My teacher encourages us to learn from all, teachers and students alike. Teachers are just formalised labels by institutions such as colleges, universities, and martial art schools. Students are those that these teachers serve because without the students, there is no one to teach.
It’s good to say all these. But sometimes, that’s all that happens [...]
I can’t seem to get enough of this clip. Seeing it again and again, with the minimal changes the teacher has to the maximum impact on the student, it really makes me wonder the chasm of skill between me and this teacher. Is it attainable? I don’t know, but it certainly is possible!
The teacher uses [...]
For some extraordinary Tai Ji listening skills, check out 解守德’s performance below where he”strike” someone through someone else. He managed to listen to both the person’s force and redirect it out so brilliantly to just the guy behind. Enjoy!
I’ve just ordered my first book from BetterWorld.com. It aims to meet the Triple Bottom Line - social impact, environmental impact and economic impact. It also uses carbonfree shipping. It’s not actually carbon free as the book still has to travel the distances and the vehicles that carry it still has to emit those carbon [...]
I recently attended a “leadership” course, where you’re asked to play games in a group setting to demonstrate your leadership, or the lack of it, in a controlled environment. We navigated a small island with a “hot-from-the-oven” navigation skills and a 20-years-old topographical map.
I actually enjoyed the navigation part as it brought me out to [...]
Just a quick post to highlight an interesting wordplay with a charity twist. Unlike wordie, this actually tests your vocabulary and donating rice at the same time for every word you get right. The cause is to end world hunger! How can you say no to that! Please visit freerice.com.
Compassion has a bad name in the competitive world. It means losing. It means you’re not up to standard. It means you’re not promoted. It means you don’t know how to play the game. But sometimes, in order to learn, a teacher has to show you what not to learn. And that is when he [...]
I never realised I was looking, until I found it, only to realise that I have been looking for it all along.
I have been looking for a way to give something back to the society, be it through work, business, or a charitable organisation. I’ve finally stumbled across something which speaks to me on a [...]
As I learn about defending using Tai Ji, a child taught me about her defense mechanism. We were eating ice-cream, and suddenly, she waved a spoon of ice-cream in the air and said:
“This is where my dad is…” and moving her spoon to the left,
“This is where my mum is…” and imagined feeding each of [...]
I am an employee. I have a fixed salary every month, for as long as I work with the company. I get some holidays which I can take anytime of the year. Of course, “anytime” is normally controlled by someone else, commonly known as “the boss”. I can “request” anytime, but it’s never “anytime”… Anyway, [...]