Meeting Up At Tatsuya

Saturdays are my preferred days to sit down to long dinners at regular favorites or try out new flavors. However, I'm not inclined to try out some of the new restaurants at Marina Bay Sands or the Padang area till a later date.

There're two new establishments that I'm rather interested in. I want to compare the original to what have been set up here. But I'm not in any mood to fight crowds and traffic till after August and perhaps after September. So I headed to a familiar favorite for dependable sushi and sashimi. It was a busy night for Tatsuya, but they squeezed us in anyway.

It was good for us all to connect and catch up to speak of certain events which happened over the past 3 weeks. Dinner conversation was not kept light. As a girlfriend from another circle put it, "We're all angsty this week." Being angsty could very well be infectious. The conversation was heavy, analytical, critical and deeply disturbing.

Our comments and opinions to the topics raised were heartfelt, honest and at times, painful. I can depend on this group to say it like it is without the bullshit. This is a circle of trust. There's a reason why we aren't particularly sociable to others outside of the circle. We left the restaurant and drove away with much food for thought, literally and metaphorically.