Thursday, April 30, 2009
~ 4/30/2009 07:27:00 PM ~
I need mood to blog.
I must be free.
I must have “blog-able” things to blog.
Fortunately, I have all of them today, how very rare and amazing.
Alright, I’m sure Jin Yong is not an alien name to all of you. He’s a famous Cantonese Wu Xia (Novels on Martial Arts) author in China, and in fact, in the rest of Asia where people speak Chinese. Singapore is no exception. For a matter of fact, I saw Keith read his novels last year. So yeah. Well, I’m not going to fill my entire entry with Jin Yong’s life story, nor am I going to talk about his well-known novels such as She Diao Ying Xiong Zhuan (Heros and Vulture Hunters) and Shen Diao Xia Lu (Legendary Vulture, Heroic Couple). I just want to highlight one point. In his novels, the Wu Shu masters always have one or two ultimate moves of their own, and not known by masters from other gangs. This results in masters trying hard to learn each other’s ultimate moves secretly in order to be more powerful, and eventually, invincible. I kind of borrowed that idea. Well, at least can draw some parallel between this and a floorball experience today.
Pardon me to be unable to go into the details since I’m an amateur in floorball and don’t know the terms they use for each technique. Mat, thanks for lending your floorball stick to me to play for a good one hour and a half. I played with Theen Yew first, by mainly trying to shoot into each other’s gate and score and I was beaten. Then he lost to Jun Yang. After which, I played against Jun Yang. I just cannot control the Bucky Ball shaped ball – okay, they are both balls anyway – but somehow I managed to observe a few moves from him, attempting to apply them and scored a few, while Jun Yang scored steadily with invulnerable defence and swift attack. But soon we lost count and fight for the ball, and I learnt a lot more staff. This is more fun than just simply trying to shoot into each other’s gate, what was of inconvenience was just that we had to search for the ball from under the sofas, tables and other trash whenever we lost it. Where was Kaizen then? With his Twilight. I didn’t go because Min Yun said she’s got the DVD. Whoever read the book said it is spectacular. I didn’t touch the book since I bought it. Well, I don’t think I’m reading it any time soon either.
Okay, I shifted the boring portion of the entry to the back:
I did not expect today to pass this way, especially when it seemed that my morning has been following a propensity of weariness. Physics lecture was boring, and I has been nodding off for a few seconds for several times before came back into focus. I did that when I sensed the lecturer was going to explain something important, because when I dozed off for that few seconds I was actually following the lecture. Not entirely though, and I actually regretted that I did not completely fall asleep during this lecture today. It continued on during GP, this caused me to be rather quiet during the lesson, and for a few occasions I just switched off. The teacher noticed, and asked me to present the answer. I was lazy to write down the answer previously, so I had to think while standing in front of the board. It was rather embarrassing, and I was aware that the teacher was watching with the corner of my eyes. But somehow I pulled through, and amazingly, my answer was not entirely wrong.
There was only one free period today, as my Chinese Lit teacher decided to add Reinforcement or Further Improvement lessons – whatever you call that – every week. And this free period is actually my lunch break. Knowing I was going to have a double Chinese Lit, a Maths and a Physics Mock SPA, I knew I had to get myself some coffee already. I say “had to” because I per se did not drink it often unless I had no choice. With stomach rich in lunch and coffee (next time I should switch to latte), I was super energetic in what was left of the morning, and of course, the entire afternoon. The Chinese Lit lessons revised a piece of essay written by a famous official in Jin Dynasty. Perhaps what you all have heard of are Qing Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, but yeah, Jin Dynasty was an even earlier era, and the essay was well argued. Or perhaps the reason why it aroused my interest today was that the teacher was better (this was an essay taught last year) or the effect of coffee.
We discussed about [modesty and inner peace] and [moderate ambitiousness] as well. The phrases in each pair of the square brackets describe a single word. It would be something even more bombastic and complex if I translated into Chinese, but this English version is the best I can come up with so far. We talked about how [moderate ambitiousness] can gain us altitude, and [modesty and inner peace] can provide us with gentleness. However, we can only apply the latter after achieving the former. It is logical as well. If there is no altitude and achievements, there will be no place – if not, then ludicrous – for Men to be self-contented and confident, because that confidence will be tantamount to inanity. Something profound and insightful right?
This holiday will be good, though my tuition teacher strongly encouraged to sit down and labour on Organic Chem during Labour Day. Hopefully I can have time to gym this week. Actually the chance is slim. I will most probably resume it next week before going for the Camp the week after.
