Holiday Eve

Part I Wednesday, tea at Foster's

The days preceding my voyage have been spent with Mark, Jon and Clara.


Just yesterday I had a farewell tea with them at Foster's. Darjeeling tea, peppermint tea, scones and fresh cream, Jon and I enjoyed a taste of the sikit atas lifestyle. Over scones, many humorous lines were passed and somehow we starting chatting about Thomas and friends, the talking child-entertaining trains. Mark Choo (choo)was one child who adored the colourful trains so but evidently not as much as an adult as he had forgotten the full name of the tv show.

"Er... Thomas the whatever Engine la!"

Trust Jon to pipe in, "Thomas the Search Engine!"

The conversations led to greens, as they always do. Mark started with an article about the greening of Singapore. And I, thinking I had seen the same article, leaned forward with anticipation. Mark went on to talk about this person who was featured in the article I thought I had read too. Turns out we had read very different articles as I learned when the conversation went on. Mark went,

"Yeah. So this guy ah was saying (etc etc etc)... and I think Miss Tek knows him."

Then my brain did a backflip.

"This guy?" I must have looked puzzled. I ran MY article in my head again. "It was Lee Kuan Yew."

Different guy, definitely. Clara proceeded to burst out in manic laughter much to the dismay of other tea-sippers.

Part II Thursday,exhausting eve of vacation

Mark and Clara were at my doorstep at about 8.30. I was more than ready, or I thought I was. Jogging turned out to be a rude wake-up call. I died at barely 5km. The other two had no issues whatsoever.

Next was Pulau Ubin. After wolfing down lunch we headed for the ferry terminal, although not before getting a snapshot of the sleepy feline.


I'm never seen a cat sleep like that, pardon the rhyme. The island was the same as the last time we left it in a sense that it was still as captivating as it was blistering. We cycled to Chek Jawa, very exciting, especially with Clara shrieking like banshee behind me (double bike). We stopped for photos occasionally, but it was mainly chit chat with Jerome.


I couldn't resist a leppie shot, a Knight I think. I think I might have seen a male Great Mormon which is supposed to be very rare. However, it was quick on the wing and hard to make out. it was huge.

Feeding their plant addictions, our aspiring botanists stumble upon a couple of beautiful passion flowers. No yummy passion fruits though. The lauriflora passion fruit is supposed to be less tart that the commercial ones. I really want to try one.

And back to the mainland. In a few hours I'll being going overseas!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And its not Sentosa or Ubin, or even Malaysia for that matter! There has never been a better reason for insomnia.