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Back to reality.
Yes finally uploaded the photos. When to Pulau Ubin on friday but too lazy to upload them till now.
Changi ferry terminal. A complete new look. Use to be a couple of benches outdoors, people simply sitting around. Hmmmm now this look more like an arrival/departure hall with that machine that scans your lugguage. Shall go pengerang someday, $7 for the bumboat ride there. Never notice that was available before, always thought the bumboats are small and there isnt enough fuel to go anywhere other than pulau ubin.
Me. Waiting at the Changi ferry terminal for enough people to fill the bumboat. My eye is swollen again, i think the 3rd time this month.
There we are. Finally arriving at Pulau Ubin after the 10mins bumboat ride.
Pulau ubin. This is a very typical picture of it that appears on textbooks and anywhere else trying to attract tourists to it.
A wooden toilet make of planks, same concept as the makeshift type but very much less sophicated. With a drophole in middle with anythin going straight into the lake. Extreme pollution but yet that area is full of fishes. Fishes like shit and attracted to it. And did i heard someone say he would like some Riesling to go with his fish and chips??
But the toilet we use are the comtemporary sort, nothing similar to the one before.
There gates are locked for a reason, the nparks would not just close down part of the nature reserve without a reason. Do not venture further. Even without big signboards marked with bold red wordings like Danger, BAHAYA or something along that line, the locked gates said enough. But being reluctant to go back to the way we came (meaning to climb the slopes again) and plus our curiosity, we went ahead. There were wild boars! I always thought they were only present in places like the information kiosk with they pictures printed in color and stuck on the wall with a description of their habitat. Hmmm at least the wild boars didn seem to have any personal vendetta towards cyclists. Still its quite a nice place with thick canopy overhead and after the rain the place seems to be foggy or misty, should be scary at night. Hmmm
Had been a long time since i had laksa that can be eaten out of a spoon. And even a longer time since i had a piece of cake from the red bakery. The red brick buildin still stand where it is and this is still the same place that i remember, the similar forsaken bakery where cakes where once baked with zeal. Taken the photo in case the entire buildin get pull down or something. Anyway, i didn had the chance to witness the glamourous time of it but still it remains as a heritage, a legacy in the hearts of many. The bakery was featured on the tv sometime back which the owner explained the closure due to the uncompetitive method of hand making the bread and pastries and lack of business. Another sad case of the rapidly advancing technology forcing the tradition modus operandi to be discontinued. But truthfully, i couldn tell the difference between hand-make or machine-make pastries, the effort put in and all, to me, bread is bread. A derisive yet salutary imitation i guess.
Today is suppose to be the official last day of school. I am this close to gettin the rectangular piece of white paper better known as "diploma". Three years. We didn juz go to sch to aquire knowledge. We went school to get a cert. Its somethin like i not only went to poly, i graduated." This is one of the aftereffects of modern education. Three years of laid back attitude in the area of intellectual pursuits, its not easy to start workin downright hard now. Perhaps abit too late also to knit all those facts into a coherent whole now and sit for the exam in a wk time or so. I dun even have a rudimentary knowledge of some of the fundamental principles. Sad case. I guess it will be revolutionary instead of evolutionary for me to start bia-ing now. Hahaa Anyway, i guess im just not ready, to go out and deal with the ambiguity of real-world situations. But i will work well, hahaa dowan corporate and business leaders to complain bout the younger workers inabilities and renders young people unable to compete once they leave the classroom. (like some of the extremely smart ppl)


Jobless, living in a magical land of the unicorns in search for the green fairy, trying to remember huge amount of infomation twice a year, wish that 余文樂 will leave his girlfriend for me, quitted being a part in a drug-making syndicate but is in transition to become an even more oppressed petri-dish slave, want to see the aurora borealis, leo, doesn't like to eat muffins and loves travelling and honeystars.