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It's kinda late
Yes, I'm up, but it's Friday! Almost Saturday. I'm still tired, which is silly. But hey, it happens.

Man, it's been an interesting week. Yes, I didn't blog on Wednesday. I changed my schedule from eight hours a day to nine hour days. Ugh. But on the good side, I got a half day today! Yes, I got to stay out late, party a bit (been a while) and then sleep IN to recover. It was very nice.

But yeah, nine hour days. This was a crazy busy week, work-wise. Actually, everything-wise. Had my four days of kung fu, which went fairly smoothly. Work was what kept me occupied, though. I actually did a lot of work! Which is good, and also a little bit of a pain. I made it through the week, though. Interestingly, kung fu and work somehow mixed - a couple of co-workers are looking to learn martial arts. One of them wants to do some boxing, so he asked me to look up boxing schools for him. The only thing I found was a Muay Thai place, so he looked into it. Apparently they offer a free two-week trial thing, and the two guys are going to try it out. Although the school teaches a bunch of stuff, mixing Muay Thai, groundfighting, jujitsu, karate, and even some kung fu. Or, as Sifu would say, chop suey. Sure, you can go around and earn "black belts" in several styles, but that only means you've got basics for each. To master anything, you need to spend a LOT of time with it. But I'll stop there, before I go off too much. Sihing did say to tell the guys that he'll spar with them when they think they can fight. Which I told them. It would be fun.

I've been thinking about delusion this week a lot, too. Wondering how people become persuaded into doing things, in some cases, things that really aren't so good. For example, Scientology. I don't know how much you actually know about Scientology, but the details are scary. But see, most people who get into it don't learn the details right away. They don't learn them until several years into it. By then, it's too late. But if you learn the details now, it seems silly. Well, not SEEMS, but yeah. All about a guy named Xenu. It's hard to believe that people actually have a "religion" about this. But what pulls them in is that they're given promises of being able to do amazing, important things. And through some basic, legitimate practices (part hypnosis, part psychological), they're convinced to take the first steps. But the main thing that I wonder about that isn't questioned is why taking part in the super-important role of saving the world requires you to spend thousands of dollars. Hey, if I'm going to save the world, and I need help, I'd PAY other people to help me, not ask them to pay ME. There's even a full story out there about a woman's experience through the whole thing. You can go out, get educated, make your own decisions.

The other thing I've been looking at that fascinates me is something called Yellow Bamboo. Basically, it's a Balinese art that professes practice of it gives you power of all sorts. The big things that grab people's attention is the power to heal people on the brink of death, as well as being able to defend against attackers without even having to touch them. Yeah, well a guy who used to be known as the Amazing Randi makes it his business to disprove all sorts of claims to do supernatural things. In fact, he has an offer out there. Cash money for tangible proof that supernatural abilities are possible. LOTS of cash money. A lot of people have tried. And some Yellow Bamboo members gave it a shot. Here, I'll share a bit of it with you. It was all videotaped for Randi's contest, for the preliminary test. If it succeeds, then they'll do an official test. It started by laying out the rules. Then they had to get ready, which is... interesting. And then finally, the test! I'll let you see it for yourself. And yet, people are still convinced this is all very possible. Now I DO believe in qigong, and that there are things we can't see that are there and we can use, but trying fantastic things like defending against an attack without touching the other person is a bit much, especially after, oh, less than a year of "training". And sometimes probably not the best idea to try out, especially on camera. I'm a very logical person, so I'd give this idea some merit if I actually saw people doing it successfully. So far, no go. I'll stick with my kung fu for self-defense, and mystical internal stuff for purely meditative purposes.

My lip healed up nicely after getting it ripped apart by Sihing, in about half a week. I was impressed! So I'm going back tomorrow to try again. And maybe even test out of a form, so I can move to the next one. Learn another weapon set! Woo! And then tomorrow night, it looks like there's going to be an open mic night/Coffee House at the Newman Center, and since Steve invited me to perform, I think I shall head over there. Maybe play some guitar, maybe even do some kung fu. Maybe both, at the SAME TIME. That would be a little different, I think. Unless the guy before me does it. Then that'd suck.

I went and swapped movies again, after watching Dawn of the Dead. It was actually pretty good! Very dark, but believable, unbelievably. Yes, I didn't really believe that zombies were running around, but the characters acted in fairly reasonable ways as reactions. And zombie movies are fun. If they're done right. So I went and got two movies, one which I've never heard of, but involves martial arts, and the other one being Donnie Darko. Now I won't link either, because I don't remember the first one's name, and because if you haven't seen Donnie Darko and don't know anything about it, then do yourself a favor and watch it before learning anything about it. Trust me, it would probably be better like that. Even though there are SOME people out there who DIDN'T trust me. Grr. I'll just say it's not a "normal" movie by any means, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. Made me wonder about things on a more philosophical side, which I don't get a chance to do as much as I'd like. I may go back to school after I retire and get a graduate degree in philosophy. I think that'd be cool.

Okay! And now it's time to go to bed, to rest up for kung fu in the morning. So random link! How bout a couple? I've already posted links to videos. Why not keep it up? How about some DANCING? I'll start with a guy I find completely amazing, not only by his dancing skills, but by the sheer amount of strength he's got. Check him out, his name's Junior. Oh, and if you want to see what kind of competition he had, you should check out the dancing skills of the people there. Freakin' incredible. And to finish it off, a little bit of a different style of dancing.

P.S.: Oh! How can I forget? My trip to Hong Kong is coming up soon! In just over a week. I'm excited! And to share my excitement, I'll share a bit with you with an article about Sigong, who I'm going to be traveling with. It's cool stuff.
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you went a little link crazy today, mmm hmmm. =P
 
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