Few weeks time some of my army friend in my unit will ORD loh... Haha... i will have my chance to say ORD loh next year or 4 years later.

Ok, going to write a lump of emo stuff....

So these bunch of frends who r leaving us soon are busy going into interviews in all the uni and trying their best to get a place in uni. Looking at them cant stop me from thinking whether going to uni is because u really like tat course or is for the sake of getting into a uni? The normal path of singaporean is pri sch, sec sch, poly/jc/ite/private, NS for guys, uni, get a job, get married and maybe waiting to die ba. Is such a fixed "routine" tat i feel abit sick of it.

I have seen so many ppl work not because they love their work but due to the salary needed to support them and their family. I cant imagine working in an environment for the sake of money while i have no interest in that job. Of course not everyone is lucky or fortunate to choose a job that they enjoy or like. If there are 2 jobs, 1 with damm high pay but u have no interest in that work while another job has average pay but is a job u enjoy doing it, which one will you choose?

I remember clearly that i have though through alot on whether i should study baduk as a degree in korea because this path fill with uncertainty and no one have done this. I have seek advice from many ppl especially those in SWA and i received different feedback. Some say i am nuts, some think is bad for my future, some thinks is a very good path and so on. Despite how blur the future seems to be if i take up this path, i feel that doing something i really like as my lifetime job is more important than any other factor.

When i said i wanted to study in korea after my ns, my mum gave me the "u siao bo" face and i think my dad was shaking his head, deep in his mind thinking i have walk fire enter demon(zou huo ru mo). But soon i somehow managed to convinced them which i cant remember how and they agree to it. I am really glad i have their support. As you know older generation can spread stuff really fast, one of my uncle get to know this and he wanted to talk to me about it. I wasnt really keen about it cause he is kind of strict and i was expecting him to scold me or something near there. But he told me that i should work hard towards my dream because not everyone get a chance to do what they like as a job in this world. Haha, this really surprise me...

anyway i dunno why i write all this stuff but yea who cares, haha...

went to watch THE INTERNATIONAL with zhixiong, wenjun and xingwei and there is weiqi in the show!!! haha... Our reaction when we see the weiqi scence must be really funny... Maybe this is the scence tat WAKE up all of us... haha... Without this scence i think i would be whack till upside down by them cause the show isnt good...

Went to watch handsome suit with my army friends today.

This show is not my cup of tea. Fell asleep so many times and i have never fell asleep in any show before. booo......

Anyway this sat, 18 april will be our youth gathering in bugis clubhouse. As usual the starting time is 1pm. Spread around!

Sun is the TPY cup. Wasnt really feeling well maybe due to skipping of breakfast or slept not enough.

Went home after my last match to sleep, getting old... haha..


The last round is going to have a very huge impact on me.

A very painful lesson.

Really pissed with the uploading of images in blogspot..... Anyway these pic should be up last week but i only manage to upload them 1 week later, haha..

Last sat was the second time of the youth connection gathering and it seems good cause quite a number of ppl appear...




NYP gang playing and tjc(red) trashing, oh i mean teaching a year 1, haha




new faces....



and more new faces... not sure which sch are they from.



yuqi playing funny GO with a female player from sp... look at how happy yuqi is...haha...



This is bad...a very good demo of connect 5 taking over GO....haha...like wat the raffles guy said in youth connection meeting.



As usual the older generation player killing each other every week...


After the gathering i went with the nyp ppl to our all time favourite resturant, QQ noddle house.



I dunno why but i feel like i am eating with a bunch of world war 2 soldiers... 6 bowl of rice and 3 bowl of meatball soup.. If there are dark soya sauce and tapioca on the table, ppl around us might think we are filming war show...



I ordered something more normal... hmmm but it look maggots in this pic


After dinner we went to the new shopping mall iluma if i din spell wrong...



A singtel roadshow and WHOA, look at the queue, must be giving out freebies...



F1 racing simulation....



Saw this machine outside the arcarde and i thought is the usual "grab soft toy" scam... but i am wrong....



Looks like "grab ice cream" scam is the more IN thing now, haha... 1 dollar per try...


Bought some stuff from junction 8 too...







I really find this toy L damm nice...

Sat morning is also my korean class with monkey sis and wenjun and last week homework was pretty tough...





The 3 of us realise that learning korean through vulgarities is the fastest way to master this language. Everytime when the teacher wan us to say a sentence in korean or she talk to us in korean we will be like staring at each other and go HUH???? But when it come to stuff like saying "you wan to die?" "you look like a pig" "shit/urine""you wan me to beat you up?", OMG, you should see how fast our reaction is.... you will think we have korean blood in us...

Anyway our teacher's son is a weiqi player too and they went japan for some exchange program so i ask her to help me get a blank fan. But when she is back, she told me that the blank fan has no more stock so she ask the ppl there who is the most famous player cause she is planning to buy tat person's fan for me.... guess wat..... this guy is tat famous person.....



OMG.... of all the pro player, she got me the one i am least interested in.... haha... james must be so into this fan....

*cough cough*

haha....really chocked by the dust gathered in this blog.

Been kind of busy and lazy to blog nowadays and even when i got mood to blog, i cant seem to upload my pics onto my blog.

Anyway if you are a fan of jin tian yi (the japan detective) and you play weiqi, you shouls read this edpisode of murderer revolving around weiqi

http://www.mday.com.cn/vol/1908_0_0.html

Have fun!!!!

Ing cup is over and is one experience i didnt regert taking a week off from army.

Too many photos so i wont be posting them up.

Sent lee chang ho to airport on sunday and realise he lost a jacket on the day he came singapore. And he seems to either practice yoga or meditation cause he forget to bring his floor mat back to korea.

Anyway 1 reason why i prefer korea weiqi more than other country is not because korea is the strongest weiqi country but their method to attract youth.

Playing weiqi like starcraft method...

High tech and attractive looking game explaination....

very interesting concept.

Anyway 21 march is our first youth connection gathering in bugis clubhouse at 1pm. Do spread this around and get more ppl to join us!!

hey guys,

We will be meeting in Changi Airport MRT(control station) station this coming sunday, 1 march at 8.30pm to welcome the korean team.

Do bring your camera or fan or watever u wan him to sign on(if possible).

pls spread around!!!

Thanks!

ps. 吳清源will be coming to ing cup too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was so surprise to see newpaper advertising or rather putting up a notice informing tat bishan is holding dan upgrading competition.

It is mention at the last page which is the sports corner.

Even though is small but is really good to see weiqi stuff there.

Wonder how come it ended up there. James said he din do it.

And it was my army friend who saw this notice...

Went to watch Valkyrie which is based on a true story (vo-ke-ri i think so, haha) with my army friends today. I think is a nice show cause i like this kind of movie. But some of my friends fall asleep cause not much action... much of a story based movie...

Everytime i watch this kind of movie i cant help to think that i am really fortunate to be born in non-war period. Looking at how hard life can be and how cruel your enemy can be in war time is really upsetting.

Currently these are the designs for youth connection t shirt. Besides ppl in youth connection, i will be asking ppl (teens not kids) from weiqi class and ppl outside weiqi association.

Design 1

Design 2

Design 3

Design 4

Design 5

Design 6

Design 7

Design 8

So feel free to vote for the one u like (up to 2), can tag in tag board or msn/sms me :)

People who have voted (so far):

1. huiling

2. weilai

3. shi hao (nyp)

4. jingna

5. jason

6. penghong

7. max

8. garion

9. chun wei

10. ming shun

11. yue heng

12. cindy

13. alexia

14.adaline

15. huishan

16. zhi xiong

17. ting yu

18. adabelle

19. wen bin (nyp)

20. xing fan

Latest design by xiong hwai.

Another t shirt design. Pls comment

The following are some new yc t shirt design.

Do give your comment:)

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

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...