Of beaches and seafood

The beach, the point of fascination of so many people in this world. To be very honest, you'd think having grown up almost directly by the sea i would appreciate that vast body of salty water more but no, unfortunately. I do not. Which is why i dont understand why is it that people would actually want to go to the beach, get all sandy and sticky from the sea breeze just for fun. It makes no sense to me whatsoever to be honest.

A trip to the beach is a topic that i have noticed to always be present during discussion for a quick getaway. Recently, a few of my uni friends are planning one for this saturday (i'm not going if you're wondering..i got lots of things to do). So i told them, in a very gentle way that i'm not up for it:

"malas wanna go laaa"

And they replied

"go play also malas tsk tsk.."

Excuse me? Of course i'm feeling malas for a trip like this. If it's a trip down south to see chingoo it would be a completely different story. I live by the sea, i do not have that city kid's facination for the beach. Honestly those poor unfortunate city souls who probably have spent less than a month in their whole life time by the sea. You poor souls indeed.

And having lived nowhere near water must have deprived those poor things of fresh seafood, too. Why, you should've seen how their eyes lit up at the mention of seafood. Another one of those things that i'll never understand. Why, where i come from, seafood was practically as staple as chicken. We can have seafood any time of the day, any day of the week! It's practically an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet back in my hometown. Those poor souls have to practically make an effort to plan a trip to some kampung like Bagan Hailam in Port Klang to taste fresh seafood. And it's not as cheap as ours either.

Our seafood is cheap and awesome. Their so called seafood is expensive and so not awesome. There is a big difference. Usually if i ended up going for a meal like that, i'll sit back and eat the more normal food like chicken and eggs while letting them eat the expensive stuff. And speaking of which, they're so not willing to spend on good fish. I was like

"guys..what gives? You're at a seafood restaurant and you dont order a decent fish but insted some cheapo fish/fish fillet? Then what's the point?"

Like seriously, this is what i like to call

"too cheap for the good stuff, too expensive for the cheap stuff"

It's like..have you guys ever experienced that moment where you're like

"guys, i live by the sea, you cannot tempt me with seafood" ??

Cz i get that a lot. People like to show off their crabs and prawns and i'm like just

"dude....ㅡ.ㅡ"

Haizzz

I will never understand the fascination of the beach and seafood.