13 May 2020 - Day 1 of 14 - Quarantine in Lockdown (MCO) country
My time in Singapore is up, a place where I grew up in... but isn't a citizen. I'm heading into Malaysia, a place where I was born but didn't stay long enough to assimilate the local cultural nuances or the Malay national language. Unwillingly, I left my wife and young toddler son in Singapore at 2 p.m., and headed to the Woodlands Checkpoint, to be processed for my exit out of the Little Red Dot. On any other day, there would be public buses ferrying people across the Causeway bridge from the Woodlands Checkpoint to the Johor Bahru Checkpoint on the Malaysia side. But since both countries have their lockdowns, the CCB (Covid-19 Circuit Breaker in Singapore) and MCO (Movement Control Order in Malaysia), there was an eerie silence in what used to be one of the busiest border crossings in the world. Woodlands Checkpoint - normally it's packed with people After I cleared the Singapore immigration at 4:20 p.m., I walked about 1.2km (3/4 mile) while admiring ...