Wednesday 14th May
Thursday 15th May
(no internet
connection yesterday…)
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| Moon over 2XS |
We started Wednesday
with a small jaunt into the city to do our necessary clear in/clear out
paperwork at an office in Keppel Street, in the city. Easy to get there…if you have a nice taxi
driver…
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| Just a glimpse of AngryGirl is enough! |
We had a woman who
was so astoundingly rude it was hard not to gaze at her in silent
astonishment…She was very cross and crabby because we didn’t know how to get
off the roundabout where she picked us up.
Pete gently pointed out that SHE was the driver and the local, not us,
and that made her even crankier. WHERE do you want to go, in Keppel
Street?? You have given me no address! Pete said Number #10 bus stop would be fine
and she shrieked, I am NOT a bus
driver! I don’t know where the stops
are!!
Ummm OK how about
we get out right here…and catch a bus… We were actually quite invigorated by
this encounter. Mostly people,
everywhere in the world, are polite and helpful…even if they don’t know where
in Keppell Street their weird Australian customers want to go…
The middle part of
the day we spent in what seems to be our spiritual home in Singapore – the
Singapore General Hospital. I have a
(very) minor ailment and Pete says if I force him to go to the hospital for his
ailments, I have to give in with good grace for mine. So…I did that. But I showed the whites of my eyes when it
was revealed, at the triage stage, that I would have to wait AT LEAST 3 hours
and 20 minutes before I would see any sort of doctor… Oh the horror and the
boredom…I wasn’t prepared, did NOT have my iPad with me, or even a
magazine. How could I sit for so long in
a hospital waiting area full of sick people, coughing and sneezing and
infecting me???
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| Some pretty Singapore greenery just outside 2XS |
So…we came back to
One15 Marina where the kindly manager and his assistant gave me a list of GP
services close by to Sentosa Island.
Tomorrow I will go, iPad in bag, and prepare to wait…but not for 3 hours
and 20 minutes!!
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| I took a photo of a photo shoot right outside 2XS |
Marina managers,
thus far in our experience, are invariably calm, competent and pleasant. I suppose it goes with the territory… There
is always something going wrong, with a boat, with weather, with people in
general. So a marina manager would just
have to be calm, competent and pleasant.
I talked to one such kindly manger recently, and he said that yes
indeed, it can be very difficult dealing with people, boats, reservations. He gets booking months in advance for
specific dates and then…a phone call, an email, a radio call to say that the
engines have broken down, or the anchor winch is broken, or…well whatever can
go wrong, does. And then people say they
are staying for two weeks but when push comes to shove…something goes wrong, or
their wife does a runner and they have to cast around looking for crew and they
end up staying for eons. Sometimes it
must be easier to be an accountant – numbers stay where you put them!
Thursday
It is now Thursday
morning and we are off on another jaunt.
I am going to see a GP in Vivo shopping mall; Pete is traipsing way out
into the boondocks to get the depth sounder re-programmed. It is behaving VERY badly and leaves us in
the lurch just when it shouldn’t.* Sometimes
it tells us, cheerily, that we have 200 metres of water under us when we are
out to sea. Well, yes. But then when we approach
the shore to anchor and we REALLY need to know whether we have three metres or
maybe just a few centimetres – BLANK! Very
much NOT fun…
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| 2XS in beautiful, posh One15 marina |
Nothing is open in
Vivo mall; nothing except – a coffee shop, with WiFi! This is where we have planed to met Ru and
Bridget, around 11.00, when, presumably, Pete and I will have fixed everything –
the depth sounder, and my minor ailment.
* This causes a
lot of unwanted stress…
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