cd of the week - Endorphine ; i'm surprised, i don't usually get hooked on female singers

and thanks to vina for Sorn and Loso *dies of happiness*

if u wanna hear this stuff, go to ethaimusic.com ...click "artists," there's a list, u can hear their songs

watching the olympics today, wow! how do those gymnists spring so high in the air just off the floor, over and over, with no bounce in between jumps??? but my favorite was balance beam. one of the girls on the chinese team, whoever went before Li Ya, did some crazy flip up to get onto the beam....so scary! >< *anime sweat drop*

3 bad movies in a row; manchurian candidate ...hm, middle eastern folk take over our army ppls' minds so they can control our government. is this an original idea? ...they might as well sit around smoking and holding up the peace sign like hippies. second bad movie was catwoman. i try to support halle b/c she's a half breed too *giggle*, but i dunno, maybe the whole comic book hero thing is getting old (did i just blaspheme? *gasp*). and as for the Village, i made up an alternate ending for it which which is much better.  ^___^

waaa. there's this little black kitten (i told u about him, areku) ...he's wild, no one owns him. i coaxed him for 2 weeks before he let me walk around with him in my arms. -he's black with some white on his neck like a scarf, with a huge appetite, and a very independent and fiery attitude, thus, i named him hiei; he even has the jaganshi's eyes (minus the third eye in the forehead). anyway i am sad cuz i just found out someone took him home!!!! i'll never see him again!!!!! o well, i hope he will be happy *sniffle* ....(sings YYH ending song) "sayonara byebye. please take care of urself. cuz even though we've been there together,we're still different ppl- but -we're not alone." yes little kitties make me sappy!!

taichi legacy tournament was cool ^_^! i saw jocelyn there hehe. she did a great job, graceful as always. i bought carry a chain whip, so he can learn double chain whip like our sihing john su, and take gold at every tournament he goes to from now on. ^_-

as for me, i didn't get to spar b/c i had to teach sunday school. but i competed in forms - no, not wushu. i didn't do any wushu, although that was a category. but how would that be a thank u to my mi zong sifu? so, i did a mi zong lo han form (called chun kuen), traditional northern kung fu (similar to wushu but more practical ^_- no offense), and i took a bronze for it.

NO this is not a good thing, there were only 4 of us competing in my division! doh! *smacks head* i blame john for surprising me. but u see through that excuse. a really fun experience though...*sigh* see what i go through for my sifu? :o) now he even has me and matt starting a mi zong club, though i dont know the details yet. anyone interested plz let me know ^^;;

adam is at a tournament in d.c. now - good luck addie ^_^...like my new name for u? it's easier to say.

i gave achala a new name ...just slipped out. it's achie, but it's turned into like E qi. *giggles*

anyway i wont talk anymore about my summer b/c the rest of u are being more productive and it makes me feel inadequate ^_-

oh, p.s.

i'm in kat's entryway again, yeeeea cabot kicks ^^

http://chinwoo.com/2004tcl/

that's the link to the webpage for the tournament im most likely going to... as for the list of masters and seminars (the workshops link), i dunno anyone who would CHOOSE to go to Chun Man Sit's HORSE STANCE push hands. well, maybe one guy *ahem* shaolinlueb*cough cough*...any workshop where mabu is in the title i would avoid hehe^^....

here are the hilights in my opinion, the ones i would pay to go to.

wang ai zhen is teaching wushu spear and wushu straight sword! AND she's a female btw ^_^

shi xin ying will be teaching staff...yep as the name shi indicates he's a shaolin monk, such a character too! i've seen him do staff before, it's no wonder they call him monkey king in his temple, he's so good--very entertaining and funny

 and looks like my sifu will be teaching wu taiji and push hands, yay!^_^

that's all for now, hav to go study -_-

whooa i didnt know bruce lee spoke cantonese! O.O;; 

(just watched the amc documentary, saw clips from Game of Death... only time i've seen a fight scene that's nunchaku vs nunchaku...hard to film!)

yeeea so i just got to see the last of my 4 best friends, the one i hadnt seen yet: paulette ^_^ ... havent seen her since x-mas...we were all hanging out in la madeleine joking and telling stories like nothing had changed

but everything is changed...i told achie i feel like we all share the same ancient history (middle school and high school) but our modern history is so different...what's unusual is that we were all sitting around the table together, but that moment, unlike before, was not where our thoughts were. we are all waiting to go back to our real lives, which is at our colleges....two in texas, one in cali, one in boston...we were together but i think we all wanted to be somewhere else, and that's never been the case before.

on another note, i go to kung fu tomorrow ...sure i did go to class twice before this summer, but ...i definitely have been out of the loop for a while. after reading a bunch of poems by zen master ryokan, i decided to go work out in this field by the creek, and i wrote some (very crappy) poems about it ^_^

Going to the Creek to Run

I.

Haggard and restless,

I make up my mind to walk to the creek bed.

I pass a group of men but I stare at the sky.

One calls out "Hey look over here" and I smile politely

The distant roar of a bus --

like the beating hooves of  wild horses,

and a metallic chirping announces the train.

I gag on the smell of barbeque sauce;

The stench lingers in a cloud on the sidewalk.

Then the forest shoots up from out of nowhere

and the rumbling of the city is swallowed up

by the song of a million insects.

III.

Wandering down the hill,

I pass a silent couple

I smile at the woman who leads

She glares at me like a threatened grizzly

and I lower my eyes as I pass her husband.

I come to the creek,

a thousand cicadas greet me

a chorus of ten thousand crickets are my welcome

I stop on the sidewalk to listen to the gurgling of water.

IV.

What IS that?!

Sunlit ripples create shapes like scales

I see a dragon in the little stream!!

a winding serpent with shining white scales.

A couple of Indian men walk by above, puzzled as they glance at me

where I squat on the side of the bank.

I would share this moment with them

But they, like most people, are not looking to experience a moment of nothingness,

A waste of time.

V.

The branches of a willow hang low over the stream,

reminding me of a goose i once saw, sheltering its baby with one wing.

Walking Home After Running Near the Creek

I.

Ten thousand mosquitos have bitten me

I saw one hovering near my leg

and stomped but missed.

it disappeared into the swampy green of trees

I'm thankful i missed---

It was a wild mosquito

Why should I, an intruder, strike back?

Now I'm left with itching sores all over,

the very air is stinging me.

Or is this the itchiness that comes after a run

forced on a body that has grown lazy and still,

drunk on a summer of complacency?

II.

Overheated, I kneel on my flower-covered bed

The fan's cold wind cuts through the foggy warm thickness

I take out my notebook and write a verse,

through a haze of artificial yellow.

silence except for the bird-like squeak and whir of the fan

(is that really a bird in here?)

and my mother's stilted typing.

bollywoodmusic.com !!! type it in! go go go!! under Top Picks, go to the Banghra songs! i like Malkhit Singh "Forever Gold" , if u click through the songs on that cd they're so awesome, and Madan Maddi "Tera Naa". sooo COOL!!!