Good bye encik

My WSM (Wing Sergent Major) has just passed away recently.. Went for his wake at yishun. Saw him in the coffin.. almost couldnt recognise him at all. Could see how disease has taken its toll on him. Despite the short notice, most of us turned up for the wake. We paid our respects and talked about him. About how he always tried to cover up for our mistakes. He only punished us when he had no choice (pressure from the above). He was a great WSM, always looking out for us. Come to think of it, most of us last saw him during our commissioning parade. In fact, I had totally forgot his name until my friend told me that it was our WSM in the message.

His last words to us after we commissioned: 成败聚散，自定古理。(Your success or failure is all up to you). Good bye 1WO Tan Tai Khoon.

Chek Jawa

Our tour de wild singapore concludes with a trip to chek jawa on pulau ubin! Nothing much there compared to the previous 2 trail hikes we had (McRitchie and S.Buloh). The best thing there is the sea breeze. Very windy and cooling =) It has a sweet view of changi and nearby tekong and can be good setting for a picnic i guess. Chek Jawa is only a 40 minute walk from the jetty. We took longer than that because my other friends were too busy trying to locate durian trees and hoping to find a few durians that have fallen to the ground. The myth about durians only falling at night is definitely busted. Will upload some pics and probably some videos soon.

We opened the durian with stones.. very stone age.. haha






Trying to pluck rambutans from the tree...



Now for some pics =)

On the way there..

The basketball court that used to be there

Durians!

The 2 stones that we used for the above videos

The long winding road

This was attached to a very big tree. Reminded me of the forests in Brunei.

Distant rain.. but it eventually got to us

A picnic on the tower to wait out the rain =)

Group photo after the rain

The infamous P.Tekong..

Rambutan trees!

Just a few photos taken during the walk

An obvious flight path of the birds

Another grp photo

The visitor's center

According to a notice.. this is the only working fire place in SG. But it doesnt look like it to me -.-

I like this visitor's center. It's like a 2 storey cottage with a jetty at the back. I think this will be my dream house.
Front view

Back view

The 'jetty'. It's actually just a floating platform.

Another grp photo

Pulau Sekudu

The breeze there was so cooling, we decided to take a long break.. so we tried to be funny..

After that, we decided to try to pluck some rambutans from the tree we saw earlier on the tower (see the above video on us trying)

The remaining pics were taken on the way back to the jetty

They still wun stop finding

No idea where did he find this mangosteen

At last, back at the jetty.

Went to changi village for dinner after that. The chicken rice there costs $2.50 now. It used to be $2 (Yes $2 you are not seeing things) when I was still in the army. Now $2 chicken rice is truly extinct. =( The "Red Tea Longan" dessert there still rocks.