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Sunday, March 18

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This could be the very minute
I'm aware I'm alive
All these places feel like home

With a name I'd never chosen
I can make my first steps
As a child of 25

This is the straw, final straw in the
Roof of my mouth as I lie to you
Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean
I didn't enjoy it at the time

You're the only thing that I love
It scares me more every day
On my knees I think clearer

Goodness knows I saw it coming
Or at least I'll claim I did
But in truth I'm lost for words

What have I done it's too late for that
What have I become truth is nothing yet
A simple mistake starts the hardest time
I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time

I got this song from the movie "The Last Kiss" and the moment I heard it, I knew it was from Snow Patrol.

Never do something that you'll regret with the one you love.

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Dezmond sprouts at 3/18/2007 02:47:00 AM | Permalink

Friday, March 16

UTeM Hari Mercu Taekwondo Performance

For this semester, dependent on faculty and courses, we were required to take co-curricular activities as a subject and having learn taekwondo before in secondary school, I chosed taekwondo along with a few of my coursemates.

Last wednesday, albeit the amount of assignments and work load piling up on us, we still made it for the 'Hari Mercu' performance where selected subjects were required to do a performance in front of the rector with several VIPs and god forbid, we were the first to perform.

Everything went smoothly till our head of the group gave the wrong command and we were all stunned for a moment there, it was the nerves, but soon we got back on track and did our best regardless of the situation. The performance included, punches, blocks, kicks, self-defense, pattern, sparring and erm.. breaking.

Yea, you heard me, BREAKING!

Tile-breaking to be exact. The closest form of breaking I did was only wooden planks and that was a few years ago, and now we're breaking roof tiles. I was among the 'lucky' ones among 11 guys to attempt the break two layers of roof tiles for the first time and during the first attempt during the performance. No training, no rehearsal for breaking whatsoever till the moment of truth. But as soon as we were on stage, the adrenaline rush and everything you could imagine from a nervous guy who hasn't been involved in taekwondo training for at least 5 years took the best of me. Then I realized that all those nerves and sweats were unnecessary as a simple punch would drive through the 2 layered tiles. Things would've been different if we were breaking 5 tiles and above all at once.

One of my housemate took a few videos of the event (still pending for another video from a friend for a full shot of the event), better lower down the speaker volume.

slight mistake there during the command, but we continued..

self defense

pattern done by my coursemate

Now this particular video has me doing the tile breaking, I'm the 2nd to go but my housemate didn't know the sequence of the breaking and moved away at the moment of truth when I was about to break the tiles! Well, at least you get to see me at my bittersweet moment of pain and relief..

group breaking, I was filmed at a bad angle and I don't know why I look so retarded

In the end, we were relieved that it all ended where the crowd all cheered with applause and screams and those cuts and bruises on our arms seemed trivial. That moment meant the world for all of us.

I'd like to express my deepest gratitude to Senior Lau for all the training and Master Chia for the lectures and self-defense techniques. This semester's co-curricular activities was the best and we could not ask for anything more. For the performing ones, congratulations to all for succeeding the performance, thumbs up! Finally, I'd like to take this chance to let all the members including performing and non-performing ones that it was a pleasure knowing you guys and hopefully we'll meet up again around campus.

Tae Kwon!

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Dezmond sprouts at 3/16/2007 10:31:00 PM | Permalink

Wednesday, March 14

EOS, I hate

I hate the End Of Semesters. I know it sounds weird since most of our finals are done by then, and by nature, we should be unwinding and playing computer games and neglecting time. I don't know about you guys, but for me, this isn't the case, it's the time when inconsiderate lecturers start piling up assignments one after another like a hill and topping it off with quizes and finals as the finale to make up for their questionable work ethics.

I swear for this semester, I'm going to break down and slowly approach the verge of insanity. The stress of completing assignments, and focusing on studies at the same time is really started to get into me. Currently I have 4 assignments pending for submission and a quiz tomorrow which I have yet to revise. Ironically, I still have time to blog continue my 'Islamic Quality Management' assignment after.

Maybe I'm pressuring myself too much...

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Dezmond sprouts at 3/14/2007 01:25:00 AM | Permalink