Week's Event

Last week was a boring week......So little go training. On Wednesday, I went Cineleisure with Karen, Jasmine and Haikel to watch a movie. I was looking forward to watch MIRROR but Karen was underage(hehe) So we watch DISASTER MOVIE. Because of Karen, our decision to which movie was delayed. (karen talking to her bf, Chong Han in NS) She talk very long.....morning........afternoon.....night........almost all the time non-stop. So I took the phone and said bye bye to Chong Han, and hang down. hahaha, i'm so evil. I confiscated her phone, muhahaha. The movie was fine and then went shopping, take NEO pic where Haikel was forced to........blublublu. Shopping again, girls girls, all the same haha. Then we coincidentally met Sebas and then went training... hahahaha

Yesterday ( Sunday)was the Singapore Night Race F1......It's very exciting and NOISY. A lot of accidents. I was chatting with the SP Aikido and Solomon was so looking forward to see accident which are devastating. There was this case where the vehicle ran off when it is still in progress of fueling, the people attending to the petrol was pulled and fell down and the petrol tube still stuck on the vehicle. hahaha. The other one was the accident where the car crashed against the wall and the tyre burst off. In the end of the race.......Alonso won the race, whoever that is....hahaha

Aikido in My Life!!!!

What interest me in Aikido?

I believe most of you readers out there are wondering how I get to know aikido and how long I have been training this martial art.

I have been training aikido for 5 years. In my childhood, I dislike martial art for its violence, yet I did not understand what martial art is. Before turning secondary 1, my father wanted me to join karate or taekwondo, but I declined. Soon, my father forced me to join Aikido @ Cairnhill CC. Even though I made some friends but it did not last. The training duration was just 1 hour and it is boring.

My father joined the clan association Nan Yang Pho Leng, where it is located near the CC. Soon someone introduced Sensei Awyong to set up an Aikido class there at Pho Leng so I joined there instead. Because I was quite a playful and naughty boy, under my sensei, my behavior gradually changed. From naughty and playful to discipline and quiet. Haha. At that time, it was the birth of Zhen Qi Shu Aikido. I gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom through the teachings of my sensei. With SP and TP Aikido being formed, I made a golden friendship with them.

Because of Aikido, I am full of discipline, because of Aikido, I have support from my friends. Without Aikido, life will be boring and I will be the disastrous boy I used to be. Haha… … …

Pic of aikido open house (dunno when)


Exchange programme with Shanghai Aikido (2005)


Shanghai trip hahaaha......


Me and Sandy.... hhahha


Exchange programme with Myanmar 2007


The Golden Rock !!!!!!


Spire with a complicated name!!!!!


ME at CNY Demo 2008


Katana of SP


The Wonderful Chalet by SP!!!!

Friday and Saturday!!!

Fabulous Friday
Friday @ RP was fine and I was glad that the facilitator have changed from the aunt facilitator to a more interesting man. I like his class because his interesting and funny talking kept us awake. I was luckily to have such an interesting and fun facilitator. Meeting with the SP and training was as usual.

Saturday!!!
About 2.30pm, I mit the SP for lunch (my money used finished, I'm almost broke). After that, training as usual but there were fewer people. Therefore there was no second training and the training time expanded. Dinner @ United Square with SPs and going broke. Later, we went to TP chalet. There was a lot of people (weekends, of course) at Costa Sand. The TPs were having a BBQ so eat eat!!! hahaha. There was PS, X-box and many games they brought. There was one game required two guitar, the Guitar Hero. Sensei played the game, haha. Yong Xin VS Sensei. Sensei Won. hahaha.

My Thursday!!!!!

Well! Today at RP is fine, the module was cognitive processes and the facilitator was a nice woman. Better than the aunt facilitator on last Friday. The topic of the day is Occam's Razor, a new knowledge learned. Occam's Razor is a philosophy that states that the simple the things are, the better it is. Even though it is very difficult to research on the topic but we tried our very best to prepare our presentation and the facilitator liked the presentation.

Aikido
I was quite tired after the lesson, so I slack and skip the TP to rest. haha. I went to Kolam Ayer CC straight away to rest and have some food to restore energy. About 7 something pm, Perry and Sebastian came and I show them some aikido video clips to entertain them while we wait for the Hall to be available for us. Training @ Kolam Ayer CC for today was special, we learned many self-defense techniques. It was the most fruitful training. After training, Mr Ong brought food for us as usual, haha. He bought Burger King's burgers and Nasi Lemak and a mooncake, hahaha.

The Narrow Path to Danger
After supper, I went home. As I reached the lift lobby, I saw a man dressed in red looked at me, so I looked back at him in response. It was lucky for my eye to see what the man was up to. In his right hand hold a knife and his pocket, there's another knife. 2 knives!!! I responsed calmy; I pretended to be disturbed by my handphone and simply walk away. I was lucky to see the knives or I will be killed in the lift or my money maybe gone, haha. Therefore I wanna to share a code in the martial art in Aikido (SP and TP):

Fighting must be your last resort
The first is to avoid fighting... ... ...

The Heavenly Strategist

Zhuge Liang

Zhuge Liang, named Kong Ming, was the most famous strategist of the Three Kingdom Era and perhaps the whole china history. He was not only a well-known strategist and statesman, but also an accomplished scholar and inventor. His Tao name is the Sleeping Dragon. His name Kong Ming is also know as Piercing Light, a light of hope during the chaotic time of the fallen Han Dynasty. Upon Liu Bei's three visit to his thatched cottage, he became the chief strategist of Liu Bei. He was well-known in making allies with the Kingdom of Wu with Lu Su, named Zi Jing, a advisor to Sun Quan and Zhou Yu.

Kong Ming was also a friend of many brilliant scholar such as Pang Tong and Xu Shu. When Liu Bei became Emperor Zhao Lie of Shu, Zhuge Liang became the Chancellor of Shu. After the death of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang continue the long dream of Liu Bei and stabilise the Southern part of Shu, the Nanman. After the Southern Expedition, he set to the Northern to deal with the Wei. During the expedition, Zhuge Liang met a formidable rivial, Sima Yi. Through a lot of creative strategies, Sima Yi have no choice but to avoid battles with Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang passed away in 234/ WuZhang Plain and was succeed by Jian Wei, his favorite disciple.

Before his death, he passed his treatise and the manual of the eight trigram formation to Jian Wei. His post of prime minister was succeeded by Jiang Wan, Fei Yi and Dong Yun. But soon without these people, Shu and the two country, Wu and Wei finally fell and the Jin Dynasty was formed... ...

In addition, Zhuge Liang invented the flying lanterns, wooden ox, crossbow, landmine and the food, Mantou.

Life in RP!!!!!!

Boringg!!!! hahahaha. Holidays were over and SP/TP still enjoying their 6 week of holidays. So good but not in RP. In RP, presentation's everyday. Life is boring especially in Semester 2 where u change class and meet people which are alien to u. The first day u open the door of the classroom, many eyes are looking at u. I was glad I passed my semester 1 result, but need to work harder.

There was a friday ( i think the second one), there was this aunt faciliator that is totally sucky. I did everything except my self-evaluation which is unneccessary, but she gave me a C. Totally sucks!!! And she said don;t care about complaining to her. She sucks and luckily she was a substitue faciliator on that day. My friend said that if she comes again, he is going to drag her to toliet and beat her up ( i know he was just kidding).

The monday class faciliator also sucks. A man which end every sentence with a ssssss, what's his problem! He sucks too.

I hope the rest of the lesson is interesting and fun, not full of boredom and "death".

Which is the Best Aikido?

Aikido was founded by Morihei Ueshiba, a great martial artist. Under his teachings, he had students which are well-known. For those training Aikido even now, trying to search for better Aikido video for fun or observation/ improvement, there are clip on these old students of O'sensei. These are students of O'Sensei:


植芝 吉祥丸Kisshomaru Ueshiba, son of Morihei Ueshiba. The second Doshu of Aikido. Doshu is a hereditary title, "Master of the Way (Tao)". After his death, his son Moriteru Ueshiba take his father's place and become the third Doshu until now. The future and forth Doshu will be young Mitsuteru Ueshiba.


塩田 剛三 Gozo Shioda, a uchi-deshi of O'Sensei and the founder of Yoshinkan Aikido. He has become known as one of the most "fiery" or "vigorous" people of aikido history. In one incident, Shioda and a fellow deshi got into a fight with a gang of criminal known as yakuza . He was able to defeat the gang by bringing down the leader first. He said that this was an essential tactic in a fight against many.


斉藤 守弘 Morihiro Saito, was often the sole training partner of Ueshiba, and had the unique opportunity to train with Ueshiba in the practice of the sword and short staff, which occurred early each morning before the other students arrived. He is expert in jo and bokken techniques.

Okay! That's it. Want others, find yourself, haha. The most appropriate clips are from Aikikai or IAF.

Recent Events!!!!!

School reopen and the boring semester started. It is very ironic that we are studying while the others (TP and SP) are have six weeks of holiday. So good right!!!

These are the events and activities I participated in September and the Holidays:

• Combined Training with Shihan Horri @ NUS Aikido
  
• Zhen Qi Shu Aikido Anniversary
  
• SP Aikido Farewell Party & BBQ @ Costa Sand Chalet
  

That's all hahaha. Training Aikido will be a major activity in my lifestyle. So slam here, slam there.

Farewell to my Semester 1 class W47H and Hello to E35M


HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Zhen Qi Shu Aikido Sensei


Combined Training with Shihan Horri

Aikido - Movement of Nature

Aikido

What is Aikido? What is its true definition? Some people believed that Aikido are for soft and injured people, is that true and what about Steven Seagal using Aikido techniques during his movies. Now I will answer these question.

What is Aikido?
According to most description, Aikido means the path of harmonizing people with the mental power Ki or a Japanese self defense martial art. Is that all?
Ai means respect, together and love, Ki means the mental energy and the primordial power that created this universe and Do means the path, Tao. Aikido is a art of peace and the movement of nature. O'sensei stated that Aikido emphasizing being one with the universe, go with the flow and borrowing of the enemy's energy against him/her.
Aikido is a budo that emphasized weapon, unarmed and defense in different situation. Aikido is about calm oneself and bring the whole universe into his/her mind.

Research
O'Sensei in his many years studied different religion including Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism. He believed that the concepts of almost all religion are the same. Aikido is mostly based on the concept of Taoism. Laozi, the Taoist philosopher said that all things in the universe are created by one primordial force, Nothingness. Only with Nothingness, Yin and Yang are created and later the creation of the whole universe. All things comes from nothingness, therefore in order to execute an Aikido technique, the mind must be calm and empty. Not only Aikido is based on the concept of Tao, but many ancient classic texts are links to its secret.

Truth of Aikido
Aikido is consisted of a soft martial art, yet sometimes it is hard. For the world have yin and yang, life and death, light and darkness. And so does Aikido, it is a hard and soft martial art. Some believed that Aikido are for soft people due to its beautiful and circular movements, they forgot the word, self-defense. Aikido can be orthodox and unorthodox just like an army. Aikido also consisted of locks that control the opponents instantly and circular movements are used to avoid attacks and to blend in with the enemy's attacks