for the most part of sec three i sat next to sarah, my partner-in-crime when it came to getting punished (which basically involved standing for the whole lesson) for being unable to answer questions during chinese class, and that very year i bought the single for sterophonics’s local boy in the photograph . so in all my i-pretty-much-live-in-my-own-world-and-i’m-selectively-deaf-existence, i would sing that song to her, or at least try, and i would sing it all wrong when it came to that part about pebble beach . for some reason still eluding me, i heard rendang beef instead, so i continued singing it that way and never considered it out of place for some ang moh to be referring to beef curry.
on a sidenote though, curry has become the unofficial national food of britain. so much for scones, baked beans and toast. oh and toffee too. i love toffee.
