{"id":300,"date":"2005-05-29T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2005-05-29T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-29T09:35:21","slug":"tj_nope_jb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/tj_nope_jb\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ?  Nope, JB!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How bloody exciting.  Went to the gym today.  Unlike HK\u2019s Causeway Bay gym, the Orchard Road gym had proper sized equipment so no backache and no pain&#8230;<br \/>\nThen it rained.  A LOT.  I\u2019m not sure if this photo can accurately portray how hard it was raining, but it was hard!  And cool! As in NOT  HOT!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rain.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rain.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rain-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt cooled off about 30 minutes before it came down.  Yeah!<br \/>\nWound up going over to Johor Bahru for the afternoon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/johorgate.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/johorgate.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/johorgate-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt felt almost like going to Tijuana.  Except maybe with nicer malls.  And their Starbucks have free wi-fi!  Wah!<br \/>\nYou can see that there was a lot of planned construction here that didn\u2019t pan out.  Note the forest of rebar in this parking lot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rebar.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rebar.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/rebar-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAwas! You see that a LOT around here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/awas.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/awas.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/awas-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is a sign here that points the way to KL. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/klsign.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/klsign.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/klsign-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen why did traffic come AT me after I took this snap shot?  I\u2019m told that this happens in Malaysia a lot.<br \/>\nOnce I got back to Singapore, it was dinner at Newton Circus (food centre)!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton1.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton1.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton1-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton2.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton2.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton2-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI got some simple food, dry wontonmee and a big cup of lime juice.  Great stuff, even when you\u2019re drenched with sweat.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton3.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton3.html','popup','width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.walking-ixus.net\/blog\/photos\/newton3-thumb.jpg?resize=160%2C120\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTomorrow: Lunch with Truc and San and dinner with Sara-Ann (I hope)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How bloody exciting. Went to the gym today. Unlike HK\u2019s Causeway Bay gym, the Orchard Road gym had proper sized equipment so no backache and no pain&#8230; Then it rained. A LOT. I\u2019m not sure if this photo can accurately portray how hard it was raining, but it was hard! And cool! As in NOT &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/tj_nope_jb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TJ?  Nope, JB!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2005-05-nrt-hkg-sin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-4Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}