As Myanmar could not be passed, I thought of crossing to India by boat from Singapore.
Passing through Malaysia to Singapore, a country at the end of the Malay Peninsula.
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The road signs have been changed to “English” and the roads are well maintained and the city looks as clean as they say.
I remember reading in my junior high school English textbook that “there is not a single piece of rubbish in Singapore”.
I remember one of my friends saying “Singapore has strict rules and regulations and sleeping in the open is forbidden”.
But I’m optimistic, the chances of a policeman finding a stray sleeping in the dark are pretty slim.
If you lie on the side of the road, a passing police car might spot you, but if you lie in the shadows, they won’t unless you call them.
It is difficult to draw a line between lying down on a bench for a rest and camping out, as camping can be seen as resting on a bench in the middle of the night.
In other words, it would be difficult to strictly prohibit camping.
I carefully searched for a place to sleep, but Singapore is so well managed that it is difficult to find a place to lie down.
After carefully following the side of the road, I came across a small park just off the road.
In the centre of the park there was a metal bed with some other outdoor equipment for simple training, the metal bed was probably for abdominal training.
The metal bed is probably for sit-ups.
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I thought to myself in the dark and lay down. Before I fall asleep, I think to myself, “I have to get up early tomorrow morning”, because this park has a lot of training equipment, and in my experience, people always start training early in the morning.
The next morning my prediction came true and I woke up to find five people training around me, even though it was still dark.
I quickly packed my bags and left the park.
I was told that there is only one port for international cruise ships in Singapore, so we headed there.
The plan was to cross to India from here.
I arrived at a port called the World Tread Centre, which was indeed an international passenger port, with a large, modern building and a huge ship on the pier.
I was told that there were no passenger ships operating between Singapore and India at the moment.
Normally I would have been appalled at this point, but I had cargo ships in mind in the first place, so I figured that there was more to come.
Singapore is at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, so the only way forward from here is by boat, and somehow I was going to get on a boat.
There is only one port for passenger ships, but there are many ports for cargo ships, and as I cycled along the seafront, I saw a port full of containers.
I found the entrance and tried to enter, but there was a gate and a security guard who would not let an unknown foreigner in.
After some thought, I checked the phone book and decided to visit the shipping company.
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From that day on, I slept in a construction site at the back of the World Tread Centre.
However, after six weeks of sleeping in the harbour and looking for a ship, I was unable to find one to take us to India.
So I had to go back to Thailand the way I came.
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