This one is a delayed posting. A few weeks ago, I decided to check out the Chinese Gardens in Singapore. It's a surprisingly big park with a couple of pagodas, a few lakes, and the world's largest collection of turtle species (3,000+).
I decided to hang out there in the afternoon and do some reading. Found a stone bench close to the water by a pagoda -- sounds serene, don't it? Well, after about an hour on the bench, I closed my book, put it in my bag and I looked up...
About 15 ft. away from me, a giant lizard (pictured here) was lurking out of the water and heading towards me. I jumped up, scared s*&%less, and it jumped up, also scared s*&%less, and back in the water it swam. Turns out it's a water monitor lizard, native to Malaysia. It was likely hoping I would feed it as opposed to seeing me as food. Then again, the recession has gone global now and food is expensive so I guess there's no telling...
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