This entry is dedicated to nick...

When I was a kid I had always been amazed by the chinese kungfu movies and dramas...(still am amazed by the kungfu moves and stunts). I wasn't sure whether my dad would allow me to practice martial arts, I didn't dare to tell him. At 10, I joined a silat society in my school (with his permission of course)...didn't get much attention from the the teacher, learned quite a lot though, till form 1. I moved to another "ulu" school, and the school only offered taekwondo under the martial arts category. My instructor was a guy, but he loved to mumble...at beginning of the class - 20 mins for his speech, at the end of the class another 20 mins. I received good attention from the instructor as I showed some potentials, towards the end of my fourth year in that school...I had a rival. This girl had been my rival since the day I entered the school in many other things. When we were in form 4, she joined the tkd club. Frankly she had potentials too, but she quit too soon. I remembered we had to spar with each other (final round nih) during the close tournament (I was the defending champ)...we sparred for 3 rounds, I lost...and to this day, technically I still believe that I won the match...and I still believe that my instructor purposely allowed her to win. Well...we had (me and the instructor) some miscommunications, a big fight, and I hate him but I still respect him as my teacher. I've also learned to accept the fact that my rival won the match and I didn't (even though I think it wasn't a fair judgement).She won and I lost and should just keep my mouth shut.
I joined the LTA in 1997, I was quite lucky because the instructor was the world champ (3 times) and he is a skillful taekwondo practitioner and yoga Master. SO basically, he knows what he's doing la. Currently, this instructor is having some problems so I'm training under another instructor. A lady instructor, she's a great teacher too. I participated in the national level tournaments in 2002 and 2003 bcos of her, and now we're preparing ourselves so that we can get thru for the world tournament selection, maybe in 2005/06. A long way to go.

1992-silat gayong msia
1996-quit silat, join tkd in school
1997-join LTA
1999-establish a silat gayong society in school with the help of a teacher
-sustain some injuries during a tournament in sunway pyramid - LOST
-stop from silat and tkd- SPM
2000-matric year
2001-made a comeback - LTA, won my first open championship gold medal - TTA tournament
2002-blackbelt
-won silver medal (group sparring) for gtf national tkd tournament
2003-won bronze (group sparring), silver medal (individual sparring) for gtf national tkd tournament
-join the shaolin goh chor kungfu assoc.
2004-nothing much...still the same fellow, confuse about so many things in life...

It's a dull entry, it's like history...it IS a history, all of us are a part of history...

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had a not so goood Sunday...went to the centre to help out for the grading test. There's a girl who was attending private classes (there are two types of people yang ambil private class, the 1st group are those rich kids who need some additional attention to improve their skills and techniques, the 2nd group are those rich bums who cannot mix with other people, if not they'll "die"). She's wearing blue-red belt, and she's so berlagak. She did the reverse turning kick few times and had some sort of cramp la. Being a "good and responsible" blackbelt, I walked towards her to help la. I asked her to sit down, she said "I can't...it's painful". Told her that I would help her to sit down...don't wanna listen to me. A friend asked me to massage her hamstring...aduh...aku bab2 pegang orang nih yang malas nih! So I tried also la. My instructor who was still conducting the grading test asked me to help her to sit down and push against her right feet and help her to stand. Ok, she sat down...I pushed her sole with my palm and she was yelling at me to stop, I stopped (malu la kena jerit). Mr.Danny came to the rescue, he did exactly the same thing as I did before, she didn't scream, she stood up and said she's alright now. Yang tak faham tu, I 've already asked her to do this and that, tried to help her this way or another...she refused. Tak nak orang tolong, buatpa hang pi jerit2 cam orang gila cramp sikit ja. 2 mins after that, she entered the ring to spar...tak sakit dah plak?! By the end of next year, she'll be taking her blackbelt test...I'll plan my revenge carefully heheheehe (red-black students have to spar with at least 4 blackbelts in order to pass the test).

Ms.Nosy-attention-seeker took the grading test too. She had some problems doing her diagonal pattern, kena marah kaw2 in front of everybody (you have to stand facing the penjuru of the class and do one pattern chosen by the grader). After the test, I went down to buy some drinks, she came to me, and blamed me for not teaching her the diagonal patterns. I was so fed-up, dah la aku datang tolong grading test nih, selamba jer ko nak marah2...I told her that she didn't practice hard enough, she was red with anger by that time..and she said "If I fail, it is all because of you". Geez, what the hell is wrong with this girl la, I'm her senior in tkd one thing, and I'm like 10 years older than her...Tadi kat atas kena jerit, ni kat bawah pun kena jerit...ish...so malang la that day! I blocked her from walking out of the shop (like samseng in tamil movies hehehe) and I said to her that I pay rm100 every month to learn tkd from Ms.5th Dan Blackbelt, and I voluntarily come every tuesday,thursday and sunday to help her handle the class and to improvise my skills, she didn't even give me a single cent to do this. If Ms.Nosy fails, it's not my fault bcos I'm not doing some charity work to teach the colourbelts, I go there, to the academy, to help my teacher. If Ms.Nosy fails, blame la Ms.5th Dan, if you dare la kan! It's fair enough that I pay my teacher's good deeds to me by helping her...aahh!Ms.Nosy the crazy gal...everyday "oso you wan to make my blood go upstairs lah!" Ms.5th Dan told me that Ms.Nosy didn't attend the class regularly and she might have missed out the diagonal pattern training...NAIR!