Went ice skating with Samantha, Tina, Danielle, Danise, Yasmine, Nhi, Janet...
...Yeah, if you didn't figure out by now, I was the only boy in a group of 10 people. But hey, considering my Skype Group is 60% double X-chromosomes, I think I'm pretty used to being surrounded by women. Also, damn, I sound like a pimp in that last sentence.
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| Mind on my money, money on my mind. (via hollywoodlife.com) |
I think I'd be the worst pimp ever though, since when I got there (by walking, mind you) I was immediately greeted by judgmental laughs of nine girls on account on the fact that I was using an umbrella to protect myself from harmful UV radiation. But we'll see who's laughing 40 years from now when my skin is still flawless and they all look like worn out leather chairs from their sun overexposure.
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| "I should've listened to Michael..." (via harvestmoon.co.uk) |
Went inside, got a pair of rental ice skates, laced them up after 20 minutes of figuring out how those things worked, then we all got on the ice and started skating.
Well... about 80% of us did. Samantha and I kinda camped the wall for a bit until she got courageous enough to stop clinging onto the wall and to start using me as a sort of human crutch.
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| Us, in clipart form. (via rjacobpost.blogspot.com) |
When we first started, for some reason we attracted the attention of a bunch of little kids. Whenever we passed them, they were waving at us like we were in a parade or something. A few even tried to help Samantha skate since at the very start, she looked like she was flailing more than she was skating. Maybe they were really nice kids or maybe they just pitied her, I'm not sure which.
The cutest part? We saw these two little girls, both with matching teal helmets, holding each other's hands and slowly, slowly skating through the ice. Probably going at a speed of a couple millimeters a second. It was adorable to watch.
Speaking of adorable to watch, Samantha ended up falling around seven, eight, twenty times. I think it's a testament to how horrible of a human crutch I am, which was a fact that her friends were more than eager to tell me. The second time she fell (and the first time everyone else saw her fall), the other eight girls MOBBED me and said that I shouldn't have let that happen. And I know I should have caught her or something like that, but in my defense, I was SERIOUSLY trying to keep us both balanced and upright. But considering that on ice, Samantha was about as stable as a middle schooler's emotions, there's only so much that a human crutch can handle before collapsing.
Before today, I had a four year streak of not falling during ice skating sessions, a streak that was broken today because Samantha dragged me down with her pretty much every time she fell.
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| Basically us the entire time. (via taureaneclipse.blogspot.com) |
But that's okay. Breaking that streak was worth it if it meant her making a cheesy pun about how we were both "falling for each other."
Here's a few other pics of the day. We ran into the ice rink's mascot while skating. In here, they were mid-conga line.
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| You don't know how badly I wanted to take a picture with that ice cube. |
Tina also grabbed a few pictures. Big thanks to her for letting me post a few of them here!
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| Group photo. (via Tina Cao) |
Wait... hold on a second... one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-ni... oh my god. Do... do you see that?
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| See what? |
WHO IS THAT GUY?
Oh and also there's this one little kid that snuck into the photo like a ninja too.
After almost three hours of skating, we called it a day and got off the ice. I brought over the poem Samantha and I wrote and we recited it in front of the others as a sort of test audience for when we perform it at an open mic sometime this month. I was kinda reluctant to say it at first, but they ended up liking the poem, which is a relief.
After I walked home, I passed out for a bit, then edited a lot more of my short film, with Angela, Kayla, and Christina watching via Google Plus' screenshare program. As always, they decided to have a bit of fun drawing on each other's faces.
And Samantha's probably gonna hate me for this, but let's end this entry with my favorite picture from the day.
RFotD: Scientists are still genuinely baffled as to why ice is slippery when skated on. An early theory was that the pressure generated by the ice skate would raise the temperature of the ice beneath it just slightly above ice's melting point, creating a layer of water and thus, an almost frictionless surface, but that theory is incorrect.
SGAT: Worked on my short film some more, rehearsed the duet poem with Samantha.
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| "Accept me as one of your own, children." |
Oh and also there's this one little kid that snuck into the photo like a ninja too.
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| "Don't mind me, folks." |
After almost three hours of skating, we called it a day and got off the ice. I brought over the poem Samantha and I wrote and we recited it in front of the others as a sort of test audience for when we perform it at an open mic sometime this month. I was kinda reluctant to say it at first, but they ended up liking the poem, which is a relief.
After I walked home, I passed out for a bit, then edited a lot more of my short film, with Angela, Kayla, and Christina watching via Google Plus' screenshare program. As always, they decided to have a bit of fun drawing on each other's faces.
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| "I'm so kowai desu!~" |
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| The truth is finally revealed. |
And Samantha's probably gonna hate me for this, but let's end this entry with my favorite picture from the day.
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| Winner of this year's Least Balanced Couple Award. (via Tina Cao) |
RFotD: Scientists are still genuinely baffled as to why ice is slippery when skated on. An early theory was that the pressure generated by the ice skate would raise the temperature of the ice beneath it just slightly above ice's melting point, creating a layer of water and thus, an almost frictionless surface, but that theory is incorrect.
SGAT: Worked on my short film some more, rehearsed the duet poem with Samantha.
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