<h3>KICK BUTT</h3>

19th February 2006 marks a significant milestone in my relationship with The Don. This day nine years ago, we made a solemn vow to each other to spend the rest of our lives together. And instead of the usual big bouquet of roses and luxurious dinners, we decided to celebrate it low-key this time. A reminder of the times in our past, when we were still in school uniform and splurging was not an option.

Every other weekend, I would wake up like really early, make tuna & cheese sandwiches, stop by NTUC to get a few bottles of drinks and we'd take a cab to East Coast. We spend most of the time sitting by the beach talking, eating and just planning our future and the rest of the time cycling from one end of the East Coast beach to the other and back again. We went for picnics so often that we even bought this picnic set from Watsons (costs $5.90 back then I remember) and we still have it to this day.


So anyway yesterday we re-lived the moments. This time I cooked Fried Bee Hoon and chicken wings and this time we brought out own bikes. It's been eons since we went cycling and frankly I wasn't convinced we still had it in us to cycle the entire stretch of the beach and back. But we did. (well almost!!) but we also left with something we didn't have before. SORE BUTTS !!!!!!!

I could hardly sit on my butt the whole day. Despite the hot piercing sun, I think the seat must have shrunk to at least half its previous size. Or perhaps something else expanded hehe.

As we cycled along the bicycle track, just before the food centre, was a new attraction. A ski cable park called ski360. It looks fairly new, couldn't have been there for more than 6 mths I think. It's a man-made lake of sorts where a cable will run counter-clockwise around the lake and is powered by electric motor and participants hang on for dear life as it brings you a complete 360 degree around the lake. Of course, 90% of the people we saw lost hold as soon as they got on the water and we had great fun laughing at them falling into the water ala America's Funniest Home Videos.



The day was fantastic. It was every bit like what we used to do all those years ago. With one difference, this time, we didn't have to drag ourselves down the underpass throught the block of flats and spent an hour on the bus, trying our darndest not to make an embarassment of ourselves as we both slept like logs on the bus. And we didn't have to go our separate ways at night. This time it was a smooth ride home and we got to sleep on our big comfy bed, together.