Back to Singapore -- and body parts

Flew back to Singapore this morning. Drove around Seletar Airbase looking for Sunset Grill but wound up at the Kingfisher Pub instead. It turned out to be quite a find. Good and cheap food and a pool for use for $2, in a green and quiet location. Too bad it's all the way up north.

Speaking of up north, Redang was pretty good. We had some great snorkelling which the kids surprisingly got into. A far cry from Phi Phi three years ago, when they wouldn't even get off the boat. This time they got right into the water with bread for the fish, though Alexis gave up on feeding them when she got nibbled on the fingers. The Marine Park was simply teeming with fish (and snorkellers. There must have been 60 people in an area just 200 sq m). You hold out a slice of bread and they're swarming all around you to take bites out of it.

On another trip, we saw a magnificent sea turtle resting on the seabed in Keling Bay. It must have been close to five feet in length and was probably older than me, which might explain why it was extremely calm and didn't freak out even with half a dozen snorkellers gathered around it to ogle.

Getting into such beautiful waters with its abundant sea life after so many years, J decided he wouldn't sell his dive gear after all. As for me, I'm toying with the idea of doing a refresher. Still a coward about being in deep water but that marine life was irresistible.

We said goodbye to it on Friday morning and got back on board our 48-seat Dash. I also had the pleasure of going back to work in the afternoon. Around the same time that I got in the office, a cleaner in Orchard Park discovered a gym bag with a woman's head, arms, and legs in it. A few hours later, a jogger stumbled upon a trolley bag containing the torso in MacRitchie Reservoir. It was the story of the day, pushing dengue fever into the background.