Friday, September 08, 2006
9th September, 2006 SaturdaySingapore Last day
I spent the whole of Friday travelling by train from KL to Singapore. The train was very slow taking many halts. The train started from KL at 8.30 am and reached singapore evening 6.00 pm. But the train was clean by indian standardsBeside me sat a 70 year old Malay Chinese lady who had at first emigrated to Singapore and later at the age of 25 emigrated to Australia. Now at the age of 70, she is travelling all over the developed world, from Shanghai, to Tokyo, to London to singapore.The hotel at Singapore is good.Today, saturday morning after the free breakfast, i went to the Singapore National Eye Hospital. It is located in a general hospital complex with all the centres situated close to each other. They werr kind of 90% close and only 10% open today. I told them that i am a doctor from aravind so they caught hold of the public relations guy and took me around. I found them much more helpful and polite than the Malaysian sye hospital. The public relations guys in both the hospitals were chaps of indian origin. He gave me a brief tour of the hopsitala and gave me a few brochures regarding fellowships for foreign graduates. I also met a guy there who was working in the eye bank of aravind eye hospital madurai till the august of 2004 and now is taking care of the eye bank here. He considers himself very luvky to have made it to singapore. Then after the hospital i went to the "California Firness" which is not far from my hotel. If the KL was grand, then this was titanic. It had 3 floors, more machines and best of all amazing bodies, both male and female. In one huge hall, large group of people, mostly females were doing the cardio which you love so much. I think that the more advanced and more affluent the country, the better the bodies you get to see in the gyms. Below were available all sorts of protein supplements from bars to boxes of whey proteins to fat burners. There were lots of chinese and few europeans. As usual, the missing group were the south asians.
I spent the whole of Friday travelling by train from KL to Singapore. The train was very slow taking many halts. The train started from KL at 8.30 am and reached singapore evening 6.00 pm. But the train was clean by indian standardsBeside me sat a 70 year old Malay Chinese lady who had at first emigrated to Singapore and later at the age of 25 emigrated to Australia. Now at the age of 70, she is travelling all over the developed world, from Shanghai, to Tokyo, to London to singapore.The hotel at Singapore is good.Today, saturday morning after the free breakfast, i went to the Singapore National Eye Hospital. It is located in a general hospital complex with all the centres situated close to each other. They werr kind of 90% close and only 10% open today. I told them that i am a doctor from aravind so they caught hold of the public relations guy and took me around. I found them much more helpful and polite than the Malaysian sye hospital. The public relations guys in both the hospitals were chaps of indian origin. He gave me a brief tour of the hopsitala and gave me a few brochures regarding fellowships for foreign graduates. I also met a guy there who was working in the eye bank of aravind eye hospital madurai till the august of 2004 and now is taking care of the eye bank here. He considers himself very luvky to have made it to singapore. Then after the hospital i went to the "California Firness" which is not far from my hotel. If the KL was grand, then this was titanic. It had 3 floors, more machines and best of all amazing bodies, both male and female. In one huge hall, large group of people, mostly females were doing the cardio which you love so much. I think that the more advanced and more affluent the country, the better the bodies you get to see in the gyms. Below were available all sorts of protein supplements from bars to boxes of whey proteins to fat burners. There were lots of chinese and few europeans. As usual, the missing group were the south asians.
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