The Shrimpaporean Story

22.10.06
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hmm, went ice skating yesterday.

ok so woke up at 9.00am then went to meet shil, mei and oli at city hall mrt where we took the green line to jurong east. the ride was quite fast actually, compared to last time. or is it because we were too entertained with our own lame jokes.

reached jurong east and went to have lunch at long john's silver. whoa, i just realised i am very addicted to the clam chowder.

then we went up to the rink and got ready. i seriously dont know how to get the boots tied to both my feet. hahah. so shil had to help me with it. oh ya, saw vicki and her sister there.

right so the first time when i was standing on the ice, the feeling was so weird, like i cannot feel my feet at all. haha. hand to move along using help from the handrail surrounding the whole rink. so dumb, just like how i learnt roller blading last year. yep so as time passes i got kinda used to it. but with much help from mei la. she skated around me so whenever i needed help, i will just pull her hand. haha. then erm, i still couldnt muster the skill of stopping the skates so i will either turn and crash into the railings or i will just bear-hug mei. hahaha. so funny la. got one time i bear-hugged her until she fell down with me. and the other time, when i was close to losig my balance, i grabbed her red pullover which she tied on her neck. i almost strangled her. hahaha.

oh ya, at the beginning, i forgot to mention that oli fell down on the floor with her back against the ice. then i was still learning you see, so i just continued skating forward with her lying with her legs wide open in front of me. at that moment, i thought i was going to skate over her and fall flat but i stopped just in time.

there were many times when i was going to fall, my first reaction was to squat down. haha. and so i did but i didnt know that as i squat down, my legs actually moved further apart from each other. so shil and mei were laughing at me, cause i looked like i was attempting to do a split while squatting.

i fell a lot on my knees. some on my butt. the first time when i fell on my left knee, i couldnt recover until after 2 minutes. not because the pain was unbearable or something but my whole leg just went limp. i couldnt control it whatsoever. then mei helped me up. there were a few other times when i fell on my knees but those are not as memorable as the this. shil asked me if i wanted to skate faster, so i was like ok. then she pulled me while i just went with her flow and i pulled mei along. so it was like a chain with me in the middle, shil in front and mei at the back. but halfway through mei let go of my hands and i wanted to grab her bag so i just moved my skates a bit and i went down on both my knees. and it took shil a few seconds to realise that she was actually dragging me on the ice. oh my, after that fall, i actually couldnt stand up, even when mei and shil tried to pull me. they ended up dragging me. but at long last, i still managed to continue skating with painful knees.

oh yeah, i saw that foilist from RGS, namely, esther's friend. haha, shil was so nice to tell her to tighten her skates. and guess what, for the whole day yesterday, whenever i see her, i just called her the foilist cause seriously, i dont know her name ever since i met her at the gala in september.

and people, you must be informed not to wear white pants when going ice skating or when it gets wet, everything can be seen. me and shil were like laughing so much yesterday la, when mei was like some innocent poot who didnt know what we were laughing at until we told her. it was quite obvious actually.

OLI finally learnt how to skate on her own when we were going to leave the place. good for her, at least she didnt fell as much as me.

yes and there's this guy, a china scholar i think. while i was deep in thoughts, thinking about what should we have for dinner, he fell behind me and slide acrossed the ice and either hold my boots or touched it just to stop himself. as i was quite sensitive, the moment i felt it, i screamed as loud as i could. and he IMMEDIATELY let go and apologised. haha. i guessed i scared him. but that would be my first reaction la.

at around 4, we left the rink and went to the arcade where me and oli were playing this basketball game while mei and shil were looking at this guy playing the percussion machine thing. haha. then mei and oli wasted 2 dollars each trying to grab minnie mouse and winnie the pooh from the machine respectively. but i think the machine is meant to cheat our money lor. i see the claw already grabbing the toy but when it loosens suddenly. like what the hell.

then we went to take neopints. the funny thing is that the background colour of that particular machine was green and oli was also wearing green. so all the pictures which we took, oli's shirt was actually the same colour as the background. it was so funny la.

right so then went to delifrance where oli got her mixed fruit tart while shil got her sultana croissant. then went to macs where i got myself a diet coke and mei got herself a vanilla ice cream. yep, by that time, it was about 5+ already, had to make our way to parkway.

took mrt to paya lebar then bus to parkway.

walked around pp while waiting for vicki to come join us for dinner. oh ya, vicki left us earlier because she had something on.

went to ajisen ramen for dinner. it was so funny, mei laughed till her face turned apple red. all because of vicki and her monkey movements. oh like how vicki was staring at this HOT guy. yeah man, real hot.

right then i cabbed home. real tired when i reached home but managed to finish watching sky high.

oh ya, shil went to buy the part 2 of the korean drama while oli bought the goong soundtrack all at Poh kim.

and last thing, i just realised that me and shil can actually have a conversation although we may be talking about 2 totally different things. e.g. i was talking about Han Wudi of the Han dynasty and there she was, yakking about the Han dynasty of the korean history. great. haha.

and here are some pictures.

ok this is my left leg. look at the bruises. this goes to show how hard and how much i fell.

and this is my right leg.

i know it looks kind of gross but this is really what happened. gosh, and i even continued fencing today. made it worse.

and my throat is really dry after last night, i think it's because at the rink, i never drank a sip of water for 3hours and only drank a sip from vicki's water bottle. and now my throat hurts a lot. argh

here are some pictures i took in shanghai during my june holidays.