Going Home

Singapore - Tokyo - Los Angeles - Dallas - Tulsa

4 flights

26+ hours travel time

a 38 hour thursday, that's right, some kind of funny international dateline stuff = literally the longest day of my life!

Goodbye S'pore, til next year

In the ECP

Ok so last weekend I did find the (a) beach - finally! I ventured over to East Coast Park along the SE coast of Singapore. It's not really the "nice" beach, but there are lots of things to do, bike rentals, fishing, camping or just walk around and take pictures. My goal was actually two fold - I was trying to find a beach, but also trying to find a place to do a long run. There are facilities here, but I still haven't found a water fountain in the entire city, very strange!

Apparently about 15% of the islands land is reclaimed - so it's man made, just as this beach is. I was told the trees and sand were imported.

There were all kinds of ships lined up, empty, ready to go into Singapore Harbor - I think its this way all the time!

Ok, so they really don't have any real lakes big enough for boats around here, and as far as I can tell not too many areas to go waterskiing, but they found a way. That's right these guys are being pulled basically around a pond by a snow ski lift-type contraption, and there are jumps of course.

A lovely view from ECP looking back at the city center to the west.

Singapore Times

Well I'm living in the future, relatively, compared to T-town. I'm in Singapore for a few weeks on business. I've been here for 1 week already and two to go. I spent most of the week in lots of meetings and doing interviews, then dinners out with my bosses (they were here last week, but went home on friday!!) ... so now I'm on my own. It's kind of a strange feeling - to be a minority, to be in a strange place by myself, and in a place of 4.5 million people but I hardly know any of them!

I'm going to find the beach tomorrow, I hope - I tried today too, but think I went to the wrong MRT stop, then I couldn't find the right bus.

We did get to go to a shipyard on thursday last week and see how they make deep-sea drilling rigs and semi-submersible rigs, one of their rigs is the world's largest of its kind and was on the show megastructure, engineers like this kind of stuff!!