Sunday.
Another weekend I guess.
Friday, Kendo training was slightly different than usual. Instead of our usual session led by Walter, Ervin or Maowei, we had a visitor from Japan. His name is Yuuji (I think) and he is a 5th Dan Kendoka. He took training and although he his english wasn't great, it was great enough for us to still learn, the exercises weren't too different to usual, but still different enough for me to feel the gap between our usual techniques and what he was showing us. The waza training was also slightly more and different to our usual practice so that was fantastic. Although it wasn't as physically demanding as usual, it felt more tiring because of the new things, and the concentration to learn these new things.
After training, I chose to not join in Friday Night training at Sydney Boys Highschool because someone smashed my hand with a bad kote cut and managed to bruise my pinky on the inside of my finger against the shinai. And not to mention that I think having double training with 2 hours gap is probably a too much for me.... So I went with a few others for dinner and had some Korean hotpot, octopus hotpot. Afterwards we went to C-Bar in the city and had a few drinks before I left.
Saturday training was fairly normal, nothing special or particular. Walter took it, and we practiced some of the new exercises that Yuuji taught on Friday, and what they did on Friday night training. It was good practice as usual, but just nothing extra or special. Lunch at Broadway as on a regular occasion. Went home for dinner.
Today, I got a phone call from my friend that I went to school with. He told me that he is now engaged. I was absolutely dumbstruck and shocked, but extremely happy to hear of the news. He has been with his fiancee now for quite a while and it's fantastic to see him moving forward so much. He said they won't get married for at least a year probably, but even still, wonderful. I wish you all the best Duncan and Elise.
Training again tomorrow, looking forward to it. I'll also be running the sugar saturation experiment I started on Thursday. The idea is to re-clarify, and repeat saturation levels for sucrose, lactose and possibly sodium chloride/maltodextrin. And then see how we can possibly control and regular the nucleation and saturation of the solution while crystallising it and measuring the crystallisation rate online. The experiment is simple. Waterbath controlled heating to heat up the solution of sucrose. Saturate the solution. Take a sample of the solution once it is saturated. Oven it to determine the solids concentration. Voila, saturation level at that temperature. Drop the temperature, wait for the saturation to stabilse, repeat. Rinse and repeat.
Another weekend I guess.
Friday, Kendo training was slightly different than usual. Instead of our usual session led by Walter, Ervin or Maowei, we had a visitor from Japan. His name is Yuuji (I think) and he is a 5th Dan Kendoka. He took training and although he his english wasn't great, it was great enough for us to still learn, the exercises weren't too different to usual, but still different enough for me to feel the gap between our usual techniques and what he was showing us. The waza training was also slightly more and different to our usual practice so that was fantastic. Although it wasn't as physically demanding as usual, it felt more tiring because of the new things, and the concentration to learn these new things.
After training, I chose to not join in Friday Night training at Sydney Boys Highschool because someone smashed my hand with a bad kote cut and managed to bruise my pinky on the inside of my finger against the shinai. And not to mention that I think having double training with 2 hours gap is probably a too much for me.... So I went with a few others for dinner and had some Korean hotpot, octopus hotpot. Afterwards we went to C-Bar in the city and had a few drinks before I left.
Saturday training was fairly normal, nothing special or particular. Walter took it, and we practiced some of the new exercises that Yuuji taught on Friday, and what they did on Friday night training. It was good practice as usual, but just nothing extra or special. Lunch at Broadway as on a regular occasion. Went home for dinner.
Today, I got a phone call from my friend that I went to school with. He told me that he is now engaged. I was absolutely dumbstruck and shocked, but extremely happy to hear of the news. He has been with his fiancee now for quite a while and it's fantastic to see him moving forward so much. He said they won't get married for at least a year probably, but even still, wonderful. I wish you all the best Duncan and Elise.
Training again tomorrow, looking forward to it. I'll also be running the sugar saturation experiment I started on Thursday. The idea is to re-clarify, and repeat saturation levels for sucrose, lactose and possibly sodium chloride/maltodextrin. And then see how we can possibly control and regular the nucleation and saturation of the solution while crystallising it and measuring the crystallisation rate online. The experiment is simple. Waterbath controlled heating to heat up the solution of sucrose. Saturate the solution. Take a sample of the solution once it is saturated. Oven it to determine the solids concentration. Voila, saturation level at that temperature. Drop the temperature, wait for the saturation to stabilse, repeat. Rinse and repeat.
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