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Reunion 'Camp'
Bitched on: Sunday, February 18, 2007
Time: 2/18/2007 03:01:00 PM
While most Chinese families were busy having reunion dinners at numerous restaurants nationwide yesterday, many ('Many' with a capitol 'M') Malay families were having picnics or camps at Changi Beach. It was like a 'Little Malay Fishing Village' on the beach.Time: 2/18/2007 03:01:00 PM
How did I know?
Well, my family was one of them. And my relatives were there too. It was our first try at having a camp at the beach (complete with tents and fishing equipment and stuff).
We even had a gazebo too. Think that was too much?
We were so bloody overwhelmed by the 'camping' powers of other Malay families there. Many had come in full force with many other related families pitching their tents in a 7m radius with a picnic stone table (or foldable tables) in the core. Others had their own portable barbecue pits and even buffet spreads under gazebos. Then there were those with hammocks, clotheslines and tents hung between trees. But those families complete with generators and television sets (...yes TV!!!) really took the cake.
By the time my family got there, all the good camping sites were taken (those nearest to the toilets... go figure...). So ours was a good 400m away from the toilet. But that was fine, cause the areas there were extremely claustrophobic; tents there were so freaking close to one another. Our site had enough space to play beach soccer, 'dog and bone' and we even had water balloon fights lah...
The beach there shouldn't really be called a beach. Seaweed and rubbish litter the entire place, plus there wasn't much of a shoreline to begin with. And many people (including my cousins and sisters had no qualms about walking barefoot along the slimy shoreline), I wore my sandals initially before walking barefoot too. And I regretted that decision. It was hellishly disgusting and slimy. Plus I stepped onto some broken glass (or maybe I was stung) and now I have something lodged in the sole of my foot. Dammit...
Anyway, we got back home later that night itself cause unlike the other Malay families out there, we were so 'unprepared' to camp overnight (read: no TV, washing machine and stove). Plus we didn't catch any fish either... What a boring first time for me...
Note to self: Remember to book a bungalow house in Changi again during the next school break (like the one I had for my birthday). It has a TV, washing machine and stove, plus a clean private beach.
Now that's what I call camping.
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