3 things you must remember for ice skating

I went ice skating at Cantebury with some friends today. Though my ice skating skills improved, my tendency to fall never ceased. Also, because I left the house at the hottest time of the day, I completely forgot to wear the proper attire for ice skating. Hence, I wore shorts and ankle socks, and didn't bother to bring a jacket. For the next time, there are 3 things I must remember: 

1. Wear thick socks.
2. Wear pants.
3. Bring a jacket/cardigan/jumper. 

Anyways, I didn't fall as much as Raymond, but I fell harder than he did. If my camera had batteries, I would've taken a photo of it and upload it just to show you how serious it was. I'm pretty sure when I wake up tomorrow morning, I'll have bruises all over my legs. There were 2 injuries that were particularly painful. One was from knocking into a kid and falling very closely on my tailbone. Luckily, the kid didn't get hurt and besides, she had a helmet on. Another was when we made a train; Linh was the leader and she was going very fast. Jack, being behind me, was also going very fast. I was having a trouble holding onto Linh so when I fell, everyone else on the train fell. Jack said that he almost cut my fingers off because when I leaned backwards, my fingers were very close to his feet. I'm also thankful because if he didn't lift me onto his lap, I could've gotten a bigger scrape on my thigh. We played tips for a while; I was the only one who wasn't 'it,' which was good because i wouldn't have been able to tip anyone anyways.

At around 4:30PM we left to eat at Canley Heights. When we went to pay for the bill, it was a lot cheaper than we thought; we think it was because they gave us the wrong bill xP. Lucky us, I guess. Though I do feel kind of bad. Raymond had to leave early so we all drove to his house. After Raymond left with his family, for a 50th anniversary celebrate of his grandparents or something, we just stood outside his house to chat. Matt gave Elin, Linh and Kenny a ride on his bike since he's on his full license. Linh then felt like going to the beach, so we did. We made a pit-stop at my house first because I needed to change my clothes and all.

We decided to go to La Perouse Beach since it was the closest. By the time we reached there, it was around 8PM. We pretty much just hanged out, chatted and played in the sand. may I say how disturbing Jack's faces were? They looked oddly realistic at night. Or maybe because of the shadows. Either way, it was disturbing. We didn't really play in the water, but Matt actually dared to go swimming even though he wasn't wearing the proper attire, nor did he have a towel. I wouldn't dare to go swimming in the dark. Though, Kenny did have a torch with him. For once, I could see heaps of starts. It was very beautiful, but oddly enough it was in a line. We think it was because there were houses on either side of the beach. Still, I could stare at them all night if I could =). We left the beach at around 9:30PM. I was sniffling by that time. Many thanks to Kenny for driving me home =).

PS. Kenny's manual driving is getting better, but I still think Linh drives the smoothest, in manual or automatic =).
PSS. Thanks Jack and Linh for the photos =).

BBQ + Hot Pot

On Monday, Linh invited me to a BBQ at Jack's house. Anthony was the one who drove us there. We stopped by Carrington's Westfields first to buy some food for the BBQ. I did most of the cooking >=D HA dare say that I can't cook huh?! Then again... cooking a BBQ isn't that hard >.> Since it was so hot in the morning, Jack actually hosed us while we were cooking =.=. Thankfully, he didn't do it for long, or else the food would've been ruined.

Anyways, I felt sorry for the magpies =/ the boys were having fun chucking the leftover sausages at them. Actually, I feel bad about wasting food too, but I didn't actually have the stomach to eat it all. I was saving up for Korean BBQ later that night. We didn't end up going. Anyways, it got worse actually; first it was chucking them, then it was batting with them with a baseball bat, and then they decided to through empty coke bottles instead. Half the time, they hit Jack instead LOL xP.

We played snooker, and then another game involving snooker. I don't know what's it called but it goes like this; we all pick a number out of a cup, and we just play snooker. If your ball gets out, you were out too. In this game, the difference was that you're allowed to hit any ball, not only just stripped or solid ones; and you're allowed to hit the 8 ball as well, you didn't need to wait until the end to hit it in. Yes, I was hopeless at it. Everyone was better than me. Jack and Michael ended up hitting the balls off the table half the time; Michael was really good at the game O_O.

We did different things after that. Some of us watched movies, like Alvin and the Chipmunks: Squeakquel and Dinner with the Schmucks. The chipmunks movie was okay but the Dinner wit the Schmucks was pretty funny =D. We watched a bit of 172 Hours. I thought it was pretty gruesome and graphic; maybe because it was based on a true story =/. I digressed. The others played snooker again. Linh and Lisa went for a walk a couple of times too. When Elin came over, the boys started making pancakes while the girls watched a movie. 

Around 7PM, My Linh and Allan came to pick Lisa, Linh and I up. By then, it actually started sprinkling =.= stupid weather. Linh wasn't feeling that well. But since we were all hungry, we ended up going to Canley Vale for hot pot at Red Sichuan. Unfortunately, my friends weren't working that day =(. Anyways, the food was pretty nice; the interior was half decorative, half mundane (maybe they didn't want to overdo it with the decorations); and they had very nice/good services =). We ordered a half normal spicy and half chicken soup base; we doubted if the spicy side was really 'normal'. If that was normal, 'hot' would've been extremely chili. I think it was mostly because of the herbs that made it spicy. The herbs kind of irritated our throats as well. To me, the spice was something I could handle, but it did make me cough a couple of times. We didn't order desserts because we were all a bit full. The bill ended up being ~$110. I guess it wasn't as bad as the all-you-can-eat TK Something restaurant next door. 

Linh drove us home instead since My Linh didn't want to drive. It took a while to get home because we had a short conversation while parked in front of Linh's house. I won't expose the content of the conversation, but it was kind of funny =P. Anyways, I'm thankful towards Linh because she always drove me home =P. Toby cried when I got home *sigh* =P.

PS. Jack's computer tower was HUGE O_O!!!

PSS. My Linh is a really funny driver =P. 
PSSS. Welcome home to those who went to Kiama =).

pancakes at 10 PM anyone?

It took us a while to get to Pancakes at the Rocks, in Northmead, because we were waiting for Jack to get his check up at the hospital. Eventually, Elin left, and then Kenny needed to go home early too, so Linh, Anthony and I had to go with him since he was the one who drove us there. 

Jack assumed it was a spider bite since there were 2 small bite holes in his forearm, but I guess it was either not that poisonous, or it was just a garden insect, because it's been 3 days before he decided to go have it checked up. It was pretty much red and swollen, I guess it's either due to the inflammation of the leukocytes or the poison was finally taking affect on his body. 

Kenny drove us back to Linh's house, and Linh drove us back out to the Westmead hospital that Jack was at. He's been waiting for ~3 hours and it still wasn't his turn yet. Hungry, we all decided to leave and have some dinner at the Pancakes at the Rocks. Linh was so nice to treat me a meal; she said that it was because I just came back from Malaysia =D. I was starving all day, so I was really glad when the food finally came. Strangely enough, even though I was really hungry, I got pretty full from the meal. Usually, I could eat some more food, but today was enough for me. I had the urge to take away the food as lunch the next day but they didn't have that kind of service *sigh*. Many thanks to Linh for the food and for driving me home anyways =). To be honest, I think Linh is one of the smoothest drivers out of all the friends' cars I've sat in. I also think Kenny needs more practice with his manual driving =P. Damn. I still have a lot more things to unpack =(.