Category: General

16 Watson Rd is a food haven. Food doesn’t seem to run out and everything taste great. 2 days ago, Wen Dee made Banana cake and the next day Mindy made butter cake and obviously they were good. And today, Wen Dee is baking another cake, mmm, carrot cake for dessert.
– 7:00PM

Muay Thai training was almost cancelled today due to the fact that Wicker Camp’s (the gym that provides us with the instructors) refusal to conduct Sunday classes. Scotty decided to continue with the training without instructors with some fitness exercise. There weren’t many of us and everything seemed to be very informal. There was once one guy took over Scotty’s place and taught us how to punch properly. From this week onwards, there will be no more Sunday classes, thanks to Wicker Camp.

For the umpteenth time, I felt nausea while training. I couldn’t even stand and felt like puking. I used to have the same problem when I did kick boxing but it stopped when I started training often. Fortunately, I felt better after I rested for few minutes.
– 11:28PM

I’m visiting Oxford tomorrow morning with the Malaysian and Singaporean Society.

Our drafted examination timetable is out. My first paper starts on the 25th of January followed by 30th January and ends on the 4th of February.
I’m glad my exam is starting late this year. Since I’ll be back in Malaysia for 3 weeks during December, I doubt I’ll be studying much. I’ll will be back in Sheffield on the 15th of September thus that leaves me 10 extra days to study. Can’t wait till exams end!
– 10:00PM

Happy Birthday to Wai Keong and Kadet Yeap Soon Yean!

Muay Thai training again. I find that my stamina increased dramatically. I no longer feel like puking or fainting after a heavy exercise.

It’s Darren’s (our instructor) last day today and Christian will be teaching us next week. Darren suggested that, since it’s his last day, he’ll give us a farewell gift. He’d let us kick him and it’s 2 hard kicks each. About 20 of us, stood in a line and took turns to kick the side of his body but obviously, protected with a pad.

He shook our hands and said “See you on the other side” before he left.
– 11:35PMI watched Crime Stopper on television last night. It’s monthly show run by the police and also presented by police themselves. The title speaks for itself. It shows the details of unsolved crimes and pleads the public to help the police to identify the alleged wrongdoer. For example, it will show a reconstruction of an incident to illustrate it. The actors and actresses will dress exactly like the wrongdoer as given description by victims. Furthermore, huge rewards are usually offered to those who gave information that lead to the arrest of the wrongdoer. Sometimes the reward could amount to £10000.

Wen Dee told me that Jill Dando, a well-known presenter, used to host that show. She was so famous that she attracted a stalker and one tragic day, she was shot on the head in front of her house and died. Her colleagues took over her place and used Crime Stopper to get the public’s information about the killer. Subsequently, the stalker was caught, thanks to Crime Stopper.

The Dando Trial – BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/dando_trial/
– 11:50PM

The Fire fighters strike is beginning to get on my nerves. Because of their bloody strike, the library has to close much earlier.

The fire fighters union is still adamant on getting a 40 percent pay rise and rejected the government’s offer of 16 percent pay rise. The army has to takeover the fire fighter’s duty with their ill equipped ‘Green Goddess’ truck. All of a sudden, the number of pranks calls roses dramatically. I guess irresponsible people wanted to see how the ‘Green Goddess’ looks like.

So far the press has been heavily monitoring effects of the strike. Few deaths were recorded during the strike but were dismissed as unavoidable or in simpler terms, the victim would die even though professional fire fighters were present.

Despite the stern protest, it was shown in the press that UK firefighters’ basic wage is well paid than their European counterparts. However, the sum varies when it comes to overtime and allowance. Allowance and overtime does not exist in UK but it exists in Europe (*ie night shifts, weekend allowance). However, the union argued that the cost of living in UK much higher, especially in London.
– 8:00PM

Check out this Peugeot advertistment.
Peugeot-IndianCommercial.mpg
– 10:30PM

ｻ What is Muay Thai?
This is Muay Thai!
MuayThai-RightCrossKnockout.avi
MuayThai-backkick.avi
MuayThai-SpinElbowKnockout.avi
Muaythai-ouch.mpeg <- MUST SEE!
– 4:45AMｻ James Bond: Die Another Die was good. Frederick and I liked it but Frank and Chuo Ming didn’t like it. Frank even said that it was the worst Bond movie he ever watched.

While we were waiting for a taxi at the taxi stand, there was this drunkard lining up alone in front of us. We paid no attention to him and started chatting in Cantonese. Suddenly, he looked at us and said, “Speak English, it is rude not to speak English, This is England”. Frederick and I were pretty shocked by the racist remark and we kept quiet for a while, thinking that we might be actually rude. However, the fat and bald drunkard kept on talking and gave couple of racist remarks. Frederick and I got really pissed and stared at him. It went on for a minute until Fredrick lost his cool and said ‘fuck off, okay?” and lightly pushed him away. He turned and looked at me, I gave him a fiery stare. He turned his back towards me and said, “This is England”. By then I was already furious, I said “so? Why? Not happy?” He didn’t answer me.

We were waiting for the right moment to whack him as soon as he starts hitting one of us. I tried to provoke him by speaking in Cantonese again but he was ignoring us by then. Fortunately, it was the last of him. He never said a word or even look at us anymore. I guess he must have chickened out. Our angry Asian vibes definitely shut him up.
– 4:00AM