This post is a coupla days overdue but I have noting else to blog about so I'll do it anyways.
Hmm...lets start with my results. An MSG of 2. Not too bad, and it was a fairly big improvement from last term where my MSG was about 2.65. And even though I was quite unlucky in that I missed A1 for both maths and chinese by 1 point each, I guess I have no cause to complain as I did improve and some other people in my class got an MSG of about 4. Still, it was a pity that I missed A1 by so little. Amazingly (but not very surprisingly) Wang Fan got an MSG of 1. Total ownage. Even though hes a bit irritating and annoying at times, at least he's not a complete nerd, unlike some other people i knew.
Next, CCA. Training was in many ways a big dissapointment, as some of us after reading the SMB saw a message that said Friday was eat with your family day, all CCAs would be dismissed at 5. Sadly that did not include judo, and training dragged to about 6.30. Also, my coordinator blasted us all for sucking at our kata(grading syllabus). I mean it's our fault as well but can't you say it to us nicely? You're what, 2 years older than us? You're not even a teacher!
All in all, it would have been a decent day if not for training. Ah well.
Btw form now on on posts on my day, I will be giving that day a rating out of 20.
Friday's rating: 13/20
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Judo camp: Last day
Well, for the last day of camp this went a lot more badly than it should have been.
Overview:
First some warmups, then 5x10 uchikome, then moving uchikome. Three rounds around the dojo, it was no easy feat. Then...i think it was 5x3 nagekome, which would normallt be preety easy but after the three rounds around the dojo it got tiresome. Then without giving us a break sir ruthlessly progressed to 10 bouts of randori. It went badly enough by itself, but then the old boy punished us twice. 70 pumpings for not spreading out, and another 250 for the same offence a while later.
320 pushups for not spreading out. I ask you.
Then when randori was over and sir said the blessed phrase "3 minutes break" I thought that salvation had come at last. But the old boy made everyone (but the girls, how sexist is that!!) do another bout of randori. Since all sec 1s were used up I did it with meng xiang, who taught me some stuff, and praised my ippon.
After the break was newaza, 8 bouts. I got through it fine, and a J1 praised me (although essentially all i did was run around and make it hard for him to hold me :p)
Then I took the opportunity to pon(skip) shiai (randori and newaza combined) because i had to go to the dentist. After I came back an hour later, surprise surprise, the oldboy punished us yet again (neck breaching, front breaching) because some sec 4s were talking. Hows that for fairness?
After training dad fetched me home and bought some fried hokkien mee and yam cake for lunch.
All in all, an OK day, but a lot worse than i had expected it to be.
Overview:
First some warmups, then 5x10 uchikome, then moving uchikome. Three rounds around the dojo, it was no easy feat. Then...i think it was 5x3 nagekome, which would normallt be preety easy but after the three rounds around the dojo it got tiresome. Then without giving us a break sir ruthlessly progressed to 10 bouts of randori. It went badly enough by itself, but then the old boy punished us twice. 70 pumpings for not spreading out, and another 250 for the same offence a while later.
320 pushups for not spreading out. I ask you.
Then when randori was over and sir said the blessed phrase "3 minutes break" I thought that salvation had come at last. But the old boy made everyone (but the girls, how sexist is that!!) do another bout of randori. Since all sec 1s were used up I did it with meng xiang, who taught me some stuff, and praised my ippon.
After the break was newaza, 8 bouts. I got through it fine, and a J1 praised me (although essentially all i did was run around and make it hard for him to hold me :p)
Then I took the opportunity to pon(skip) shiai (randori and newaza combined) because i had to go to the dentist. After I came back an hour later, surprise surprise, the oldboy punished us yet again (neck breaching, front breaching) because some sec 4s were talking. Hows that for fairness?
After training dad fetched me home and bought some fried hokkien mee and yam cake for lunch.
All in all, an OK day, but a lot worse than i had expected it to be.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Warcraft AGAIN
Another update on warcraft...
I've completed the entire reign of chaos, and am now moving on to frozen throne. No, I'm not a hardcore gamer whos plays 6,7 hours a day. I have a much healthier, more fun solution. I cheat. (YEAH!!!)
I was able to download some custom maps (about 15 in all), but sadly none but one worked on reign of chaos. But ALL of them work in frozen throne. I can't explain the rationale for this, but...who cares?!! I can play custom games now, and thats all that matters. (Yes, thats how self centred I am. :p)
Right, I've been talking about warcraft in this and another blog post, but some might ask: what is Warcraft? Well, warcraft is a RTS (real time strategy) game that pits four races: the orcs, humans, night elves and undead against each other. Warcraft has a very detailed, elaborate history, each character has his or her own personality and history. Warcraft III is the third of the series and expands on it's already extensive history. Warcraft III can be considered one of the models for current RTS games, having started the concept of "hero" units.
Argh, to find out more just go google "warcraft" and you'll learn a lot more than from reading this pathetic little post.
I've completed the entire reign of chaos, and am now moving on to frozen throne. No, I'm not a hardcore gamer whos plays 6,7 hours a day. I have a much healthier, more fun solution. I cheat. (YEAH!!!)
I was able to download some custom maps (about 15 in all), but sadly none but one worked on reign of chaos. But ALL of them work in frozen throne. I can't explain the rationale for this, but...who cares?!! I can play custom games now, and thats all that matters. (Yes, thats how self centred I am. :p)
Right, I've been talking about warcraft in this and another blog post, but some might ask: what is Warcraft? Well, warcraft is a RTS (real time strategy) game that pits four races: the orcs, humans, night elves and undead against each other. Warcraft has a very detailed, elaborate history, each character has his or her own personality and history. Warcraft III is the third of the series and expands on it's already extensive history. Warcraft III can be considered one of the models for current RTS games, having started the concept of "hero" units.
Argh, to find out more just go google "warcraft" and you'll learn a lot more than from reading this pathetic little post.
Judo Camp: Day 2
Okay, see the post before this one for the lowdown on the activities of the day before. In the meantime, here's what we did today:
First was tachiwaza randori. Nothing much to say here, except that i practically lost every single bout (!!!) since all the people i had a chance of winning were either
1.Sick,
2.Overseas,
or 3.At SMO.
Sad, isnt it?
Tachiwaza next, extremely tiring. We did just about every single throwing excercise possible, then like yesterday the seniors had circle nagekome while we sat by and rested. However, we had to do nagekome 5x5 after that while THEY rested.
Lunch was after that, the food was modest, I would rate it in between yesterday's luch and dinner. However the drink was root beer, which was awesome, plus I bought some pomelo barley to add on.
After lunch was AB, and miraculously I did not die as bad as yesterday since it was only normal AB (1 lap, as opposed to 2). I wasn't even the last guy to finish for a few of the excercises.
Another long break, then 10 bouts of newaza randori, the longest ever. We were expecting a killer PT since AB wasnt that tough, but it was exactly the opposite.Sir gave us about 20 minutes to prepare a performance (some bollywood dance) and my group forced me to be the chio bu. To cut it short, Jeffrey and jeremy "fought" over me and then I revealed that I was not in fact a chio bu, everyone "fell down", and our performance was over.
I would rate ours as the third or forth best, with Kent's group being champion and the sec 2s second. I will only elaborate on Kent's one since it was hilarious. Kent went around acting all gay, and did some sort of indian dance with the other sec 3s. Some other stuff (just as funny) happened, but as of now I'm too lazy to write it all down. Then we had a round of Captain's ball where we got soundly thrashed by the J1s and J2s. Ah well.
BEST PT EVA.
First was tachiwaza randori. Nothing much to say here, except that i practically lost every single bout (!!!) since all the people i had a chance of winning were either
1.Sick,
2.Overseas,
or 3.At SMO.
Sad, isnt it?
Tachiwaza next, extremely tiring. We did just about every single throwing excercise possible, then like yesterday the seniors had circle nagekome while we sat by and rested. However, we had to do nagekome 5x5 after that while THEY rested.
Lunch was after that, the food was modest, I would rate it in between yesterday's luch and dinner. However the drink was root beer, which was awesome, plus I bought some pomelo barley to add on.
After lunch was AB, and miraculously I did not die as bad as yesterday since it was only normal AB (1 lap, as opposed to 2). I wasn't even the last guy to finish for a few of the excercises.
Another long break, then 10 bouts of newaza randori, the longest ever. We were expecting a killer PT since AB wasnt that tough, but it was exactly the opposite.Sir gave us about 20 minutes to prepare a performance (some bollywood dance) and my group forced me to be the chio bu. To cut it short, Jeffrey and jeremy "fought" over me and then I revealed that I was not in fact a chio bu, everyone "fell down", and our performance was over.
I would rate ours as the third or forth best, with Kent's group being champion and the sec 2s second. I will only elaborate on Kent's one since it was hilarious. Kent went around acting all gay, and did some sort of indian dance with the other sec 3s. Some other stuff (just as funny) happened, but as of now I'm too lazy to write it all down. Then we had a round of Captain's ball where we got soundly thrashed by the J1s and J2s. Ah well.
BEST PT EVA.
Judo Camp
Whew! The worst of the judo camp is over, but it ends tommorow. Here's an overview of what i did:
Monday- PT in the morning. Wasn't too bad, but then again all PT is bad, so there you go.
Next, video viewing for TWO whole hours in LT 2. Very slack, and fun. We watched the 2007 world championships for judo, and it was kinda cool, yet a bit funny(i.e. this guy lifted in the air by his opponent, then walking on his hands while his opponent tried (unsuccessfully) to throw him.)
Next was lunch. Common food, some rice from the stall, and some sort of dilute ribena as drinks.
Now the real training starts. Double AB, i very nearly died, but at least i pulled through. Then some other random newaza excercise and then a long break.
Some tachiwaza(throwing practice, inclusive of uchikome and nagekome)then another break for dinner. A plus point of tachiwaza was that sec 1s got to rest during circle nagekome for some reason or another.
Dinner...lets just say it was not very good.
The third warmup for the day, then a lot of randori. The old boys talked to us about the sense of belonging and stuff, then sir and mr chen added in. Then we all went home, beat.
Ah, i'll just do tuesday's update in another post.
Monday- PT in the morning. Wasn't too bad, but then again all PT is bad, so there you go.
Next, video viewing for TWO whole hours in LT 2. Very slack, and fun. We watched the 2007 world championships for judo, and it was kinda cool, yet a bit funny(i.e. this guy lifted in the air by his opponent, then walking on his hands while his opponent tried (unsuccessfully) to throw him.)
Next was lunch. Common food, some rice from the stall, and some sort of dilute ribena as drinks.
Now the real training starts. Double AB, i very nearly died, but at least i pulled through. Then some other random newaza excercise and then a long break.
Some tachiwaza(throwing practice, inclusive of uchikome and nagekome)then another break for dinner. A plus point of tachiwaza was that sec 1s got to rest during circle nagekome for some reason or another.
Dinner...lets just say it was not very good.
The third warmup for the day, then a lot of randori. The old boys talked to us about the sense of belonging and stuff, then sir and mr chen added in. Then we all went home, beat.
Ah, i'll just do tuesday's update in another post.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Warcraft
Recently got warcraft 3 and frozen throne from my friend. I havent really had the time to do much, but I completed the prologue orc campaign in the first day and am halfway through the human campaign. I hadn't played warcraft since P3 on my cousin's computer, and warcraft is quite an old game now. Still, I got it for free and the graphics are OK, so I'm not complaining. I havent even begun frozen throne yet, due to lack of time. However one thing I am not happy about is the absence of maps in the version that i got form my friend(maybe he deleted them accidentally or something...) so I cannot play custom games. There is something wrong with the custom game interface anyway. If I have time I will go download some maps, but I doubt they'll work.
In the human campaign I am at abt chapter 3 or 4, and I have just met with the elven priests. I am on my way to go destroy some infected grainary(but im not very sure...I havent played for a week.)
I probably will be able to play today night, but later or tommorow or monday I will need to do chinese revision and complete my homework.
Well, I've finally completed the 5 post pre requiste for term 2, so don't expect to see me post for some time. Later!
In the human campaign I am at abt chapter 3 or 4, and I have just met with the elven priests. I am on my way to go destroy some infected grainary(but im not very sure...I havent played for a week.)
I probably will be able to play today night, but later or tommorow or monday I will need to do chinese revision and complete my homework.
Well, I've finally completed the 5 post pre requiste for term 2, so don't expect to see me post for some time. Later!
Judo training, 8 May
Friday's training was the best of all the other trainings, with the exception of the orientation trainings, where we did not have to do PT. There was no AB (dunno what it stands for, its some really hard excercise where you crawl/push/drag, etc yourself across the dojo), and training was a bit different because we had 10 second uchikome and nagekome, and other less common stuff. Plus during sparring I threw Nigel Ng from 1i1 like 6 times, and ZiYing from 1i3 twice, once really hard. It was really satisfying hearing him go smack on the ground. (lols i do not hate Nigel or Ziying, just that I like to win.) As for the other bouts...lets just say they did not go so well. PT was slack enough, especially cos during the run around the school was unsupervised, so I basically just lagged all the way. After that our quartermaster Wen Cong punuished us (in a kinda slack way) by making us do frogjumps too and fro across the dojo. It was originally supposed to be 2 laps but then for some reason it was reduced to 1 lap. After training I played Gish with a senior and then went home to lots of fried stuff.
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