A Fall to Remember

(Pick a random tune here). “Liz, lumalakas ang ulan!” Chai said hoping to keep me from singing another note. And people around us who have heard this remark, those who sought shelter from the rain, snickered with her.
Fine! I won’t sing. But I won’t leave Quezon City Circle skating rink without my sixty-peso-per-hour roller blades going around it either.
It was drizzling when we were putting on the rented blades. When the drizzle became anything but light rain, we had no choice but to wait for it to stop. So we stretched a bit (yep, with our blades on), practiced standing (of course with our blades on), talked about going home because the downpour seems endless but figured we’re going to have to wait for it to stop at any rate (with our blades on), sang (that was when Chai mocked me), chitchatted the owner of the rink, and then, ummm, just plain waited (still with our blades on).
Eons later, the rain stopped, but my companion regained sanity and decided she doesn’t want her clothes to get wet. I’m going to have the rink all to myself then. She stayed there nevertheless – to hear me shout her name for help when I’m losing balance, see me fall, and wet my hair and the lateral half of my pants and underpants (damn puddles!). I brought Chai down with me on my second, my last and final, fall that day - so much for keeping herself dry. Hehe. Hindi kami tumayo agad pagkatumba. We have lain on the rink’s watery floor for while and analyzed how she could have prevented my (our) fall, and, then laughed at ourselves.

Moral of the story: Never skate alone.

That was my fourth one-hour skating visit to QC Circle’s rink. And I’m very glad I have learned to skate before I can consider myself very old for skating (by that, I mean 22 years and up). Haha. Of course, my ass kissed the rink’s floor a hundred times, but I guess it was all worth learning how to skate. I’m still not close to being an X-gamer though. Am I willing to do more ass-kissing to achieve that? Hmmm… Nah!



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@fil
si ma'am conchitina cruz prof ko. magaling siya. i-google mo. haha.
fulbright scholar, magna cum laude, valdectorian sa CAL nung time niya.

@dyan
bonding ulit minsan! sana makasama ka na

@elma
ayan, medyo sinipag ako. ü
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