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Saturday, September 22, 2007

hehe we had to cancel the original beach outing to cronulla cos of the rainy weather..but in the end we had fun:) there were so many tiny little kids who were spinning and jumping and whizzing about the skating rink..haha and we were just circling the sides..met this really nice young guy who gave me a few helpful tips about some neat tricks:) i can skate backwards now! heh i shall work on them.

some of the young kids there were really talented..i think its nice how they're allowed to pursue an interest so intensely at such a young age. the impression i get from singapore, is that its always studies first, and anything else is secondary. which is good in a way i guess, but then it robs many of their interests and goals and dreams. like the nice young guy who was giving us pointers..he's 17 and working and iceskates 5 days a week..and nobody thinks thats weird. oh haha and he unicycles pretty often too (i thought that was cool - never actually knew anyone who had a unicycle). but anyway, he was happy with his iceskating and unicycling:) and i bet its the same for most of the kids we saw that day at the rink..if they had been brought up in singapore, i doubt that many of them would have been given the opportunity to pursue their interest in iceskating. its not just cos singapore's small; its not like there are iceskating rinks everywhere in australia..its the perception that its not ok to do anything else other than to do well in school, move on to university and get a well-paid job.

Though it would be freaking cold, I really wanna iceskate over an actual frozen lake:)
~me~ at 2:49 AM