HERE I COME…..

                                         26/5–27/5/2007

DEMONSTRATION

Huh…today is really a special and memorable day for me. What happens today is truly a breakthrough for me in my Tae Kwon-Do circle. I’ve been participating in the North Peninsular Malaysia TKD Tournament for approximately ten years since i’m standard one and in every tournament, there will be a demonstration performed by some of the best Tae Kwon-Do member in the state or even in the country. This will always be the time where i’m really eager for because all the stunts that they performed never fail to blew me off every year i watched it. I’m always so amazed to watch all the best performing and I wonder when i can be like them. "It must be very cool and fantastic if i could perform like them" I think. FINALLY……………………………………………………. After 10 years of practising this "gorgeous" and "elegance" martial art (TKD),I finally got the chance to perform like them!! I was really excited when they ask me to join them as part of the DEMO team. To be frank… actually at first i’m quite confidence of my skills and techniques when they ask me to join the DEMO team. But once again my confident began to fade during the third or fourth training,when the 4th dan black belt holder instructor ask me to do a particular stunt which is at my edge of ability and it’s very challenging as it needs a lot of spinning,speed and accuracy in order to perform that stunt in perfection. However thanks Lord that after a few times of training, i’m able to master that difficult stunt.

        Finally the day has come…it’s the perfoming day! On tat day…there is approximately five hundred participants and imagine that there is a few hundred people watching you performing….how was it like? Worst till is there are all the VIP sitting on the stage watching you including the MGTF president. What can i do is just to keep myself relax and calm. Once again i’ve to thanks God that i’m able to perform the demomstration well as what we’ve trained. Happy to say that i receive a lot of positive comment from the people,of course there is still some critics but i still feel glad about the whole performance. Since then i’m recognise better by people and open up a whole new world for me!

TOURNAMENT

There is really a lot of things occur in this special tournament. Besides performing the demonstration for the first time,it it also my first time to become a refree and judge, and of course the first time wearing that refrees uniform. I really did learn a lot of things from it. How to be more professional and evaluates on one’s skill. These give me a deeper understanding of how the competition run for i’ve participate it for about ten years.

         Another things which makes me feel glad is i manage to get back the Champion title for sparring category after loosing it in the previous year. I also won the first runner up in the pattern Open category. And the things that excite me the most is my school Chung Ling Butterworth have won the best school overall champion! The last time my school got this award is about 10 or 15 years ago!! It’s really an honour to my school. And this burdened up my responsibility as a co-instrustor to bring my school to the next High. I’m really striving to raise my school club’s standard up for it has been a catastrophe in my school TKD quality. Hopefully i can do my best to assist them in order to achieve this award again.

  Hoho…finally I’m on my way to get my driving license! Actually i can get this driving license a year ago, but due to some financial problems i have to wait until now only i may register for that. Basically everybody knows that we have to attend a theory class before we can step our foot on the "BIG" Malaysian made car,so i went for that class. Literally…that so call theory class is just a waste of time and at the same time meaningless! After a week since i attended that useless theory class…finally today I got my chance to drive a manual car in my first driving lesson. Before that, I drove my mom’s auto car(proton) before and i felt so easy of driving it even in my first time,i felt like I’ve drove that car for more than ten years! Up to that reason and experience,I’m so confidence before i step into that Kancil because i thought that the manual car would be as easy to control as the auto one. But right at that moment when i switch the engine on and prepare to show my "techniques" of driving, i knew that I’m absolutely wrong! Oh thanks God that i still haven’t ask that instructor to shut up and let me drive by my own! All my confident and ego i had before this have lost instantly when my car’s engine shut down due to the reason that i did not step the clutch well. Haha..what a lesson for me! Don’t be too confident unless you meet your opponent! Although my car "die fire" (hokkien) a lot of time, but after half an hour of practice i begin to understand how it works. I even get to drive on the main road during my first lesson, no big deal about that right?! haha! Huh…I’m so eager to go for my second driving lesson and get my P license as fast as possible. Whoever read this please wish me luck! Thanks!