Christine. 22. Wants to live a simple and boring life.
Amanda Li Ying Meng Kiat Tonggab Yi Wen Yi Xin
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Speaking of training. Had a chance to do some basics before jigeiko. I felt really blur. Hitting kote on a motodachi feels so weird after hitting air for such a long time. Gabriel pointed out at the way I held my shinai. (´･ω･｀'A) So pai seh. I have been practicing at home for so long in a wrong way! No wonder the muscles in my fingers felt so tired after only fifty times of men cut.
Had jigeiko with Li ying after that. Again I forgot the first cut of kirikaeshi was on where arh!! Heng is with Li Ying ah, if with senior I sure tio hoot. (-。－;) Jigeiko with Li Ying is almost always fun though. Its so fun its like chambara. But for now I can clearly see the difference between Li Ying's, Yi wen's and Amanda's fighting styles liao bah. But I'm no sensei so I really can't tell what's good what's bad lar.
A week before today's training I've been thinking of asking Suresh for jigeiko. I actually needed one week to decide whether I should queue for him today, but I still did today lar. Anyway, I can only describe the jigeiko like I'm looking into some mirror of truth that shows only the unpleasant side of me. Its something that I've always wanted to hide away from, but I suppose if I don't face up to my mistakes I won't ever be able to improve. Jigeiko with Suresh honestly was like Sumo wrestling. I've exhausted almost all of my energy just by pushing him away, my men came off loose, and I was so concentrated on not getting my back on the ground that I really didn't think of conserving any energy. But I knew that it wasn't my strength that pushed Suresh back. I knew that he sort of let me go. No time to feel relieved though. I was panting like a bull and my tenugui fell down to my eyes. All I could see was the red of my tenugui. I just went in for men for quite a few times, and Suresh was like "T&*&^%%$#!!!" Something totally intelligible to me. He had to shout his "T&*&^%%$#!!!" for like 5, 6 times before I realised that he was talking to me. He repeated it for like 10 times before I understood that its "YOUR LEFT LEG DON'T COME IN FRONT!!!!" ε=(￣。￣;) I suppose taking drugs feels like that bah. I felt so disorientated that my trip to MOS was as refreshing as after a yoga session. But my god leh my hearing REALLY VERY BAD. I still felt that doing jigeiko with Suresh...Ah I don't know how to explain lar. You feel that you've learnt something, but still so powerless. I suppose that feeling is being humbled ba. YES I FEEL HUMBLED! AND UM GUM WAN! I felt that I could have done much more. Yah um gum wan lar. At myself.
After training I felt very energetic mentally, but my body was tired. But this mental wake up made me feel "Ahh, I'm still alive. I'm still a human. That feels good." I forget all about work, drop all pretenses I've done at work and be a normal 19 year old Christine Neo Chai Yuan. I suppose this is the beautiful thing about Kendo bah, during training only la. Anything out of training is another thing liao.