Returning to SYC marks the start of the "final burst of fire" before going home. Arriving in Thailand on Flight 1, I'd be departing on Flight 2, reaching Singapore early on Monday morning, maybe 1-ish am?
I'd be posting up some pictures snapped during the trip, so do stay tuned if you are keen to see them.
Last night was a damn difficult night to sleep; it's so damn freaking warm!! Those powder on me managed to keep the sweat away for a few hours before being overwhelmed. My chin started the ball rolling... The forehead soon joined in, followed by both legs. I was initially in long pants and t-shirt but it soon become shorts only. This didn't help. The heat kept on coming. Having to keep the blanket on made the fight much harder. Removing the blanket will mean a free buffet for the mosquitos, so the blanket had to stay. It was a terrible night... I spent those awake hours either trying to fan myself cool, trying to keep out the mosquitos or scratching wherever that had already been bitten! Another guy here told us he slept only at 4am due to the same reason!!
Just like the initial 3 days in KMTA, the weather changed very fast; from freaking warm last night to freaking cold in the early morning around 6-7am. The pre-downpour wind was chilly, blowing Eastward from the West. I knew this for the clothes were swaying violently in the wind that came from the direction where the sun sets. We were spared the chilling wind as our safari beds are against the wall and that sort of kept us away from the onslaught of the wind. Hard to visualize? Take a look at the following picture and you'd understand...
Worried the clothes would be blown out of the lines and onto the dusty ground, I quickly got up and pulled them all off the lines before jumping beneath the blankets again.
The rain soon followed... One can feel the intensity of the rain just be listening to the sound of of hitting the zinc roofs shed we're in. The sound is SOOOO loud that I would have put on my earplugs if I had them!! I worried for a moment that part of the roof would collapse due to the intensity. Either that or the area would flood and rainwater (mud, actually) would run inside here. Anyway, I didn't have to worry about it much longer as I soon fell back onto sleep, this time colder...
It was still drizzling by the time I got up... And the rest of the day turned out just the way we wanted for sooooooooooo long; cooling, yet not too cold :)
The rest of the day passed by uneventfully but when night falls, it gets rather interesting. Besides the usual irritating flies and bugs, we saw a few crabs scrambling across the shed and numerous frogs hopping around!!
We caught a crab and kept it in a pail for entertainment, provoking it using a pen.
We also flip it over for fun...
Later on, we caught a frog too and threw it in together with crabby, hoping to see some "Animal Planet" in action. However, it seemed that the 2 animals ain't interested in each other. By morning, we decided to release both captives since we were leaving for SYC, but the frog was nothing in sight. Looks like it had jumped outta the pail in the middle of the night, via a small gap in the plastic covering we used to cover the top of the pail (to prevent the frog from escaping).
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