Mad Victor and his weekend Journal

This is one of the most back-breaking weekends I had in years since my torturous badminton trainings years ago! So what did I do? Nothing much actually, except for Karate 'Kata' training from 9am-5pm for 2 entire days! Kaoz, never knew repetition movements of standing and squatting hurts that much! *yelps*

This training is particularly special because it was conducted by a Japanese master, Shihan Aishemera, who has trained a disciple who is the current 7-time Kata world champion! Woah! And his disiciple is said to be quite chio too! *out of point* Shihan Aishemera is a very pataient old man I must say. It's amazing that he managed to impart 6-8 katas to a group of us newbies who had not much idea what was going on. It is considered a feat because each kata takes at least 2-3 hrs of time to understand and train up and he did it with much breeze. His training was fun too because of some language barrier and the funny faces that he keeps displaying. Oh yes, his favourite part of the training was to keep repeating each set of movements for at least 5 times and saying 'lasto' (meaning last time) when he doesn't mean it. But of course, we would make his day upon getting the moves correct and he would signal his happiness with tonnes of claps.

The training was made even more fun by the kids from other Karate clubs in Singapore, especially Scottie, Heng Xuan, Nash, Heng Soon, Austin. During breaks, we would hit around with our newly learnt Karate moves or tackle each other on the mats. When you add up the cuteness and playfulness of these kids, the scale would shoot beyond 100%. Haha. Without these kids who add tonnes of cheers, I doubt the Kata training would be fun or even go 'stale'. Hee, and I think I've brought the 'tau-pok' culture into Karate as well. Whenever we saw anyone lying down, the poor guy would be piled on by many bodies on top. Wat a gd way to train abs with a very red face! Haha. On the whole this Kata training had been very fruitful because I had learnt 2 difficult Katas which I would not have been taught otherwise during normal trainings. Whee!

Just when you think it's time for a break after the 2-day training, Victor pulls yet another stunt. Haha. I went to my Xian Hong's house after training for a Pri Sch class stayover. It was so cool to meet up with my old class, some of whom I've not seen in donkey years. Thanks to the number of legal drivers around, we also drove to Geyland at 3am for supper. Unfortunately, it was spoilt by a scenary of 'rich' guys and 'poor' transvetites around. *Yucks* Nearly did not have the appetite to finish the frog prridge in front of me.

After training, with minimal sleep in the stayover, I headed off to Pulau Ubin with Aziz, Raj, Jeremy and Huren on our majestic Tour de Ubin journey! It was particularly painful for me in this bike trail because my butt, legs and hands were especially sore and numb and we went mostly on off-road trails with steep slopes. However, it was rewarded by some of the breath-taking scenaries especially near the haunted house & Chek Jawa at low tide. Oh yeah, and weren't we glad that we had no gals tagging along or else this trip would not get as 'rough' as it could be? Haha! I realised that a thai, sweet and young coconut is the most heavenly thing on earth that you can find after an ardous cycling trip! The cold refreshing juice and sweet juicy white pulp that crunches with every bite! Lovely!

It's time to crash now and head off to another journey in ZzzLand. Wonder what's coming in this sleeping journey ahead. Haha!