Month: May 2004

I’ve been quite “tied up”, “up tight”, “up right”, “right out” busy… i need to BeZzz…

I’m missing the good o’l skating days as i restart UrbanPlayground on its new url at http://up.nickpan.com. The passion in the skaters i know is magical, the skate sessions were priceless… I remember uncle Steven asking a group of youth in around 1997 – 1998 about their ambitions and when it got to my turn i said i wanted to build a skatepark and provide positive influence to the youth at large… and up till today i still wanna do that…

My bro and i built a funbox from scratch at home and looking back i’m quite happy we did not just talk about it, but actually got around to actually making it happen.

Of cause after building it, it was party time! we got like 20+ skater friends over and we hit the funbox like mad. On the left is Andrew who was one of the smoothes skaters i know then and he was very natural in his backside farfernugens. On the right is Brian who did the sickest entry and exits, things like 270s and 360s before and after tricks. Here is him doing a Savannah which was very progressive at that time and amongst fellow skaters.

At around 11pm the cops arrived and asked us all to stop what were we doing… i think our one too many cheers to fellow skaters for landing sick tricks were just too much for the old lady opposite the road.

Here is me doing a Christ Grind at Festival Park in Tampines. I’ve hanged up my skates… it did its time and its busted… i’ll get a new pair… i will… its not over yet…

Work has been pretty stress of late… whats new… i mean like work is usually fun for me, but lately i’ve been dishing out heavy words to my co-workers… by doing that, i feel lousy too and somewhat heavy hearted… but what needs to be done, needs to be done, what needs to be said needs to be said…

So i took out my old CDs and now Rancid is battering away this heavyness with its …AND OUT COME THE WOLVES album. reminiscence… pure nostalgia…

Clié woke up very early and kept disturbing us when we were sleeping… She climbs on us, slaps us and make all sorts of funny noises while we made ours… snoring i mean… we just switched on the tele for her and who knows what she does for entertainment in the early hours of the morning all by herself.

Anyway… we had a really good family weekend, we love going to sentosa once again. Its really nice to spend the entire day with our little girl…

Karim Rashid’s Butterfly can be found at Parco Bugis Junction. Cool eh… I must go there eat just because of the chair.