It's been a long and tiring day..I just got home..and bathed..and turned my computer on..and logged on to blog..You know it's been a tiring day when things like these gets exaggerated! :P Seriously speaking though, it's been a long day..Long but fulfilling day spent at ECP! :)
We (yaling, kenneth and i) met up with jessica and her friends - darren, yili and adrian (not myself obviously!)..While the rest of the guys brought their own equipment - bicycle and roller blades - yaling and i had to rent our bicycles..We as a group went pretty slowly as the guys (darren, yili and jess) weren't pro bladers! That's not to say that they were bad..bad would rear its "ugly head" later..well, soon! Anyway, we moved slowly to bedok jetty where we took a rest and where the afternoon took a drastic turn! darren had been bugging me to blade since we met up at macdonald's and i have been relentless in rejecting his offer..My excuse being that the rest of them could blade and i couldn't (which was a dumb excuse i might add!)..My last few excuses consisted of if kenneth or yaling learnt with me, then i'll go along!..which was not such a bright idea afterall..Since the next thing that happened was, kenneth borrowed darren's blades and started showing his stuff! Which was left with just yaling..So i was thinking, since i myself was slowly being tempted to give it a try, i might as well drag my best bud down with me! :P Wrong move..So it was at the pond at ECP where i had my first feel of roller blading..From the moment we tried on the blades - i borrowed from darren and yaling borrowed from yili - it was pretty clear she could move while i can only struggle! Kaoz..it was pretty hard work at first as i could barely move and there yaling was gliding further and further..But thanks to darren and kenneth especially for being such patient teachers, i could move around better without help, ableit slowly! I shall not describe a particularly "obscene" but amusing moment where darren was attempting to lead me holding my hands but we both fell - with him on top of me!
With our bicycle rental running out, we had to cut short the lesson and return the bicycles..Which was then darren suggested we rented blades! Gosh, this guy is persistent! So we did (kenneth included!)..After lunch, the guys suggested heading out towards the direction of fort road..I was quite amused cuz i could hardly move from the blade rental shop to mac's..lest all the way to fort road! But it turned out a pretty good idea, as i kind of got more used to blading...okay so along the way, there were a few balancing acts by me..but blading became a little more natural..Okay fine, not that natural but less wobbly! Yaling was really patient, staying by me throughout the whole way and teaching me to get over humps (which wasn't easy with blades!) (thanks bud! -hugs-)..by the end of the session (we didn't reach fort road, incidentally and fortunately for me! :P), my legs were kind of wobbling..But i must say it had been a great experience..and i must show off here, i hardly fell throughout the day (once when i turned around to kaypo about another person's collision and once when i went off the pavement towards the shop!)..Not bad for a first timer eh?
After returning the blades, most of us went our separate ways - kenneth fetched yaling home in his lorry, jess and adrian went in a car and yili and myself went to catch a bus to bedok where we had dinner together with one of her friends..and where yili teased me non-stop about my "ballet-blading"! Gosh, if only i could wring her neck!
So now here i am, after dinner and after a long and tiring day..ready to rest my body..So when are we blading again ar? :P
... ...addy is currently obsessed with Eminem's "Like Toy Soldiers"..step by step..heart to heart..left right left..we all fall down..like toy soldiers..