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Wasted
0As I said in one of my previous post, this. I am not that “pro” in bowling and it causes me and my team to pay a lot money in the end. Alamak… Today we went to play again at Marina Square but instead with another group of people.
Suppose to meet Eileen at 2.40pm but I reach there at 1.30pm.. A bit too early ar? I just walked around alone. I was wearing Nike shoes and pants with Adidas shirt. ( Weird combo, right? ) Then I reach a Adidas shop who makes me want to go in and find something I like but I think again and again and decided to give that idea up, I am not sure why I don’t dare to enter. Haha. Walked around till 2.35pm then later met Eileen and we walked to Marina Square… It was very far.
We reached there but we cannot find SuperBowl. I am not sure where was it but I knew it was at the 3rd floor. We walked one big round finally reaching there and we asked to open the 2 lanes that Hong Wei booked but she says what we have to tell her between 2.55pm to 3.00pm and now is 3.15pm so she cannot do it for us. She speaks a bit too fast and I have to catch up with her. ( I finally know who people feel when they talked to me ). Then we asked if we could opened another 2 lanes then since that 2 were being sold since we didn’t reach on time then she asked for our IC. Both of us didn’t bring IC so I decided to pass her my EZ-Link ( Which has my picture on it ) and she says cannot… ARR… So we decided to wait… and wait then she decided to let us have 1 lane. Me and Eileen played 1 game and Susan ( whom I never see before ) came followed by Kelvin and Simon ( who went to shop right after they reach )… Only 3 of us so me and Eileen played another game.
I am not sure if it is because the lanes are short or I learnt something from SK and Eileen. I did not do quite badly today. I never get below 50 today. ( At least haha ). Eileen turns out to be a bowling pro. We then rest for 1 game for Hong Wei, Susan, Kelvin and Simon to play. Hong Wei was pretty good despite his right arm injury. Later Simon and Kelvin went out to eat leaving me Susan, Hong Wei and Eileen so we opened another lane and play a 2 by 2. We did not play loser punch this time. This match I got 76 ( Not bad for me actually ) with Eileen around 140 and we meet Hong Wei and Susan by 70+. Played another match and we win them again. We should had played punch so we can save $7.80 each. Haha. Payed for 4 games and we went to eat.
Ordered some Chicken Rice which was pretty nice and went back home after that. Pictures speak a thousand words but sorry I didn’t manage to take any today.
The best part of wushu
0Today, we had soccer and wufang and I was the goalkeeper. Not so bad but David make me scared but its okay. He kicked the ball very very hard and luckily Jaryl is around to save the day. I let in a few goals though but some of which is that they are lucky. There is only 1 or 2 that is really a nice goals. 1 own goal somemore but its not me. Xue Jiao Lian is always the man who score the most critical goal for our team. Haha.
I am not sure what happened to me latey, I am just not myself. We then proceed on to kickings or rather warm up and that continues for like 50 minutes. This is the most tiring training among the 2 years I ever had. The requriments are very high today and I am not sure what happened to my left leg. It just don’t listen to me. A few that I don’t know as I did not learned before and it is causing me a lot of trouble. I didn’t do XFJ today as coach ask me to train on my TKFJ’s landing instead and I am quite grateful with that. Not because I get to skip XFJ but because I can focus on 1 jump instead. Xuan Zi is okay but I shouldn’t look at the floor too much and my legs should go round in a circle. Xuan Zi Lian Jie I really cannot do at the moment. After that, the whole team do CQ.
CQ = hell, at the moment.
Give me sometime.
My back and my right knee is causing me a lot of problem. Never ever injuried your back!
Wufang performance at Chinese Garden
14 years ago
Woke up at 5.30am to “prepare” and went out at around 6.30am or 7am ( If you count the bus waiting time ) then took 161 to Woodlands followed by MRT to Jurong East then changed to Lakeside then took 154 to Chinese Garden. Sms’ed Yao De about it but in the end Jaryl phoned me, then I remembered Yao De is sicked and cannot talk already although I heard him and Coach Xin Ru at the background voices. Later I resms Jaryl to confirm the location or how to get there and luckily, he sms’ed me a detailed one if not I will be lost. ( I am a “lu chi” and a “bai chi” ). Reached there at around 8.45am and saw the team already there, A few namely Ren Zoe, Zhe Wei and Wayne with a lot of them which I don’t know their name or know their name but don’t know how to spell.
They formed a semicircle and started performing. 1 round finished, my task is to make sure the adults don’t cut through them but a lot still did. Its either I am slow or the adults are fast. It should be the first. We were all under the sun and there is a lot of problem of the adults cutting across the area so Coach Xin Ru get the volunteers to get tape to tape up the place. The team then performed again in that taped area and here came the GOH.
The GOH is Mr. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education and Mr. Lim Boon Heng. The Wufang kids get the chance to take a photo with them after they finished the performance. Whats makes me laugh here is how Yao De gave the instructions to me and Jaryl on how to get the boys to gather to take a photo after Ren Zoe’s performance of routine.
The kids were standing in 1 line all facing the Minister and Ren Zoe is performing the routine while Me and Jaryl is standing behind them then Yao De came to me and Jaryl and said “Get them to gather and take a photo later”. My question is how and when but I thought Jaryl know haha. Anyway it was settled and done. Later me, Ren Zoe, Jaryl and Yao De went to eat, Coach Xin Ru
We then went to eat at KFC, Yao De, Zhi Yong, Jaryl, Coach Xin Ru, Ren Zoe with Wayne and his family in another car. We went to buy food and now I gave the wrong instructions to the person who take my order, I ordered something for Yao De and i said I want Large Popcorn Chicken as well ( Reading from the board which shows a set meal ) then when he gave he did not give me a set but instead a Large PopCorn chicken. Haha anyway I just bought a drink with it afterthat.Then Jaryl and Yao De do some owl stuffs and what ninja which I don’t understand and talk about what fist and head and whole body. Never mind haha.
We then went opposite to SuperBowl. Yao De and Jaryl played a match of Pool. Jaryl is really good. We then played a game of “open” bowling. I did very well in that match, got a strike, a split and some good stuffs. ( This is my second bowling I ever played in my life ), my score is around 70+ when I finished. Not too bad for a starter? I don’t know how it counts but if it helped, me and Jaryl was in 1 team and Yao De, Coach Xin Ru and Wilson (Wayne’s father) was in another. Later we played a match with me, Yao De and SK ( A Lion Dance Coach ) against Pauline ( Coach Xin Ru ), Jaryl and Wilson. Loser punch and we played. For some reason or rather obvious reason, I did not performed as well and total, I only get around 20 marks in the end and the rest of the teammates did extremely well but in the end we still lose. So the first “open” match + this match which we have to pay double. $10.80 gone. Haha but its worth it but feel bad for my team mates. Played second match. Now same team but addition of Darren in my team and Yan De in their team. It was a close fight despite my low marks and I can see SK get very nervous on winning and he told me the steps on how to throw the bowling ball. I scored a 9 as soon as he taught me that but it all went down afterwards. We lost again so $7.20 gone again. I decided to quit the game seeing that the game will not be fun with me continuing to play and not “challenging” to the other team. Wilson also quit from that team and they proceed with playing. Yan De got very lucky and keep striking with slow ball while Yao De and SK keep getting 1 cone left but Yao De’s team still lost. Darren’s speed of ball is really fast. 35km/h. That conclude the end of the match
Jaryl on the left and Yao De on the right.
We then went to Jurong Point in coach Xin Ru’s car ( with 4 man instead ) with me, Yao De, Jaryl and Yan De siting at the back seats and Darren in the front seat. We reached Jurong Point and Yan De and Yao De decided to buy their Badminton Rackets, we went to 2 shops then back to the first again. ( Actually to me, all rackets are the same. ) Jaryl asked me to go to Popular with him to get some ribbon and we did, after that, we went back and they are still choosing the rackets. Jaryl soon went back home and very soon after they bought the rackets, I went back home as well.
I slept all the way from Boon Lay to Outram Park Intercharge but what is unbelievable is how I woke up. I was sitting at a corner sit and I just hit myself onto the glass while I was sleeping and I rub my forehead a bit. Just before I want to continue sleeping, I heard… “Outram Intercharge, Please mind the gap”.. Haha and went back home finally. Reached home at around 6pm.
What is Uchicha Itachi?
Wufang Grading
0I went there as usual to Wufang today and wasn’t hoping to play basketball anyway. Once I reach there, I saw a few of my group’s students practising non-stop and most people who are usually late are early. Hao Ming then later went back without knowing there is no lesson today. Haha. I then sit around and look at how they do their routine.
Yao De then arrived and told me about he got a high fever the night before and couldn’t sleep well and things like that then slack around soon he sitted down beside me and I asked him how come Jaryl and Bing Han not here then as soon as I said that Jaryl came scrolling in. “Call Cao Cao, Cao Cao come”. It appears that he is sick and he said he turned skinny. I didn’t notice it until he show us his muscle then he said he keep having fever… and that link me back to Yao De…. Haha
Later, the class was gathered and they are training their routine at the basketball court while the grading is done INSIDE the hall with all the gates closed so basically we cannot see anything inside anymore. I was “looking after” the spear group and tell some of them what to do and what not to do ( although I am not a teacher but haha, all were based on my experience of my jin sai spear for the last 3 years ). Did some work for coach and trained Xuan Feng Jiao. Bing Han helped me a lot in the Xuan Feng Jiao like carrying me up and stuffs. The height isn’t as high as Hong Wei’s but the spinning is damn fast and the feeling is damn great ( even better than Hong Wei’s) . I still have that feeling but lets see if I can attain it again.
Soon, it was the turn of the spear group to perform, there was around 12 people with Wufang’s Hong Wei being the last to be graded. I stayed inside the hall with Jaryl ( he had been sitting in the hall since the start of the grading ). He told me to get a chair but I didn’t and I stand there and talked with him until my legs went really tired and decided to steal a chair from outside haha. Talked to him about some wushu stuffs and…. some other stuffs… and very quickly, all finished their routine. It was supposed that Jaryl should do it but he didn’t do the routine in the end. HAHA. Basically, all did very well today ( for the spear group ). Small mistakes here and there but overall, it is good.
Went to eat with Zhe Wei and the gang and took some photos here and there.
Young, handsome and cute Zhe Wei
Me and Him.
There are still some other photos but they are quite blur, I shall upload it to my gallery next time.
Again, Kudos to all people who did well today!
Money is not everything and cannot do anything
2After considering all the time factors, I really cannot make it to Beijing. So What if I have the money? I will miss out all the fun, suffering that wufang will be having at Beijing. It sucks! How I wish I can go there and train. Why should I have O level this year? What about 1 year later for my O’s? I am sure it will not be the same if I go one year later and likewise it will not be the same after 2 years, 3 years… ARR. It was my dream and is my dream to train at Beijing and I even told one Beijing wushu team member before about it. I really hope they will be going there again this coming end of year or next year I hope. ARR… idiot….
Today is Coach Wen Xin and *I don’t know her name*’s birthdays. Well one is celebrated earlier and one is celebrated later. I reach Orchard MRT at around 12.15pm after mu Lizbox and started waiting….. until 12.45pm when Jun An came. Thats quite a wait, i agree and afterwhich Coach Quek arrived at around 1pm followed by Zhen Ling at CDRama then Yao De, Chan Hen and Yan De arrived from…. Popular followed by Coach Wen Xin. We went to Paragon’s Bakerzin and saw Jin Hong and Karen. Coach Xue, Coach Xin Ru, Bing Han and a small cute girl then later come with the other birthday girl. That young girl appears to be Coach Xin Ru’s child. She is 9 years old. She is really very beautiful with a big eyes. While we are waiting for our food, Coach Wen Xin went to shopping then she came back with a new shoes for her, Michelle and she smiles is quite sweet. Too bad, I am too old and ugly, if not I will fall for her. I ordered the roasted chicken thigh with teriyaki sauce which is around $14.80 and a cup of Pepsi for $3.80. The sauce is really VERY VERY sweet. Finish eating then they ordered 2 warm chocolate cakes for the 2 birthday girls. Us boys decided to snatch and eat 1 of them. It is nice but Bing Han don’t like it. Later we went to walked around for a very long time then later left with us boys and the same amount of female. The “surviving” males are Jun An, me, Yao De, Yan De and Jin Hong. We later separated into 2 groups and the male walked their own path, the female walked their own. We went to walk and finally settle down and eat at full house.
I ordered
and soyabean
Its very nice. Jin hong, Yao De and Yan De then talked about Hero 1, 2, 3, 4 and… 5 and it went on for around 1 hour until 5pm +. We then meet the females at the Forum and the other birthday girl went to buy some luggages and later we went back around 7pm. It was a fun day.
Happy Birthday both of you. 
Should I or should I not?
0The question is simple. Should I go beijing or not go beijing? Money is not an issue but its the time. We are having a lot of classes/test during the period of time when they are going. 8th of June to 17th of June. It may be the only chance, one and only. National Competition are coming and I start feeling the stress of having to finish learning what I am suppose to though chances are I only want to compete in Spear. If I go Beijing, I have a lot of chances to learn a lot more. Ren Zoe and Jaryl will be there so no worries of being bored anyway. If I miss this chance, I may never ever have it again. This is really a complicated thing, my mother is against of me going, my teachers certainly are against it. June is the most important month and it determines if you can do well in your ‘O’s. ARR.. I am confused. Lets not talk about this.
Today, there is 2 ( Or rather 1 new guy ) joining us in doing groups training. No basketball or soccer at all today. Its quite boring. Had our normal kicks. I am not sure why I cannot do my xuan zi at all today. Basically, I just cannot lift my leg up at all and it sucks. I hope it will be better by tomorrow. TKFJ + XFJ is okay now though my XFJ is not jumping at all. Hao Ming is very good at his TKFJ and XFJ, I was amazed at how he do it. The rest Lian Jie movement and Lian Jie Zu He is quite alright, not so badly done but got 1 that is very hard call what butterfly something one, like TKFJ but with a twist and alternate slapping of hands. My spear really cannot make it already. I bought it home with a cudgel which xue jiao lian gave me after I told Coach Xin Ru about it. Its a bit thick but flexible haha. I think I am going to use that at wufang while I get another sword and thin cudgel from Coach Xin Ru which I will use in school. I overheard what Coach Jun Ming said, it is very classical and very funny.
“Comon lah, help me lea, learn properly, you guys do 1 time, I have to do more than 13 times les”
That reminds me of what happen when I teach the Secondary 1 the group event yesterday. I must think of a better way to teach them. They are not as disciplined as any I can named at Wufang. Even a P5, Ren Zoe, Zhe Wei or Bryan are way better than them. There are a few hopeful ones in the wushu team if they really train.
School training tomorrow. I must change my old habit of that spear movement if I want to prevent more injuries.
At the same time, I will like to offer my prayer to one of our Secondary 1 Montfortians who was involved in a car incident and now hospitalised. When you cross any road, please be very very careful.
Kudos to all who trained really really hard lately and good luck for all who will be undergoing grading at wufang soon.
Edit: Oh yes, I must remember to get my video at Rulang from Coach Xin Ru.
Quote
0I was doing a website and this quote suddenly came to me.
Avoiding a problem, avoiding a done mistake does not prevent it from coming to you in the future again and procrastinating it will make the matter worse and worse till the point where you cannot cure it anymore.
-Guo Hong
It is similar to the
Avoiding a problem does not mean the problem is not present.
Exams over! Training starts!
0All my papers are officially over last Friday and this means I can train today HAHAHA! Yesterday’s biology and chemistry paper was okay. We will be getting our papers back on Monday. Oh dear….
I went Wufang to train today and I actually miss training despite the fact I wasn’t there for only 1 week. I already knew I will be very tired after the training as normally once I stop training for something else and when I get back training, I will be very tired for the first few lessons. The worse is that I am sick for sometime already. Went there and saw Ren Zoe and Bryan, the 2 kids and we talked about Maple Story and Runescape. Thats very rare indeed. trained as usual under Coach Liu Lei. The long awaited jumping warmup was not done. Sigh. I trained spear and I discovered that my spear cannot make it anymore. I just have to use strength one more time, the whole stick will crack into 2. Going to buy 1 soon. I then trained on my sword on 1st and 2nd duan. I just discovered I do it wrongly all the while. Let me see if I can still remember what to do on Monday during school training. I must not see, I must do it anyway.Sickness + Under the Sun + No breakfast + lack of water + training = ultra tiredness
When I was doing my sword to show coach Xin Ru, it was terrible. My hunger and all act up but I cannot say I want to take a rest as it will be very rude to her who is teaching me. Only after we finished then did I request to drink water ( although I don’t need to request to drink water. ). Organs in my body feel pain / hunger. Legs/hand feels numb and ache.
I remember seeing Yao De and Bing Han together but in the end, it seems like only Yao De is there. We played Basketball for a while afterthat and 2 tall people wanted to play a match with me and the “ong” ( King ). My basketball skill cannot make it at all. It simple sucks and Yao De is finding his “Gan Jue” back? Haha So I declined the match. Anyway we are really too short to play with them. Afterwhich we went to eat and I went back home from Bouna Vista MRT.
When I walked back home from Hougang Mall after buying some food for my Mother, my legs start to feel numb again. Both of knees seem to be overused and very tired. The feeling is bad.
Moral of Story: Never train too aggressively right after a long break.
Tomorrow is Mother’s day. What do you have for your Mother?
Coach Xin Ru's Birthday
0Coach Xin Ru’s Birthday… Happy Birthday coach and you are forever 18. I must remember this day.
