ice skating

went back to Fuji Ice Palace today to ice-skate with Weide...

din noe whether i would have forgotten everything by then and like be a clumsy collosal fool and fall flat on my face but was surprisingly delighted to be able to skate almost 100% the same as where I left it at a few years ago.. just a bit rusty at the edges (ha!)

was supposed to teach Weide how to ice-skate, but guess he din need much teaching... (considering what a great athlete HE is.. roll eyes~.. some peeps are just luckier)and well, he picked up real fast and was moving pretty fast, and well, even tried to learn cross-overs.. hee

feels REAL cool to go back on the ice, to feel the wind brush past your face and to move so darn fast whilst avoiding the various other figure skaters attempting their spins and jumps, as well as those irritating caucasian kids with their metal holders (something to allow them to hold on and skate)...

guess that was my passion for ice-skating last time... the wind, the iciness.. yet honestly, in my heart i was wondering how awful i would look like on ice trying those stunts, like some fat oaf trying to be a ballerina or someting...

it's just wierd... cos figure skating's so feminine and so expressive, with the leg raises, the diva-like hand gestures and so on... so for a guy to learn? it's pretty confusing at times... but well, that's in the past i guess... but hey.. today i saw three relative young guys trying to learn freestyle 1-ish stuff... which honestly makes me pretty pleasantly surprised

so well... my legs WERE tired but it was fun.. and well.. there was good company also lah.. i also saw Saki.. a japanese young girl that used to skate in Kallang and was at Freestyle 2 whilst i was in Freestyle 1... now she's like darn good, going for triple axles and stuff... but still looks very young-ish... but she doesn't recognize me liao... quite duh lah i guess...

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