Ice Skating at GEM

After fetching my aunt to Golden Mile to take the coach bus back to Malaysia, we headed down to J Cube for ice skating. It was one of the activities that we wanted to try out since long time ago and we were finally not procrastinating it anymore as Ivan is going to become "car-less" by end of this month. The skating sessions only come in a 2-hour block and we chose to go for the 5.15pm-7.15pm session. Before the session started, Ivan wanted to stand around the ice rink to observe so that he could try out what he had observed later in the rink. 

When it was time, we queued to buy the entrance tickets and boot rental voucher at $17.50 per pax. We bought our own gloves and socks so that we didn't have to spend more. I don't think that the gloves are necessary though. It will be good if you have it but it doesn't kill if you don't. It was definitely cold in the rink but Ivan still perspired while skating.. I didn't know how was that even possible.

I know how to roller blade, but the first time experience of stepping on ice felt very foreign to me. Initially, I was skating near the side of the rink fearing that I would fall. Subsequently, I got the hang of it and was skating more freely. Ivan fell a few times though. The sadist in me thought that it was a pretty funny sight the first time he fell, but after awhile, I just got used to it.
  

I risked bringing my phone into the rink to snap pictures instead of putting it into the rented locker ($2). Ivan was holding on to my phone for me at first, but I figured out that my phone would have a higher probability of survival in my hands since I was more stable than him. 

Ice skating was really fun and the scorching heat from outdoor won't be there to irritate you. It's also cheaper than roller blading on a weekend since the rental fee for roller blading shoes is $10/hr and there's no buy-1hr-free-1hr. We will definitely go back there again next time, probably on a weekdays so we don't have to fear that we will knock into others if we skate too fast.  

On the same day, we went to Ice Cream Scoopz at Upper Thomson Rd for supper. That is one of the cheapest ice cream waffle place around I think. 2 scoops + waffle at $7.60. We ordered jackfruit and rootbeer ice cream. When I was trying the jackfruit ice cream, the initial taste of it was quite disgusting but the after taste was nice and I ended up choosing that instead of durian. The place wasn't very crowded as well so it will be good for gathering. I had gone to Salted Caramel on a weekend night before and the noise level was so horrendous that it was difficult to talk to your friend sitting opposite of you. Unless I feel like eating salted caramel ice cream, I will visit this shop instead of Salted Caramel or Udders along the same street.