singapore, in a snapshot
On the last night in Bangkok, just before we began our journey southbound to Singapore, I found myself struck by a terrible fever. Doused with rounds of Panadol and gallons of water, I was stretching myself thin as I gung-ho’ed my way, spending practically the entire day between planes and airports until Lily and I found ourselves in Singapore that evening. And possibly thanks to the 4th round of paracetamols within 24 hours by then, I actually arrived at Changi feeling pretty good. Thus, armed with a (false) sense of assurance then, we decided it was a good idea to go nuts on arrival at the local hawker stalls in Bedok.
Bad idea.
And before I could say, “Syok man!”, I was heating up quick again.
Thankfully, Aunty Ann has an iron-fist habit enforced in her household; which is not one I have just found out during this trip, but was subject to without the opportunity to retaliate this time round. At almost every meal, all of her kids (Jon included!) are fed with supplements which include an impeccably architected selection of pills and tablets to both boost the immune system and basically improve our general well-being. Given my poor state of health, I was prescribed a saucer of supplements of my own. And before one could sceptically raise a finger, I would attest to you saying that by the next morning, I was really on my two feet again, ready to brave the Singaporean streets.
Well, until it came Lily’s turn, that is.
Two hours into meeting up with Shaun & Rulin at Bugis, Lily found herself struck with food poisoning. We hailed a cab after our 15 minutes in Haji Lane, and before we knew it, we were back at Jon’s where we spent the remainder of our day.
Our trip to Singapore did not turn out the way we thought it would have. We never would have thought we’d end up spending New Year’s Eve at home, after months of anticipation and planning to catch up with friends, only to find them all thrown out the window for an early night in bed.
It was a blessing then, I guess, when we found ourselves better the next morning after much rest and was able to at least see a few fond faces during the New Year’s service at church, followed even by lunch with a few more. But that still spelled the end of our short-lived trip to Singapore which turned out to be merely be a series of unfortunate events strung across a day and a half.
Oh well, looks like we’ll just have to pick up where we left off with Shaun & Rulin in August then, hey?But until then, it was off back to Malaysia for us next.
