Yesterday we went to Malaysia for a durian and shopping trip. Overall experience was ok only because only part of the trip was achieved. We had durian but we only given 1h 20 mins for shopping. Of the 16hours trip, more than half of the time was on the coach that ferried us from various destination.
Anyway, at least we had our durian thought the durian were just normal durian. Believe the 9 of us had 12 durian.
Pictures for your viewing.
Last weekend, we had our first Duck Tour. Singapore Duck Tour has been around for many years so it is a little ashamed that we were experiencing this first time. The duck tour uses a World War II amphibian vehicle, a military vehicle that can drive on the road and cruise in the water. When my elder brother was in the Singapore Army (30 years ago), he was one of the fortunate one to pilot such vehicle.
Coming back to the duct tour, it is about an hour long with about 40mins in the water and the other 20mins on dry lands. The route introduces Marina Bay building including The Singapore Flyers, The Floating Platform (for National Day Parade or other event), The Esplanade – Theater by the Bay (local call it The Durian), The Merlion, The Marina Bay Sand casino, and the upcoming Botanic Garden by the Bay and of course the Civic District. Not going to talk too much on this, you would be able to more information if you do a Google search for Singapore Duck tour.
Overall experiences was great and I do pick up a few history about Singapore even though I am a Singaporean. Enjoy the pictures
I was reading the paper this morning and came across a comment made by one of the newspaper reader. The reader commented that in current Singapore, we parent always give the best to our children but not our parent. He quoted an example; if you child get sick, you will send him to Class A ward (A级病房) while if your dad get sick, you probably will send him to Class C ward (C 级病房). What has happen to this world? We have lost our filial party? Because we have less kids per family? Seriously, I am not too sure. Will I do the same? Maybe? And my son will probably do the same to me!
This is Life! A SAD one thought!
In about 2 weeks time, we will be heading north to our neighbor country for a durian feast. Wow! I can’t wait for that trip. Hopefully by then, the issue about the neighbor country finger-print capturing machine would be running at higher speed that what is it now. Read from the news that a typical weekend waiting time to cross the immigration is about 1hr to 2 hrs. this is too damn long. If that is the case, I would eat less durian because the time would be taken at the immigration. Let all hope thing will goes well.
Anyway, probably should eat durian this weekend. Oh! This weekend planning for the duck-tour. Hope it will be great and pray hard for a nice weather. Keith should like it.
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