与仕源在一起的日子：第1094天
Pulau Ubin trip!!!!
Sis, Ben, Dong, Darling and I went on a cycling trip at Pulau Ubin last Saturday. I think it’s been 18 years since I last stepped into Pulau Ubin? I was really small than, Mum & Dad brought me and Sis there for… Don’t know for what. Haha. But I remembered we went to some quarry and caught fishes with bare hands.
Wanted to bring Dong somewhere since we can’t bring him to Vietnam in December.
Considered Kukup, a drive up to Malacca and so on and on but due to many different reasons we decided to go ahead to Pulau Ubin as per our initial plan.
Darling did not drive so Father drove us to somewhere near Kaki Bukit and from there we took a bus to Bedok than a cab to Changi Fairy Point Terminal.
I forgot to mention, we had to wake up at 7am!!! So early! But I think it’s worth it 
If there’s a Mr and Mrs ‘Gao Tu’ award, it will probably go to us. By the time we got to Changi, it’s already 9.30am. Haha. We were supposed to meet at 9am. Had our breakfast and we headed over to the ferry terminal.
There’s no specific timing for the ferries but a minimum of 10 pax. We didn’t wait for long before there’s 10 pax and each costs S$2.50. You can bring your bicycles as well but it’s around S$2 per bike I think.
It was thundering and the skies were dark when we were on our way in the ferry and it started pouring when we reached Pulau Ubin!!! But we weren’t the only ones stranded, there were alot of other people there waiting for the rain to stop.
We were all so so so cold! Luckily Darling thought of bringing a small towel and I had it wrapped around me. He stood infront of me to help me block some wind too. Hehe. Frankly we were alittle 狼狈.
Finally after a short wait, the rain subsided and we went to rent our bicycles.
The bicycles were really cheap. S$12 for a whole day (for mine & Sis). Darling’s S$10 and Ben’s S$6. Sis and I got the so called ‘mountain bike’ and because it’s new so it’s more expensive. Dong doesn’t know how to ride a bicycle so they went to get him one of those 4 wheels kind but I think it’s too tedious for him to cycle that on long journeys and sloping roads. So in the end, Darling went back to return his own and Dong’s bike and got a dual bicycle instead.
We bought ponchos for S$2 each. But if you realize, nobody’s wearing leh! Haha. I think I really looked KUKU man.
Darling’s 1st bike
The 2nd one
It was really a day full of bruises and mossies.
I fell twice, Sis fell twice, Ben fell once. All of us bled except for Darling & Dong. Haha.
The first time I fell it was on a real steep slope where it’s uneven and there were rocks all over. I guess I hit on some big rock and when I braked it’s already too late. I fell right off my bike and it was really scary. One of my legs were caught under the bike and I couldn’t move at all. I laid face down and was shouting, not really for help but to alert them so they won’t fall on me too. Haha.
The slope was really steep and it’s very narrow, I was so worried the rest couldn’t stop in time and hit me once more. Keke.
Than I kept shouting,’I cannot move! My legs! I cannot move!’ Darling was so worried he thought I broke my leg. I had to laugh to make him realize I’m ok.
They lifted the bike off me and I’m really ok except for some blue blacks and some scratches.
There were moments where the slopes were too steep and we had to push our bicycles up instead of riding. I tell you, it’s exhausting one loh! My legs were really aching when I was up slopes but I guess boxercise helps cuz I didn’t feel any muscle aches at all after the day. I like cycling at Ubin because it’s really big and it’s more interesting than East Coast.
Darling and I sprayed insect repellent before we left the house but apparently it doesn’t work on me. Mossies love me for and I had bites all over my thighs! Thank god I grabbed a bottle of 上标油 in the morning.
It got alittle hot later part of the morning and the poncho makes me sticky. BUT it helps warding off mossies.
This is the 2nd spot where Sis fell.
Actually both her falls were funny. Keke. The first happened when we haven’t even started the cycling journey. She was experimenting with Ben’s bicycle and suddenly we heard someone screaming and there she was, down there somewhere. We really have no idea how she landed up there, it was comical.
Guess she don’t feel very confident as it’s been years since she last cycled and Ubin is really challenging.
The second time she fell it was down a step on this patch of grass. See the yellow thing, her poncho. And this time round, the chains on the bicycle came off. Hehe.
This was funny too because the bicycle was already stationary when she begin to fall. Me too, the 2nd time I fell my bicycle was stationary too.
There are shops along the roads selling cold drinks to quench your thirst. We took a break at one of the shops and saw a big fat wild boar with shit all over it’s face.
Break for Lunch
There’s a few seafood restaurants in Ubin, we ate at one of them which I thought was a better one. The noodles were all nice! I like them, but the cereal prawns were average, thai chicken was not too bad too. Sis ordered ‘gong gong’, a snail – liked thingy which I don’t eat. The rest of them love it though.
After lunch, we carried on our journey.
We wanted to find the quarry where there’s fresh lake water and we can catch fishes with bare hands, but we don’t know where is it. It’s just a small fragment in our memories from our childhood days and we really wanted to bring Dong there.
Stopped at one of the maps and was trying to figure out how to get there when this nice uncle approached us and told us the quarry is closed. We can still see it but we aren’t allowed to enter. He offered to take us to the new Ubin resort area and we followed him.
He’s really a nice uncle, took us around Ubin and than waited for us to take us back to the jetty area. BUT he got abit ‘loh soh’ and kept telling us to form a group and get people to come to Ubin or maybe other places like Tanjung Pinang. He told us to call him and he will arrange it for us, guess he’s some kind of a freelance tour guide or something.
The Ubin Resort is known as The Celestial and is officially open end of this month.
There’s nice resorts there with all the prawning, crabbing and fishing facilities. It’s really serene but I guess it would alittle boring since there’s nothing much to do.
The people operating the prawning operations were really nice. They saw Ben with all the bleeding on both elbows and the aunty bandaged for him. And than they told us almost everyone who came had either bleeding hands or bleeding legs. Whahahaha.
We tried the fish spa too. It was really interesting!!! Initially it felt alittle uncomfortable than it became really comfortable. It was alittle ticklish and it’s interesting to see all the fishes crowd around your legs.
We prawned but got zero prawns. The uncle & aunty gave us 2 for free though but we didn’t take.
Left Ubin at around 6pm? Was dead tired by than!
And Darling & I – we slept at 10pm on the very same night.
Once I start liking something I’m unstoppable. And sometimes I think my very rash character puts me into some big and small shits.
But I’m glad that even though he’s not in Singapore, I’m always on his mind. 
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