J-walking with the locals

Singapore is boring, they say, you get fined for j-walking and littering and there are too many rules about everything. In other words it's a bit like Perth. And like Perth, everyone ignores the rules and does what they want anyway. At least that's been our observation as we've crossed the streets with the locals after checking to the left and to the right for oncoming police officers.

But to concentrate on that is to miss the fact that, firstly, its been that way since the early 19th century, so shouldn't be too surprising, and secondly (and much more interestingly) the food is fantastic. Hot southern indian food, vegetarian indian food, chinese food, malay food and nonya food - it's all here. Perth friends can feel free to sign us up to any weightloss programmes they think appropriate, commencing immediately we arrive.

And we should arrive soon, if the winds are favorable on the high seas, as early tomorrow morning our container ship leaves Singapore port to take us to Fremantle. For fear of seasickness we have with us fresh ginger, preserved ginger, ginger tea, ginger mints and ginger nut biscuits.