why I love taipei

Evening session at the bridge. You roll the dice there. This time, they came up double six. A slew of homies were there and greeted me with warmth. It's a been a slow and gradual homecoming. I'm sinking my teeth back into this place. The bridge mostly cleared out, with a handful of dudes drinking some end of session beers in the back, and a handful of new girl skaters in the front, by the manny pad. Me and a friend skated the manny pad til the security guard came out and informed us we have to leave, because the bridge now closes at 10:00. It was 9:30. I insisted to skate until 9:59, because I am ferocious, and got all charged up listening to okilly dokilly, but I waved good night to the guard when I left. In between, I met a brazilian kid who is here medium term, and apparently skates street. hopefully, we can have a street session soon.

I had street session on my own, but tentatively, not sure how long I could skate or where I should go. I instinctively went to towards Rplaza and beered up. It was a nice and blustery night. The plaza was full, but I cleared out the good bench by drinking a beer on it, and sweating a lot all over the marble. To my surprise, beer was the key, and I could ********* the curbs with minimal effort. As always, the permanently posted police on all sides of the plaza ignored me. I tried ** ******* on the bench, but it just wasnt happening. I sort of, kind of, did it, but there was a lot of lame wiggling to roll away. I finished a beer and decided to cruise north.

I skated a two stair with metal guards on about 3m of it, but still couldnt pull together anything I really wanted to do. whimsically, I gave up and went north to the marble hubba. I thought I could try a ** *-*, but motherfuckers parked their fuckign scooters in the way, so I tired some ******s and went to xingtian temple, fully with the intention of turning right and heading back to lzyk, who wasn't happy that I stayed out so late.

Instead, the light gave me 15 seconds to cross the street, so I did. Then, I was at the 2001 ledge (think if the monolith from 2001 space oddysey got knocked over and you could skate it). There is also a very long three stair of stone, which grinds to the naked truck. I had a hell of a time trying ot ****** up the monolith, and come off the end, and tweaked my back on some of the falls. None of them were that bad, but my frustration built up. I even threw my board, which is a great loss of face, even though no one else saw it. Notthing is more embarrassing than losing your temper.