Chinese New Year brings with it lots of yummy food. Due to commercialisation, you can actually get these food any time of the year, not just during the festive period, but there is just this little bit more temptation during the festive season to try out the food. As I hop from one house to [...]
There’s a challenge over at Cook Ding’s to dedicate just over a month to train/learn something you’ve been wanting to. The challenge read as follows:
… from Ash Wednesday (tomorrow) until Easter (April 8), train every day, without fail, no excuses. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Some days, you might only be able to [...]
Learning tai ji is hard work. I guess that’s true with learning anything! The more common excuse for procastination (to learn) is that “I’m not in the mood”. Taking tai ji as an example, it’s highly dependent on the internal state of mind on what you actually learn in a training session.
When i’m not in [...]
And i’m not even talking about spam. Spam you can delete. You know straightaway that it’s a spam. Even the anti-spam software knows that it’s a spam (most of the time). I’m talking about the email that you just have to read because it’s from someone who has something to say, but what he said [...]
I was enjoying myself in a push hand exercise but my training partner was intent on uprooting me!
I asked: “Why push me all the way?”
He said: “In order to win in a push hand contest, I have to make at least one of your foot leave the ground to score a point.”
“But I’m not in [...]
I have recently embarked on the tallest journey i’ve ever been - on foot. More than 4100 meters above sea level, that’s how high Mount Kinabalu is. It’s not the highest mountain in the world, but if you ask my legs, they will definitely tell you otherwise.
The beginning was spent pondering over what to bring. [...]