Tuesday, February 21, 2006

i love it when he takes a day off and i take a day off and we both sleep in, have slow leisurely lunches, go poke around old school yishun and inevitably end up at sembawang beach. i love sembawang beach so much. it's just a 5 dollar taxi ride away. it doesn't have the tanorexic beach bunnies of sentosa, the mat skimmers of east coast and everything there is so haphazard - random stone steps, a pavillion that has a plastic sign saying 'information' which doesn't have a counter and certainly didn't have anyone looking remotely helpful everytime we passed it. saturday nights will see tents pitched and the aroma of barbequed food mingling with the salty sea breeze, battery operated transistor radios providing the soundtrack to this scene of happiness. since the beach is a little too ulu for something like macdonald's or whatever to set up shop there, the only eating place there is this large black and white colonial converted into a restaurant. saturday and monday saw us eating there. the service leaves much to be desired - a waitress shrugged when i asked what was the soup of the day, but it wasn't the annoying, go-fuck-yourself sort of shrug. the food is quite decent though the strong sea breeze quickly leaves everything stone cold, and it's only ok there because i'm so happy when there. people watching there is pretty good too. saturday saw us concluding this couple were on their first date because the girl was seriously overdressed for the beach [heels, makeup] and she was probably expecting somewhere, well, not there. i've been quite hesitant to mention the beach despite us paying many visits to it prior to this entry because it's our place, town's everyone's place, home is well, just home. i'm selfish, i don't like to share new discoveries here because i don't want everyone homing in on my little selfish pleasures. ok, i'm too lazy to write anymore, maybe pictures next time.

the textual siege.

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