the four right chords can make me cry

pung sai!
I forgot all about bidding today, and as a result I didnt get my critical writing module!!! I was online lor, doing dunno what not important thing, then at 3:06pm I was abruptly reminded about bidding, only to realise seconds later that bidding closed at 3:00pm. PUNG SAI!!!

Now I have to go bid again?!?! And this time confirm have to take some writing module that does not interest me as much. The alternative would be not to take writing this sem and take SS instead. HAI, but there arent many nice SS modules left anyway!!!

ANYWAY

Was watching tv just now and here's a quote for you.

"I was very angry that no one dared to take up his challenge; even the young sixty year olds!"
Dalip Singh, 83, champion of the Punjab rural olympics; responding to a 90 year old 'upstart' from england who issued a public challenge in the local papers.

Amazing. And he was fast too! Even more amazing was that he had competitors; he raced in the 80 and above category. During the race he was actually beaten by this guy, who was disqualified soon after when they discovered that he was a "mere boy of 60". Holy cow, you should have seen those skinny old guys in turbans go! Jaw droppingly (is there such a word? well, there should be.), Dalip only began running at 60.

Inspired!

More funky old people.

Watched the next show after that cool rural olympics show (they had events like cattle drag racing, strongman contests, driving tractors over people, loading and unloading rice sacks on a truck race... etc). It was about wuxia pian. Woah damn cool also! Got one aunty, very bad make-up and all but she was doing some martial arts demo. 93 years old. NINETY THREE YEARS OLD. Started learning at 8, debuted as instructor in her first movie at 16. Funky!

Now I want to watch wuxia pian. If can find, that is. One-armed Swordsman (the original, not New One-armed Swordsman) and Come Drink With Me. Classics!

TKD
Really starting to enjoy TKD. Suddenly things got a lot friendlier there, not that things were hostile before, but now I hang around and talk to some people after lessons for a bit. There are 4 new students my age. 2 girls, dont talk to them, but i think they're PRC. And this guy and girl, joy and terrence. Also started to talk to the black belt guy and girl who have been there for a long time, they're both 22. People around my age!!! Finally! And there's still daniel and joel, both came today but i didnt talk to them. But yay! Cant explain why its just so much nicer with people your own age. Well sort of my age anyway. They don't really believe i'm 19, think im like sec 2 or something.

Today for sparring the coach pit the black belt guys and himself against a few of us at a time. For the senior belt guys, it was 2 of them vs one black belt. Quite intense, they serious one, so very fierce. By the time it got to my level, it was 4 of us girls against 1 black belt. And by the time it got to the kids, it was 4 or 5 to each black belter and 6 to sir. Haha, that was SO cute! The black belts and sir would bend down and just let the kids kick them, occassionally "fighting back" to scare them abit. Positively adorable!

so yeah, TKD rocks!

posted by beckyboo @ 2:44 AM