2006 Chicago Marathon - How NOT to end a race!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWheGgqmq0A&mode=related&search=

Wah lau, those stupid slippery logo...

1022

I managed to run to bedok reservoir from my house and make almost one run there, a total of 58 minutes. Based on my sensitivie sense of smell, I believe the PSI was still moderately okay as there was no burnt smell. This was an instant cure to my RWS(Running Withdrawl Symptom)

After this, I had a 100 plus and walk home, and ended up sleeping the whole day after a bath.

The Macau/HongKong trip was a break from my usual 9-6 life, but I will be facing thousand of emails tomorrow, so I will be coming a bit earlier to deal with them.

The author of the book - Rob Preece for which I read earlier "The Wisdom of Imperfection -The Challenge of Indivduation in Buddhist Life" ; mentioned that most people go through the same problems and keeps rotating in the same issues and some ultimately cultivates character improvement from there. It is what I call "a full circle".

I am still on this book, and sometimes when you realise you might just be able to do what your heart says, it is a miracle huh, not everyone can do it or realise it.
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0345485920/ref=s9_asin_title/102-7811837-7860150


SO, this guy is Jiro from Fahrenheit Boyband, I think he looks cute ah, Japanese-styled-bad boy image and nice song by Tank too, and that is Melody-famously knowned as David Tao's ex with the prefect body.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcApDm6emxs&mode=related&search

1017

I am flying soon in about an hour, the aikido class at dojo A was at some cool, air conditioned dancing room. Although it is comfortable, it is not my ideal workout session, it reminds me of gym workout, too comfortable to the point of exercising inefficiency.

Of course, I do not fancy last week's class at dojo B because the fans in the court were spoiled!! I thought i was going to faint from fatigue, but surprisely I feel more energetic than before after the class. Ah, that is a power of sauna-aikido.

<<听妈妈的话>> 周杰倫

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ZkCCaJjKo&eurl=

小朋友　你是否有很多问号　为什么
别人在那看漫画　我却在学画画　对着钢琴说话
别人在玩游戏　我却靠在墙壁背我的ABC
我说我要一架大大的飞机　我却得到一只旧旧螺旋机
为甚么　要听妈妈的话　长大后你就会开始懂得这种话　哼

长大后我开始明白　为甚么我跑的比别人快　飞的比别人高
　将来大家看的都是我画的漫画　大家唱的都是　我写的歌
　妈妈的辛苦　不让你看见　温柔的事　是否在她心里面
　有空就多多握握她的手　把手牵着一起梦游

听妈妈的话　别让她受伤　想快快长大　才能保护她
　美丽的白发　幸福中发芽　天使的魔法　温暖中慈祥

在你的未来　音乐是你的王牌　那王牌谈个恋爱
而我不想被你教坏　还是听妈妈的话吧　晚点在恋爱吧
我知道你未来的路　干嘛比我更清楚　你因为太多学习的同学在这块写东写西
但我在　妈妈我会用功读书　用功读书　怎么会从我嘴巴说出
不想你输所以要叫你　用功读书吗

妈妈交给你的毛笔　你要好好收着
因为不许告诉我　也告诉他我还留着
对了　我会遇到了周润发
所以你可以跟同学炫耀　赌神未来是你爸爸

我找不到你写的情书　你喜欢的要承认
因为我会了解你　会在操场上牵她
你会开始喜欢唱流行歌　因为张学友开始准备唱吻别

1011

http://www.amazon.com/Party-One-Manifesto-Anneli-Rufus
/dp/1569245134

This seem to be a nice book to hit on, let me try and find it here.

Yes, it is hard to explain but I find it really tiring if i am talking/mingling with people too much, my energy kind of gets sucked away slowly and lethally.

I prefer to engage in things that makes me think and revised regularly in technical aspects, not emotionally.

The best way to describe it is..I like to throw away the emotional rubbish and get it on with my analysis/thinking thoughts right away, as the former gets in the way!

My knees are telling me I should rest today and I am done with packing my stuff for aikido training just now, only leaving the hakama to be folded later. I miss weapons class.

Thou shall saved my energy for martial arts, I have missed far too many classes for my own good.

Maybe L is right, teaching is a nono for me, solitude is my recharging battery.

It is almost a social crime (just like nosepicking!)to even say you like to eat alone in the workplace.

I have long resigned to this fate and psycho myself that I TRUELY ENJOY company.

I found my neighbour, a 5 or 6 year old kid crying inside his home, naked, behind the "grill doors"

There is a thin line between discipline and abuse?

1007

I managed to miss only a few minutes of the National Geographic Channel show on "Samurai Swords", it was technical not a martial arts show. I saw the promos at S 's house as she invited all the department people to eat at her place. I realised that I have walked pass that place weeks ago, while visting the old folks home.

The focus was more on how this sword is handmaded using tradition passed down from more than 800 years, and is considered to be the most powerful sword in the world by experts.(Not referring to those mass produced faked ones)

There was this samurai master and his daughter sparring using their lives, the lady shot 3 arrows aiming at her father's heart. He counter attacked each blows using his sword. They came from a samurai generation, hence are fiercefully devoted to preserve this ancient traditions throughout their life.

At their level, these masters actually do training using REAL samurai sword, leaving zero room for mistakes!!

I notice how their moves resembles aikido ones...which is supposed to countattack samurais in the first place. If I did not rememebr wrongly, it was actully a secret martial arts skill before WWII among the nobles and linked to a Japanese religion.

It takes more than 3 months and more than 50 people to produce one real samurai sword.

There is an martial arts week thing at National Geogaphic Channel, so I better stay and watch in this hazy days, no more outdoor running now. Let's see if it gets better tomorrow, I feel like I am smoking 24 hours a day.

I remember my sempai (senior) reminded me not to step over my bokken (wooden sword), as it represent my soul. I guess it is a way to show self respect, there is so much to learn, yet so little time.