Goshin Justsu (self defense, Judo)

Oh wow! I was looking for self defense applications for Judo, and guess what i found! (PS: This is for Horng Eng and Douglas and the other people who share my love for the sport - count the Osotogaris! ;P). It's the Goshin-jutsu, not for competition, with all the boring bits thrown out. Niceeee. Love the sound effects.

The Power Of Green

I know my blog is grey. It will be green soon. I know it. I feel it. Sometimes i get very bad Designer's Block. The same way that i get very bad Writer's Block every few years or so - when it seems none of the short prose i produce is startling enough.

Why am i suddenly reluctant to touch my Blogger xHTML?

It might be that i spent half the day today configuring Netvibes to my heart's content. It now shows me my Gmail, headlines from The Star, the weather in Kuching for the next 4 days, the RSS feeds of all my friend's blogs (particularly the UGS blog ring) and gives me updates on all the latest happenings in the publishing industry.


It might be due to the Chinese New Year celebrations, which should have given me plenty to harp on about. And the pictures! Oh the pictures, what jokes they could become! Apart from the faintly staid photo caption contest in BUGS (featuring a CNY photo of me, kenny and Wen Qi) i took a series that should be framed up in a musuem somewhere, dedicated to gatherings and Flickr and the wonders of Web 2.0:

BTW, in case you're wondering what's
happening in the 2nd one, Wen Ren
is trying to see Angel's braces. A few seconds
later he reaches the point where it looks as if he's kissing her.

Much of Janus is underway, typing out the lines and lines that make up the last arc of the story. I'm also putting finishing touches on a Wordpress blog i'd set up elsewhere, enjoying myself as i read up on CSS, PHP and web standards (take a look at A List Apart, brilliant). I do chores (bringing the dog out, for instance), learned how to handle the hill, park a kancil and do a 3 point turning just yesterday, and then some.

I dream about Judo in my free time, figuring out the perfect kuzushi for my Osotogari, watch videos and reread tutorials i've perused before. I look forward to Sundays, youth and the various things i have to organize at some time or another.

I'm stuck on a Group1Crew song (scroll down to find Forgive Me, Group1Crew) which is strangely christian, once you get over the Eminem-like sound.

Alright, alright, out with the truth already!

I am loath to touch my Blogger xHTML because i'm distracted. By a million and one things. By the fact that the SPM results are out on the 12, and that i'm quite sure i'll do horribly. And that the little things online (like censorship, and st thomas, and the blogosphere) are getting to me. That i didn't write more than 3 pages of my as yet unnamed novel. That i've yet to complete War and Peace. Damn.

I still have a lot to do. And school is about to start. And once it does i've to take certain measures to preserve the content of this blog, particularly from prying spies and people who work with censorship.

Oh, and by the way, in case any of those people are reading this: you've been warned. There are a hundred and one ways to slip out of deleting a blog - nevermind that you think you understand blogs very well.

I'm rambling. Sorry. My writing seems to have slipped along with my designing. Sigh.