NTU TKD Championships 2006
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Robert Fulghum:
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Russell Baker:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Saint Francis de Sales:
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Samuel Gompers:
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Sidonie Gruenberg:
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
St. Francis Xavier:
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Susan B. Anthony:
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Jefferson:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thucydides:
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Unknown:
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
This entry continued ...
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Virgil:
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virginia Woolf:
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
Virginia Woolfe:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
W. E. Gladstone:
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Why the numerous quotes?
Coz I din touch the computer for the past two days… a record actually… and I am making up for lost time… haha
IVP was finally held over the weekend… so many things happen lor… donno where to start…
-silent in thought-
-still thinking-
ok… last start from Friday ba~
Friday morning had to get up early to go to school for the POA mock… I mean PRELIM exam…
Totally puked my way through the paper… I din even do the Profit and Loss cum Balance Sheet question… din know how to do it in the first place… sure bomb out on the paper xia…
-hits head against the wall-
Oh well… its my fault anyway… I don mix with the subject … have to force myself to … hahaha
After the paper… I had a 5-hour stretch before the start of training… really had no idea what I was going to be doing during that time… Thank God for my darling Cat… she came to school to pick me up and we hung out at her place for the whole afternoon…
We ate lunch (bought from the now-not-that-smelly- school canteen), watched anime and The 13th Warrior. Haha…
She’s got a really cool home… nuff said.
We hung out until about 6.30pm before heading out to Clementi MRT station to pick up Jason and Eileen to go to training in school.
Praise God!
I could do the pattern!
Woohooo~
-bounces off the walls-
It felt good to be able to do the pattern with the team once more… heh
Had dinner with Daphne, Eelin, Wei Wen, Arthur and Alan before heading home… and trying to get to sleep… please note that the key word here is ‘TRY’… I tossed and turned the whole night… shesh~
Had blue bags under my eyes when the alarm clock went off…
Had the alarm clock set for 5.45am… all in an effort to leave the house before 6.30am and take bus, followed by MRT, to Boon Lay – Subsequently NTU… Why does that place have to be so gosh-darn-god-damn far away???
-shakes head in irritation-
Luckily got Desmond to talk to during the train ride… if not sure bored to bits… and I might have ended up falling asleep along the way :P
Reached NTU at about 8.20am… waited for the rest of the team to turn up and then did a few trial runs of the patterns for the competition…
The scare of the day was my knee going “kraack-krac” during the initial run though… rolled on the floor in pain… but in the end… we managed to get the pattern done for real. :)
Was very worried that the knee would back fire on me during the competition itself… thank God it did not…
I’m very proud of the Ee-jung pattern team!
They put did a lot of effort and are the overall winners in my eyes… don care what other people say… blast the judges… they ROCKED!
As for my Chil-jung… the same thing applies… one month of training with glitches all over the place, from people dropping out to getting injured and training last minute… I serious think we did a damn-blardy-good job.
Booyah!
The entire team went to Jurong Point for lunch before most of us headed back to NTU to watch the bouts…
Swee Shoon had the honour and stress of being in the first bout… his opponent was Edmin Lam… ala former National Player and Sea Games Bronze medalist… don play-play…
I must admit that I was very worried about Swee Shoon going into this match… very proud of his performance… Shall see him doing SMU proud next year…
Jia You ah Shoon~!
-waves pompoms-
stayed in the area all the way past 5pm… watched quite a few bouts… heh… had to rush off because of the wedding dinner I had to attend in the evening…
My cousin’s wedding dinner was held at Katong Complex and it was a very warm and quaint affair… the food was good… I love being teochew… heh…
I wish I could have worn my high-heels but my knee was being a bitch so I had to wear flats instead… oh well~
Drank wine… and took my meds… wrong combination… haha… but I din know until I downed the concoction…
-hysterical laughter-
Took more medication when I got home… made sure my things were in order for day 2, then put my head on my pillow and konked out till the alarm went off… haha~
For day 2, my alarm was set for 6.30am instead, coz the plan was that Sean and I were to take a cab to NTU… hack of a lot easier and less stress on my knees… but the fare was crazy…
Got to the school and got ready for the day ahead… SIM’s competitors all had their bouts yesterday and in this order:
Hakim, Jill, Desmond, Alan, Sean and then me… I think I could be wrong about the sequence… bleah…
Sean did us all proud by killing off his first opponent and getting a bronze afterward.
-throws pompoms all over the place-
As for me, my first bout was a walk over, my opponent din turn up.
The second one was against Dawn.
Needless to say, I was a sandbag for that match…
But, I feel more satisfied with myself for giving the entire match a chance instead of throwing the towel and still getting the medal…
At the end of the day, I am able to live with myself…
Next year will be a different story.
Another thing to be happy about was that I made a lot of new friends during the course of the competition… people from SMU, NTU, TP, SP, ITE… practically all the institutions that took place… haha… I enjoy making friends!
-hysterical laughter-
Took a hack of a lot of pictures during the second day… hahah…
Dinner was spent at Holland Village with Cat, Sian Li, Daph, Alan, Arthur, Jason, Sean and Ken. We ate Swanson’s… money go flying… haha … and I almost fell asleep at the table… eyes dry and head heavy… tired…
Went home by car, mrt and by foot… haha… completely knocked out the moment my head touched the pillow…
Which brings me to today…
Woke up with a rather bad headache (could be due to the head-shot) and aching arm… think I slept too long on it last night… haha…
Will be going down to SIM later for my ‘final’ training session before my break…
I am taking a break from TKD.
Need to heal my legs and rejuvenate my mind… been running around too much… and the exams are now my main priority… time (and my health) will tell when I go back to my routine of kick targets.
I doubt that the admin work will stop… if fact I think that will be the only thing I will be doing during my break… shesh~
Although I am taking sabbatical… I still have to prepare myself for the black grading which takes place in June/July… that is the one I am aiming for… and if I really go crazy I might try my foot at the Nationals.
-runs round the house mad-
Before I take my leave of this entry, I would like make my ‘Thank yous’ known:
Thank you, Jason, for your effort in preparing the club for this tournament.
For your time in training the sparrers and more importantly, the pattern teams.
For the headaches you had taking care of the players and worrying about the outcomes.
You can finally take a breather from the sport… haha…
Alan, for leading the club through this journey.
We would have lost our focus if not for you.
Thank you for putting in so much effort for the team.
Thank you for sparring with me and helping me along the way, and for the knee support.
I am proud to be the ‘president’ of your ‘fan club’. :)
Sean, for your motivation and hard work in both the pattern and sparring areas.
If not for you and Alan, I would not have been able to start on the sparring track.
Superbowl is coming!
Wo yong yuan zi chi ni!
Sian Li, my si jie, thank you for and being our ‘Mother’.
If not for you worrying about us, I don think we would have been able to get things done so efficiently.
Thank you for looking out for my health and me.
You will never age for me.
Arthur, thank you for sparring with me during training and imparting your knowledge to me. Being in the pattern team with you was a blast. :)
Daphne and Eelin,
Thanks for team spirit and supporting the fighters so fervently.
No one could ask for better cheerleaders!
My darling Cat,
Thank you for supporting the team in more ways than one.
For your effort in learning the pattern, however little time we had, it was and is very encouraging.
Thank you for taking the time to drive us all over the place, allowing us to make use of your car.
Thank you for your 'Dr.' comments and prescriptions... I have still yet to finish the last carton of milk... heh... You are going to be a hell-of-a-fighter next time... mark my words... I believe in you!
Desmond, Wei Wen and Kelvin,
thank you guys for looking out for me and your efforts in the sparring and pattern team.
My friends and family, who prayed for the team and I during this period.
Thank you all!
When one or two are gathered in His name, we can work wonders because in Him we have the victory!
Woohoo~
Praise God~!
^-^
P.S.
Sorry if I have forgotten anyone in the 'thank you' list...
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion . . . It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude. See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for. The college, which should be a place of delightful labour, is made odious and unhealthy, and the young men are tempted to frivolous amusements to rally their jaded spirits. I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Robert Fulghum:
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Green Ingersoll:
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Roger Lewin:
Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Russell Baker:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Saint Francis de Sales:
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Samuel Gompers:
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.
Sidonie Gruenberg:
Home is the place where boys and girls first learn how to limit their wishes, abide by rules, and consider the rights and needs of others.
Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
St. Francis Xavier:
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
Susan B. Anthony:
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas Jefferson:
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thucydides:
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Unknown:
Some children's answers to church school questions - from the Church of England:
This entry continued ...
Vernon Cooper:
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Virgil:
As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virginia Woolf:
To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot.
Virginia Woolfe:
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
W. E. Gladstone:
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
Why the numerous quotes?
Coz I din touch the computer for the past two days… a record actually… and I am making up for lost time… haha
IVP was finally held over the weekend… so many things happen lor… donno where to start…
-silent in thought-
-still thinking-
ok… last start from Friday ba~
Friday morning had to get up early to go to school for the POA mock… I mean PRELIM exam…
Totally puked my way through the paper… I din even do the Profit and Loss cum Balance Sheet question… din know how to do it in the first place… sure bomb out on the paper xia…
-hits head against the wall-
Oh well… its my fault anyway… I don mix with the subject … have to force myself to … hahaha
After the paper… I had a 5-hour stretch before the start of training… really had no idea what I was going to be doing during that time… Thank God for my darling Cat… she came to school to pick me up and we hung out at her place for the whole afternoon…
We ate lunch (bought from the now-not-that-smelly- school canteen), watched anime and The 13th Warrior. Haha…
She’s got a really cool home… nuff said.
We hung out until about 6.30pm before heading out to Clementi MRT station to pick up Jason and Eileen to go to training in school.
Praise God!
I could do the pattern!
Woohooo~
-bounces off the walls-
It felt good to be able to do the pattern with the team once more… heh
Had dinner with Daphne, Eelin, Wei Wen, Arthur and Alan before heading home… and trying to get to sleep… please note that the key word here is ‘TRY’… I tossed and turned the whole night… shesh~
Had blue bags under my eyes when the alarm clock went off…
Had the alarm clock set for 5.45am… all in an effort to leave the house before 6.30am and take bus, followed by MRT, to Boon Lay – Subsequently NTU… Why does that place have to be so gosh-darn-god-damn far away???
-shakes head in irritation-
Luckily got Desmond to talk to during the train ride… if not sure bored to bits… and I might have ended up falling asleep along the way :P
Reached NTU at about 8.20am… waited for the rest of the team to turn up and then did a few trial runs of the patterns for the competition…
The scare of the day was my knee going “kraack-krac” during the initial run though… rolled on the floor in pain… but in the end… we managed to get the pattern done for real. :)
Was very worried that the knee would back fire on me during the competition itself… thank God it did not…
I’m very proud of the Ee-jung pattern team!
They put did a lot of effort and are the overall winners in my eyes… don care what other people say… blast the judges… they ROCKED!
As for my Chil-jung… the same thing applies… one month of training with glitches all over the place, from people dropping out to getting injured and training last minute… I serious think we did a damn-blardy-good job.
Booyah!
The entire team went to Jurong Point for lunch before most of us headed back to NTU to watch the bouts…
Swee Shoon had the honour and stress of being in the first bout… his opponent was Edmin Lam… ala former National Player and Sea Games Bronze medalist… don play-play…
I must admit that I was very worried about Swee Shoon going into this match… very proud of his performance… Shall see him doing SMU proud next year…
Jia You ah Shoon~!
-waves pompoms-
stayed in the area all the way past 5pm… watched quite a few bouts… heh… had to rush off because of the wedding dinner I had to attend in the evening…
My cousin’s wedding dinner was held at Katong Complex and it was a very warm and quaint affair… the food was good… I love being teochew… heh…
I wish I could have worn my high-heels but my knee was being a bitch so I had to wear flats instead… oh well~
Drank wine… and took my meds… wrong combination… haha… but I din know until I downed the concoction…
-hysterical laughter-
Took more medication when I got home… made sure my things were in order for day 2, then put my head on my pillow and konked out till the alarm went off… haha~
For day 2, my alarm was set for 6.30am instead, coz the plan was that Sean and I were to take a cab to NTU… hack of a lot easier and less stress on my knees… but the fare was crazy…
Got to the school and got ready for the day ahead… SIM’s competitors all had their bouts yesterday and in this order:
Hakim, Jill, Desmond, Alan, Sean and then me… I think I could be wrong about the sequence… bleah…
Sean did us all proud by killing off his first opponent and getting a bronze afterward.
-throws pompoms all over the place-
As for me, my first bout was a walk over, my opponent din turn up.
The second one was against Dawn.
Needless to say, I was a sandbag for that match…
But, I feel more satisfied with myself for giving the entire match a chance instead of throwing the towel and still getting the medal…
At the end of the day, I am able to live with myself…
Next year will be a different story.
Another thing to be happy about was that I made a lot of new friends during the course of the competition… people from SMU, NTU, TP, SP, ITE… practically all the institutions that took place… haha… I enjoy making friends!
-hysterical laughter-
Took a hack of a lot of pictures during the second day… hahah…
Dinner was spent at Holland Village with Cat, Sian Li, Daph, Alan, Arthur, Jason, Sean and Ken. We ate Swanson’s… money go flying… haha … and I almost fell asleep at the table… eyes dry and head heavy… tired…
Went home by car, mrt and by foot… haha… completely knocked out the moment my head touched the pillow…
Which brings me to today…
Woke up with a rather bad headache (could be due to the head-shot) and aching arm… think I slept too long on it last night… haha…
Will be going down to SIM later for my ‘final’ training session before my break…
I am taking a break from TKD.
Need to heal my legs and rejuvenate my mind… been running around too much… and the exams are now my main priority… time (and my health) will tell when I go back to my routine of kick targets.
I doubt that the admin work will stop… if fact I think that will be the only thing I will be doing during my break… shesh~
Although I am taking sabbatical… I still have to prepare myself for the black grading which takes place in June/July… that is the one I am aiming for… and if I really go crazy I might try my foot at the Nationals.
-runs round the house mad-
Before I take my leave of this entry, I would like make my ‘Thank yous’ known:
Thank you, Jason, for your effort in preparing the club for this tournament.
For your time in training the sparrers and more importantly, the pattern teams.
For the headaches you had taking care of the players and worrying about the outcomes.
You can finally take a breather from the sport… haha…
Alan, for leading the club through this journey.
We would have lost our focus if not for you.
Thank you for putting in so much effort for the team.
Thank you for sparring with me and helping me along the way, and for the knee support.
I am proud to be the ‘president’ of your ‘fan club’. :)
Sean, for your motivation and hard work in both the pattern and sparring areas.
If not for you and Alan, I would not have been able to start on the sparring track.
Superbowl is coming!
Wo yong yuan zi chi ni!
Sian Li, my si jie, thank you for and being our ‘Mother’.
If not for you worrying about us, I don think we would have been able to get things done so efficiently.
Thank you for looking out for my health and me.
You will never age for me.
Arthur, thank you for sparring with me during training and imparting your knowledge to me. Being in the pattern team with you was a blast. :)
Daphne and Eelin,
Thanks for team spirit and supporting the fighters so fervently.
No one could ask for better cheerleaders!
My darling Cat,
Thank you for supporting the team in more ways than one.
For your effort in learning the pattern, however little time we had, it was and is very encouraging.
Thank you for taking the time to drive us all over the place, allowing us to make use of your car.
Thank you for your 'Dr.' comments and prescriptions... I have still yet to finish the last carton of milk... heh... You are going to be a hell-of-a-fighter next time... mark my words... I believe in you!
Desmond, Wei Wen and Kelvin,
thank you guys for looking out for me and your efforts in the sparring and pattern team.
My friends and family, who prayed for the team and I during this period.
Thank you all!
When one or two are gathered in His name, we can work wonders because in Him we have the victory!
Woohoo~
Praise God~!
^-^
P.S.
Sorry if I have forgotten anyone in the 'thank you' list...
1 Comments:
Yapz yapz cuzzie :) you do need lots of rest ahh..haha you thanked so many people its amazinggggg. MUst take good care of yourself yeah????
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