Day 12: Pulau Ubin

I once heard a story about the cast and crew on the set of the African Queen. Turned out everyone got sick except for Humphrey Bogart and John Huston, who drank the entire time. I spent months in third world countries, while heavily drinking mind you, and never poo'd as much as I have in this little first world speck of a food juggernaut, Singapore. Ah booze. I miss you so. Alas, I will keep shitting my brains out until this runs its course.



P.S. The equator is hot. Damn hot. It's actually 5-10F degrees hotter at the beach than it was in the city. P.P.S. Singapore is the capital of sole-less shoes. I think they're just melting off or committing sole-ee-cide or something. We've strolled past no less than 20 shoeless soles on the pavement. It's a regular cobbler's nightmare. But I digress...
For brunch, we walked round and round the hawker center to figure out the types of food they had. The local settled for Ipoh Hor Fun, a noodle dish with mushrooms, chicken, BBQ pork, some veggies in a gravy with chilli, of course, and a pancake with pandan green bean . I had papaya juice. Go ahead, laugh. I admit temporary defeat only. There's a few more days. Something will happen to even the scales on me and my evil taunting local.
REDEMPTION came swiftly! A 10 minute ferry ride to Pulau Ubin, and revenge was mine. My ang mohness was finally an asset. Our day hike around the sweltering island turned out to be mosquito's buffet delight on my local. *evil laugh* You can see the sympathy in my face.


I rewarded myself with a cold can of the local Kickapoo Joy Juice, which is sort of a less sweet Mello Yello. Soooooo hot.
Back on the island, I asked for something bland to eat. The only thing energetic on my body was my colon. Look what my evil local got for me. The ever bland plate of fried anchovies, spicy otak otak, a fried potato ball, egg, coconut rice, 2 slices of cooling cucumber, and a giant blub of red chili.
After dinner, I'm off to my only respite. The fantastic shower in the chalet that shoots water from everywhere. Wahoo!