"About a month ago I got a cactus, and a week later it died. And I got really depressed because I realised, damn . . . I am less nurturing than a desert"

Trust me, Knee cap dislocation isnt fun at all...

I can walk, with the knee slightly bent and stay like that for every step, yep, looks like a cripple.

man so bored at home.... i've been at home since wednesday...

anyway, now that i'll be out of TKD action, now full on focus on uni...yay..

work:
ETA: Oral Presentation tomorrow! and essay topic.
MAS: Proforma, Good copy for essay.
SSE: Group Assignment, article A and B
CAP: Group Assignment.

fun...seriously, i am bored.

i really need to do my good copy essay....
i forgot what else i was going to say.

Crippled

Yep, I won, I came, I yelled, I kicked, I knocked Melb Uni student on his arse, and I kicked him out of the competition...!

I swear, during the fight, I knew I was winning but, at the end i thought I had lost it, 1 minute each round feels like forever! i guess i scraped the victory, beside he did got me balls a few times and got penalised ha. anyway the point is, WHO KICKED MELB UNI's ARSE? RMIT FUCKING DID!

Apparently i was told after the fight, the melb uni guy i faced, has been in yellow belt for 2-3 years, means more experience, against me who just got yellow belt for about....1 week? and also my .....first fight??

Glad my fans....(ashley and devon) came to saw my first ever match and first ever victory in fashion (it was the first fight of the night too). Thanx so much for the support it means a mountain to me! but they left, though the night for me didnt end there.

I had to wait for another 2 hours or so for my next fight, since we had to go through the first round for everyone first. So came my second fight, i had a dirty fight, didnt do well and just after the secoond round started, accident happened.

The opponent was my team mate, his first fight, the guy (from rmit) who meant to face him in the first round didnt show up, so he advance to the final facing me. Anyway i didnt actually know what exactly happened, but i guess it was his foot against my knee and my right knee cap poped out of place outward. I screamed, and rolled on the ground, felt my knee with my hand and there was a late reaction from everyone, maybe they thought it was minor injury. then i yelled out.....dislocated......knee cap....! so everyone rushed in, so i lied on the ground for the next half hour, went through how no one has pop a knee back in, magic (ice) spray sprayed on, ice packs, my pads taken off etc etc, bunch of people saying how feeling? are you okay?

ok so the ambulance officer came, gave me inhaler, and morphine, man i love that stuff, i reckon i can get through life under the influence of morphine. I wasnt crying anyway, i was laughing, everyone i knew was around me! they couldnt bring the stretcher up the stairs so we used a wheelie chair, and it was rough on the way to the van. The good thing is, funny story, true story, outside, the knee poped back in itself because of that, i said i felt twitching, then when we rolled the pants up, its back! and everyone laughed, seriously it was funny, or maybe just the morphine that made me feel no pain.

At the hospital, we did double check, i could walk for abit, limping, and they gave me some massage, i asked for more morphine, the doctor said no. anyway i thought i was stranded in the hospital by myself, my phone, wallet etc etc was in my bag, where;s my bag i had no idea. anyway in the waiting room i saw a sunshine! it was JOYCE!!!

Joyce is a blue belt in our club, she accompany me on the way to the ambo, and she was the scorer for the tourney. I hugged her straight away, JOOOYYCEEE! she said Man (another guy from our club has my bag and was getting food) so i chilled with Joyce for a bit, and then i asked the staff for some crutches, and i still had stuff sticking in my arm, the thing where they inject morphine in, i forgot all about it, i thought i was gonna go home with that still on. the doc said, it may be fine for tonight, but tomorrow morning will be all pain, he reckoned (which is true)

So me Joyce and Man (who bought maccas) were just chatting in the (emergency) waiting area and master quang called and said he'll come after he had food. they were laughing because i was still high on morphine i was laughing all that time. then master quang dropped me off at my house.
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the next day, (today) man the trip from my house to the station usually 5 minutes by foot, but this time 20 minutes by foot plus crutches. Anyway, came to class, bragged about my win against mel u, let's just say i was still under the influence of morphine to concentrate, then went home. on the train home funny story, true story, i sat on one of those folding disable people chair and some old asian lady approached me and asked me:
'what are you doing, you should be at home.'
i was totally lost...!
i said 'yes i am on my home'
'yes but why, you should stay at home, *points to my leg'
'yeah i will thank you.'
and she walked away, the girl sitting next to me had a smile on her face, i was like whaaaat?

then the 20 minutes of painful journey back home. when i got home i threw my crutches away and practiced walking again, well it isnt as bad as i thought.
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the point is, i am so amazed by the people from our club for supporting and caring so much about me, even before the injury when i faced the mel uni guy, i could hear them saying "Go FARI! come on FARI!!"

and how Ashley and Devon kindly came to see my debut. THANK YOU SOO MUCH!

But i kinda feel bad towards Kamalia, she missed her match because she was helping escorting me to the ambo, thanx a bunch bud.

Thanx Matt president, for gathering my stuff, and william and everyone from RMIT TKD club for being around as i lay on the mat in pain. Thanx to the mel uni girl who does final year medical for applying ice packs on and the black belt guy from mel uni too. and Franky, no hard feeling yeah?

Thanx Joyce and Man for waiting for me at the Hospital, and Master Quang for taking me home.

I already dont know what my homeworks and assignments are, and what meant to be done this week.

ok now i have to get sizy's email, seems she's the one that most reliable in this.

I only know:
28th April - Environmental: Oral Presentation
now this is a main one...

So tomorrow monday is a no problemo.

Tuesday: Proforma and Good copy essay for MAS.
Wednesday: Article Review for Sustainbility...?? maybe i should ask about the first assignment too. Maybe our group assignment stuff, and i have to write my own work too.

Thursday: umm....Just waiting to get a feedback for my essay...i think there's more..i dont know.

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oh oh Tuesday is a big day for me..!

Mel U is coming over to our club to have practice match with us, and i think swinburne is coming aswell and take a part in our team! And yep, I will participate as a one of our club fighter representatives

looking at the form, its kinda scary, but hey, arent i in it to hurt my opponent?

So i've been trying to lose weight so i can compete in the 54-63 KG, because i am closer to 63 than to 72kg, hoping i will get smaller opponents, but if there isnt much fighter, we'd probably be in a mixing pot...so, i've got my mouth guard, the club have arm, shin, trunk and the helmet, now i only need to get a groin guard off master quang for $20....and $5 to enter. another money. anyway, maybe i should let the guys (jb bin sneh etc) from mel u watch as we kick mel uni's arse!

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Today was our TKD club social event, we went to funfields at whittlesea, pretty farrrrrrr...but will drove us there, me, duy and the prez, matt. then we met chris there and let us in at relatively cheaper prize than normal. there was a mad toboggan slide, which we loved and we went mini golfing which all of us sucked so much, and go kart which was boring and wasnt a challenge. My kart sucked, it was the slowest kart ever and i swear, i pushed the pedal all the way down and 3 karts took me over. So we ended the day with another toboggan slide (we slide down like 5-6 times). Man the guys that didnt come so missed out on not so much, but the toboggan was mad as, also i hate kids. Yeah it was a fun day, i got to know these guys more, shame not all of us came.

On the way home on the train, man, sometimes footy club supporters can be annoying, i was planning on taking a nap but this lady with her strong country accent (melbourne supporter and co.) keep speaking and the train display thingy was a station late and had Richmond station on and she thought it was funny and the other supporters were booing everytime she said richmond. and i swear she wont SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR THE WHOLE TRAIN TRIP UNTIL I GOT OFF AT MY STATION! i got home i ate, then fell asleep while watching dogs v richmond, i heard it ended in a draw, then i watched gladiator, some of the gladiator chicks are smokin i reckon. ok, I really dont know what needs to be done for this week.

that's my gi (uniform) with our club badge (right), the (new) yellow belt, TKD australia membership card and grading 'passport'.

Yellow Mellow

Got my yellow belt...!

now I can compete in sparring, lets see...

Oh before that, on sunday i think some of us are going to funfields in whittlesea, yay funland!

anyway

I gotta get mouth guard from rebel sport...and groin guard from master quang too, ach money money!

Why do i need those? oh yep, Mel U is coming over to RMIT to have 'friendly' matches with us, and i will be participating...awesomeful! i have the need to kick someone really.

anyway i was given my yellow belt tonight, i passed the grading test on tuesday night, and man i was exhausted at tonight's training....we had practice matches, and i fought about 6-7 times...actually it was good, i got some useful tips from the experienced guys...!

oh and the yellow belt looks pretty neat too...better than white i guess.

i'll post a photo of my gi tomorrow, i am very very tired...

I hung out with ash and her friend, isabel or isabella.. we had lunch then we had ice cream at lygon.....man, now i remember what durian ice cream taste like, briefly down the memory lane...and we chatted for like 1.5 hours and i took them on a short tour of RMIT through the old gaol....aha.

anyway reminder forself: do oral presentation preparation....!!28th april is coming down fast!!

chow.chau.

Stances:
-Attention
-Natural
-Horse
-Front
-Back
-Forward (walking)

Blocks:
-Low
-High
-Knife
-Body
-Middle
-Outside-Inside (the flick)

Punches:
-Mid
-Face
-Knuckle
-Chop
-Spear
-Back

Kicks:
-Front
-Side
-Roundhouse
-Back
-Axe
-Push

+14 steps
+Yelling
+Power

I just dont have time...

Oh my god, i wagged my first ever uni lecture!! it was on wednesday morning at 8.30am, where did i go? i slept in at home...bwahahaha.

Man geography was so worth doing at high school, but our sustainability tutor got so impressed when i said the word 'Demography Transition' and there are other useful terms such as impacts and factors, and i havent even use Key Spatial Concept yet - now that'll be my secret weapon. The tutor even thought the topic 'I' picked for our group (the environments course people)- global fishing - ROCKS! bwahahaha - LEDGEND!

Anyway, on the other news, I hope by next week I'll be a Yellow belt in TKD, we got the grading test on Tuesday 15th april.... oh my god, i'm still not sure about the some of the 24 basics!! argh argh! fuuu...(breath out, not fuck)

I can feel that I am as fit as ever, i sweat alot in every class and heck, i've made some good friends!

and apparently we are having social activities, one of them is going to Funfields in Whittlesea on the 20th april and another is having BBQ at Albert Park the day before! sweet. First thing first also apparently ( i over use this word i know) We are inviting Swinburne and Mel U TKD clubs to have friendly games over at our venue, ehm, I'll be yellow then and so i can compete ha! FRANKY I AM WAITING FOR YOU!

Oh and tonight, apparently some other people booked our room, so we actually trained just outside it surrounded by arcade games, and we yelled louder to intimidate them (i actually suggested we jumped them and take back our room)

Oh another guy, Tom, he's a white belt aswell, cool guy man, he lives in frikin Mornington, takes him 2 hours to get to uni....and another to get back home...man i thought Steven and Joe lives pretty far...

ok so i actually done MAS and SSE assignment, and I didnt do Politics, i'll have it done before monday, I promise...and I think i better get into my oral presentation... i had two months to do it, now i only have..17 days..not bad.(fucK)

tired, i bought some cup noddles on the way home, i'm gonna eat them...

maybe i should really ditch modern society lecture, its monday morning at 9.30am, maaaang.
well today's topic was kinda, well emotional...it was about History in general, led to Australian history, which mainly involves Aboriginal stuff. Showed that how much Australian 'hurt' the Aborigines, and we talked about the many 'untold stories'. eg the stolen generation and recently the stolen wages! just discovered a few years ago. well todays lecture didnt end on a happy note.

Politics lecture was about.........................um.................................i might've fallen asleep....oh wait, it was about the types of government in england, aust and us. whatever it was boring. Then environmental lecture was about................................isaac newton, and the universe and how theology banned science, so its like classical science during the enlightment (17th century). Apparently Galileo Galilei was prisoned at home for the rest of his life for contradicting religion, amazing,,,.

I kinda got lost of the track of time for a while, i was heading home at 3.50pm, and my tute started at 3.30pm and we actually got out of the lecture 15 minutes passed and i felt we were in the tute for quite a long time. and i got home at 4.30 - the time where we supposedly get out of the tute and finish for the day.

Anyway i'm suppose to do my 1000 words report for wednesday and a proforma for tomorrow, and keep drifting away from them...........focus! i demand!





ok i need to get a girlfriend. (not connected with ^(up))

ok this is just a remainder of 24basic

Stance:
Attention (charyeot), Ready (junbi), Forward, back, short, horse.

Blocks:
low, head, inner - outer wrist, knife, palm


Punches:
front, inner, outer, back, spear, palm?

kicks:
front, side, roundhouse, axe, push and back.

other news: I did my modern society assignment today, it was a bit short of 800 words, but i reckon its alright. back to sleep now, its nearly 5pm.

Aatssaaa!

Ok if youre wondering what the title means, thats just my exclamation in TKD.


It;s awesome actually, I kinda got my confident up in TKD, i can stretch my legs further and get my hips moving (important aspect!)

Yea, tonight, there were about 5 beginners, one of them new, a couple from tuesday didnt show up though. And a few more seniors, they taught us more about how to get to Yellow belt.

-14 step basic form
-24 Basics. which involves 6 blocks, 6 kicks, 6 punches, and 6 stances. (plus yelling, manner and power!)
Then on i go to yellow (hopefully on the grading night, 15th april, must pay the downside...)

I decided not to show up to oaktree again. Why? well because at the moment i chose TKD over it. --------------------------------

hung out with some of the gang on wednesday, was fun. Ng and Jase and JB and Sneh were there, Ben was suppose to be there too, but he ditched, but lucky we dragged Toro along. Ha!

Anyway, I actually have to do an assignment on "Unversity's Understanding of Sustainability"
it;s hard, so I gotta go now, tired.....

TKD

Oh hey ashley, I didnt take caff pill today.

why? because i had an afternoon class started at 2.30 pm. ^^

Okay i came, i saw, i did stuff. The homeworks are:

Tomorrow!: Sustainability eco footprint, fill out the stuff. probably do a draft in the morning break?
Thursday: Politics topic and research materials!
Friday: Modern Society Essay Draft!!

(i just typed those as a secondary diary harrrr)

Anyway I did TKD tonight. It was fun as, I walked in a room full of people in whites (i was like this either it or some other MA club)
So i went in and asked the first asian girl I saw "this TaeKwonDo?"
"Yes yes! come in"
So I went in and a black belted guy came up to me, "You joining yea? Good, you indonesian?"
"Yes"
"yea you look Indonesian."

Well anyway, the Master came in and gave me form to fill in and ask if i brought some change of clothes. I didnt. He asked how tall i was (180?) and i said 175 ish,
"Youre lucky, Ive got one for 180cm, so that's should fit."
Kinda baggy, but its alright. ($80+$60+$140 now i have to pay)
Made some new friends:
William the senior black belt student that came up to me first, he's indonesian too.
Eric, Indonesian, beginner like me
David, Viet, blue belt
Dewey, half viet half chinese born aus, yellow.
Mark (or skidMark) tall lanky geeky aussie guy, beginner of 5 classes.
and Matt, the president of the club, blue belt nice guy.
The master is Kwon, middle age.

One funny thing, there's this asian girl (looked new to the club) black belt. She kicked a blue belt guy's arse (in front of everyone). Ouch, his pride. (matt said he wont need it.) Man thats one girl you dont wanna mess with.


Anyway, looking forward to next class on thursday....tired tired.......................mang

Tomorrow: Sust lecture, 2 hours break (do homework) then Tute. Then meet ashley etc and chill. Suppose to attend a night for Oaktree, I feel like quiting, so busy. Now that i realised i've got ALOT of uni work and TKD = tiring. Right now its about 75% quit, 24% stay at oaktree, 1% ditch.

laterz