It had been so long since I last saw Nana on ice. June had been a super relaxed month. SISA ice had been canceled left, right and center bcos of insufficient skaters. For one, ice skating is an expensive sports (read: affluent parents) and when travel opens up, everybody travels. Then the Zamboni went down and the ice was not ideal for classes. Adding on sprained ankle, Nana basically didn't skate much.
July isn't any better. It was covid and her school netball competition and she wanted to cut down on ice skating to concentrate on her netball. We didn't do any SISA in July and had classes on Sunday afternoon instead. Bcos of church and to send Zaky for tuition in the afternoon, it is difficult to make time to see her on ice.
I finally got my chance last Sunday. I dragged Zaky to JCube after church and we taobaoed lunch to eat at the spectator seats. We made it just in time to see Nana in class. Bcos of the infrequent classes, she was lamenting that she had almost lost her axel and for sure lost her double salchow. Her double toe was almost there before June and had now gone into hiding again.
She got back her axle and managed to land several double salchow. 回来了！
I had hoped to see her practising hard after class. I must be dreaming to think that she would. After her lesson was J's lesson and she was chatting and leisurely skating with R around the rink. Zzzzz. For sure, I cannot expect any hard work from her until R goes for her class.
Then the 3 of them monkeying around Coach to look at the video of J's attempted axel jump.
Once upon a time, they were all so tiny. Now, all of them are about the same or taller than Coach.
As expected, Nana finally agreed to show me some real skating when R was in class. A couple of spins and some jumps later, she told me how her ankle hurts, her head dizzy, her skates loose.. Zzzzzzzzzz. In the same space, I saw this young skater working so hard on her own. Zzzzzzzz.
After class, we walk around the mall and I fed her late lunch. Then, she happily went to meet her friend and left me her skate bag. #mummy'slife
I headed home via the MRT and wanted to pick up the scooter that Nana has left at the station for days bcos she kept forgetting to pick it up.
This was what I saw.
Tell me, what is she trying to lock? The hand rail? Haiz, despite me telling her multiple times to lock the scoot properly. Then again, it is either Singapore is too safe or the scooter is too lousy that nobody cares to steal. I think it is the latter.
Zaky went to meet jiejie and friend too. As a result, it was just Daddy Lim and me for dinner.
I was telling Daddy Lim that we must get used to just the 2 of us time soon. We look like we are doing that very well already. Hoho.
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