Music Does Heal My Soul

I like music, well who doesn’t? Heehee. I noticed that I listen to music almost all the time; at work, in the gym, in LRT on the way to work or back home, while shopping (if it’s not from my iPod, at least it’s from the mall itself) and while I’m sleeping. My mom always reminds me that, it’s not good to listen to music (with earphone) while I’m sleeping. It’s not good for my ear drums (ahh well… forever nurse, what can I say?) and in case of emergency, I may not hear people calling for help or robber breaks into my house. But if music is via radio or something not attached to the ears, then it’s fine.

Usually the genre of music I listen is according to my mood. When I’m angry, I’ll listen to fast and ‘noisy’ music, when I’m frustrated, I’ll listen to loud music, when I’m sad, I’ll listen to fast, ‘noisy’ and loud music. Errr… what’s the different then? No different actually. I only listen to nice-and-easy genre when I wanna go to sleep. When I listen to these musics, my angriness, sadness and frustration will go away. Surprisingly, I don’t listen to music when I’m happy. Don’t know why. Owh… owh… that means, when I’m happy, that’s the only time I’m sans-music? Hmmm… since I said before, I listen to music to almost all of my time, is that mean I’m always in an angry/frustrated/sad mode? Wait… wait… wait… ohhh… awwww… poor me.

Speaking of loud music, I bet that nice lady who sat next to me in LRT on my way back from gym just now, bleed her ear all the way from Asia Jaya to Wangsa Maju. Why? Because I kept on repeating I’m Not Okay by My Chemical Romance like zillion of times. In full volume. Mmmmm… to that lady (if you read this *chuckle*), sorry yah…. I didn’t mean to damage your ear drum (only her left ear). I’m just not so okay tonight.

There Goes Our Man

No more Henry in Arsenal. There goes my favourite talisman to another great team. A part of me sad because he’s such a wonderful player and a good captain to his team. He has the MAGIC. And another part of me happy because Barcelona is my favourite team in Spanish La Liga. As much as I love how Arsenal play football, that much I love how Barca plays too. Barca is so much fun to watch.

I have foreseen that this day will come. Finally he made up his mind and moved to Barca. It has been always my wish that he ends his football career with Arsenal. As much as his fans difficult to let him go, I think it’s difficult for him to leave either. But this is the right time for him to move on and grab them one and only prestigious trophy he hasn’t won yet before he stops playing football. Well, maybe he has several other good reasons why he’s leaving. Barca is lucky to have him.

I’m sad. 

I’m In A Mood For JUMP-ing

What happened when Combat meets Comedy? The answer is one heck of an AWESOME performance y’all.

I’m so-so-so loving this show. That is an awesome non verbal show to watch. Worth every single cent I spent on them tix. My thanks goes to Farid and Diha for telling me about this show. You both know how crazy I’m when it comes to martial arts. Yayy.

Back to the show. JUMP is about the life of an average Korean family; an authocratic grandfather, a drunken uncle, a tricky father, a super power chopping mother, a gymnast daughter and a nerdy son-in-law. This show combines the traditional Korean martial arts of Taekwondo, Hapkido, Kick boxing and also the flexibility of gymnastics skills, in a comical style. The family members are martial arts experts and perform martial arts in their daily lives. Skills like somersaults, wall-walks, aerial rotations, flying kicks, and some dueling scenes are the regular training around this family’s household. A touch of light comical romantic scene adds flavour to the show and also not to forget the authentic and awesome Taekwondo skills, to bleed your nose. (I know I did. Heehee). The plot of story is simple and light, and yet very entertaining. The story gets interesting when there are 2 burglars break into their house, and how this family deals with the situation. Apart from their performances, they also invite 2 people from the floor to come up on stage to spice up the show.

Basically there are 4 episodes in this show. First episode is when the grandfather brings back a visitor (future grandson-in-law) to match with his granddaughter. This episode shows them cleaning the house as to welcome the special guest, then when everything goes smoothly, the drunken uncle comes in and messes the whole house again. Then, that’s when the rumbles begin.

Second episode is when this family practises an amount of arts training everyday, under the supervision of the grandfather. Each member of the family performs their special moves and to be part of the family, the future son-in-law must be strong and skillful too. The son-in-law is a nerdy kind of person and martial arts is just not his thing. Well… the catchy part in this episode is the future son-in-law has 2 different personas. He is a nerd and unskillful when he has his glasses on but when he is off his glasses, his inner warrior unleashed.

The third episode is when the future son-in-law nurtures his love towards the family’s daughter. The scene at the living room is freaking funny. They face some funny obstacles and interruptions by her uncle and her parents. The loves scenes which involve her parents and the family’s daughter with future son-in-law in this episode are farking-ly hilarious. Love the tango. I had good laughs in this one.

The final episode is when 2 burglars break into the house, looking for hidden treasure. One is villain and small size (Burglar 1) and the other one is plump and not so smart (Burglar 2). The best part is, they both bring their own radio and play their own sound effect while they are doing their mission. At first, I was thinking, why did they bring a radio when they wanted to rob a house, then when that fat burglar turned off the radio, then only I realized that they made their own sound effects. Funny and yet creative. I personally love the arts skills of Burglar 1; sharp movements, great execution and he the got speed. Awesome. Really awesome. In this final episode, the family fights with them burglars and this is you can see loads of fighting skills.

There are loads other funny scenes, I just can’t put them all in words. All I know is I had good laughs throughout the show.

Main reasons why I love this show :

• The comical is not slapstick.

• Amazing martial arts skills that can’t take my eyes off the stage – not a blink.

• Although the show is non verbal, it’s easy to understand what are they trying to convey.

• The way they designed the house; a very authentic traditional Korea house. The lighting works are great.

Things that tickle me in this show :

• The matrix style. There are some slow motion movements when they are fighting with the burglars and also during their daily practice, just to show the audience how they do it. They did it ala Matrix. So movement and the timing are IMPECCABLE. I love when they do this part.

• The sound effects are great. Things like sound of punching, kicking, fighting weapons are so real and in time with the acts.

• An old man, which appears at the beginning of each episode is freaking funny. And owh… his skills really bleed my nose. Again.

I wanna watch it again !!! They’re heading down south for their next performance. I wish they will stop by Malaysia again for their next tour.

Never Too Late

Have you guys watched Only The Strong some where back in 1993? The lead actor in that movie is Mark Dacascos. I was in my high school that time. After I watched it, I really wanted to learn Capoeira. Capoeira is such a graceful ballet of power and control, kicking and jumping in synchronized movement, but sadly there were no such classes that offered that type of martial art during my time. So, I picked TKD as my 2nd option. Lucky me, I had the privilege to learn both ITF and WTF, in which I ended up with the latter one. As I grew up, I already forget my intention to learn Capoeira and during my university years, other than TKD, I learned Fencing. It’s an interesting western martial art to learn. I love everything about fencing, love its footworks, love the suit, love the maneuvering of them weapons and love the posh feel of the art. I like the gracefulness and the sophisticated feel when we’re fighting.

Now that BC has incorporated Capoeira in at least 3 releases already, I feel that I should consider it again. I love the flexibility in this arts (plus I love to dance), and to me this martial art is cool and sexy. I prolly won’t want to go that ’deep’ with this Brazilian art, unlike the two arts mentioned above, I just want to give variety to my knowledge. Been asking some of my friends about the Capoeira classes they joined and it does sound interesting to me. Well, not sure whether I got that flexibility they need or not. Heehee. As my mom always says, “It’s never too late to learn something new.” Still not sure whether that’s applicable for Capoeira or not. Hahaa !

Tribe O’ Tribe

I just realized that my previous post (which I had put it private already) has nothing to do with gym. Prolly I posted them by mistake here where it should belong to my other blog. Anyways, who cares?

Today I was late to LM for BC. I was there in the middle of Track 5. The idea was to slot in myself carefully and as soundless as possible. Alas the instructor managed to spot me. Haihh. Actually, I was so desperate to go Axis and Maxis today, but I had something to do so I decided to go LM instead. Made a pact with Ah Girl to wait for me at KLCC. Sadly, I ended up went LM by myself. How could you do that? I don’t want to friend you.   *Chuckle*

Hanged around at juice bar after class and heard that for this coming launch, there are only 4 tribes for BC. I heard that BJam sent more tribes. Tsk… tsk… C, we should’ve joined it. Haihh… you-lah. So much of being shy in public. Bleghh ! They said yesterday in Axis was the last audition for this Miracle competition thing. The tribes that went for audition yesterday were all great. Ugh… I feel so jealous. I should be one of them. Well… it’s too late to regret. Screw my tournament.

Ohhh ! Speaking of Axis, me and Ah Boy have been asking Ah Girl to join us in Axis for BC for so many times already. Her excuses were none other than Axis is VERY far from her house and she doesn’t know how to get there. We did give a clear direction (you’ve been here for ages already ok?) but she chose to stick to her choice, which were the far-from-home and the not-know-how-to-go thing. Then we both give up and never asked her again. So, having said that, how come suddenly you were there in Axis yesterday? Owhh… when we asked you to go, you don’t want but when other people asked, you suddenly can go-lah?  Suddenly you know the way-lah? Phbbttt !

Back to the Miracle thing, I hope Ah Boy is free to accompany me since Ah Girl said she has to work on Saturday. Hmmm…. ya meh? Got work meh?