Ice is slippery, yes, but skates are NOT

I've finally figured out why I find ice skating so slippery. Particularly when I try to skate quickly, and push hard only to find the skate slipping all over the place. And get cramps in my toes -.-

That is because today I found out that Fuji Ice Palace's rental skates are not sharpened.

Yes, not sharpened.

I know they say one should be able to tell when a pair of skates is unsharpened, but if, like me, you've only ever worn unsharpened skates, you'd never know, would you?

I was wondering how their boots managed to survive to such grand old ages when their blades should have been sharpened down to nothing a long time ago. So I looked at the bottom of the blades after I took my skates off and got a shock.

Now I know why ice skating is so unpopular here. Imagine you're good at inline skating, but when you try so darn hard not to fall when you're ice skating and the only thing your skates do is to slip right out under you, over and over again, and cause you to land hard on your derriere, you're going to think twice about liking ice skating. Let alone forking out about $13 for 2 hrs.

If I'm not mistaken, Kallang Leisure Park Ice Skating Rink actually sharpens their nice, comfy, padded rental skates, as compared to Fuji's hard, old, stinky and painful and unsharpened ones. Not to mention RUSTING ones.

Looks like I'll be making the extra distance down to Kallang instead. It'll cost me more time and the entry fee is more expensive, but if their skates are sharpened, I guess it's worth the trip.

-.-

To all future ice rink owners- sharpen the darn blades, for ice skating's sake.

Sleep-in-late-days are here!

Yes, the long awaited sleep-in-late-days have arrived.

^^ I love sleeping in late. And thankfully so, because that's about the only good thing this "holiday" brings. Oh, and ice skating. And late night movie watching :)

But wait. I've got to clear the bad things first.

1. Chemistry (sad that this once-favourite subject should rank high on the "bad things" list) :
a. Revise and practice J1 topics.
b. Revise and practice J2 topics.
c. Holiday homework package
d. 5 prelim papers

2. General Paper:
a. GP essay resources
b. GP video reviews
c. 10 GP resource articles

3. English Literature
a. Organize notes for Herland and The Duchess of Malfi and A Clockwork Orange
b. Re-read Great Expectations and organize notes (during the 14 hr flight time)
c. Re-read Brave New World and organize notes (goodness knows when)
d. Get notes for makeup lecture from someone.

4. Biology (is a relief for sore brains)
a. Holiday assignment
b. Revise J1 topics
c. Revise J2 topics

*on the verge of hysteria*

I think going to Japan is the smartest thing I've chosen to do this year. At least I'll have a one week holiday, because if I stay home it'd be work work work all the way. The only downside is that I'll be missing Mr. P's makeup lit lessons on BNW, which is something I totally need. Thank God for people like Helsa :)

Schedule for this week
Monday:
12-3pm- Bio Lecture
Homework: 2 GP video reviews. Prepare for tmr's KidsRead session.

Tuesday:
9-11am- Bio Lecture
1.30-3pm- KidsRead programme
Homework: 3 GP resource articles

Wednesday:
Nothing.... thus far.
Homework: revise 3 J1 Chem topics and 2 J1 Bio topics.

Thursday:
Nothing...again! Thus far anyway.
Homework: Revise another 3 J1 Chem topics and another 2 J1 Bio topics.

Friday:
8.30am-12pm: PSC look-into-your-brains test.
Homework: *Don't I deserve a break after a 4 hr test?* Organize Lit notes for TDOM and CO.

Wow. If I can actually stay on task with my homework schedule for the first week of hols it'd be a really really good thing indeed. But knowing me, and life, it probably won't happen. Therefore:

Saturday and Sunday: catch up with whatever I fail to finish from Monday to Friday.

Ok. This is beginning to look do-able.

It's 10.50 am. Off to my first task of the hols: a 3 hr Bio lecture. Here goes nothing.