miyagi.sg | My Very Own Glob {Curiosa Felicitas}

I was walk­ing Mac this after­noon on the pave­ment out­side our apart­ment blocks, and at the bus stop I saw a poster for the Jurong Bird Park with a verse from Isa­iah — “They will soar on wings like eagles”, and I thought it slightly dis­turb­ing that in a sec­u­lar and multi-racial city state, there’d be a pub­lic estab­lish­ment that would use a bib­li­cal verse, as opposed to any other of reli­gious sig­nif­i­cance, to pro­mote an event.

If there’s noth­ing wrong with that, why not a Hari Raya Ramadan Bird Park cam­paign with “Koran 24:1 : …Whom does glo­rify all those who are in the heav­ens and the earth and the birds with wings outspread”?

I got home and online and found that the verse was used for the Bird Park’s Birds of Christ­mas events. But instead of a turkey, there was an eagle on the poster. There was how­ever, a hol­i­day to Turkey the coun­try to be won if one par­tic­i­pated in some lucky draw.

The only other turkey to be found at the Bird Park comes in the form of “Bongo’s Christ­mas Turkey Drum­stick Meal” served with but­ter rice or fries for only $14.90. I dunno, but that sounds a bit like eat­ing bacon in front of a pig.

For your post meal enter­tain­ment at 1pm at the Amphithe­atre, there’s “Santa’s Pirates”, pre­sum­ably because his elves are on annual leave.

On top of the Park’s web­site, there’s a flash­ing notice that reads “Sin­ga­pore is bird flu free, so are we”. I think they have Mad Cow instead.

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