had an anat group outing yesterday at east coast park. grabbed lunch at the hawker centre, which has been renovated (that's how long since i've been there), then rented a bike each at a nearby bicycle rental shop. rather expensive (five bucks per hour) and the bike wasn't that great (made my butt hurt like hell) but it was the nearest shop and we didn't want to walk all the way to the better shop. we went all the way to fort road and found the path closed. the only way across was to push our bikes up and onto an overhead bridge, so we decided to turn around and head towards changi coast road. about half an hour later, we stopped at the airport perimeter fence to ooh and ahh over the planes which were taking off before heading back. i forsee such outings to be rare in the not-distant-future, which is a real pity.

*added* - just found out from a friend who attended the sunday bp concert that the audience cheered when abuden came on. argh. now i know, go for the afternoon budak concerts! saturday night audiences expect to maintain decorum, ie they're -so- the wrong audience for me to watch bp with. eeks.