I guess even though my readership is a little limited because I am by nature a rather intensely private person, I'm pleased that I've got a "big fan" on the other side of the world, something like a wise big brother who cares.
He recently blogged something that touched me so much. Thank you for your kinds words and praises, Alan.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Blubber Bed
Blubber Bed
A little background to set the context.
Indonesia Quake Death Toll Around 1,000
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The death toll from the 8.7-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia has climbed to near 1,000, officials reported.
The powerful earthquake hammered Indonesia's west coast, collapsing homes and burying sleeping residents inside and sparking panic across Indian Ocean countries still traumatized by the tsunami disaster three months ago.
While fears of another tsunami catastrophe faded Tuesday when no waves appeared in the hours immediately after the overnight quake, the force of the temblor brought down 70 percent of the buildings in a market district in a town on nearby Nias island, officials said.Poor weather conditions have hindered relief efforts to reach survivors of the disaster.
On Nias, about 70 percent of the houses and buildings in the market area in Gunungsitoli town collapsed from Monday night's quake, local police Sgt. Zulkifli Sirait said.
Nias, a renowned surfing spot, was badly hit by the Dec. 26 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed at least 174,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean nations. At least 340 Nias residents perished and 10,000 were left homeless.
Indonesian officials said the epicenter of Monday's quake was 56 miles south of the island of Simeulue, off of Sumatra's western coast, and just north of Nias. It was felt as far away as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
© Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2005 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.
So, the massive soil shaker hit Indonesia at around 2300 local time, midnight Singapore time.
In fact, I had just got onto the bed and prepared myself to go to sleep when the tremors reached Singapore.
I started feeling my mattress turning into jelly. In fact, I felt my skeleton shake and my fat back wobble. It was like sleeping on a bed of fats and for the record, I started getting light-headed, ready to puke. It was a terrible case of motion- or more accurately blubber bed-sickness.
I thought I was going to get something really weird, like a stroke or something, but it did not feel that way. I looked up and saw my lights shaking in their sockets and my belt swaying in the air. My belt is heavy - no thanks to my big waist, big cows had to sacrifice - and it is rarely possible for it to be moved in a windless night.
So I reckoned something must be wrong.
Sent out a few messages to check if any news were available but no replies came. After a good 2 minutes or so, the shaking stopped. My jelly bed became firm again. I tried shifting and shaking my heavy frame on the bed in an attempt to see if it was indeed me hallucinating but I simply could not replicate the motion.
I think that's how ants feel when they climb onto jello and someone starts shaking the plate.
Anyhow, I think it's really really really really time to lose some weight. Imagine getting sick on your own fat back.
EMBARRASSING!
A little background to set the context.
Indonesia Quake Death Toll Around 1,000
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The death toll from the 8.7-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia has climbed to near 1,000, officials reported.
The powerful earthquake hammered Indonesia's west coast, collapsing homes and burying sleeping residents inside and sparking panic across Indian Ocean countries still traumatized by the tsunami disaster three months ago.
While fears of another tsunami catastrophe faded Tuesday when no waves appeared in the hours immediately after the overnight quake, the force of the temblor brought down 70 percent of the buildings in a market district in a town on nearby Nias island, officials said.Poor weather conditions have hindered relief efforts to reach survivors of the disaster.
On Nias, about 70 percent of the houses and buildings in the market area in Gunungsitoli town collapsed from Monday night's quake, local police Sgt. Zulkifli Sirait said.
Nias, a renowned surfing spot, was badly hit by the Dec. 26 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed at least 174,000 people in 11 Indian Ocean nations. At least 340 Nias residents perished and 10,000 were left homeless.
Indonesian officials said the epicenter of Monday's quake was 56 miles south of the island of Simeulue, off of Sumatra's western coast, and just north of Nias. It was felt as far away as Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.
© Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Copyright 2005 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.
So, the massive soil shaker hit Indonesia at around 2300 local time, midnight Singapore time.
In fact, I had just got onto the bed and prepared myself to go to sleep when the tremors reached Singapore.
I started feeling my mattress turning into jelly. In fact, I felt my skeleton shake and my fat back wobble. It was like sleeping on a bed of fats and for the record, I started getting light-headed, ready to puke. It was a terrible case of motion- or more accurately blubber bed-sickness.
I thought I was going to get something really weird, like a stroke or something, but it did not feel that way. I looked up and saw my lights shaking in their sockets and my belt swaying in the air. My belt is heavy - no thanks to my big waist, big cows had to sacrifice - and it is rarely possible for it to be moved in a windless night.
So I reckoned something must be wrong.
Sent out a few messages to check if any news were available but no replies came. After a good 2 minutes or so, the shaking stopped. My jelly bed became firm again. I tried shifting and shaking my heavy frame on the bed in an attempt to see if it was indeed me hallucinating but I simply could not replicate the motion.
I think that's how ants feel when they climb onto jello and someone starts shaking the plate.
Anyhow, I think it's really really really really time to lose some weight. Imagine getting sick on your own fat back.
EMBARRASSING!
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Creativity? Stupidity!
Creativity? Stupidity!
Had tea after dinner at Pacific Coffee Company at Changi Airport Terminal 2.
Their Thought of the Day for today reads:
When choosing between 2 evils I always like to choose the one I've never tried before.
The folks were trying to be clever; to take a creative detour from "When choosing between 2 evils I always like to choose the lesser (one)".
But this is stupid. As stupid as stupid gets.
Moving along the lines of this warped thought:
Between a hooker who is disease-free and one who has full-blown AIDS, they'll choose... .
Exactly.
Carpe diem! Make my day.
Had tea after dinner at Pacific Coffee Company at Changi Airport Terminal 2.
Their Thought of the Day for today reads:
When choosing between 2 evils I always like to choose the one I've never tried before.
The folks were trying to be clever; to take a creative detour from "When choosing between 2 evils I always like to choose the lesser (one)".
But this is stupid. As stupid as stupid gets.
Moving along the lines of this warped thought:
Between a hooker who is disease-free and one who has full-blown AIDS, they'll choose... .
Exactly.
Carpe diem! Make my day.
Friday, March 25, 2005
The Inside Scoop
The Inside Scoop
Maybe I should tell. I should simply spill the beans. I should not hold anything back. I should be honest and tell everyone what happened. The truth is out there; it is with me. I need to open up. I need to shout out loud. I must not hide any more.
I HATED THE SINGAPRE - KUANTAN - SINGAPORE DRIVE.
What were you expecting?
For the interested, here's a short snippet what happened.
The customs on the way into Malaysia was easy. I entered Malaysia in less than an hour. We had lunch and changed some money and was trudging along the congested Johor Bahru roads to get out to the east coast trunk road. That took some time, especially when there were many instances where road works were on and at some places, the tarmac was ripped off and there was only ONE lane for cars from both sides to use.
Driving on the trunk road was not too tough, though the road signs were not always obvious or helpful. It's quite amazing that concrete distance markers by the road in Malaysia have a tendency of having their heads (where the distances are) decapitated. Can be quite confusing. Anyway, as I said, the trunk road was not that bad if you discount
1. Convoys tailgating each other
2. Large overladen vehicles
3. Speeding, large overladen vehicles
4. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road
5. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road attempting to thwart your attempts at over taking them
6. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road attempting to thwart your attempts at over taking them either by blocking your view, racing with you or preventing you from moving back to your lane or all of the three
7. Psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction
8. Speeding psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction
9. Speeding psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction who accelerate when they see you move out of your lane to overtake so that they can thwart your attempts
10. Convoys of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and/or 9.
You get the picture.
As you drive along and succeed in overtaking the slower vehicles from time to time, you have to contend with
1. Occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where
2. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where
3. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where which will turn red when you approach
4. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where which will turn red when you approach for no reason
5. Sporadic vehicles, pedestrians, and animals bolting across the road into your lane.
It was harrowing.
So you accelerate and brake, accelerate and brake all because the road conditions were so unpredictable.
Worse still, the bigger towns proved to be bigger pains in the gluteus maximus. The direction signs Houdini when you most need them - at cross junctions, at round-abouts, at Y-junctions, at multiple exit junctions. So, you take a gamble and turn where you feel is right.
We did not lose our way even once but it still took a long time to get anywhere at all.
The distance from Singapore to Kuantan is merely 360 km or less, and it took 8 hours because of all the unforeseen road conditions that we had to contend with.
Granted we generally managed to drive at 60 km/h on the average, the killer incident on the way up to Kuantan was clearing Kuantan Town. I spent almost 45 minutes clearing one traffic light junction. It takes almost 6 minutes for the light to be in my favour for a mere 45 seconds. It took an eternity, as I watched time crawl from 1800 to 1845 before I cleared that junction.
On the way back, the infamous Singapore customs took the cake, jamming us for more than an hour. Anyone returing from Malaysia will know what it feels like to crawl in the car to clear the customs. When it was time to have my car checked, there were a couple of cars that were "stripped" down and I saw a sheepish driver shaking his head as the customs officer counted the number of DVDs that he tried to bring into Singapore - I think the flesh on the covers tell the content. When they checked my car, one of them looked at the car boot and saw some bags and he slammed the boot cover shut. I reckon he knew that there was no point in checking because what would greet his nose was most likely the stench of two sweaty men's clothes (but we washed everything before we came back, so the bags smelt good, actually) but hey, what would your mental image be if you see two unshaven men driving back with bags in the car boot?
Granted we took leaks about 3 times per direction, we hardly stopped 10 minutes. 2 guys' needs were easy - let go and let's go. We don't waste time and being rather used to long distance driving, I don't usually need breaks (though I sometimes would find it difficult not to turn down invitations to break a few heads or hands - especially those of the errant drivers who make my drive up so precariously dangerous). Nonetheless, having stamina helps. But being patient helped more.
Having a great travelling companion helps the most. People who travel often will know why.
There is an alternative route to drive to Kuantan from Singapore. First you drive almost 350 km to KL, then you drive another 300 km from KL to Kuantan on the East Coast Highway. Same amount of time, double the petrol, extremely dumb.
Kuantan? Another time, my dear.
At least you need to entice me with a fully paid 3 night stay there first.
Maybe I should tell. I should simply spill the beans. I should not hold anything back. I should be honest and tell everyone what happened. The truth is out there; it is with me. I need to open up. I need to shout out loud. I must not hide any more.
I HATED THE SINGAPRE - KUANTAN - SINGAPORE DRIVE.
What were you expecting?
For the interested, here's a short snippet what happened.
The customs on the way into Malaysia was easy. I entered Malaysia in less than an hour. We had lunch and changed some money and was trudging along the congested Johor Bahru roads to get out to the east coast trunk road. That took some time, especially when there were many instances where road works were on and at some places, the tarmac was ripped off and there was only ONE lane for cars from both sides to use.
Driving on the trunk road was not too tough, though the road signs were not always obvious or helpful. It's quite amazing that concrete distance markers by the road in Malaysia have a tendency of having their heads (where the distances are) decapitated. Can be quite confusing. Anyway, as I said, the trunk road was not that bad if you discount
1. Convoys tailgating each other
2. Large overladen vehicles
3. Speeding, large overladen vehicles
4. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road
5. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road attempting to thwart your attempts at over taking them
6. Speeding, large overladen vehicles who intentionally veer to the centre/side of the road attempting to thwart your attempts at over taking them either by blocking your view, racing with you or preventing you from moving back to your lane or all of the three
7. Psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction
8. Speeding psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction
9. Speeding psycho drivers driving in the reverse direction who accelerate when they see you move out of your lane to overtake so that they can thwart your attempts
10. Convoys of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and/or 9.
You get the picture.
As you drive along and succeed in overtaking the slower vehicles from time to time, you have to contend with
1. Occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where
2. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where
3. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where which will turn red when you approach
4. Occasional red light junctions in the occasional kumpungs (villages) that pop up from no where which will turn red when you approach for no reason
5. Sporadic vehicles, pedestrians, and animals bolting across the road into your lane.
It was harrowing.
So you accelerate and brake, accelerate and brake all because the road conditions were so unpredictable.
Worse still, the bigger towns proved to be bigger pains in the gluteus maximus. The direction signs Houdini when you most need them - at cross junctions, at round-abouts, at Y-junctions, at multiple exit junctions. So, you take a gamble and turn where you feel is right.
We did not lose our way even once but it still took a long time to get anywhere at all.
The distance from Singapore to Kuantan is merely 360 km or less, and it took 8 hours because of all the unforeseen road conditions that we had to contend with.
Granted we generally managed to drive at 60 km/h on the average, the killer incident on the way up to Kuantan was clearing Kuantan Town. I spent almost 45 minutes clearing one traffic light junction. It takes almost 6 minutes for the light to be in my favour for a mere 45 seconds. It took an eternity, as I watched time crawl from 1800 to 1845 before I cleared that junction.
On the way back, the infamous Singapore customs took the cake, jamming us for more than an hour. Anyone returing from Malaysia will know what it feels like to crawl in the car to clear the customs. When it was time to have my car checked, there were a couple of cars that were "stripped" down and I saw a sheepish driver shaking his head as the customs officer counted the number of DVDs that he tried to bring into Singapore - I think the flesh on the covers tell the content. When they checked my car, one of them looked at the car boot and saw some bags and he slammed the boot cover shut. I reckon he knew that there was no point in checking because what would greet his nose was most likely the stench of two sweaty men's clothes (but we washed everything before we came back, so the bags smelt good, actually) but hey, what would your mental image be if you see two unshaven men driving back with bags in the car boot?
Granted we took leaks about 3 times per direction, we hardly stopped 10 minutes. 2 guys' needs were easy - let go and let's go. We don't waste time and being rather used to long distance driving, I don't usually need breaks (though I sometimes would find it difficult not to turn down invitations to break a few heads or hands - especially those of the errant drivers who make my drive up so precariously dangerous). Nonetheless, having stamina helps. But being patient helped more.
Having a great travelling companion helps the most. People who travel often will know why.
There is an alternative route to drive to Kuantan from Singapore. First you drive almost 350 km to KL, then you drive another 300 km from KL to Kuantan on the East Coast Highway. Same amount of time, double the petrol, extremely dumb.
Kuantan? Another time, my dear.
At least you need to entice me with a fully paid 3 night stay there first.
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Hotel Review
To strive for better service, I was asked to review the hotel and all when I returned. Well, there was ample opportunity to vent, so I did. Here goes!
Kuantan Swiss Garden Hotel Review
[1 - Poor, 5 - Average, 10 - Excellent]
Ambience - 6
Rooms - 4
Cleanliness - 7
Location - 7
Staff attitude - 8
Family friendliness - 5
Restaurant facilities - 5
Business facilities - NA (Because I didn't use)
Leisure facilities - 3
Value for money - 5
Overall - 5
COMMENTS ON HOTEL
Information which other guests would find useful (good and bad). This could include anything from the room, restaurants, quality of service, facilities to the location and whether you would recommend the hotel to a friend or return yourself. Please do fill this in - your feedback is really important to us.
Rooms - Ample and large room with a decent toilet, but still not 4* standard. Soundproofing works need to be done. You really don't wish to wake up before you want to because some kids were making a rukus outside your room. And certainly you don't want to know that the occupants upstairs are shifting furniture in the middle of the night. By the way, there's no such thing as a sea-view room. It is a pool-view room.
Restaurants - Make space for dinner at the wonderful Chinese restaurant and the cafe. The buffets were great value for money and the live entertainment (singing) at the Cafe was excellent. However, the hotel might wish to review its modus operandi for breakfast because for two days in a row, food ran out faster than it could be replenished. The queue at the omelette section was incredibly long (on Sunday) and nasi lemak just does not taste right with just rice and chilli (and with all other food gone). Even staples like fried noodles and danish and bread are gone faster than they are refilled. Sunday's coffee had even turned sour. Definitely a let-down.
Leisure facilities - Small swimming pool, limited sunchairs, tiny hot water jacuzzi which does not seem fully working. Generally falling short of expectations.
COMMENTS ON DESTINATION (TRAVELLERS' TALES)
Info about the destination, places visited, tours taken, recommended restaurants, how you got around etc. Your experiences are valuable to other travellers.
Getting from Swiss Garden to Cherating - Turn right at the hotel exit and drive up. Remember to turn to A3 or you'll end up at the Kuantan Port. Drive carefully all the time and get a dedicated road sign reader because the signs are haphazardly placed and once you miss it, you're likely to miss it again on the return journey because not all signs appear on both sides of the road!
Cherating Beach was awesome. Clear water and clean beach. Lovely. Actually, we drove to Cherating to check out Club Med but were stopped by the security guards at the entrance because we were not members. Anyway, beside Club Med is the turtle conservation museum. Free entry and definitely a good place to visit. Don't forget to take a look at the baby leatherbacks in the lab. They are very very cute.
There's a food centre at Black Rock Beach (Pantai Batu Hitam). So you get to eat by the beach. A nice stop to fill up the poor stomach after a dismal breakfast.
OVERALL
This was a nice trip but the drive took almost 8 hours each way. Definitely the most excruciatingly time waster for the entire trip. So, unless you take a long enough break for the trip, you are likely to come back more tired than rested. Furthermore, shopping is almost impossible unless you are a fan of salted fish in oil and dried keropok, a type of flour crackers which need to be deep fried before eating.
Compared to the beach resorts in Sri Lanka, Swiss Garden did not impress much. Not at least when the rooms were so bad (and because of average occupancy rates, the hotel actually switched off 2 out of 4 passenger lifts and left guests waiting for the lifts for a long time) and the insufficient breakfast. The general hotel experience is pretty dismal but I wouldn't think of spending three times of what I spend at Swiss Garden to splurge on a stay in Club Med.
I seriously doubt that Club Med would be able to deliver that much of an experience not because they are not good (I think they would have been great) but the destination itself is a great limiting factor for visitors to achieve that "visiting Paradise" feel.
The sun was not scorching but everything else and everywhere else was hot. Humid and searing hot. I burnt my feet getting back to my car some 20 metres away after soaking them in the lukewarm waters of the South China Sea. No guesses how many blisters I have on my feet: 2 burnt soles. :-(
In any case, visit Kuantan by all means but lower, lower and then lower your expectations. Better still, take a couple of square roots of your expectations and you'll end up quite fine. A good hideaway from civilisation but true to form, you're out of civilisation.
Enjoy the pictures.
Kuantan Swiss Garden Hotel Review
[1 - Poor, 5 - Average, 10 - Excellent]
Ambience - 6
Rooms - 4
Cleanliness - 7
Location - 7
Staff attitude - 8
Family friendliness - 5
Restaurant facilities - 5
Business facilities - NA (Because I didn't use)
Leisure facilities - 3
Value for money - 5
Overall - 5
COMMENTS ON HOTEL
Information which other guests would find useful (good and bad). This could include anything from the room, restaurants, quality of service, facilities to the location and whether you would recommend the hotel to a friend or return yourself. Please do fill this in - your feedback is really important to us.
Rooms - Ample and large room with a decent toilet, but still not 4* standard. Soundproofing works need to be done. You really don't wish to wake up before you want to because some kids were making a rukus outside your room. And certainly you don't want to know that the occupants upstairs are shifting furniture in the middle of the night. By the way, there's no such thing as a sea-view room. It is a pool-view room.
Restaurants - Make space for dinner at the wonderful Chinese restaurant and the cafe. The buffets were great value for money and the live entertainment (singing) at the Cafe was excellent. However, the hotel might wish to review its modus operandi for breakfast because for two days in a row, food ran out faster than it could be replenished. The queue at the omelette section was incredibly long (on Sunday) and nasi lemak just does not taste right with just rice and chilli (and with all other food gone). Even staples like fried noodles and danish and bread are gone faster than they are refilled. Sunday's coffee had even turned sour. Definitely a let-down.
Leisure facilities - Small swimming pool, limited sunchairs, tiny hot water jacuzzi which does not seem fully working. Generally falling short of expectations.
COMMENTS ON DESTINATION (TRAVELLERS' TALES)
Info about the destination, places visited, tours taken, recommended restaurants, how you got around etc. Your experiences are valuable to other travellers.
Getting from Swiss Garden to Cherating - Turn right at the hotel exit and drive up. Remember to turn to A3 or you'll end up at the Kuantan Port. Drive carefully all the time and get a dedicated road sign reader because the signs are haphazardly placed and once you miss it, you're likely to miss it again on the return journey because not all signs appear on both sides of the road!
Cherating Beach was awesome. Clear water and clean beach. Lovely. Actually, we drove to Cherating to check out Club Med but were stopped by the security guards at the entrance because we were not members. Anyway, beside Club Med is the turtle conservation museum. Free entry and definitely a good place to visit. Don't forget to take a look at the baby leatherbacks in the lab. They are very very cute.
There's a food centre at Black Rock Beach (Pantai Batu Hitam). So you get to eat by the beach. A nice stop to fill up the poor stomach after a dismal breakfast.
OVERALL
This was a nice trip but the drive took almost 8 hours each way. Definitely the most excruciatingly time waster for the entire trip. So, unless you take a long enough break for the trip, you are likely to come back more tired than rested. Furthermore, shopping is almost impossible unless you are a fan of salted fish in oil and dried keropok, a type of flour crackers which need to be deep fried before eating.
Compared to the beach resorts in Sri Lanka, Swiss Garden did not impress much. Not at least when the rooms were so bad (and because of average occupancy rates, the hotel actually switched off 2 out of 4 passenger lifts and left guests waiting for the lifts for a long time) and the insufficient breakfast. The general hotel experience is pretty dismal but I wouldn't think of spending three times of what I spend at Swiss Garden to splurge on a stay in Club Med.
I seriously doubt that Club Med would be able to deliver that much of an experience not because they are not good (I think they would have been great) but the destination itself is a great limiting factor for visitors to achieve that "visiting Paradise" feel.
The sun was not scorching but everything else and everywhere else was hot. Humid and searing hot. I burnt my feet getting back to my car some 20 metres away after soaking them in the lukewarm waters of the South China Sea. No guesses how many blisters I have on my feet: 2 burnt soles. :-(
In any case, visit Kuantan by all means but lower, lower and then lower your expectations. Better still, take a couple of square roots of your expectations and you'll end up quite fine. A good hideaway from civilisation but true to form, you're out of civilisation.
Enjoy the pictures.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Pictures
Pictures
The pictures have not arrived.
My travelling companion has been down with the runs since Sunday.
Poor guy!
The pictures will come soon.
When he stops running, I suppose.
The pictures have not arrived.
My travelling companion has been down with the runs since Sunday.
Poor guy!
The pictures will come soon.
When he stops running, I suppose.
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Drops
Drops
Baby Drops
The Singapore government will not allow baby drops for fear that there will be too many abandoned babies.
Dropping Baby Down The Rubbish Chute
There is an increasing trend of illegitimate new-borns being thrown down the rubbish chutes from several storeys. I wonder how the mum felt when she closed the chute cover, while baby goes "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee"?
Where Are The Rain Drops?
The recent dry spell seems to be getting from strength to strength. Although there were a few occasional showers, it seems like the hot, dry weather is back to stay. More bush fires?
Working Morale
Loads and loads of work drop on my shoulder but yet, I don't have the resources to get them them. So my morale drops.
Ringgit
Just went to Malaysia. The last time I went there, S$100 gets RM$230. Friday, I got RM$232.50. The ringgit dropped. My holiday became cheaper.
Bread
Placing two slices of bread into the toaster at the hotel, he went about to get other food. When he came back, he saw a shameless woman pick up his two toasted slices of bread that has dropped onto the collection tray. Without missing a beat, she picked them up, asked, "Yours ah? Heh heh...", and carried them away.
Morals
If the trip to Malaysia were anything to go by, Singaporeans do not have to worry too much about their dropping moral standards. We are in great company.
Century Egg (aka Black Egg)
Fear Factor viewers around the world cringe at the gooey black egg mess. They simply don't know how great this thing tastes. Anyway, I ordered a century egg congee for dinner today. The stall holder transferred the egg into the bowl where the congee was supposed to be poured into. He dropped a piece on the preparation counter, which was meant for my bowl. Didn't replace with another. He picked up the dropped egg and dropped it down his gullet.
Bed
Last part. Next round I'll try and post my pictures at Kuantan. I'm dropping down on my bed.
Baby Drops
The Singapore government will not allow baby drops for fear that there will be too many abandoned babies.
Dropping Baby Down The Rubbish Chute
There is an increasing trend of illegitimate new-borns being thrown down the rubbish chutes from several storeys. I wonder how the mum felt when she closed the chute cover, while baby goes "wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee"?
Where Are The Rain Drops?
The recent dry spell seems to be getting from strength to strength. Although there were a few occasional showers, it seems like the hot, dry weather is back to stay. More bush fires?
Working Morale
Loads and loads of work drop on my shoulder but yet, I don't have the resources to get them them. So my morale drops.
Ringgit
Just went to Malaysia. The last time I went there, S$100 gets RM$230. Friday, I got RM$232.50. The ringgit dropped. My holiday became cheaper.
Bread
Placing two slices of bread into the toaster at the hotel, he went about to get other food. When he came back, he saw a shameless woman pick up his two toasted slices of bread that has dropped onto the collection tray. Without missing a beat, she picked them up, asked, "Yours ah? Heh heh...", and carried them away.
Morals
If the trip to Malaysia were anything to go by, Singaporeans do not have to worry too much about their dropping moral standards. We are in great company.
Century Egg (aka Black Egg)
Fear Factor viewers around the world cringe at the gooey black egg mess. They simply don't know how great this thing tastes. Anyway, I ordered a century egg congee for dinner today. The stall holder transferred the egg into the bowl where the congee was supposed to be poured into. He dropped a piece on the preparation counter, which was meant for my bowl. Didn't replace with another. He picked up the dropped egg and dropped it down his gullet.
Bed
Last part. Next round I'll try and post my pictures at Kuantan. I'm dropping down on my bed.
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