Monday, June 25, 2007

Finally an update of sorts. Not that I didn’t write anything since the last post in October 06, just that they were all rants and I felt better after writing them out, I didn’t see why I have to let you guys put up with those nasty bits of my nasty days, but they were sadly, mostly on stuff like Malays acting stupid and “heroic” in the eyes of their friends, some bad days of school and what not. Whatever.

But now that my exam for my second year second semester is over, I finally have the time to take a breather and go back to feeling the music and trying to get my groove back. Its funny how I used to feel uneasy not breaking for 2 days and yet this time I managed to stop completely for 3 – 4 weeks and watch myself grow fat and my eyes go squinty over reading those notes over and over again. So how I think I have managed to come peace with myself, and now I know that for my future, I will give up breaking even though it’s my real first love. Sad no doubt, but I’ve got to be real and face up to those high hopes that I have for myself. Of course, I know that there’s no way any bboy will be able to just walk away and pretend that all this never happened, all I can say is that I’m going to just make hay while the sun shine, if it means to give up after I grad, so be it, this two years, its going to be my time. No way am I going to waste it. Speaking of my studies, its all been quite good for me, my CAP has been going up for all my efforts that I put in, except my very first semester of course, 3.12, what was I thinking lo. The second semester was a 3.95. Definitely moral boosting and I put in even more effort and got 4.35 for the third semester. Some how, this semester round, think I am rather exhausted from all the studying but I pushed myself nevertheless. Hopefully, this semester will be able to break 4 into the second upper grade. But seems like its going to be rather hard, screwed up math, supposed to be my favourite subject, design was good, so was fluids and feedback, some careless mistakes here and there, but still got hope for A hopefully. Mechanics was crap, as usual, but everyone did just as badly it seems and I hope so too, haha. 26 may, results coming out, I’m going to pray so hard for it man, will be heart shattering to see my efforts all go to waste lo.

The real main event that happened in March was Floorskills Asia that came and went in a flash, one of the best moments in my life to just see bboy Ata practice in front of me. Seriously, quoting Alex, how can one man have so much flow in him? Crazy bboy he is. Bounce was great and amazed me with his flow and grasp of foundation, really opened my eyes when I went for his workshop, one of the best workshops I have ever been to. Ducky on the other hand was the odd one out, being the only Asian judge, he didn’t do much, but I got to discover how talented this guy really is, he can beat box, he can dance house, jazz and what not, his throw down in the judge showcase was crazy, worth all my time not studying and spending time at the event. I joined of course with Kelvin and Joc, my darling. We all did well, but as our luck would have it, we met RF again, in the quarter finals and we were knocked out, but it was a great experience, no doubt about it. The next big thing to come my way is the battle of the year and the winner this year will be sponsored to compete in Korea, hard tough challenge no doubt, but I’m with FTC, no doubt rocking with few of the best and I’m sure we will give our best shot.

It would be quite crazy if we really win the BOTY and get to go to Korea to see the world. Cause really, I would be seeing the whole world after coming back from NY on 13 Aug and if I go Korea in august as well, I would probably miss like 2 weeks of school lo, but given a chance to see both power houses of bboys, that will be greatness to me. The NY trip is more or less settled, at least the NY part, that’s the first week. We got an apartment some where in Manhattan I think, not too sure about the details actually. But it’s going to be a dope experience for sure.

The other big thing is that I got my own car, thanks to daddy, lol. Its small and it comes in the form of a Suzuki swift sport and its nifty and just what I like. No doubt its saving me lots of time and more convenient, but ultimately, I still miss kazumi, the wind in my face and sound of the engine when I turn the throttle, hmmm, I think I better start saving to get a motorbike when I grad next time, maybe a nice little vespa or wave 125 will do la, sport bikes are too tempting to speed lo. Which reminds me of Jinhan, one of the ex bboys of old times. He is in the hospital for about 4 months already, in quite a bad shape apparently, after a motorbike accident. From my friend who is in the aprilla forum and he said that all the riders there are apparently all quite crazy, riding 160 to 170 when coming back from Malaysia, what happened was that they went up to Malaysia to the race track called pasir gudang, the place where people pay to drive or ride in the circuit for half a day, the rules are quite strict and pp fall or crash all the time, what happened was that jinhan skidded and his full face hjc helmet slipped from his head and he suffered concussion to his head, most probably he didn’t buckle the strap. While I’m not saying that he deserve to be lying in the hospital after choosing not to cherish life and ride recklessly, what I feel is that he has suffered enough for his mistake, for along with him, his girlfriend and his family, especially his mum is keeping vigil by his bed all day long hoping that he will recover and remember who he is. I really hope that he will recover soon and learn from this incident and I pray for him that its not too late to know the people around him that care and love him, especially Larry, its quite saddening to see him go around doing everything for a friend that he dears so much. Stay strong Larry, I’m sure your efforts will not go to waste and JH will be up on his feet in no time.

25th June 25, 2007

Time just flies don’t it? So at this point of time, I have got less than one month before our trip to our bboying pilgrimage (haha), I have gotten my results and BOTY is over. For my results, it went up again, I’m just so inspired to do better the next time, though I’m pretty sure that it will be hard to match my performance this time round, I got one A+, two A, one A- and one B+, shucks to the B+, but I’m still glad not the less. So on the overall, my cap is up to 4.04, after this semester cap of 4.68, woots.

BOTY came and go, we got second, but I learnt a lot so to be honest, not getting first isn’t really a issue, met Poe one on the first day, he turned out just as I expected from talking to him on myspace, a really nice guy and very knowledgeable and an amazing bboy. The way he talks about bboying and the way he does his throw downs is like WOAH. Went for his workshop for both days, the first day was on a Thursday, tiring as hell, there were only ten of us, legs still sore on Friday, and still sore on Saturday which was BOTY itself, battled like nobody’s business, looking at the videos, I didn’t thinking I did well, but good experience, then on Sunday was Poe’s second workshop, this time about 40 pp turned up, haha, this shows how inspired bboys were from Saturday, hella dope workshop it turned out to be. He said that there are arrangements for him to return in December to teach in Singapore twice a week for that month, and arrangements and discussions are through Annie Pek, so I’m not too optimistic about the whole thing, but it will be hella dope if he could come and drop knowledge on us.

The US trip is more or less settled, at least we got place to stay for NY and LA, there is still a window of 4 days that we are hoping to get tickets to Miami when we reach US itself, if not, we will just stay in NY for 4 more days. Anyhow, its going to be dope, I just hope that we won get bored.

Anyhow, everyone stay up, this isn’t a time to be sleeping on it.
gilbert at 12:40 AM [comment]

{I hear voices, voices only half as humane as mine..}