I’ve got one week of holiday left, and huge amounts of preparation for work to finish. The last couple of months have been intense - a heck of a lot’s happened, and now I’m trying to process it all. Current points:

1. I am now at point zero. I know nothing whatsoever about martial arts. I’m overweight and out of shape.
2. This is OK. It’s only a few years since I came to Asia, and before that I was completely ignorant of martial arts. It took a while to realise this. I’ve spent the last few years trying to work out what it is that I need to learn. Then a bit longer to work out what I ought to learn. Cool. Now I know. The fitness thing is an issue, but I’ll work on it.
3. Everything I’ve done in the last few years has been a great education, and has given me a good grounding, but it’s time to say that from now on I need to start learning from scratch again, from the basics upward, in order to get good at the styles I want to focus on.
4. Looks like I’ll be in Beijing for one more year, then back to Singapore.

This should be interesting.

2 Comments »

1. 

   Jianhu,
   where are you?
   Everything allright?
   I have to be back at university on Monday, if Sinlaku isn’t too bad.
   When do you start again?
   Best
   Hermann

   Comment by Bai Yiming — September 13, 2008 @ 8:19 am

2. 

   Hi Hermann,

   I’m still here, alive and well - just needing to get out of a bit of a slump! How’s your new semester going? I hope you didn’t get blown around too much by the typhoon!

   Comment by Emlyn — September 24, 2008 @ 10:55 am

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