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It's late, I'm sleepy, and I'm hoping to have a relatively early day tomorrow, so humour a lack of content in this post, please. In fact, I only write to note three things:

• My stomach upset is on the wane.
• I just spent an obscene amount of money on a photo organiser/editor software.
• Perhaps most interestingly, I had a pleasant dinner-and-walk with The Snake, who will quit the Island for warmer climes come Monday. I'm more excited than anything about it - a whole new start, in a whole new place, with the same old people. How much better does it get?

Alright, chaps, hitting the hay now. This is going to be a good weekend, since I'm going to get to go and check out that huge, green space I found last time, and hopefully take some photos to replace the ones I deleted (it's the same link as before, sorry!). I'm also going to go to Page One at VivoCity, so I get to buy my GRE Biology prep book (from Princeton Review, natch). Unless they don't have it, in which case I'll probably be running around town all day.

Alright, before Safari crashes again - good night, folks!

Labels: money, snake anthony, walking, weekend

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So, managed to go on a nice, long walk again last time - not as long as last time, though, because I went out a whole lot later (last week was about 10kms, this week is 8.746 km, according to Google Earth and the Path Measurement Tool. It was a most satisfying walk, because:

• I found this unbelievably beautiful huge plot of land just lying vacant, right behind the Bukit Batok Town Park. So there's a hill covered in trees, right behind a huge field of grass, with trees randomly (or, this being Singapore, carefully arranged in rows) several metres apart. And it was huge! According to Google Earth, half this area used to be just the way it is now, but the other half was built up. Presumably, that particular building complex (the big gray-white one in the north of this map) is no longer around. It was completely brilliant; I just walked around in the grass in awe of the massive amount of space.
• In aforementioned park, I bumped into a large cocker spaniel named Lucy and her family. The dad started asking me about my job, which was weird. I need more help figuring out how to talk to random people on the street, apparently.
• I borrowed several movies, including The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, a one-DVD collection of the The Pink Panther movie series, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.

Alas, it all ended kind of badly, as I accidentally deleted all the photographs I took on the walk, and later developed a rather nasty stomach upset which took until Thursday (the day I'm editing this) to get rid of, and necessitated a very pointless trip to the doctor's. Nasty, nasty.

So. That's about it for now, I think.

Labels: google maps, movies, walking

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Okay, that's just one-quarter of a marathon, but it's still quite an achievement for a couch potato like me. And, of course, it was tons of fun, although it was so sunny I don't think my eyes will ever be the same again :(.

Labels: walking

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