Went out for a company dinner function at a hotel today... I was surprised to see MANY wedding couples at different corners of the lobby, MANY couples on various levels, outside various ballrooms... and I was like omg... why’s the whole world getting married today?! Haha... then I asked my colleague, he thought for a while, and suddenly realized... it was 8月初18, so lotza pantang Chinese who love the no. ‘8’ will choose this special date to get married... not to mention it also happens to be 08 年... hahaha... as usual, food was gd, but lotza negative externalities... no prize for guessing what... but well, just drank a little red wine... luckily not that disgusting 白酒 (Chinese white wine)... =)
Day 59 – 18 Sept (Thurs)
Went back to shanghai today... met william directly at steak house, near jiaotong uni, for dinner... ordered a carbonara spaghetti, 18rmb, but wasn’t gd... the cream sauce was far too bland, and the spaghetti was too soggy... but well, had to grab a quick dinner before going TRAINING!! Yay... =) at times, we’ll suffer from some inertia... not very tempted to drag our butts all the way down to the uni for training... but after training, we’ll always be so satisfied and glad that we made the trip down after all... =)
spaghetti carbonara at steak king...
Well, we bought the membership card from the coach... 10 sessions for 200rmb, which means each session costs 20rmb=S$4+ (with the + coz S$ has depreciated by quite a lot against the china yuan)... but training usually ends quite late, and if we take the train back, there’s a risk that we might miss the train at the interchange, so we would always cab back... which means another 10rmb per person = S$2+... hahaha... so effectively, each tkd session actually costs us about S$7... ntu tkd pple... start feeling grateful that you don’t have to pay any training fees... hahaha....
Well, at the start of today’s training, the coach approached me to check which dan I was... I guess he probably heard from the coach who relieved him last training that I was 2nd dan... so he lent me a black belt and yay! I regained my black belt status! Haha... no longer look weird wearing white belt with black collared dobok... not used to it... haha... oh, and William had his brown belt too, coz his parents helped him to bring it from sg when they came to visit previously... =) so yup, we were both wearing our actual belt levels for that training... a little stressful coz we were afraid of being judged... haha... like wondering what the other people might think of our standards... but thankfully, all went well! =P apparently, shifu’s training has been really helpful... when it came to the jiaotong uni’s training, it didn’t seem as strenuous... only about 50% of what we’re put to endure, especially nearing ivp period... haha... probably coz their trainings aren’t really stamina-based... more technique-based... which is quite a nice change actually... =) oh, but the stretching and warm-ups are very similar to what we do in ntu tkd... for one of the stretches, I was partnering William... it’s the kind where you just pull the person down from in front while he stretches his hamstrings... knowing how inflexible William is, I slowly pulled him down, while grabbing onto his forearm... but later, the coach happened to walk past, and decided to give William a hand... he pushed William down from behind and O-M-G... hahaha.. GG for William... his grip on my forearm suddenly tightened and when I looked up, I could see that look of pure agony on his face!! =S sorry William, I could see the words ‘HELP ME!!’ written all over your face, but there was really nothing I could do... I didn’t mean to be sadistic, but if you had seen that expression on your face at that point in time, think you would laugh out loud too... =P
After lotsa kicking, we did pattern, and I practiced taebaek again... the coach sorta got me to demo koryo for the rest of the black belters there... stressful... but luckily I didn’t really screw up... =) Anyway, training was fun and satisfying as usual...=) went home feeling exhausted but happy... =)
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