Getting there is half the fun

East Coast Park

Tonight Samson and I went to meet Malini and then headed out for dinner. I met Malini on the plane coming here just as she was returning home to Singapore after spending a year abroad at UBC. This being a big city it would be hard to find each other so we decided to meet at the InterContinental Hotel. Sitting in the swank lobby we were horribly underdressed. She found us waiting in the lobby and the 3 of us headed over to the East Coast Park for dinner. For some reason the place was super crowded with huge waits at almost every place...but we found an outdoor seafood buffet and stuffed ourselves full of prawns, clams, muscles, stingray, crab and tons of stuff so weird I don't think I ever want to know what it is. The coolest part was you got to cook your own food in some oil or else fry it...seafood poisoning anyone? I forgot to bring a camera so you'll have to take my word for it when I say it was good! After we went for a walk along the paths along the beach to digest all the good food we ate and then headed to one of the many pool halls for a few games. Our taxi ride home that night was quite entertaining...our somewhat crazy driver spent at least 5 minutes showing us how at inner peace he was with himself by proving that he can in fact drive with either his left or right hands, or even both if he so chooses! We also had a short lecture on how Tai Chi can stop you from boiling. Not having a clue what he was talking about we asked him what he meant by boiling. Our 20 minute cab ride went something like:
"I get up at 4am each day and practise my Tai Chi in the mountains. It will stop your boiling you know. You know boiling?"
"No, not really...do you mean stress?"
"nono, your boiling."
"like frustration?"
"nonono, it stops your boiling."
"heat exhaustion?"
"no, i mean boiling. don't you know? boling!"
"constipation?"
"NO, BOILING, BOILING, it stops it"
and so on and so on....

here's a pretty bad pic I found of East Coast Park. Sure the water looks nice but it's actually oily here from the 20,000 tankers just to the right of the picture. One thing was cool though...you can see Indonesia from the shores here! plus one for my count of countries seen from distant shorelines and airplanes!

Posted by Evan at 9:01 AM