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The night is dark.
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But at hundreds of miles an hour, dawn approaches quickly.
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Over the horizon it comes...
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I'm flying to Singapore!
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The blobby bits are ice on the windows.
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Some island down below us.
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The flaps, flapping. Coming in to land.
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Singapore from above.
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It's kinda freaky seeing the wings nearly come apart, but it helpt to tell yourself that, while you can no longer see any significant bits of metal holding the whole business together, it's MEANT to do this.
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The son of the people I stayed with.
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The son's snake. Snaaake!
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The guy I stayed with - sadly, the only pic I took.
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Singapore Xmas lights.
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A Sinaporean drainage canal. Note the lack of shopping trolleys and other significant rubbish. Singapore appears to take flood and storm protection really seriously, and I guess it has to. You get an idea of how much rain it must get, when you see its drainage system.
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About 40p/litre. At the time, UK fuel prices were about 70p a litre. I was just curious.
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Rickshaw driver rests.
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Rickshaw drivers.
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Rather than fast food joints, people eat in food markets - stalls all around, so you can buy what you like from each of them.
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A pointy building. Sing architecture tends to be very modern.
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A street performer.
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She's spinning a mat on her foot.
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And she has a lovely figure, too :P
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So I took lots of pics!
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And the show ends :)
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Two points if you can spot the lizard in this pic!
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Tubed in Singapore are just like in the UK, except the rooves are a little lower, it felt.
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Lightning stroke in a storm.
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Another lightning stroke. Given the delay between pressing a button and taking a pic, I got surprisingly lucky with these.
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VPL :P