Full circle in Singapore

Landed back in Singapore last night around 8 after one last night in Bangkok and a week spent in Cambodia. What a journey it's been. I just took a walk around Singapore one last time before saying goodbye to what has become an impromptu home away from home. My flight leaves in 12 hours with an 8 hour pitstop in Hong Kong and 13-15 hours onwards from there to Toronto. To be frank, I'm at a loss for words right now. So much has happened and so many people have come and gone in the last two weeks - it's difficult to stare at this white emptiness and summarize everything in this moment. I'll have a lot of time to scour my memory over the next 36 hours and hopefully I'll be a little more coherent by then.

A possible reason for this brain freeze is probably sleep depravation. That might be a bit dramatic but I haven't slept too much in the last 4 days. Last night I told myself I was gonna get to bed before midnight, try catching up on some sleep. But I had a couple o' drinks with a dude from Columbia and another guy from Romania and before you could say habanero it was 5AM. Lots of amazing tales from those guys about their homelands. Not to mention, around 2AM this wonderfully manic Singaporean on a bicycle joined us. Although he was a rather small man, his hood name was Big Dog. He was feeding the street cats with store bought chow when he saw us talking on the street in front of the hostel and introduced himself. He told us of his gambling addiction and the years he spent in Changi prison, knife scars and all. He played us some Eagles and Tears for Fears on his cell phone, gleefully danced around our table and after an hour he got back on his bike - and out of nowhere brings back a full on curry dinner he bought with his own money. He proceeded to run down the street praising the lord for this chance at redemption. Despite being poor, mentally unstable and a dark past to boot, Big Dog had one of the biggest hearts I'd ever seen. Needless to say, sleep is for the dead here and it was far too interesting to consider going to bed early on my last night in Asia.

Anyways, so much more has happened. I'll have a lot of time at the airport tonight and I'll probably post one last message with regards to Cambodia and the past 2 weeks. Cambodia blew me away completely. I hope to go back there one day. Time to get some food and try to have a nap. Ciao for now.