Minna, ima watashi doko ni iru no? I'm now travelling en route tokyo to kyoto via JR overnight bus, then transit to hakata on shinkansen tml morn. All overnite train sold out. Gonna reach kyoto around 6am though. Guess tat always happen to me when i try to bk overnite trains. Tatz kinda sad but at least i managed to catch some sakura though ;-) itz nw dark in d bus and everyonez asleep, so im nt able to show u d interior of d bus. Oh well, i better catch some sleep 1st. Jya, oyasumi nasai.
Part 1 of 11 Miho (jap actress) went to the same panda research center Becky had gone to a year earlier, to search for the 5 baby pandas Becky had looked after then – an-chan, melon, jya-mu, ka-re and ro-ru… An-chan is still as sweet as ever :)
Part 2 of 11 Hahhaa… such a challenging task to measure each of their weight. They have ballooned from abt 15kg to 50kg each within a yr! And miho brought them a surprise present too – a video recording of Becky’s message to the baby pandas… and they all remembered her… by hugging or touching the TV.
Part 3 of 11 Have a look at the baby panda at 3 mths old!
Part 4 of 11 Based on the video below, it seems that you can’t leave two baby pandas with one mama panda at one time as she will tend to care for one and abandon or even kill the other one (the weaker child). In this case, this mama panda gave birth to twins. The solution? The research centre personnel has to swap the panda in the cage every now and then so that they can still bond with the mama panda and yet get its full attention.
Part 5 of 11 This shows the nursery room for baby pandas… and there’s soooo many of them (ok, abt 17 of them). Each abt 3 mths old or younger… soooooooooooo cute!
Part 6 of 11 Miho got to choose one baby panda and be its mama for one day…
Part 7 of 11 Ayeeeee!!!! You actually need to massage the baby pandas as they are still very young and don’t really use their limbs/ move about very often. Here’s how you are supposed to do it:
Part 8 of 11 So cuteeeee – the way the baby pandas are “crying” out for milk. And you need to burp them after they are done with feeding.. just like a human child.
Part 9 of 11 Did you know what mama pandas do when their baby pandas fall asleep? They hug them as they sleep so that the baby panda will feel secured and have a good sleep.
Part 10 of 11 Wanna know how pandas play in snow? Have a look at the video below. Btw, I don’t really understand how come they keep falling... hahahaha The video here also shows how you can help baby panda to brush their teeth… and one of poses the baby panda struck really looked like Tare Panda :P
Part 11 of 11 The first steps of a baby panda… it seemed terrified and uncertain...
Sometimes I feel like a fish out of water and starts to yearn for the comforts of my home or for a shoulder to lean on, as opposed to the strange and unfamiliar roads of Oz.