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Its amazing how time flies… its already June and my milk has expired… it felt like i’ve just went to the supermarket just yesterday. Its times like these that i miss being around friends. Work is heavy and the responsibility is more than i can take…

Its strange how the quantity of time with friends is changing at a constant pace of slowly and becoming more of quality time with friends. A simple meal, a short session of coffee (or tea or cocktails). I think i’m getting old… i’m starting to feel all nostalgic at the present, the present which i know i can’t spend too much time on.

The wierd anxiety in me is manifesting itself physically and to me thats worrying. The solution is simple… go skating… go sweating… i will real soon…

I’ve been spending more time with my little girl of late and i’m really enjoying it. I can see that she live life to the max. When she is awake, she is busy… exploring, trying stuff, touching everything… she is so curious. Then when she is tired, she sleeps well… she goes into a deep deep sleep… preparing herself for the next adventure. Its nice seeing her dozing off and her body forcing her to rest.

btw, the hit song now is Itsy Bitsy Spider after Twinkle Twinkle Little Star topped the charts for few months.

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…