Ooooh, I hate turtles

Sunday, December 13 – There’s a turtle pond at Kek Lok Shi - just where the vendors end and the temple begins. And it’s disgusting. Turtles are already disgusting, and people who knew me from when I roomed with my friend David (who had two turtles) have certainly heard tales of just how filthy and vile these creatures can be. I’m renowned for my distaste for creatures. But the Buddhists seem to love them, collecting them in ponds of scummy, brown water.

The silliest thing about this particular pond – teeming with turtles crawling on top of the another – is that they have the audacity to call it “liberation pond.” Not so certain the turtles would agree that this is “liberation.”