I Can Conquer All

Finally, our prelims for the first semester are finished. Yesterday was our last test on psychology.

I was a little excited for the ending of the preliminary exams, but I was more excited for my selected blockmates and I were going to Mall of Asia to relax and celebrate. Of course, we were going to ice skate!!

Me, Melissa, Armine, Isay, Nikki, Audrie, Rosnah, and Lei were the original group that was going to go to MoA. During the last minutes, Alleni and Raychel joined. Although I didn't like a LARGE group while malling (My motto during malling is the lesser the people, the merrier.), I just kept mum about it and let them join us.

I served as the tour guide and I discovered that a lot of them haven't even rode the LRT-1 yet. We arrived at EDSA station and rode the orange jeep--the whole jeep was ours for the taking. We deposited our bags first and went off to stroll a little, then we took lunch at the foodcourt. How it was heartbreaking for me to know that I wouldn't be able to eat at my favorite restaurant..... sob sob.....

Anyway, eating at the foodcourt was a new experience. Normally, my lunch together with my Unean pals or my mom will cost five hundred above, this time eating a plate of sizzling pork BBQ and a medium sized Coke cost me below a hundred. Good thing, because my mom just gave me 900 pesos for the trip.

After lunch came the fun part: ICE SKATING!!! Raychel, Isay, and I were first to enter the rink because the others accompanied Alleni to buy jogging pants because she was wearing the uniform. (She joined us impromptu. Raychel, too, but she didn't buy pants. There's a story behind, just YM me to know it.) I was forced to rent a locker. Fine.

I tied the skates and urged the two to enter the rink. I entered first. I felt a little nervous because it was months after my first skating with George, Nikko, and Lisa. I walked a little, but with Raychel tugging on my jacket, I walked off the ice rink and waited for the others.

They came a little bit later, and after wearing on their skates, we went to the big Olympic sized ice skating rink.

Alleni, Lei, Melissa, and Raychel went on walking by the sides with my tip: V your feet and bend your knees. Armine was so scared that she kept on calling me. I walked beside her, told her to raise her feet and walk. But she was hell too afraid. Then she hugged me!! She hugged me, but her feet weren't in the V position, and her weight shifted on me. We fell down the ice.

Isay walked beside her for a while, while I walked the rink. I had to take in some courage and balance before I start. After gaining some guts and balance, I went to the center. After a few minutes, I now know how to glide.

YIPPEEE!! I know how to glide, thus enabling me to circle the rink with no problem.

We went to Q Power Station. Dance Maniax, drums....of course, being with Filipino friends, they couldn't resist entering the Music Station and belting their hearts out on the karaoke.

Ten pesos per song. Okay...the price was reasonable. I hope they wouldn't invite me to go to Red Box. I think it's really expensive there.

So....we will be ice skating next time. Until then!