Parking Police Note...

Normally, most shopping centres have rules against commuters using their carparks and say they'll tow your car away and what not. Now I have recieved a warning from a sunnybank plaza before for doing that, and they put the notice underneath your windscreen wipers so taht you can see it when you walk to you car. Today I did the same at Garden City. Now, I remember that Garden City doesn't have these kind of rules since they are situated on a major Busway station, or at least I don't think they have those regulations. Anyways, I got back from uni at like 6:30 at night... and I walked to my car, and I drove off and headed for Plaza for dinner. I got to plaza and I god out of my car and I noticed that I had a letter tucked in my windscreen from the Police... Now I was freaking out, cos wth was the police doing leaving notes on my car right? "What did I do?" Kinda went through my mind a few times. Then I opened it and it was actually some parking security patrol telling how well secure my car was... it literally says "SECURED - CONGRATULATIONS" on it... lol... makes you wonder... cos they had to have gone and tried all my doors and checked all my windows and stuff to know that it was indeed secured as they said... I thought it was really random lol...

Anyways thats my random story for the day...

Hardcore Shaolin Training...

You know your gonna get owned when you have to do 75 pushups and 75 sit ups at the very END of an already tough session of kung fu... lol...

I bet you tomorrow, I will have trouble standing up straight lol... On the other hand, we learnt some nifty self-defence techniques today, like how to get people who like to bear hug you of your back and get our of arm locks, headlocks, and nugees lol...

yes... anyways... im getting rather hungry... and I smell lamb shanks...

You can tell awesome friends apart when you see them...

Went to a uni friend's birthday party tonight... a friend of a church friend. I mean I hang around the SLC alot at UQ... and its really quite something else when you see such a large bunch of friends that are so close to each other. They are all high school friends with each other but yeah. When one of the birthday girl's friend asked me if I wanted to chip into some really hardcore expensive present that they were getting, I couldn't help but admire the sheer amount of effort they were putting into someone's 19th... So much thought went into the present, and some other people who didn't chip in made like, personalised presents like calendars with lots of photos and stuff which is quite awesome. So even though I didn't know the birthday girl extremely well, I still chipped in even just to support her friends in their plans cos she has some pretty awesome friends there. Kinda wish I had friends like that ay lol... but yeah... I mean the present was in the range of like... friggin $750+ or something... and all the accessories that went with it would have costed a grand total of almost $1k... And then they did like a special box/card combination which was pretty cool. Of course the group of really close friends are like... all girls, and girls generally are more inclined to do stuff like this, but still thats a pretty tight bunch.

Anyways, thats the story for today.

Shaolin Grading in 2 weeks...

Just did my second lesson of shaolin kung fu tonight... and I just finished learning all the forms and techniques for the level 1 grading... but I'm far from perfect of course and apparently according to my friend, grading is in 2 weeks! I was hoping that I could be able to grade, but if it is that close then I don't think I can lol... a 4 week noob upgrading already sounds abit unlikely :P Otherwise I just have to be really pro haha...

o well :P

Shaolin Long Fist

Today, I started learning shaolin long fist kung fu. I reckon I picked up the basics pretty quickly since I did karate like... 5 years ago... but at least I still remembered all the basic stuff from karate haha. It shall be very interesting, hopefully I don't get too many bruises though :P Makes you think quick though, which is good :P An architect rarely has to think quick, they can take all day if they like. But martial artist only get a fraction of the second from seeing a punch and getting hit by the punch to decide what to do to it, so we think quick :P And I learn something practical, it grants me the ability to defend and protect which makes me feel... secure... to a point. At least I know that I will gain the ability to protect something precious and I won't die as easy trying :P although I don't intend to throw myself at life threatening situations anytime soon, at least I know I will be able to should the case call for it (and I hope it never does).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a violent person. I just like to be able to successfully defend something, and chose a martial art form that best suits my character :P

Black Cats

Apparently, according to superstitious legends, if a black cat crosses your path, your doomed to bad luck for x number of years/its a very bad omen. Well, I've had two black cats cross my path in the span of like... a week lol... If I was superstitious about omens and crap then I'd be mildly afraid but it was an interesting thought that occurred to me at uni when a black cat ran into a garder bush in front of me. Neways, I have archi stuff to do... so I must take my leave...