The Weekend Hiatus: The Fall

So on Thursday afternoon, I met up with a couple of aunts and we went grocery shopping at ShengSiong Supermarket.

Frankly, I don't quite remember what happened on the first day, 'cept that it was a little dreary and I had nothing much to do. Just a bit of unpacking here and there, I guess.

And my biggest regret for this family chalet was that I didn't bring my journal and pen. FUCK!!! Which creative person in the right mind would leave their journal and favourite pen untouched for days on end?!

So later in the day on Thursday, cousin Sheryl arrived, despite feeling unwell. Later in the evening, Sheryl's friends came. They were all in some way or another very musical and loved singing, while I'm way on the other end of the spectrum—no musical inclinations whatsoever and having a potentially odious singing voice.

In fact, I find my talking voice quite repulsive to begin with. That is, until Idil said that my voice was nice. Hee~ I love people with good taste. =D

So anyways, I woke up Friday morning and Sheryl suggested to go walk walk at the beach or something. But then I ended up renting a pair of skates and went skating alone at Pasir Ris Park.

Fifteen minutes into skating, it bloody rained. Luckily it didn't last too long. But I was still worried that I might slip on the wet ground.

It felt really good skating. I haven't skated for the longest time ever! It's the next closest thing (other than walking) to doing sports for me. I had an idea that I should start buffing up a little. Then again, I always had that idea intermittenly throughout the months. Just never quite got around to doing it.

A while back, I interviewed for a job at a sports company specialising in inline skates. I thought it was my big break to having an active lifestyle. And I thought I'd finally get my own pair of blades. But apparently not.

So now, I'm really dying to get a pair of blades. Nothing is going to stop me from skating. Not even a nasty fall:



Quite graphically disturbing right? Tsk, but if you can't take it then too bad for you ar...

So I was skating happily along the park when the skates got stuck together. Instead of keeping calm, I kinda freaked out and before I knew it, I was sprawled on the ground, stinging with pain. You know how sometimes accidents like that become a slow motion moment? Well, not in this case. Everything happened so quickly I didn't have much time to react.

I was pretty calm though. Sure it hurt like hell lah, but I'm so fucking manly I can conceal my pain and go on like nothing's happened.

I slowly glided to the toilet which was godforgivingly nearby and cleaned my wounds. I swear the palm hurt like nothing I've ever felt before!

I gingerly skated on, hoping to find someone with some basic first aid supplies. My best bet appeared within seconds: a group of young-ish mothers and their preschool kids.

So I got baby wipes and some plasters—some REALLY cute plasters:



Then I tried in vain to get antiseptic cream from people. So I skated over to Downtown East since it was the sure place where I can get antiseptic cream. I dunno, but I just have this obsession with antiseptic cream. For whatever wounds, I just think that it's terribly important to apply antiseptic.

It was quite fun skating to Downtown East. Despite my wounds, I still was able to explore more of Pasir Ris Park. I finally saw the GallopStable thingy, with all the horses and stuff. The poor horses looked terribly out-of-place there though. It didn't help that they didn't respond when I said 'Hi!' to them. I'm just having to wonder, why the long face?

HAHA!.. Yeah, I know, overused horse joke.

I got my antiseptic cream from Watson's and chatted a bit with the cashier, recounting my fall and then gliding off precariously. Just before I entered Watson's though, this security guy got all stern on me and told me that I was not allowed to skate on the premises. Like whatever. I was there, I got my antiseptic, I was gone.