SINGAPORE – Lifelong Pulau Ubin resident Ong Kim Cheng, 67, loves his island idyll and is happy to forgo most of the urban conveniences that Singaporeans enjoy. But the one municipal concern he brings up ahead of the general election proves that Ubinites are not that different from mainland urbanites after all.
The former quarry worker would like a covered walkway built between Changi Point Ferry Terminal – where the bumboats from Pulau Ubin dock – and Changi Village Hawker Centre, where he buys his groceries twice a week. Right now, he says in the wake of a recent monsoon surge, he gets drenched whenever it rains.
Mr Lim, a fellow Ubinite who declined to disclose his full name, has a fraught relationship with the teeming forest…
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