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Thursday, May 15, 2008

HCTKD! <33

i haven't been blogging for a long long time. but i feel the sudden urge to post something about all the wonderful but painful tkd training memories before they fade away after sunday has passed. so strike when the iron is hot! ((: (though i ought to be doing my stupid bio tutorial now, but just relax for a while first!)

first training with celestine ended at around 9 plus. i was still supposed to do ee jang then. i recalled yijing's family being rather worried about her... hahaha! anyway, got my first ride home from my dad from hc this year with zy. that marked the start of the late home going trainings! after this first training with celestine, she absented herself from hctkd for 2 weeks as she had uni exams!

during her absence, many things happened.

they sort of rearranged the whole pattern team stuff and so i ended up doing sa jang indiv. got a shock when i first found out on the tkd blog at like 12 mn after yijing told me and felt super awake, cuz i was sort of mentally prepared to do ee jang. oh wells, i wasn't that confident about my ability but i picked up that challenge and went on with trainings. yijing, maybe this is kind of a blessing in disguise for you, so don't feel too sad about it all right? ((:

i recalled during one of my first trainings, my mind was so preoccupied about the jump in level and lack of ability. so my mind was rather unreceptive everytime i tried to learn the pattern. took quite some time to learn the steps and kept getting confused over the stances etc. but thank you weiliang, chelsea, liwen, cixin, zhi hao, jie ying, zhiyi, yusiang etc etc for teaching me so patiently the patterns!

at first i felt really like a zibi girl cuz i don't have a team. so just sort of like hid in one corner and practise my noob pattern. never had the confidence to perform my pattern in front of everyone else as i felt as if every step i did was wrong! and i missed teaming with the crazy girl, cixin, a lot! hahaha! then as training began to become more and more frequent, i began to make friends in the comp team!

everyone is so welcoming, encouraging and friendly! very soon, we forged very good friendships and everyone really looked forward to trainings everyday. since celestine wasn't around, we appointed different kings and queens to teach us the individual steps! like yusiang's double knife hand block king, jie ying's front kick queen, hot guy is punch queen, zhi hao and yong qiang are side kick kings etc etc. so we sort of hopped around these people to bug them to teach us the individual steps! hahaha! we can be so engrossed in a step that we just practised double knife hand block only for the whole afternoon one day! hahahaha!

self trainings went on for about two weeks before celestine was free from her exams to come down to coach us! i still remember the first time she came down, xiyu, jieying and i were all so nervous that she'll puke blood and scold us when she looked at our lousy patterns that we all ran to the toilet to hide! ahahahhaha! funny yah?

but celestine is always celestine. ((: so nice and patient in correcting each and every single one of our mistakes! though she had to repeat the same points all over again, she'll still do it cuz she's celestine! hahahahas. since she's such a rare imba zai coach, everyone has been fighting for her attention and so trainings will drag until late in the night!

and as competition draws near, we began to train everyday and it becomes a routine! an enjoyable routine! ((: everyday after school, all the tkd comp people will just head automatically upstairs to the rooftop cuz we'll have trainings but we accept it wholeheartedly! -grins-

trainings will start everyday after school until late at night at about 9 plus. so most of the time we'll reach home around 10 plus feeling really tired but happy. so just bathed and struggled to keep awake to complete the tutorials! then the next morning, everyone will just drag their bodies out of bed to go to school! furthermore, due to the lack of sleep, everyone just dozes off during lessons and lectures but we all still get so excited at the thought of training after school! (((: even though training after school is tiring but no one minds at all! we train so much that some of us have muscle pull, some have aching knees, and we all dream about pattern in our sleep!

i will never forget how i overstretch and ended up having muscle pull on my right leg which caused me to be unable to do my left front kick cuz my right leg is too weak. the day before, celestine was demonstrating how flexible she is and she sort of mentioned how comfortable one of the stretching exercises were that she actually almost fell asleep in that position. its the one with the soles tucked near your body and you bend down and sniff your toes. like this.

so at night, in the middle of my sleep, i unconsciously got into that posture and fell asleep in that for quite some time, pulling my muscle i think. :s how dumb right? hahaha then there was this time i was sleeping in lecture, i dreamt that i was doing the exercise where you put your leg on another person's shoulder and bend down to touch the ground. i was in bio lecture and my body really bent down and i almost knocked my head on the desk! hahaha. then people like jieying dreamt that she was double front kicking and jumped in her seat! sort of like some zhi ye bing! hahahas!

yes, hctkd really trained very hard. everyone put in lots of effort in training but we also had our fair share of fun and excitement during the trainings along the journey towards competition day on sunday!

first up, i'll like to comment on the nice place hctkd has to practice our pattern! its the rooftop area outside the library! hahahas! so we have enjoyed many sunsets together and taken a few pictures together as our sweet memories!

rooftop trainings! ((: