77. FAREWELL FELLOW TRAVELLER

 

As Fellow Traveller and colleague leaves Singapore for home after 4 exciting years in Asia, I look back with fondness at the times we've spent together exploring the neighbourhood. Her energy and stamina, curious enquiring mind matches mine, I sure want to remain likewise when I get to her age.

It's unlikely she'll retire back home for long. Before long, I know she'll be somewhere else in the world, checking out that neighbourhood. Such rich life experiences one could never learn from books or from our classrooms.

Life back home would not be the same for her. For a start, her closest friends and relatives have not taken up her invitation to visit Singapore and Asia and putting up at her place. 

Her fellow countrymen and women are frogs in the well, only the handful who've ventured out to live and work outside their country, particularly in Asia, are able to see the big picture with minds wide open. My other colleagues see them in the same light but only because, they found the courage to venture out.

Outside of their huge country, Singapore has the largest concentration of their citizens in the world.





















































































AND HELLO THERE FELLOW TRAVELLER.....!

 

















I met Fellow Traveller in India. The Universe conspired to bring her out to Singapore when family members were sent here to work. 

Weekends and holidays will find us exploring more of Singapore's nooks and crannies. We popped over to Ubin and Batam, did walkabouts of Little India, Chinatown, Arab St, Changi Prison Museum, Changi Village and its boardwalk and we have plans to cover more areas...so now as I trudge around in our heat and humidity I have Fellow Traveller sweat it out with me.