The Diamond Princess was back at Singapore’s Marina Bay Cruise Center at 7 am this morning.
Right then, a choreographed process of getting some 3,000 passengers and their luggage off the ship, through passport control and customs, and on their way to the airport or elsewhere, started.
Grab is the Uber in Singapore* and we hopped into Grab cabs that we had reserved the night before to take us to the hotel. (My family heads out in the morning and I will stay in Singapore for a few days before making my way back to Seattle via Tokyo.)
*Grab acquired Uber’s Southeast Asian operations in 2018. Uber still has a 27.5% share as part of the deal.
The wall poster is from the metro’s new brown line, the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL). The benches down on the platforms are benches, and works of art, as well.
What a nice find in the grocery store: Valencia oranges from South Africa, for only SGD 3.20 (US$2.50) for five. Sweet and seedless.
Right next to them were pairs of Amakusa oranges, ever so slightly larger, advertised as ‘Air Flown’ from Japan, for SGD 28.80 a pair, which comes to $11 for an orange. Eek 😱.
