Hello World, it's been a week or so since my last blog entry. Quite frankly, it's been rather quiet to some extent.
Anzac Day, a public holiday in the Australian Calendar (25th April). To commemorate the sacrifice that our Australian Soldiers have paid in all of the conflicts that they have served, from the baptism by fire in Gallipolli during World War I, Vietnam, Gulf War, East Timor and now Afghanistan/Iraq. It is both a celebration, and a time of quiet reflection upon what our armed service men and women do to hold the peace on and off our own shores. Hats off to you all.
Spent Saturday doing more filming for a friends media assignment. We trekked the Opera House Forecourt, and then also a place called Nobita. The Nobita place was a cafe but the quirk was it does boardgames. Interesting, but pretty nifty. It's located on Liverpool St, on the west side, above Captain Torres place, with the entrance on the street level with a red sign. That evening was just family dinner at home for my birthday, with the usual tradition of thin rice noodles, this green vegetable, stewed pork legs and boiled eggs. And of course Honey Cake that my mother made.
Sunday, I bludged as usual and I watched the movie The Brave One. It stars Jodie Foster as a radio hostess of a non-callback show. She gets severely beaten up by some thugs in a public park, and along with her, her fiance gets killed by them. Scared of the public and the dark, she resorts to purchasing a handgun for self protection, and the story goes on from there.
It's quite a dark movie, not really fast moving, more of a thriller drama than anything else. I quite like Jodie Foster as an actress, so I was looking forward to seeing it, and it didn't really disappoint. She is getting on in the years, but her aged looks suit her quite well in my opinion. A solid 7.5/10.
Monday, went to uni for Kendo training. The two who normally lead were not there, and being the most senior that was there and ready, I led warmup. Quite an experience really. It looks easy, and well, it was easy though a little strange to be talking loudly into empty space since they don't really reply. And of course the counting out aloud of 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . Though I was being a little strict in terms of to the beginners as they should have done better with their 2 step men cuts while we were doing hayasuburi. The footwork warmup wasn't too bad though, just a few random exercises, and getting their kiai going.
Walter came during warmup and thus led the beginners, and Peter took the bogu players since he was the highest graded person and most experienced out of us there. We did some usual exercises in kirikaeshi, kihon men, men, short men, kote, short kote, kote then men, kote-men, and then cutting on a more efficient manner, using less right hand except to pivot. Two things that were slightly different was that we did ten, yes, ten, instead of the usual five or even three times of the exercise each. And the ending distance of turning around. The turning around distance isn't that much different, but he stressed it more than Mark usually does, for shiai purposes that you should turn around and be in distance to strike straight away. The ten times each made it more physically taxing, and more practice. Overall though, it was excellent. He also taught me a little on fixing up my cuts and how to finish off as I have a bad bad habit of still twisting off to one side. Now I can see why some of the others refer to what he teaches as Peter's Oni Waza LOL......
Besides that, I haven't been doing much. I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty 4 and playing on Yahoo Answers. CoD4 is lots of fun, and quite challenging sometimes, if my ping holds low enough, I'm already at rank 31 out of 55, but it's non linear methinks so it might be a while to get to 55 haha. And I'm level 3 on Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers is interesting because sometimes there are interesting and great questions/answers but others are just plain dumb and stupid and most of them are by people wanting others to do their homework for them..... Oh well.
And, Today I had some great news. The final marker of my thesis has finished with it, and the results are back unofficially. I have to wait for the Graduate School of Engineering to officially notify me by letter of the results and the corrections that are requited before resubmitting the completed work, and getting it printed and bound appropriately. It has been a long road and it's nearly nearly there........
Friday training, then Saturday training coming, with a shindig on Saturday night for David and Sam's Birthday, and Me too I guess LOL. It starts rather late though, 9:30pm until whenever haha, so I'll probably go though I don't know how long I'll partake of the festivities depending on my state of tiredness ^^
Anzac Day, a public holiday in the Australian Calendar (25th April). To commemorate the sacrifice that our Australian Soldiers have paid in all of the conflicts that they have served, from the baptism by fire in Gallipolli during World War I, Vietnam, Gulf War, East Timor and now Afghanistan/Iraq. It is both a celebration, and a time of quiet reflection upon what our armed service men and women do to hold the peace on and off our own shores. Hats off to you all.
Spent Saturday doing more filming for a friends media assignment. We trekked the Opera House Forecourt, and then also a place called Nobita. The Nobita place was a cafe but the quirk was it does boardgames. Interesting, but pretty nifty. It's located on Liverpool St, on the west side, above Captain Torres place, with the entrance on the street level with a red sign. That evening was just family dinner at home for my birthday, with the usual tradition of thin rice noodles, this green vegetable, stewed pork legs and boiled eggs. And of course Honey Cake that my mother made.
Sunday, I bludged as usual and I watched the movie The Brave One. It stars Jodie Foster as a radio hostess of a non-callback show. She gets severely beaten up by some thugs in a public park, and along with her, her fiance gets killed by them. Scared of the public and the dark, she resorts to purchasing a handgun for self protection, and the story goes on from there.
It's quite a dark movie, not really fast moving, more of a thriller drama than anything else. I quite like Jodie Foster as an actress, so I was looking forward to seeing it, and it didn't really disappoint. She is getting on in the years, but her aged looks suit her quite well in my opinion. A solid 7.5/10.
Monday, went to uni for Kendo training. The two who normally lead were not there, and being the most senior that was there and ready, I led warmup. Quite an experience really. It looks easy, and well, it was easy though a little strange to be talking loudly into empty space since they don't really reply. And of course the counting out aloud of 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . Though I was being a little strict in terms of to the beginners as they should have done better with their 2 step men cuts while we were doing hayasuburi. The footwork warmup wasn't too bad though, just a few random exercises, and getting their kiai going.
Walter came during warmup and thus led the beginners, and Peter took the bogu players since he was the highest graded person and most experienced out of us there. We did some usual exercises in kirikaeshi, kihon men, men, short men, kote, short kote, kote then men, kote-men, and then cutting on a more efficient manner, using less right hand except to pivot. Two things that were slightly different was that we did ten, yes, ten, instead of the usual five or even three times of the exercise each. And the ending distance of turning around. The turning around distance isn't that much different, but he stressed it more than Mark usually does, for shiai purposes that you should turn around and be in distance to strike straight away. The ten times each made it more physically taxing, and more practice. Overall though, it was excellent. He also taught me a little on fixing up my cuts and how to finish off as I have a bad bad habit of still twisting off to one side. Now I can see why some of the others refer to what he teaches as Peter's Oni Waza LOL......
Besides that, I haven't been doing much. I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty 4 and playing on Yahoo Answers. CoD4 is lots of fun, and quite challenging sometimes, if my ping holds low enough, I'm already at rank 31 out of 55, but it's non linear methinks so it might be a while to get to 55 haha. And I'm level 3 on Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers is interesting because sometimes there are interesting and great questions/answers but others are just plain dumb and stupid and most of them are by people wanting others to do their homework for them..... Oh well.
And, Today I had some great news. The final marker of my thesis has finished with it, and the results are back unofficially. I have to wait for the Graduate School of Engineering to officially notify me by letter of the results and the corrections that are requited before resubmitting the completed work, and getting it printed and bound appropriately. It has been a long road and it's nearly nearly there........
Friday training, then Saturday training coming, with a shindig on Saturday night for David and Sam's Birthday, and Me too I guess LOL. It starts rather late though, 9:30pm until whenever haha, so I'll probably go though I don't know how long I'll partake of the festivities depending on my state of tiredness ^^
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