I went to Wu Fang ( Cairnhill ) on Thursday and today ( Saturday ) to train for the coming interschool. Basicially it was great when I am training there. Coach Xin Ru helped me to change a few of my moves and she keep asking me to change to contact lense and not to wear spectacles during wushu training. The way I wore it make me look like Lao Fu Zi (Old Master Q). Ren Zoe won 2 golds and 1 silver and I could see he is not really happy with his own result when he told me about it. He got Silver in his cudgel and he lost to Bryan, another Wu Fang students. He lost to Bryan by 0.03. I tried to encourage Ren Zoe already. We went to Paragon’s Taster Food Pte Ltd to celebrate their victory. I am not sure why I am there, I felt quite extra and there is only 6 people who went there. 3 coaches of Wu Fang, 1 assistant coach of Wu Fang, 1 Wu Fang admin and me. I feel quite extra there but anyway since I was there. I enjoy the food there. 13 more days to my competition. 1 year and 4 more months after this coming competiton and if I didn’t win, I know I will regret. Top 3 will be enough. 1st and 2nd will be better of course ( I got second last year ). I have to win for myself, for the school, for Wu Fang. All the best for Montfort Wushu Team and Wu Fang Wushu’s students.
I was just curious the other day, how I rank for different results and I did a search on Google Singapore ( I support Google as a SE by the way) website and I am very surprise to find out
Guo Hong - 8th results
Mr. Simen Lourds - 1st Result
I rank better on Google for my prinicpal’s name than my own name. Haha. Anyway I don’t object to that. My prinicpal is really a person whom I respect so he should be above me.
Our school had its 8th Inter-house Track & Field Meet 2007 meets on last Friday. We are honoured to have Brothers of St Gabriel from Asia in our meet as well. Despite many problems which occured that day like the rain, we really have had many fun that day. My house, blue house, won.
MinNativ, a project started by the our Gaint Chief, Mr. Simen Lourds, has started already. It was mentioned to our school by Mr. Simen a week after the DOS ( Directors of Schools ) meeting hosted by Montfort. Basicially, it is to improve English Language standard of North Zone schools. Before this project had started, Mr. Simen explained how using internationally accepted English is important yet we still cannot abandon the use of “Singlish”. We need to know when to use the correct form of English at the correct time. This project started with the school signing a “contract” that we agree to take part in this project and afterwhich we have a English Writing Workshop.
Today, my class, 4E2, along with 4A2 and 4A3 attended a English Writing Workshop conducted by Principal, Montfort Secondary School, Mr. Simen Lourds in the school hall from 11pm to roughly 12.30pm.
The workshop is basicially great. We learned about ways to write a good essay. To summarise it in the simplest form. Essay writing is divided into 2 types: Inductive and Deductive and a good Thesis Statement is very important for a good essay or essential I should say. A good conclusion summarising all paragraphs by linking them together is a must as well. I went to do a research and I found this site (Social Reseacrh Methods) which explains what these really are. I will write an essay using this method when I get the chance to ( Maybe on Friday ).
15 more days to my spear event. Seems like I am still not consistent with my spear yet. I was at my top form during December 2006 but it seems like my standard had dropped since then and is still dropping. Lets see what happen tomorrow. Congratulate to Ren Zoe and a few other Wu Fang students winning medals from the Primary category.
16 more days to the day when I compete my spear.
Today, training at Wu Fang is basicially great. Done 1 whole routine, 1st duan and 2 last 2 duans. Bing Han helped me to edit some of my moves here and there and suddenly it makes me relate him to You Yang. I went to watch my competition video and one of the National Team ’s spear video and I kind of get the feeling I need back. I will confirm this tomorrow in school when I do the routine. I know 1st and 2nd positions are already gone but I will still fight my best to get them. After the interschool, I will start learning Nan Du moves, preparing for Zi Xuan, althought that is hard but nevertheless, I can try, right? I will start re-learning sword as well, just before June ends (which I “may” stop wushu for O level). Life is meaningless with trying out new stuffs.
I am not sure if I should compete in August National Competition and if I should, who should I respresent. I wanted to represent Wu Fang a lot but I will be”letting the school down.” This year is my last year. I will see how it goes, my mother don’t want me to compete and want me to focus on my “O” level instead. If I really stop, I will be back in action in mid November this year when my O level is over.
First of all, I bought a new mouse branded “edvan”, well I never heard of this brand before but my mother forced me to buy one as my “ex Memorex mouse” don’t listen to my command sometime. I am going to buy a Razer mouse soon when I have enough.
When I was back from Malaysia, I check some of my wesbites, mainly the proxies, all of them went down even before I manage to move them and my new server isn’t up yet. I am going to set the new server up after I can get the “Invalid License File”problem to clear off from the whm and sell the proxies off. I lost quite an amount due to this downtime..eh… I will see what I can do for now.
Wushu competition schedule are out….I will be competiting on a Thursday… Good luck to me hehe. 12 people in my event, I am the 10th
I went to Malaysia because my uncle is celebrating his “70th” birthday and in chinese saying, We will all have to celebrate it with him as a family so he will be happy forever.
This is the picture of the cake, I will upload more when I get them. 
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To Do list
1. Revise
2. Make Blog layout
3. Make notes
My spear competition is on 2007-04-12. All the best Guo Hong
Just a quick note on what I wrote yesterday, it should be spelt as Jaryl instead of Jared and the undefined Z is called Jun An. 
I did well for my routine today and I screwed up a bit yesterday night at Wu Fang but anyway….
Today, Prinicpal of Montfort Secondary School cooked Chicken Curry in front of the whole school. Most of us get a share of it of course but does anyone ever think why did he do that? I personally like the curry and personally told him about it ( hey, its not easy. ). Maybe a bit too spicy thats all but what comes to your mind when a prinicpal of a school cooking 1400 students-worth of curry for his gaints ( refer to his students )?
What I see in the action is not that Mr. Simen is trying to show off but instead no matter what position you are in, how high you sit, who you are, all of us are equal. He is really trying very hard to create a school of students that really love to come to school to enjoy their studies instead of coming to school and fear what is above them (teachers, HOD, DM etc) but is still disciplined enough to know what is right from wrong. I am not a Catholic myself so I don’t really know the extact story but I promise I will find out more about this. Just 1 day before Jesus died on the cross, he gathered all his disciple and he washed their feet. Isn’t that what you really see today?
I have a friend who feedback to me saying my blog has a serious “look” with all its blog posts like this… haha well my friend, I will try to make them more “fun”
Me and Matthew went to Ru Lang Primary School to have a test of pre-competition. It is organised by Wu Fang Singapore , the organistaion which I train under outside my school. It is not as if we never compete before but this is a brand new experience.
Most people who were there are in the Primary group. Ren Zuo with his “gang” of friends who I can never remember their name. Ren Zuo and the other 2 handsome young kids did quite well, not much visible mistakes but only not steady a little here and there, basicially they did very well for it.
Coming to Secondary group is only me, Matthew, Jaryl, Melissa, Danielle and eh… one more who I forget his name, lets define him as Z. Z did quite well but maybe just a little too slow, Danielle was just a little bit too nervous, Melissa dud well as well. Jared is very good in his chang quan so no complaint. After his event, we went to get some drink, he told me he have not been doing his sword for 6 months already so it will not be good but i think he did really really well, maybe a few of his moves are not really steady. When Jaryl is doing his spear, he is already too tired but he still managed to finish it. I think Matthew did well but he said he didn’t. Coming to me, I screwed up my first lan na zha and first throw of spear. My spear stuck onto the carpet when i tried to lift it up, Lesson learnt. I am not sure when exactly happen to my first throw. I just remember that I did’t drop it onto the floor, i just didn’t manage to catch it. Certainly not my best performance but I did my best. A parent came to me and told me that I did well. Well, at least I think its an encouragment.
Training tonight, I shalln’t make the same mistake again.
Take Care.
A lot people had asked me before, how do I manage my position at IFSZ as support staff, my wushu trainings (which is 6 times + a week), school and my online stuffs. I never knew how to answer them as I don’t have a definate answer at all only until today when Mr Simen Lourds, Prinicpal of Montfort Secondary School, gave a speech.
He gave us a simple 4 sided square but I edited it a bit as I didn’t really like it but anyway the idea behind it is the same. The world is all about relativity. When there is a plus, there is a minus so when you can be urgent, you can be not urgent and likewise when something can be important, it also can be not important. Lets make thing simple. Lets just divide our task into 4 simple catergories
- Important
- Not Important
- Urgent
- Not Urgent
It had to fall in either 1 and 3 or 1 and 4 or 2 and 3 or 2 and 4. So to make things easier. It will be something like this.
After dividing our task, we should always do the important and urgent tasks first followed by important and not urgent one. It has been illusioned in the figure above. The number in red shows which we should do first and as followed.
When you know what is important in life, you can save a lot of time by doing those important stuffs first.
Oh, by the way, reading this blog is important and urgent.
Have a good day.
