(another merlion on mt. faber)
Sunday, August 12th
How nice - after talking to a Swiss fellow at the huge Vivocity Shopping Center (those folks over here really seem to know only 2 leisure activities: shopping and eating... but the do not seem to get fat, unlike many Westerners, like me:-() near Harborfront in the South of the City I have the unique opportunity to hike near the equator! Well, the call it Mount Faber (for a Swiss, this wouldn't even go as a hill, since it's just 110m or so high). Anyway, you get a beautiful view to the South (namely, the artificial paradise island of Sentosa) as well as to the North (Downtown).
Even the Danish understood this and built a mission and a church on the Western slope where a Danish preast lectures his 1500 countrymen here (mainly, the DK-Singapore connection is because of Maersk).
Further, I get to "Reflections at Bukit Chandu", where - shit - the Museum just closed, but anyhow, you walk on a skybridge thorugh the foreset and get a great view to the "killing fields" of a battle in early Feb '42 when the approaching Japanese basically exterminated one Malayian defending unit here and slaughtered reportedly 200 doctors and personnel of the nearby GB-army hospital.
After a heavy rainstorm I find shelter in the Kopitiam (this is like an inter-Asian foodcourt just run by one company, operating on a very cheap, but popular basis) and eat Bibimbab (Korean chicken-noodles-vegetables and who-knows-what meal).
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