Monday, March 30, 2009
super stunt
Last friday, during the training, coach said: "Let's do some strength training". Whoa, that is the main course of the training. We did frog jumps and a lot of other strength training for the entire 2 hours. At the end of the day, everyone got their leg trembling. Most of the people even got trouble walking, up and down the stairs will be hell for us. I got trouble even trying to sit down and stand up, the thigh muscle was so pain. Thanks for the tiger palm paste, my leg got better and able to go for training today, or else even got trouble to run and jump.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Training resume
The training of wushu finally resume back to normal. Seriously, I really was sick of doing nothing for the entire week last week. Talking about training, I increase the density of the training for now until the end of the nafa test. I got confident in most of the stuff except pull up. Shit, what should I do? Recently, I think I was thinking of someone almost everyday, everytime, everywhere. I don't know wha should I do, but I made a promise to her. So all I can do now is wait, hopefully she feels the same thing as I am...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Back from hong kong
Seriously, this is the first time I got to somewhere other than hong kong. It was very exciting; it is the first time that I got on to the plane. It did shake a bit, but was within my expectation. The food up there was better than I expected guess it is because of it is SIA that we took. Hong kong got a lot of stuff that was very similar to Singapore and Malaysia such as the building and the road, all are quite similar. When we got to the hotel, I was very shocked. There are a lot wushu participants over there, not all of them are Chinese, some of them come from Japan and even Iran and Italy. After checking in, we got out and eat the dinner. I tell you, the food over there, even though they are the same, but it taste a lot better than the one in Singapore. I ate the curry rice, the curry fragrant and tasty, the spicy level are just at the correct level. In Singapore, a lot of the place got the curry that was so spicy that you can’t finish everything. One thing I don’t really like is the temperature. It is too damn cold over here(hong kong). It was like 10+ degree. The wind is chilling cold, no, freezing cold. When the wind hits your face, you feel the coldness. During the trip to here, it was that harsh. Why? 1) I sms-ed a very important person and talk quite some time, making me feel quite comfortable when coming here. 2) I was expecting everything over here, not everything surprise me except the number of participants. On the night, finally got to sleep, but something was not very right, a room-mate(i shall not mention the name, just say S) snored. It was so loud that the entire room only got his snoring sound. I turn around the bed and finally got to sleep at 3+am.
7+am, I was woke up by S and ask all the other room-mates to go to the 7th floor for breakfast. The hotel was a 6 star hotel, thus the 7th floor alone was restaruant. The queue was long like hell ans people started to cut queue. I finally got the food but the food was not up to the standard I expected to be. Then finally got to the competition ground with all the other members. There are a lot of people and the people from other country then china will compete in court 5. All the court were at the same stadium, so we can see the different standard of the wushu team from all over the world. There are from Iran and even south africa, quite surprising even there has chinese martial art school. The standard of the russians was the highest in my sense among the "non-china" group of contestants. The china's standard was over the top, even a kid can swing the cudgel faster than any one of us, too strong. After the competition for the first day, we went out and eat the lunch, it was basically not bad, but the fried rice that I ate was too many, I struggled to finished it. After that, me, wan ling, eileen, julie, bing long, wen-di and ren mao went out to have a stroll around the tsuen wan and shop a bit too. Some of the stuff were expensive but it was very good. The taste for the food, the design for fashion stuff. We bought cup noodles and went to wan ling's room for dinner. Yeah, we had cup noodles for the dinner. Finally went back to my room and prepare to sleep. Oh no, S started to snore again. It spells "no sleep" for me.
The third day, also the 2nd day of the competition. This time, eileen gave me a morning call and then me and the other room-mates went out to eat breakfast. The situation was the same as the first day, people rushing for food and everything. The competition was very competitive, all the competitors got very high standard. KJ, patrick and others are having broadsword and cudgel on that day. After that, we went out and to eat the lunch again. The curry paste taste like peanut sauce, not very nice. Then, we went back to the hotel to get prepare to go to 大屿山 to pray to the big buddha, ah keong also was to pray for his next day tai chi competiton. We took the train to tong chiung and then took the cable car to the top of the mountain. It was very foggy, we barely see anything on the way up and at one point, we practically can see nothing but the cable 1m in front of us and the rest is just fog. Finally we reached the top and start to venture to different shops and finally got to the staircase which will lead us to the big buddha. Wan ling and eileen went up first. When me, ah keong, ren mao, bing long and julie reached to the top, we can see only the lower body of the buddha, what a piece of shit. We go to a shop to buy something for gifts. Finally got to the cable car station to catch the almost last ride of the cable car. Ren mao lost the ticket and we was held there for about 20 mins. Finally got down and had the dinner at KFC. Even the KFC was so different from singapore, just cannot be described.
The 4th day, me and S went out first to catch the competition of ah keong's tai chi. In the 24th style, he had to compete with 7 people of the same age and him, 42th style had to compete with 4 other competitor. He still come out 2nd for both, that was awesome. Patick have monkey fist at the same day too, it seems pretty cool. After that, wan ling also got broadsword and her "劈手". That was a mistook routine as it was actually to be dagger, but something happened to the registration and thus she had to make do for that. Thank goodness she made it out alright. Then we go back to hotel for a while and we went out for dinner. The dinner was ok, but it was a bit weird that the waitress want to speak english. Finally got back to the hotel, went to wan ling's room and the others to chat and play a little. Got back to the hotel and rest for the next day, shopping time.
5th day, me, wan ling, eileen, juile, bing long and ren mao went to the woman's street for shopping. There are tons of stuff over there. Those are really nice designs and good price. To cut short, I bought a t-shirt, jeans, vest, a pair of shoe and a new wallet. After all the shopping, we went to central and find julie's friend to bring us to dinner and wood chips cake. THat wood chip cakes are some of the best ice-cream cakes I ever eaten. It was fantastic. Then we went back to the hotel and rest.
The last day of the trip, we went to yau ma tei for another shopping. But ultimately, we are going to the peak to take a look at the night view from the top of the mountain. But shit, it was very foggy and we see nothing. Then we got back to hotel and finally rest. The rest, picture will tell the story.
7+am, I was woke up by S and ask all the other room-mates to go to the 7th floor for breakfast. The hotel was a 6 star hotel, thus the 7th floor alone was restaruant. The queue was long like hell ans people started to cut queue. I finally got the food but the food was not up to the standard I expected to be. Then finally got to the competition ground with all the other members. There are a lot of people and the people from other country then china will compete in court 5. All the court were at the same stadium, so we can see the different standard of the wushu team from all over the world. There are from Iran and even south africa, quite surprising even there has chinese martial art school. The standard of the russians was the highest in my sense among the "non-china" group of contestants. The china's standard was over the top, even a kid can swing the cudgel faster than any one of us, too strong. After the competition for the first day, we went out and eat the lunch, it was basically not bad, but the fried rice that I ate was too many, I struggled to finished it. After that, me, wan ling, eileen, julie, bing long, wen-di and ren mao went out to have a stroll around the tsuen wan and shop a bit too. Some of the stuff were expensive but it was very good. The taste for the food, the design for fashion stuff. We bought cup noodles and went to wan ling's room for dinner. Yeah, we had cup noodles for the dinner. Finally went back to my room and prepare to sleep. Oh no, S started to snore again. It spells "no sleep" for me.
The third day, also the 2nd day of the competition. This time, eileen gave me a morning call and then me and the other room-mates went out to eat breakfast. The situation was the same as the first day, people rushing for food and everything. The competition was very competitive, all the competitors got very high standard. KJ, patrick and others are having broadsword and cudgel on that day. After that, we went out and to eat the lunch again. The curry paste taste like peanut sauce, not very nice. Then, we went back to the hotel to get prepare to go to 大屿山 to pray to the big buddha, ah keong also was to pray for his next day tai chi competiton. We took the train to tong chiung and then took the cable car to the top of the mountain. It was very foggy, we barely see anything on the way up and at one point, we practically can see nothing but the cable 1m in front of us and the rest is just fog. Finally we reached the top and start to venture to different shops and finally got to the staircase which will lead us to the big buddha. Wan ling and eileen went up first. When me, ah keong, ren mao, bing long and julie reached to the top, we can see only the lower body of the buddha, what a piece of shit. We go to a shop to buy something for gifts. Finally got to the cable car station to catch the almost last ride of the cable car. Ren mao lost the ticket and we was held there for about 20 mins. Finally got down and had the dinner at KFC. Even the KFC was so different from singapore, just cannot be described.
The 4th day, me and S went out first to catch the competition of ah keong's tai chi. In the 24th style, he had to compete with 7 people of the same age and him, 42th style had to compete with 4 other competitor. He still come out 2nd for both, that was awesome. Patick have monkey fist at the same day too, it seems pretty cool. After that, wan ling also got broadsword and her "劈手". That was a mistook routine as it was actually to be dagger, but something happened to the registration and thus she had to make do for that. Thank goodness she made it out alright. Then we go back to hotel for a while and we went out for dinner. The dinner was ok, but it was a bit weird that the waitress want to speak english. Finally got back to the hotel, went to wan ling's room and the others to chat and play a little. Got back to the hotel and rest for the next day, shopping time.
5th day, me, wan ling, eileen, juile, bing long and ren mao went to the woman's street for shopping. There are tons of stuff over there. Those are really nice designs and good price. To cut short, I bought a t-shirt, jeans, vest, a pair of shoe and a new wallet. After all the shopping, we went to central and find julie's friend to bring us to dinner and wood chips cake. THat wood chip cakes are some of the best ice-cream cakes I ever eaten. It was fantastic. Then we went back to the hotel and rest.
The last day of the trip, we went to yau ma tei for another shopping. But ultimately, we are going to the peak to take a look at the night view from the top of the mountain. But shit, it was very foggy and we see nothing. Then we got back to hotel and finally rest. The rest, picture will tell the story.
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