A success with the birds

A beautiful, sunny day in Singapore. I got up at 6 this morning and ran just under 10k. I got confused on my run and thought I'd done 10 when I'd only done 9, and had to grind out another one; not my most enjoyable effort, but at least I'm gradually starting to catch back up with my training.

Today is a public holiday, which is fortunate because after that I was a busted flush, capable only of lying on the floor all morning. If I'd had to go back to the office, things would have looked bad.

In the afternoon, we went over to the bird park in Jurong. In one of the aviaries they have the world's largest man-made waterfall. In an aviary. The park kept stressing this, almost as if they wanted somebody to point out there was a larger man-made waterfall outside of an aviary somewhere else. I'm not sure what the criteria for a waterfall are: perhaps I could run a hose out the window from the kitchen sink of our 21st storey flat.

It's not that a sixteen storey high man-made waterfall in an aviary isn't impressive, it's just that you don't visit the bird park for the water features.

You visit for the monorail.