The Titanic Botanic (Part 10)
>> Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Another day, another Canucks game at 11:00 AM in Singapore. Thankfully, Brett let me use his computer with NHL Centre Ice…now we are cooking with gas! A late-morning game does not lend itself to an adventuresome spirit however, so leaving the house was a little later than it should have been. Probably. 3-1 Canucks. Today’s adventure will be at the Singapore Botanic Gardens, but first!...food and coffee. And a photographic memory of this hideous poster from Brett’s apartment.
I still don’t get it.
I also headed up to the rooftop pool on my way out. Not to swim, but for the photo ops. I want one of these at my house.
Sigh. It really was beautiful.
For lunch I had some grodie tough pork in what was supposed to be curry inside the train station at Holland Village. Two thumbs way down.
Then, of course…coffee. I’m really getting used to all these Coffee Bean and Tea Leafs everywhere.
I had high hopes for the Botanic Gardens. The question is, will I be able to stand the heat long enough to do it justice?
Oh yes…it was Valentine’s Day. How could I forget? The park was littered with couples and picnic baskets. The part I found most baffling was that all these people were not at work. They can’t possibly have taken holidays, can they have? Maybe they were all students.
The heat was absolutely suffocating. I tried to escape into the gift shop for relief but I knew that it would just be so much harder to make the walk back to the train station. Once I got peripherally near, I told myself it was just another minute and I literally concentrated on counting down from sixty to keep my mind off the sweating. Damn, Singapore. At least the train station was gloriously cool.
The last hurrah had begun. For dinner we did do something very Singaporean - we ate at a hawker centre. BBQ and lime juice. It doesn’t get much better than that.
After dins we walked around the waterfront and made our way to Clark Quay…and the hoardes of Valentine revelers had the same idea.
A wine shack by the water? Ingenious.
And just as quickly as my trip in Singapore began, it was coming to a close. Tomorrow morning I board a flight for Japan. The epic adventure continues.
