coffee) and carrot/beet puree we headed out for a 57K ride thru
northern Singapore. There was no bike lane like in Shanghai. Manual
and gasoline powered vehicles sharing the road way which is about 13%
of the total developed land mass in Singapore. Mask, should have had
one! After a while, my face was covered with little dust and gasoline
engined discharged particles. There went my lungs. In a way, worse
than cycling in Shanghai.
A bit hilly around the area we cycled but that was Singapore, not as
flat as Shanghai. During our cycling we could see Malaysia across the
waterway, Johor Bahru. Cutting south from there, we cycled around the
Military base on the roadway which was planned to be a runway should
the need arise. That was a good stretch of road to cycle on. At
Bukit Timah, we had durians from Thailand; fresh and sweet. Iron-wife
was in heaven consuming the soft yellow creamy pungent smell fruit.
If one needs to cycle in Singapore, definitely start early like 5am
when it is still dark out there. Sky gets light after 645am.
Due to the volcano ash cloud, we couldn't get a hotel room in
Singapore. The only room available was a SGD 3,000 + taxes at St
Regus, YMCA for SGD 200+ and those Super 8 type motel for SGD 80.00 at
not so "proper" locations. We stayed at a friend's place for one
night; the the next night, we just took a red-eye back to Shanghai.
Amazing the entire plan was packed. Seems every flight is like that.
SQ has upgraded the interior of the 777-200/200ER recently. Now we
can "cramp" in a Givenchy designed econo seats. Biz and First Classes
got the 20-inch TV and wide flat bed seat that can fit 2 Asian "wide
asses" into. No, we did not try biz class as the ROI for us would
have been in the negative territory. 4 hours and 20 minutes of flat
bed sleeping for two was a total of SGD 4,000+. We have to charge
more per hour to clients to do that so I stayed up and watched two
movies. Couple nice touches for the "back of the bus" passengers
though, we got tooth brushes and mouthwash in the bathrooms. And each
passenger got a little pouch with socks and toothbrush in it. Beat
that North American airlines! One thing about a red-eye flight:
people are quiet and bathroom is not overflowed with idiots using it.
OK, that's two things.
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