Sunway University College at 8am in the morning before making our way down to the orphanage to meet up with the already excited bunch of kids.

I decided to take the D40 along, since its been sometimes the ‘fella’ had gone out for a walk.

Sophie, the ex-president and Jo Lynn saying hello to Alfred, who is only 2 years old.

Yee Mun, David and Khaled were all smiles when they entertain the young ones.

After a brief introduction between the members of the new board and all the kids of the orphanage (since the new board would be incharge of the orphanage next year), we boarded the bus which has already been waiting for us outside of the orphanage.

The excited faces~ whee!

The journey took approximately 45 minutes, and while we were in the bus, I took the opportunity to toy with my camera.

Yay~! The bus can venture into lightspeed!

and well a little candid wouldn’t hurt. Without looking into the viewfinder, I found myself capturing a perfect angle of this …

Rebecca doing her famous pout! Do the Rebby pout~!

*runs from Rebecca*

Ahem, we arrived in KLCC Convention Centre in one piece. Yee Zhen, who has been the Organising Chairman (OC) for this charity project assigned a kid to each of the new member, hoping to foster a good relationship and for the children and the member to know each other better.

Well it wasn’t easy, we have to make sure the kids are always with us as their safety is our biggest responsibility for the day.

Meet Matthew, my kid for the day.

Matthew is …. hyperactive! What more, he’s a Liverpool fan! (AWESOME~!) He has so much energy sometimes I don’t know where they come from. Lucky me, since I was the photographer for the day, I enlisted the help from two other new members to help take care of Matthew when I have to perform my duty.

Santa kids visiting KLCC!

Like they say Santa Clause is coming to town. The kids first of course. We made them put on those hats to make us easier to identify them when there’s a larger crowd later on inside Aquaria.

We were brought to this ‘waiting hall’ while Yee Zhen went ahead to purchase the tickets. A brief introduction about Aquaria and its marine life were projected onto the screen to educate the young. It also tells about the marine life around the waters of Malaysia.

Manoj and his kid.

Yee Mun and her kid.

Kushwin and her kid.

Khaled, our only foreigner in the new board with his kid.

Khaled is from Yemen. Funny guy he is!

David and his kid.

Bin Yun and her kid.

At last,

My two helpers, Wei Hao and Shaun with Matthew.

Wonder if any of you remember, Shaun was actually from SMK USJ 12. Perhaps he was better known as Yiu Siong back then.

Off with our journey into Aquaria! Dang, flash wasn’t allowed!

That meant my speedlight was pretty much useless. Anyway, I manage to make do with what I have! =D To be honest, certain parts of the place, the lightings were terrible, I was literally suffering most of the time. Sigh~

The kids were mesmerised by the fishes swimming right infront of their eyes.

Beware the electric eel~! ZAPPPZ!

Piranhas feeding on some fish meat.

Aquaria has indeed expanded quite a bit, the last time I came there weren’t any piranhas! Yes it was my first time seeing what Piranhas were like.

The green snake resting on a tree branch.

Aquaria has pythons too!

Crixalis! A deadly scorpion eyeing its prey. *gulps* Me?

Who knows it might burrowstrike me. XD

I’ve encountered Aquaria’s greatest poser.

The Iguana, it didn’t even moved a muscle!

I know this is Aquaria, you’re suppose to be seeing fishes. Hey, tell that to the management! XD

A huge aquarium housing different kind of marine life.

The Red Lion Fish, or so it was called.

A Lionfish is any of several species of venomous marine fish in the genera Pterois, Parapterois, Brachypterois, Ebosia or Dendrochirus, of the family Scorpaenidae. The lionfish is also known as the Turkey Fish, Dragon Fish or Scorpion Fish. They are notable for their extremely long and separated spines, and have a generally striped appearance, red, brown, orange, yellow, black, maroon, or white. -taken from Wikipedia.

Soon we were entering this half globe tube, with a conveyor belt ferrying us across slowly through the tube. It was a tube built right underneath a huge, I mean HUGE … tank?

Sharks, stingrays, giant fishes, giant turtles were a common sight here. Lightings were very poor here, with a very slow shutter speed, I could hardly capture anything as they were all moving real quick.

The only picture which I find worthy of the experience was this.

Seen Jaws above your head?

After exiting the tube, there was this tube-liked aquarium housing marine life which lives in coral reefs. Remember Nemo?

Just keep swimming~?

Look! That’s Nemo, or not?

The surface of the aquarium was dirty. That would explain the slight blurness.

Just before the exit to this whole experience, we were right on time for the feeding session. Right before the crowd was this glass separating the fishes and the crowd. Soon, two scuba divers started descending with a pail of fish food. Many were amazed and started cheering!

To be frank, this was my first time as well, it was no wonder I was excited as well!

Turtles eat squids!

The scuba diver feeding the enormous stingray.

The stingray was so huge it actually covered one of the scuba diver as if it was swallowing him whole. Amazing!

After the feeding session, we were nearing the exit. There was this area that I couldn’t bear without the flash anymore. I took it out and used it, hopefully I would evade any security XD. But well turned out that area was flash-allowable.

Reminds of me pokemon! Haha!

Behold, the Moray Eel.

We came out into the open after exiting Aquaria. We brought the children to the playground and pool area just right outside of the convention centre.

We allowed the kids to run around under each of our supervision. Here was where Matthew totally tire me out. My gosh he was better than the energizer bunny!! Thus I didn’t really take much photographs while we were here.

Some of them couldn’t resist the temptation of entering the pool as it was a very hot day. Of course, with the condition of them not getting themselves wet.

Ying Ling, Yin Kit (David), Khaled and David with their respective kids.

Lunch was at Burger King, which was located right inside Suria KLCC. We brought the kids in, and when they saw the big christmas tree situated in the concourse area, they rushed us there to see it.

It’s Christmas again~! Time flies huh?

We had burgers (what else right?) at Burger King. It was filling and a much needed meal after the whole day. Everyone was pretty much exhausted and were happy to finally be able to sit down.

It was a very good time for the new members to mingle among ourselves, as the only time we have met was during our 1st meeting weeks ago. Then we were all busy preparing for our final exams after that.

Uncle Alex, the caretaker of the orphanage, sat down with a few of us to give us an insight of the history of the orphanage and what they are doing and plan to do next year. After hearing what he said, I felt that this was a much more meaningful job than just offering donations in terms of monetary or non-monetary benefits.

We went over to the concourse to take some group pictures before leaving for the orphanage in the bus we sat earlier.

Sunway ACCA Club (SAC) Board of 2009 with Uncle Alex.

Sunway ACCA Club (SAC) Board of 2008.

With an accomplished feeling, our day concluded with each of us smiling, knowing well that we would definitely have a great time with the kids for the coming year. The kids were all happy to know us, and they are already anticipating our next visit!

Just for the record, SAC would visit the orphanage on a weekly basis to tutor the kids on their homeworks or to help with some basic chores such as gardening, etc.

As for me, the year of 2009 will be a whole new experience! I just know it. =)

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