We had tea at Crystal Jade in Ngee Ann City, and I was absolutely delighted with their hot lemon honey. They gave a generous serving of honey, which I happily ate it on its own. I could not resist sucking the lemon slices dry after that. Ah Sir was fascinated and disgusted at the same time.
Don't they look like bicycle wheels now?
Moved on to ECP after that, rented two cheap-looking bikes (at $5 for two hours, plus a free bottle of mineral water) and cycled away. Stopped by a public toilet and I accidentally saw a man bathing buck naked at the open-air shower area which is supposed to be meant for swimmers taking a brief shower before dipping into the sea, definitely not for hardcore bathing! I was fascinated and disgusted at the same time.
Passing by a large pool meant for cableskiing
It felt good to cycle and have the breeze ruffling my hair. We stopped by Bedok Jetty and watched the uncles fish. We could not believe they actually went all out with rods and baits just to catch little kunning no bigger than the size of our palms. It was cruel of them to leave those poor kunning, their mouths laced with blood, thrashing about on the ground. Some of them even left those smaller fishes behind, which was such wasteful and indiscriminate killing! It was a sight not meant for the soft-hearted.
Anglers fishing at the jetty
What a blast!
Dark and deserted cycling track
We got hungry and cycled towards the hawker centre for dinner. We soon realised our bikes were such a burden. When we pushed our bikes into the hawker centre premises, the satay uncle told us to leave them outside on the grassy field. However, we feared that they might get stolen, so we walked to another entrance and took the bikes along with us. One irritating boy saw us and mumbled to himself "No bikes allowed". I knew that he was directing that message towards us, but we just ignored him. We did not even walk further in before a Bangla cleaner told us rudely to leave our bikes outside. Oh no, discriminated by the young and the old alike!
We gave up, and chose a table next to the grassy field. We had a delicious dinner or fried prawn mee, barbequed chicken wings and satay (we refused to buy satay from those pushy and rude BLACK society uncles). I topped off the dinner with a refreshing iced cocktail dessert!
Glistening nata de coco and fruit cubes
Just as I was about to finish the dessert, the bike shop assistant called and rushed us to return the bikes as soon as possible. We sped back to the shop and managed to reach there just before it closed at 9pm. We were charged another $2.50 each for exceeding the rental time by 30 minutes.
What a fruitful day spent working out and then feasting to compensate for the calories lost.
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