Thursday, January 29, 2009





The following are some new yc t shirt design.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

RANDOM POST.....


Was doing last min shopping with my mum last week and we came across this japanese snack store selling this cookie....

I have to admit i am abit strange. I dun really like the fruit banana but i like the banana flavour so i got really attracted to this cookie....
Is kind of expensive... 30 plus i think... Sad thing is it doesnt taste as good as it look :(
Hajin help me got 朴永训's signature last dec when cindy was in korea training. Hajin told me that i was really lucky because she wanted to give up helping me get his signature cause he din went to the dojang till the last day cindy was leaving korea...haha. The korean word below his signature is daniel in korean...
This sat will be the start of my korean lesson from jin xin lai's mum. wenjun, cindy and my sis is coming alone to learn too. 안녕하세요

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sat in bishan was the first SWA CNY CUP. Is a brand new format of "formal" competition held in swa and it went off pretty smooth.


Went it comes to swa event, food is always involved....haha

a bit messy but who cares as long as there is food...
Competition area.... notice that the players in a team are seated in a straight line. Each team is consist of 5 players. Meaning 10 players will be playing on a single board. 30 sec per person.

Yls's team....(3rd) 1 win to kls team and 2 lost (junjie, zz, minyi, xiong hwai)
Zhou xiang's team (champion) 3 win and 1 lost to Kls team (yurika, small boy from 少年队, karen and zhi xiong)

Kls's team(4th) 1 win and 2 lost (xing wei, yao tang. wen jun and jia xuan)

Hls's team (2nd) 2 win and 1 lost to zx's team (alvin, jia cheng, jie hui, fei yang)


After every game the players will auto review game. The game between yls and hls team....

Kls reviewing and explaining their game to his own team...

Kls feedback that he thinks that this competition is very fun cause everyone in a team work together and he really enjoy this competition. Is good to get good feedback especially from the teachers.

But there are areas to improve to for example the players are limited cause cant have too many player in a team, the strength of player cannot have too much difference.. So maybe we can have a kyu category the next time. Hope to make this a yearly event.

Meet up with wenjun and karen in vivocity for the gala premier of "The Wedding Game".


Had dinner in thai express and we went to national geographic shop to take a look and we saw this huge box...






well, the temperature inside this box is minus dunno how many degree and anyone from the crowd can wear a jacket they provide and enter this box.





tada..... wenjun went in and he really look like an animal in an enclosure.



ok.... after that we went to golden village to collect our ticket for the gala premier. This time round we are actually representing singapore weiqi association. Other sports council association were invited too... Reason why we are all invited is because in the show, the wedding game 4 of team singapore athletes were featured inside.







haha, this pic abit strange... anyway the ticket collection booth for team singapore athletes.


The so call stage of the gala premier....



a clearer version of the stage.






And i saw hei ren. He look so much better in real life than on tv.



So we went into the cinema and there is this support team singapore in front. Apparently singapore sports council have book the entire theatre for team singapore athletes and associatiom members.


And guess what...every seat comes along with a goodie bag like this....



see that moon logo...yea is tat abalone brand and i thought they will give abalone or new year related food.


BUT.......



they give lame stuff like cooking oil ang white rice......... is like some war ration.....


anyway the stars came into our theatre to intro themself abit...



The main actor and actress....fann and chris.. the one wearing cap is the director from thailand, not david gan....



plus the 4 athletes who are involved in the movie... from left is tao li(swimmer), next is a bowler, next is a table tennies player and the guy is a badminton player.


The movie is so so only......... watch on weekday ba...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Was chatting with shuhui (she found my blog when googling ing cup and tag on my tagboard) and was surprise that she got 2 friends that started lesson in swa due to "the go master". Yes...that go master movie that cost almost all weiqi players to freak out, hahaha...

Well, is good to see that this movie has some good effect on the young population.

Today is shit and unlucky day for me. Cause my work place's toilet flush is spoil so we cant flush the urinal n toilet bowl. So i get the service man to repair abit and he went off.

Then i went into all the cubical to check if the flush is working and realise all toilet bowl got shit in them (seems that my workplace ppl shit alot, haha). So being a kind hearted soul i decided to flush for them so i started off with the first one. Due to the size and quantity of shit i though that i should press and hold the flush button longer to make sure everything will be gone.

When i press and hold for the first 2 sec, everything was ok. Then here comes the nightmare, suddendly a strong jet off water hit the huge amount shit causing some shit to land on my right hand which is still holding the flush button.

My immediately reaction is like WHAT THE F***...... gosh.. i almost scream...hahaha better not let me know whose shit it belongs to.

3 more days to cny cup. I hope everything goes smoothly. Have a bad feeling something will happen on tat day.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Hey guys, good news!

Next saturday, 24th jan will be the CNY cup.

Location will be in bishan clubhouse.

The first match will start at 10am.

Please spread this around. Thanks!

People who can make it for the competition (confirmed) (this list will be constantly updated)

-Kang Lao Shi
-Yang Lao Shi
-Hsia Lao Shi
-James
-Karen
-Jerry Zhou Xiag
-Shiawyan
-Kok wenjun
-Yurika
-Siong Hwai
-Xing Wei
-Zhi Xiong
-Yu Qi
-Minyi(90% can make it)
-Alvin
-Junjie
-Ho Feiyang
-Jia Cheng
-Yuxiang
-Yeow Tang
-Jia Xuan

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

SWA website has a brand new look!!

Check it out at www.weiqi.org.sg

If there is area you think that can be improve (i am sure there is, haha) feel free to give your suggestion.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Was reading yurika blog and it remind me of the article i saw in tom few days back.

GU LI (古力) 9p's total income in 2008 is 3,850,000 RMB which is around S$770,000.

This sum may seem alot but to japanese player like chou u this sum is peanuts.

Thats not all. Out of the total 3850000 RMB 古力 collected, 20% of it went to tax while another 60% went to china weiqi association.

Which means he only get 20% of everything :(

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

The CNY Cup is held on 27th jan cause on that day is also SWA cny gathering. (organised by SWA not youth connection.)

I know is the second day of and most ppl is still in collecting red packet mood. But this is a date where the pro teachers are available and the clubhouse are free from lessons too.

Food(which is lunch buffet again) will be provided by SWA so remember dun eat breakfast, haha

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

The next youth connection event will be in bishan's chinese new year gathering.

SWA chinese new year gathering (lots n lots of food!!!!!! plus hongbao too) will be on the 27th of jan which is the second day of chinese new year.

Since there is christmas cup, there will be a CNY cup too.

Same as christmas cup, the players in each team will be based on drawing lots on that day. However instead of team event, we will be playing team relay competition, meaning 2 team will be playing on a single board using pair go method, no discussion n so on.

We hope to include the pro teachers in too n if they all agree, yls, kls, hls(mr philip hsia) and the next strongest candidate xie tang(if he can make it) will be in each team (so there will be around 4 teams).

To prevent players to think too long there will be time limit for each player eg. 40sec per move(not fixed yet).

There will be ATTRACTIVE prize for first and second placing.

So spread around and inform me if u or anyone is interested.

Thx for the help!!!

Do contact me if u have any quires.
This is something i must post in my blog.

THE LATEST NEWS REGARDING INGS CUP IN SINGAPORE!!!!

The confirmation date of the final match (total 5 rounds and singapore will be hosting 3 rounds) is from 1 march to 8 march.

Good news is they are staying at fullerton hotel and i might have 1% chance of stying there since i helping out.

Bad news is.... THEY ARE PLAYING IN BUGIS CLUBHOUSE.

When i hear this i am like HUH!!!!!!

Imagine this... 2 professional player concentrating so hard on their game and suddenly a row on tricycle pass by with their full blast of strange music.

Or they take lift (which now is still under renovation) and they suddenly end up on the 7 or 8 floor(this always happen) nightclub?

Or they try to step into the ICB building and the female indian security guard scream at them, trying to ask where they are going.

Lastly.......can you imagine they use our toilet???????????????????????????????????? Old, smelly..... and they use halfway suddenly ppl (like zhixiong, muhahhahah) pop up to ask for signature??

I hope the koreans are mentally prepared.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

Was looking through my blog links and i came across zhang xiang latest post on weiqi.

He wrote something like

"In the past I used to think that I could continue playing weiqi just because I like it, but now I'm starting to have doubts. Maybe this is part of growing up. I'm starting to think about what I could gain from weiqi and what I could do with it in the future, and couldn't think of anything. "

Yar, this is the question. What can you gain from weiqi in future?

In secondary school, you play it as a cca for your school, in jc/poly you again play it as a cca for your school thus there is "reason" for you to play weiqi.

But no matter how fun and exciting any game can get, you will eventually get tired and bored of it especially when you are in the working world and when there is no reason for you to play.

So i was wondering after my NS and after my korea study (i really hope so) which is like 4 years later and i suddenly pop up in swa, will there be anyone there whom i know is still playing weiqi? I dunno.

Looking at the past records of weiqi players, for males after ns they will disappear, some will still come back cause they are playing for uni and for female players, hmmmm.... we have to see how karen and minyi respond, hahaha.

So i guess we have work hard together to prevent current ppl from leaving. Well who's the we? Of course is those in youth connection as well as our youth player. I believe that if you have friends in swa and there is enough events to 'entertain' us there is no reason to leave this game. I personally think that friends weights move than event cause if you have no frend then wats the point of attending those event?

Seeing all these problem i think promoting this game to more ppl especially youth is very important. Firstly you will get to know more ppl , secondly when there is a certain amount of ppl playing this game in future, it will sort of spread to more ppl and we might even get sponor. There might even be pro system or a system where u will have good reasons to continue and even improve yourself in this game.

Of course saying all these are easy but to work them out is another story. So dun give up and help youth connection in promoting this game :)

Thursday, January 01, 2009

some t shirt design done up by my poly friend.
Pls give your comment

Happy New Year!!!!!

damm...1 year older