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| Marina Bay Sands view from Marina Square--blogger's cellphone shot while taking lunch at a "Food Republic" eatery. |
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| Palawan beach with an islet dubbed as the southernmost tip of Continental Asia which is 164 kilometers north of the equator. |
"We can see a tip of Malaysia( Johor Baruh) when we reach the end of this route," Christoffer said.
Johor Baruh is Malay for New Johor--baruh is the Iluko work baro (new). Two weeks earlier, we traveled to the place--a developing province like that of Clark with malls, industrial parks and high rise buildings.
After a few minutes, we went under a bridge where we met a group of Singaporean joggers with their shirts off, their chests glistening in the sun. Just like the others, they just go on, none of those greetings acknowledging your presence in the scene, unlike in Amarillo, Texas, where a white lady in jogging pants greeted me with a smile and hollering, "How are you doing?".
The route runs parallel to the tributary, which has a lot of vegetation and trees characteristic of a watershed, that is well-maintained. At this hour which should be hot part of the day as in the Philippines there were still a lot of joggers and bikers ( a group of at least 6 Tagalog speaking members complete with gears passed us ). No leaves littered the pavement, but these could have been sucked off the previous afternoon by a fire-truck looking vehicle, the way the blogger saw it done in the Changi area three years ago.
to be continued
