Spent 3 days 2 nights in Ubin this week, 1 night and 1 day more than planned (I was persuaded/forced). Getting more slack in an already very slack life... so much so that even a slack person like me can't stand the slackness of such a slack vacation. Hmmm I still can't enter the zen-like peacefulness of doing nothing for long. Guess I'm still an action person. (haha like real! =P)
Did nothing much in Ubin. Cycled and trekked and explored the entire island in 3 days. Talk cock, play games, watched tv, jacuzzi-ed and catch up with 3 of my old JC friends at the chalet. A relaxing trip.
Anw now is a good time to go Ubin, cos it is durian and rambutan season! If you are lucky you might still kapo a few fruits before the locals kapo all of them away. Enjoyed a few free durians there. Song! =P
And btw, if you are going Ubin, be sure to find and see the Guan1 Yin1 Stone. It is along the road between the jetty and Marina Country Club Chalets. It is a huge natural formation of rocks that looks very much like Guan Yin and she overlooks the quarry lake. Legends (an old man who lived across the road told us) says that the 'statue' suddenly appeared one day and 2 trekkers discovered it first. He said that once, many pple died in the quarry lake and their ghosts wandered around Ubin. However after Guan Yin appeared to save their spirits, haunting incidents were not heard anymore. And from then on, no one else has died in the lake.
Well, I don't know whether it's true or not. But the rock formation looks really like Guan Yin and if you noticed, it is of a different colour (white) from the surrounding rocks (grey). And it is really huge (it's across the lake from where we saw it), I guess nobody could have carved it. No matter whether it is man made or natural, it is worth a look if you go Ubin. =)
Something that is off topic. A friend told me of an interesting Haiku while we were at Ubin. A Haiku is an ancient 3-lined poem from Japan whose syllables follow the pattern 5-7-5. Here is the one he told:
Haiku is simple;
It does not mean anything.
Refrigerator.
=P
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