muay thai grading

Hurray! After 3 weeks of tiresome training, I finally passed my Muay Thai grading! It was easy than what I’ve expected as the training we went through was a killer. We were graded by Mick and he’s the founder of Wicker Camp (the Gym’s name). He doesn’t look like a Thai Fighter at all. I guess he has retired. He said sometimes people mistaken him for the caretaker.

We had to go through loads of paper work before we grade namely fill in details for our license (which also includes details about your level of fitness etc). The total for the entire grading costs 25quid.
We started off with a 4 minutes fitness test. We had to run up and down the gym coupled with a few other exercises ie right skips, run on 4s. And then some stretching exercise followed by shadow boxing, pad work and lastly gym test (30 seconds of push-ups, sit-ups, squats and burpies respectively). A minute rest is given on each session and the whole session lasted 45 minutes.

Mick congratulated us after the grading and said that the official results will be out on Wednesday. Hurray! After 2 years of Muay Thai training, I finally got through stage one!

Frederick made prawn noodles for dinner today. It took him few hours to complete it but it was well worth it. It’s fucking god damn fucking good!! Wen Dee said it’s so good that it gives her an orgasm 😀
– 11:20PMMuay Thai grading in 2 hours. I’ve been training for it for 3 weeks. Wish me luck.

EishinX: Here are some chickeedees photos for you.
Bangkok trip photos
– 3:00PM

Gulf War No. 2 Starts

Happy birthday to Aki!

The Gulf War has started. UK and US invaded Iraq and Iraq retaliated by sending 3 Scud missiles towards Northern Kuwait but 1 was intercepted and 2 missed the target. And now, the Allies are pounding Baghdad. Poor innocent people.

I was watching the news from living room of 16 Watson Road. I could see missiles exploding over the horizon of Iraq.

There was a huge demonstration at the Union yesterday. They were shouting anti war slogans and marched around the streets.

CM is trying to quit smoking by going cold turkey. It’s been 1½ day and his face is pale and his fingers are shaking. I wonder if he could last a week. Any advise for him?

I need more guest bloggers. I’m sick of reading my own shit everyday. Leave a comment here if you wanna blog here. I get about 100 hits a day, hence if you want your voice to be heard, leave a comment please.
– 11:20PM

enjoying life on the open road with a map and a cooler…

It is 6am in the morning and I haven’t slept a wink. Something must be bothering me, but I have no idea what it is. grrr…

While lying down on my bed, trying to get some sleep, naturally my mind wandered and I thought of my Mum. It’s funny how I had the worst sorta relationship with her a few years back but now, it is as if we are buddies and she calls me whenever just to keep me updated with the daily gossip and stuff happening around the neighbourhood and to complain or brag about our petdog ;). Of course, it would help my dad financially if my mum bothered to dial the idd number BEFORE dialing my UK number though.. heh..

It always feels like a long time since I have spoken to her, whether it’s been an hour or two weeks. She has been the one person in my life that I have always been able to sit back and listen to with open ears, although it doesn’t always seem that way. We have gone through many years together, both of us have drawn an understanding from that, in the sense that those times were a necessity in order for us to appreciate the better. One thing I have always respected her for, was that she didn’t bullshit me. When I did something wrong, she was the first to tell me, and when I did well, she told me, in her own ways, that she was proud.

Sorry for the mush, but its really late/early – let the insomniac ramble on!!!

And oh yes, among other thoughts, I was also thinking about an email I received from a friend earlier today which had this rather random paragraph. It read: “Please tell *some guyfriends’ names* and all your other guyfriends to stop masturbating. I know the mags tell us that it’s ok, and that we can replenish our sperms and all that, but the truth is, we are throwing away part of our bodies and the more sperm we waste, the weaker the body becomes. So just thought I’d let you know.” muAHhahAha… that’s a first..

Alrite, wish me luck coz I am gonna try sleeping once again…. laters all.. 😉
6.40AM

bf-less sensei and basketball

hehe, Ando sensei, my Japanese language lecturer, said something about she doesn’t have a boyfriend and asked us what should we do to help her. Obviously, her purpose of asking that question was to improve our conversation skill in Japanese but maybe she needed more idea on how to get a boyfriend here. Anyway, Alex suggested that she advertise in the newspaper. And others suggested that she could find one at the student union and so on. I said, “Alex san wa ii desu ka”. She didn’t understand me but Alex obviously did. My question was actually, “Is Alex good for her?” hehe Alex was pretty crossed about it.

I bumped into one of my Employment Law seminar group mates while walking to King Edward’s school to play basketball. She’s one of Helena’s (my Employment Law partner) friends. She’s quite pretty even though she has long curly blonde hair (I dislike curly hair). I had a short chat with her. However, CM, Chee Feng and Frederick were behind me while I was talking to her. I can hear them shouting, “oi, intro la!!” many times.

di0n got a new domain @ http://www.virgin-slayer.com/
– 10:30PM

disease outbreak

Dad doesn’t seems happy with me going back to Malaysia this Easter break.
1. The Iraq war may erupt any moment now. The war may disrupt your flight from KL to Man. And you are heading to Man for your final exam.
Your final exam should be your top priority, and you should avoid any thing that may jeopadise the exam.

2. There is now a pneumonia epidemic in the Fare East, and the government has issued a travel warning. Need to monitor the situation closely.

It will be better if you stay put until your final exam is over.
It seems that the pneumonia epidemic has spread to UK. The newspaper reported that they found someone traveling from HK transiting from Amsterdam had a ‘mysterious disease’. However, it wasn’t revealed what disease was. So far, there have been 9 reported cases of death. Furthermore, the epidemic has spread to South East Asia. Vietnam seems to be the worst with few hundred victims and 1 death. Japan has sent in their medical team to help out.

On Tuesday, the number of suspected cases in Hong Kong rose to 123, from 95 on Monday. Singapore suspects 23 people have the illness, while Vietnam counts nearly 60.

Australia is examining its first suspected case among 20 patients who returned from trips to Asia.

Other countries reporting suspected cases are China, Canada, the Philippines, Thailand, Germany and the United States.
– 11:31PM

latin lesson

4. Wonder when to use i.e. and when to use e.g.? When you’re listing examples, use e.g. It’s short for exempli gratia, which means “for the sake of example” in Latin.

When you’re explaining something, use i.e., which is short for id est, or “that is.” I can never remember the Latin, so I cheat here. “In essence” starts with the same letters. If you can use “in essence” and still have your sentence make sense, use i.e. Otherwise, use e.g.

I like big dogs, e.g. St. Bernards, Golden Retrievers, and Bernese Mountain Dogs. I like Golden Retrievers and St. Bernards, i.e. big dogs.
– 8:30PM

cut hair and fund raising

Our Family law lecturer, Cathy Williams, organised a fund raising quiz for Comic Relieve. We had to guess what did her husband give her for Christmas. It’s 1 guess for 50pence and 5 guesses for 1 quid. She said it’s one of the most horrible things she ever received. And the person who got it right will get a mysterious prize.
In the end of the lecture today, she announced the winner. However, the winner’s guess wasnt entirely correct but was very closely related to the gift. The winner had 5 guesses and all of them are closely related to toiletry stuff. For example, scented toilet paper and toilet paper holder. Cathy called the winner out and asked her, “Lee, do you intend to get married?” Lee, the winner, answered, “mmm, welll…” Everyone laughed.
Cathy immediately said, “Well, everyone you should not marry this girl! It’s unbelievable that she could though of those things! (gifts, wasn’t really sure about what exactly Cathy said but it’s something like this)” She then announced the gift she received, it was a luxury wooden toilet seat.
Lee seems pretty embarrassed with the limelight of being a winner. She was openly insulted in front of more than 100 people. And lastly, her prize was, a plastic toilet brush.

Finally, after 2 years in Sheffield, I had my first haircut. I’ve been always stingy with the amount of cost of haircut here. The barber I went to offers cheap haircut (3.80 quid – quid is a slang for pounds in here).
I had a short conversation with the lady who cut my hair. She’s been working there for 14 months and she’s from Perth, Australia. She intents to return to Perth, as soon as her boyfriend complete his PHD here. Nothing interesting in our conversation, the only thing that interests me is that she took 18 hours to fly from UK back to Australia. Mine was 30 hours (including bus ride, transit etc)!!
– 11:00PM