Saturday dawned warm as ever with the haze still present and obscuring the sun. The haze is caused by ruthless individuals in Indonesia burning jungle illegally so that they might plant palm tress for palm oil.
After breakfast we all headed off to Tiong Bahru market for provisions. This is an amazing market in the Chinese section. The colour of vegetables and plants is both vibrant and exciting. We bought fruit and vegetables and some meat as well. We managed to buy a kilo of large prawns for six pounds, a real bargain. After shopping we went to a food court above the market for Roast Pork,which was a bargain.
We headed home in a taxi and spent a quiet afternoon. The trip's executive director went for a swim and I prepared a prawn stir fry for dinner. Around ten thirty we headed off to a bar to watch the semi,final between Mew Zealand and South Africa. It started at eleven pm and ended at two in the morning. The venue was the Boomerang bar, a haunt of Australians and New Zealanders, who flocked in with a few South Africans to watch events as they unfurled. The noise was dramatic with singing of the anthems before the game.leveryone was in a good mood and conviviality was the name of the game.
A late bedtime ensued. Singapore truly is a melting pot of different nationalities most of them in the thirty five to forty year age bracket. The ambience in the bar was one of excitement mixed with nationalistic fervour and all had a good time.