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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! ((:
glowing red sky! ((:

pal jang team!


sevenSix Chelsea! ((:

Song Ping Xiyu Mei Ying


inbetween trainings, there are slack times which we played and took photos!


sajang SEE CHEAAH!


high and JUMPING! ((:


we attempted to take a sam/sa jang photo...


but it ended up like that! :s hahahahas

then there was birthday celebrations for the birthday people in tkd! had lots of fun and bonded a lot through all these fun times!


birthday candle on the ground cuz we din have enough money for the cake! hahaahs!


birthday kids! ((:


HAPPY BIRTHDAY! ((:

we also sing our way through the night after a hard day's work! ((:


the singing circle! ((: which expanded later on. hahhaas.



and there were many exciting events lined up for us like the public performance near merlion and the central plaza performance!


Public performance:
group photo using my beloved tripod stand! ((:


Celest! <33


GIRLS! ((:

Central Plaza performance:
Mar mar and Jie Ying! ((:


and this is the only photo i took during the performance! the rest were all videos! hahahaha!
okays i shall go off now!
all the best for comps everyone! ((:
GO HCTKD! <33

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

STAYOVER! ((:



hahaha guesss where i am at now?
nope, not at home but in joan's house! hahaha! oh wells, she's sleeping on the bed right beside me now. hmmm how did things end up this way?

嗯,说来话长。

not really actually. haha. started off this afternoon at around 3.30pm. met yongming and shiying at somerset mrt station and they are really puntual! hmm must learn more from them and stop being such a lazy bum, always late for meetings. :s becoming more like a typical singaporean. hahahas! arrived like 5 min late but then hurried over to joan's house. met jiajun on the way out of the mrt station, and watched the edited but uncut version of episode 3! and its super nice! ((((: haha THANKS TO YONGMING! oh man. he's super pro in editing and it really looks professional. like a real mv. hahaha! i really love it! maybe scy is really right sometimes. and thanks to scy, we got to know some actors. must take photos and get their autographs now in preparation before they become famous! wheeeeee...

reached joan's house and o.O saw more familiar faces. almost waved to them but then i realised i shouldn't know who they are. laughs. those are the pro people who helped to make the videos so nice! must really treat them to something after the concert. yepyep.

so as they are downstairs at the swimming pool, i was busy doing the props. like decorating the book etc. and it really turned out quite nice! hahahaha! the whole thing actually looks very real and its hard not to believe that they're really not together! lol.

so after they are done with the filming, the actors left while the video crew stayed and i decorated the book further and it looked rather nice now. and as i was decorating, guess what jia jun was doing? taking pictures of himself cuz he claims he looks very handsome today. -.-" hahahah! then we watched all 4 episodes but zhou jing left before that. so left the 3 of us. criticised the lousy work sent to us and so decided to work on the script ourselves, which i finished two thirds of it through the night. didn't catch a wink at all but i'm now relaxing by blogging!

since it was already quite late and its impossible that my dad will come and pick me up, my mom suggested that i stayover in joan's house. and i'm glad that joan's mom happily agreed to it! ^^ so watched a little teevee, went to facebook, blogs then settled 4 videos. there's still 2 left to do but i shall just dao it first. study math first then ask joan for inspiration! yupyup. otherwise i cannot go for the treat tmr! i hope my mom allows me to go out again tmr since i'm already out like the whole of yesterday.

okays. its 6 am now. i should get on with math!

oh and yes.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pjjveZJIJsY
wang lee hom is the epitome of shuainess there! ahhhhhh! the 2 artistes i like are in it! hahah i love this song! ((((:


okay stop slacking. back to math.

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Saturday, May 3, 2008

kidsREAD!


had kidsREAD yesterday and arrived 10 min late cuz i decided to bathe before going there since i stink from the 2.4 run and a bit of training that day. hahahas. so when we entered, aunty sheena was already starting the class.

opened the door and a very heartwarming scene followed! all the kids shouted, "HELLO JIE JIE!" and felicia just dragged me to sit with her on the floor! hahaha. so after my sister put our belongings to one side, she grabbed 2 chairs and the both of us sat down. felicia then self invited her onto my lap! hahaha! so cute right?

the kids are practicing for their peom recitation for mother's day! it was quite hard to get the active kids ready to stand in their lines to properly recite their poems. as the time passed, felicia became hyperactive. i believe some mutation has occurred in her. hahahha! like ras proto-oncogene! cuz florence is so young, she just tagged around with her sister and so in the end, the 2 of them were barred from reciting with the kids. hahahas!

so while i help teach fiona how to recite the poem, she wasn't interested. but hey, its a performance, so i grabbed onto her tight and get her to repeat the poems after me. hahaha. so i just sort of stuck myself to her to make sure she reads it.

had quite a hard time to get the kids to listen and stand still make sure they synchronise since on that day, there'll be lots of people. ayeee. quite sad that i cannot go and watch them cuz its on a saturday morning. )):

oh manss. all the 3 of them are so cute! hahahas. i think their father works as a hawker in the hawker centre cuz when we went home, the 3 of them were eating supper! hahah. and the drinks stall auntie was like helping them pour out the drinks and splitting the food for them. laughs.



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anyway, on the bus ride home, i was awoken by this couple. was in my nice sleep when they boarded the bus with sun yanzi's songs blasting. so i turned and stared at their ipod (i think) and the girl turned it down a bit. feeling rather irritated, i turned around again and the 'guy' shouted, eh what's your problem? ch** b**. i was like my problem concerns you, please just get off the bus if you want to blast the music. but of course i didn't tell them. such irresponsible people most probably won't listen to you so it'll be a waste of time talking to them. and there's always a risk that they'll hit me and who knows i'll be rid of my scholarship rights, testimonial and be black marked for the rest of my life! but thankfully, i alighted at the next stop. so too bad for the people on the bus who didn't fend for themselves and just live with the noisy people. HAHAHA.


oh and yes, i still feel quite lousy about the things i sad last tuesday when celetine came down to train us! :s i was really selfish and had a really myopic view. comeon, the world doesn't revolve around me and good things must share. ahhhhh. I'M SO SORRY EVERYONE!
oh wells, one lesson to be learnt.


okay i shall go prepare my stuff now. filming later! -grins-

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