Christmas celebrations this year wasn't much different from previous years, cept the training bit.

Monday - Got back from penang, went to Jon chan's place to use the condo gym with Jon chan, Winston and Willy. Then ransacked Jon chan's room, hehe and played his piano for a while. Quite lucky that some pieces can just be played without practicing sometimes. Heck, they better be rehearsaless, their my arrangements or compositions anyway doh.

Tuesday- Canoeing. Tried out a K4 with sam, joyce and naresh, and we spend 20% of the time rowing, 40% capsizing, towing, draining and embarking, and 40% laughing.

There was once when we capped near shears bridge, and since we all couldn't get back on the boat without getting to shore Samantha and Joyce rowed to the beach and me and Naresh swam back. But the currents were pushing us out to the open waters and no matter how hard I swam I seemed to stay in the same bloody spot. I thought that I was gonna die or end up on some faraway beach or something. Then decided to swim at a 45% degree angle to the currents and managed to make it to the nearby rocks.

Oh yeah, Joyce boards the boat from a capsize in the middle of the water like a gu-niang ahuahua. First her leg got stuck at an angle, then she tried to climb up on one side, but ended up going head first over the boat and onto the other side.

Christmas party over at Ezra's place in the evening. Awesome food, and played ps2 for a while before eating dinner.

Wednesday - Went to the school gym with Jeremy, had a good shoulder workout. Then went to Uncle's place for dinner. Food was good, altho the beef was a little tough >_<. Then quickly rushed over to Ben's place. Watched tv and played with his dogs for a while, very cute dogs, one of them was so fascinated by the dog scent I carried from home and my uncle's place. Then ate a little cake, D'oh!

Thursday - Jio'd Thomas, Jon Kang, Hui, Jeremy and Rendy to weights at school. Had a most awesome back and legs workout, and did a couple of off-the-wall kicks.

Damnit need to warmup waist more next time. Everytime I try one without warming up, due to the speed and pressure of the rotational force of the kick I end up with a little sprained side. Anyway, I found out that I can do 2 new kicks a cuople of weeks back. One is a turning, reverse kick, whereby your do a turning kick and lift off the ground, and rotate fast enough to throw out a reverse kick before landing. The other is a reverse turning kick. Which is the same kicks but in reverse order ahuahua. With a little practice they could actually look presentable.

Went to play basketball just now. Met Weekiat and a couple of familiar faces. Glad to know I still haven't lost my touch. Did a couple of insane 360 jumpers, w00t. And my team won 3 out of 4. These guys are pretty awesome. They may be really short, like sec 3-4, but their psycho motor skills, reflexes, speed and agility can be quite scary. Can't expect any less anyway, most of them are in the school or local CC teams, or play everyday. Glad to say I scored the majority of the points. Some of them were really intimidated by my height and size, but there are a couple of fighters who just don't care.

They see you as a bigger obstacle that they must and will overcome. You can see it in their eyes when they are dribbling and want to get the point. Drive, to do something, fighting spirit. Not something you will see often. I can't imagine a bookworm or nerd with that look. You just wont see it in someone sitting for exams or staring at the computer screen. Unless he's playing MUGEN perhaps ahuahua.

Its this spirit which will make them go far in any sport, or perhaps anything? Its part of character afterall.