真的受不了了，所以到海边去。
在那片欢乐笑声中，我和好姐妹找到轻松安静的心情，开始温书。
那儿人不太多，世界也就似乎忘记了我们。

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新加坡的海滩，尤其圣淘沙的，真的非常荒谬。
或可能是自己太荒唐了。
还是两者都是？哈哈。

看看以下三段对话：

（1）
Me: This beach is really ridiculous!

Rachel: (engrossed in reading some radical ideas written by one Ivan Illich) Erm err… Yeah? Why?

Me: You see those humongous commercial floats in the water, a cargo ship in the background, an Apache just flew directly over us and there’s this food court right behind us. Hurh! This is a beach? Really ridiculous, man.

Rachel: Well, this is Singapore. Everything is about money.


（2）
We were walking around the food court aka neo-kopitiam aka Koufu, deciding what to eat.
Me: I can’t believe this, man. A food court at the beach. Weird.

Rachel: What’s beach food then? Those deep-fried finger food stuff? Eww.

Me: (kinda stumped) Okay, how about something like live seafood? Fresh oysters? (from the sea.) Oh wait, look, they have live seafood here! (imported from some neighbouring country)

We purchased our meals and got settled in big wooden armchairs.

Me: (glancing at Rachel’s fishball noodles) I still can’t believe it. This is so absurd.

Rachel: Haha. Shut up and eat your Ipoh horfun.


（3）
Rachel: Look at that peacock, (peacock perched on handrail of covered linkway) really so proud! Beautiful!

Me: Yeah. Doing what it does best. (looking at the bird sanctuary beside the beach tram stop) Wa the birds are really noisy. I feel like I’m at Jurong Bird Park.



By the way, can I please remind you that we were at Palawan Beach, Sentosa, Singapore?

Disclaimer: Rachel and I have the darndest conversations. The intellectual ones are too many and too long so I decided to show instead what happened when exams, the three grandpas of Sociology and the Sociology of Education got to us.