It was yet another day of insanity today. I arrived at Kallang station, 11.55am. Then I waited.... until 12.20, where Daryl told me he had arrived. Our call was rushed as he was running low on cash. He told me to meet at the colourful building, mentioning the colours yellow, red and blue. I was completely baffled because I could not see any such building around me. I even scanned the whole station to look for another possible exit because I didn't believe that I could have missed him as he exited the station. At 12.30, Daryl called me again after buying a new prepaid card to save my life, by reminding me that I was supposed to go to Stadium and not Kallang. I was really shocked and quickly made my way over through the circle line. Naturally, I was the last to arrive, at 12.55pm. The rest had arrived already. They were eating Subway at Leisure Park. Kai Zhong bought 2 cookies and gave them away. Deirdre took one, I took the other then Daryl gave me one more to speed up his eating rate. So at 1.30, we left for the..... Skating Rink? It had a nice little queue outside, and the girls added to it. Daryl, Kai Zhong and I stood elsewhere. We got in at 2pm, finally. Kai Zhong and Daryl got a pair of gloves each (the girls had brought their own), it was too late before I realized I didn't have one, but I thought "Who cares, it's Singapore, how cold can it get?"

The ice rink was smaller than I expected, but could fit about 75 people quite comfortably, albeit with some really dangerous scenarios. The middle was reserved for tricksters, it was amazing. Well, we went into the ring after putting on our skates, 4 of us being first timers, total noobs :). At the start, it was very wobbly, wouldn't fall, but very unsteady. I kept using the side for support for the first 2 rounds. After a while, it felt like rollerblading though, and I slowly got used to it. Dawn suffered a couple of skin peels, one on each leg, like 20 minutes in. Deirdre and Hanzhi got her a plaster from the counter, it was their last one. Then Daryl got his own skin peel on the ankle. I suggested a tissue as a padding, but it shifted positions often and didn't really help, so instead, both Dawn and Daryl got long socks, then wore it over their current pair, and had trouble fitting back into the skate.

With continuous rounds of the rink, I slowly got more confident and was eventually able to move at a pace I enjoyed. I was the first to slip and fall, which was not my intention. Well, everyone fell except Hanzhi, in the end. I totaled 3, one by myself, another by Daryl's pushing during a race and a 3rd by an attempt to avoid someone which failed. I tripped Dawn in that one as well, she was so pissed after that. 2 hours spent there, we played around with the camera and basically did rounds after rounds on the skating rink. Endurance was key, but everyone got blisters. It was amazing to see certain people moving through so quickly and gracefully, though most were amateurs. Children got to use a mobile support made of metal, which took up some space but overall didn't affect us. We took many breaks but had a lot of fun. Kai Zhong spent quite some time with a friend of his though. He fell the most among us, and his gloves were really wet in the end. The floor got more slippery with time and repeated skating over the same area, which instilled fear in us and friction was further reduced, increasing the chances of falling. Speed was something which I liked, but greater speed meant lesser balance, and balance overruled speed. I did get some fast runs in the times that I decided to take the risk, though.

At 4pm, we were all tired and we left as time was up. Arcade came next, I played with the Claw Machine again. I wasted a lot of money here, I felt so stupid after that, really stupid. But I could have gotten it so many times, the machine just didn't want to let me have it. Pooh got played 5 times, after which it fell to the side. Hello Kitty 1 was swung to the side to, after being picked up thrice. Hello Kitty 2, didn't try much but gave up. Donald Duck, I did it until his head was right over the whole, and the body refused to go over. On my very last try, it grabbed its butt and just flipped it upside down, dropping it back down to square 1. I totally went broke here. Daryl dropped one coin because he had left his coins on the table and they were slamming the machine so the vibration caused it to fall, took a while to find it back. They were playing a game of reaction time where both players had an equal chance of getting the point. Quite interesting. Hanzhi did some physical tap tap thingy with 5 lanes, for like 10 minutes, she was complaining about the slow speed and was tired after that, but they had to add a round 2 to make her suffer. Then Daryl and Kai Zhong against, Dawn and Hanzhi, in Basketball. The guys failed, 38 against the girls' 175. Throwing two balls simultaneously wasn't the way to go, as they would clash and both would miss the basket. Then Daryl went to Time Crisis 2 again.

Dawn then went to eat at KFC because she was hungry (as usual), so did Hanzhi. That was Tea, and they just have to take every single possible meal available. At 5, we went to Suntec City Mall, which was at Promenade Station, something I'd never heard of before. Caught the train just in time. Anyway, Deirdre and Hanzhi used an umbrella to get across 40m, the rest of us ran across. At Suntec City... we discussed what to eat and failed. Then we decided to camp out at Coffee Bean, like really camp. 6pm to 7.35pm, we stayed there and 5 people shared 2 cups of coffee. Deirdre used it as a pacifier for Dawn when she got too noisy or said rubbish (Well, she is 艺乐妈妈 after all). We just talked crap and stayed there because we couldn't decide where to take dinner and no one was coming in to the shop. Daryl showed us some amazing mind blowing tricks. Hunter and Rabbit and a couple of other finger tricks which required multi-tasking of the brain. Then Solar Energy and Soya Bean, wow really laughed at that. Then Hanzhi got me on the head twice with the walk into the tree and the 7th person trick, I still don't understand that one by the way. Then jokes were shared, stories were shared, crap was shared. Black Magic came up again, I will figure it out one day, still impressed by how they do it without me catching it though.

Well at 7.35pm, they went to the food court to eat dinner after deciding that Daryl couldn't tank Kai Zhong's cost at some restaurant, and talked more. I left at 8.10, and used Google Maps to plan my route home. Apparently, I needed to go to Fu Lu Shou Complex, but the route shown was impossible. I had to cross a two way road which was separated by a metal railing, without any bridge or pedestrian crossing. There wasn't even a pavement. I tried to make my own way by running around (getting to the other side of Suntec City Mall hurt as well, I had to go back to the mall to cross), but when I found that I was just bringing myself further from the location, I got desperate and went to the nearest bus stop in search of familiar figures. Thank god, I really thanked god here, there was 61 on the list again. While checking the board that I was in the right direction, the bus itself came. I quickly looked for my stop then hopped on as it was about to move off. I stood throughout the 55 minute bus ride from 8.35 all the way to 9.30. It felt like going through the whole route like a bus driver, except I was not sitting or driving. And worse, with 9 buses available at where I had to change, for 5 minutes, no bus came, not a single one, and I was running late. I finally arrived home at 9.45. Even "anticipating" had failed, because of Google Maps. I had left early and reached home late, this was one of my worst rides back home.

Still an amazing day to spend, possibly the last for this year. Thanks, Dawn :D.