Recently i started this manga call BLOODY MONDAY.



Really i have to say this book is good. If you like death note, u will like this manga too. Mainly is about battle of intelligence.

Do support original but if u only read english then u can read it on
http://www.onemanga.com/Bloody_Monday/

trust me..is good:) haha

It has been a long time since i have dinner with my whole family. Hmmm... if we dun count reunion dinner i think the last time 4 of us had dinner is 4 or 5 years ago during a trip in thailand.

Today is my parent off day so we went to a korean restaurant beside esplanade for dinner, then went to visit merlion. So we were walking on the bridge towards the merlion area and my dad suddenly said to us "look.. whose baby is that?" Me and my sis look down and could not see any baby and we ask where isit. My dad point to the small version of merlion statue behind the actual real size one... me n my sis was like errr........................................

Was surprise that chen shen is in perth studying now. For those who dunno who chen shen is, he is ex nyp captain.. very small size cute cute one. But never judge a book by its cover cause he say the F*** word and the female organ part frequently.... Had chat with him and hope that he continue to play GO in austraila.

Yesterday was asia baduk championship selection in bugis. I will be the team leader for this competition so i can relax 1 corner and watch the selection and see who will be going korea with me.. Below are some pictures..




Pair Go category. Yuxiang/karen (left) against zhixiong/cindy. After 3 rounds of intense fight, yuxiang's team won by 2 to 1.




hahaha..isnt this a good picture? same action...




The oldest female playing against the youngest player.




The winner of this match will go to korea. From the beginning of the match to middle game, i can say ms shen (left) is leading. I was watching the game and i was telling myself ms shen will be going korea for sure so i went for to see other match. After a while, i came back to see if there is any changes and i was like wah!!!! I dunno how minyi managed to invade all her opponent's soild territory and how she made her dead stones alive. Ms shen even shout and clap in the middle of the game (think she almost went mad in that instance... lost a 99.999% sure win game) In the end minyi won.




This pic shows that bugis aircon is working very well......




Winner of the male category. Junzhe (left) won feng cheng cheng (not in this pic) in an extra round after both players scored the same result.




First game of pair go. We were debating whether white block the correct direction on the top left corner(when bottom left still does not have the 2 white stones). Cindy played that joseki after black played at 3-3, me and zhixiong was kind of shock. When we review yuxiang thinks that the direction shown in the pic is correct. I am stunned... So what do you think??




Shu wei's dad playing against mr poh. Isnt that a familiar shape on the board??




Yong an went to bugis for a visit yesterday and this jacket he wore is a good example of WEIQI JACKET. muahhahahah

Went bugis today and saw yurika's son attending junior class.

Yurika was telling me that his son is very naughty, haha.

Well, isnt that a privilege that only kids have? If i have a son i dun mind him being naughty cause is all this little mischievous that makes him unique and it will be good memory for parents in some way:)

Few days back was talking casually with yls in bishan and he told me that i should just concentrate on"blah blah" and i can have a rather good life and might even earn big bucks. Yup i agree with him cause is true but deep down in my heart thats not what i really wanted. I must be crazy for not wanting big bucks huh...

following is going to be some personal emo entry. advice to press the X button at the top right of this window.

Dunno why i am quite scare of my future. Isit because of my future is going to be weiqi related and i still sux at it? haha

Many may think i take weiqi too seriously. Yes, i have to agree with them that i take win and lose very seriously cause this is going to be my future job. Scary thing is i cant seem to enjoy this game as before anymore. Is just like a job to me now.

I somehow envy other players whom can take defeat easily. To them losing a few games is nothing cause at the end of the day weiqi is just a hobby and if u get really bored of this game u just quit and look for new game. Haha...have been asking myself will i be able to do that?

Weiqi is 1 game that take up so much of your time and even if u are willing to devote all these time, at the end of the day u might not get to see the result u desire.

What will swa be in few years time?

Was reading minyi's post and whao...the way she describe things in chinese is really distinction style. I like this phrase she said...

混合双打（mixed pair）是由一男一女组队的比赛，二对二。它也是一个残酷又可怕的游戏。一盘棋导致男方气得内出血，女方紧张得整颗棋子湿淋淋都是汗。

Muhahahaha....残酷又可怕的游戏.. fear factor?

My weiqi strength is not as high as tjc etc.. so it will be hard for me to 气得内出血 cause even if the female player play wrong, i might think is ok. haha. Maybe sometimes u may see me upset but i am upset with my poor play and weak reading cause dun wish to drag you down:(

So minyi, no worries yea! Lets try get some fun out from it. hahaha...

Hope our practice can improve our strength (we kind of learn learn stuff in every game) and somehow help you in your future competition and selection:)

Practice toady was good but i am just really really disappointed with my play.

What have i been doing?

Went to watch Drag Me To Hell with james, alvin and zhixiong. Show is quite different from what i expect cause i din know a horror show can be this disgusting...haha.. feel like vomiting throughout the show. Wonder how zhixiong manage to finish his popcorn.

Dun really feel good.

Due to the recent outbreak of H1n1, Tamiflu (a kind of drug against h1n1) has been appearing on news everywhere and i used to think that i will never get to taste it.

I am so wrong...




Now i got a packet of tamiflu and i have to eat a pill everyday not because i have h1n1 but a precaution cause i have contact with them.

I have to say NS is kind of efficient.. they send a warrant officer to deliver this to my doorstep and i am shock... haha

At first i thought the warrant officer will come in ambulance and dress in those suit ppl are wearing in hospital now and with a mask. And i was wondering what my neighbour will start to think... will they be looking at my unit with eyes bigger than fishball?? Luckily all these are just my imagination... ahhaha

Have been thinking whether to get a DSLR or a Procumer camera the past few week after playing with minyi's DSLR during the active aging carnival.

In the end i decided to get a procumer cause it is smaller and cheaper and most importantly, i lazy to maintain a DSLR... hahahahahh



Got Sony DSC-H20...

Decided to play around with my camera since i am not encourage to step out of my home...





Hikaru No Go collection. The thing which change my life completely and make a huge impact in my life. I was thinking if the author did not write this comic, what will i be doing now? No idea.. And why did i started this comic? cause i was browsing in comic connection and the cover somehow attracted me so i decided to buy book 1 to try it out. haha..




My goban. A present from my parents for my 20th birthday. When i told my parents how much it cost and the size of the board (to them is a piece of wood), they were shock and asked me whether i was going to make a coffin out from it...hahahha...Ordered this from japan and i can still remember how excited i was when they deliver it to my doorstep. Just in case u wanna know where i order, the japanese shop is under my blog link.




Got the seeds from korea baduk association during my stay at liu chang he dao chang last year... zhi xiong if u are reading this, yes...u broke one of the white seed :)




A mini poster of the movie Wu qing Yuan. Got this from the shop Popcorn. When i bought this the sales man was like having this "wooo...cool choice" face. haha..he must feel really glad someone finally bought this. hahaha




Visitors coming to my room will ask me why is there a lump of rubbish in the corner of my room. but that is actually my "weiqi corner". Usually after i finish my weiqi "training" , papers will spread all over the floor and when my maid wants to mop the floor, she will start her favourite game.."weiqi stacko"..yup stacking everything as shown in the pic.




Got this weiqi set from china during the world mind sports game last year. At first i thought it look nice... but then as i keep looking at it...it gives me creep...look like those container for putting ash. CHOY........




My number 1 weiqi collection!!! haha.. actual seeds used by the players during the ings cup in singapore this year. Even got their signature on the weqi set!!!


Not sure if i can go out this week cause might be quartine due to h1n1 among my unit frend. From what my unit frend told me when he got back to work today, things seems to be getting bad in my camp, he got quartine when looking for MO. Hope i dun get it cause if i do get it... swa has to stop functioning and my parents not able to work le...

Yesterday was the first Singapore Weiqi Association exco meeting for the current new term.

Mr Kwa (jie hui's dad) is the new president of Singapore Weiqi Association.

Suntec weiqi booth is finally over!!! Is was 2 tired days for those who helped out due to its long hours (11am to 8pm) and long hours of standing or sitting on floor cause only 2 chairs provided...

Is quite a new experience to some people cause imagine repeating the basic rules and objective of weiqi over n over n over n over again to different people...Whao!! sounds cool yea?




Title of our booth!!! Of course is swa.....





Our booth beside some charity booth...Our location is quite good cause is just beside the goodie bag station so there will be lots of ppl around us... Bad thing is ppl keep asking us for "chop" cause they need to go certain station to get certain amount of chop to get goodie bag. So imagine ppl coming to our booth with their eyes big open and when you are thinking in your heart that "yes!! finally someone is interested in this game", that person ask "can i have a chop?"




wenjun posing in the booth.....




The items we put on the booth... goban... flyers... cute little 9x9 board.... laptop showing hikaru no go and hikaru no go manga...





President of swa went down to give us his support even though he lost his way in suntec city for around half an hour trying to look for our booth....




Minyi and wenjun "attacking" an auntie passing by our booth...




Me randomly forced to take pic with our top amateur player TJC whom is busy looking at his book........




Oh....this is zhixiong n his best friend, Mr Tall. Really....i must say zx is mad, hahaha... firstly he dunno who these tall creature are and whenever he sees them (there are a total of 3 tall creature) he behave like he is on drugs... putting down everthing in his hand and run over to these creature to give them high-5. I am really curious wat these creature r thinking whenever they see him run madly towards them...

will post more after i get the rest of the pic from wenjun...

gd nite

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Just came back from orchard hotel attending Singapore Sports Awards Ceremony 2009.

This ceremony gives recognition to sportsman and sportswomen in 2008 and we saw lots of athletes including swimmer Tao Li, the table tennis players li jiawei, wang yue gu and so on. Personally i think this is a very good exposure to SWA and to the new young exco member minyi, alvin, wenjun and siong hwai who were there.







I am really happy that they are in exco not because i have ppl of my generation to talk to now but they share the same passion as me to change SWA to a better association n promote this game to more ppl. In the past is just james and jc whom i can "talk" to but james became manager and jc seldom come to meeting due to sch work so sometimes is rather tedious to talk with the older generation.

Hope in a few years time we will get to see ppl from SWA receiving awards from this ceremony.

In 2010 asian games in china, weiqi will be an side event together with international chess.

Now weiqi has been consider an official sports in the 2014 asian games which is going to be held in south korea!

The weiqi icon in the red box.

This weekend swa is going to have a booth in suntec city in conjunction with ageing carnival to publicise and promote this game. Is really a good booth cause is located in the middle of the mall. Hope that everything goes through smoothly! It will be on sat and sun from 830am till night. Do visit us!
Flyers done by minyi to be given out on that day.

What a twist in samsung cup thing.....

Personally i see no point sending an amateur there.

I tried so hard to fight for them for the com but sorry... i tried my best.

Very tired.... When other ppl in my age are still having fun, playing games, enjoying themself, me on the other hand seems to enter the working world...politics, thinking and solving stuff which i should be doing 8 or 10 years later... dunno... tired...

I am really glad yls surprise birthday party is a success. Well, at least to me it is a success.. haha.

I almost thought that the party is gone due to the scary weather. The sky look like its going to have a storm anytime and i was wondering how can 40 plus ppl squeeze into the house. Luckily is just a few drops of rain:) Lesson learnt... always plan for rainy weather when in outdoor.

Yls admit that he din know is a surprise party for him until hci ppl turn up.. haha..he must be wondering when did wenjun become so close to them that they will attend his birthday party.

Rui nai wei's phone call from korea was good too, better than i expected. I started calling her when wenjun light the candle so i was hoping everyone can quickly sing birthday song so that we can pass him the phone but haha... yls started talking then no one started the birhday song and after the song, he have to make a wish and cut cake which takes so long........., my heart was like omg... every second counts cause i dunno how much it cost to call from sg to korea. But is was worth it cause can see that yls was really happy to receive that call.

We were also worried that the food is not enough but in the end there were still some left over. Hope it taste good cause i din get to taste everything:(

Really want to thank those who help out in this event and also to those who turn up for this event. Thanks!!!

After 4 days of intense fight, representing Singapore Tan Jia Cheng 6d ranked 6th out of 66 players!!! (whao, lots of 6)

Congrats to him!!

The top 10 countries from 1st position to 1oth position are China, South Korea, Hongkong, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Luxembourg, France, Czechia and Canada

Tan Jia Cheng 6dan is currently in Japan competing for the 30th World Amateur Go Championship!


The link to latest result and competition info!!

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/30/e/index.html

When i heard about that news just now, I was shocked.

I could not believe what i had heard.

Is just so sudden.

To be honest i feel very lost now.

Hope u guys can give some suggestion or spot any "loophoes" in this new system.


Reasons for the new system

1. The new system help both low and high dan players to remain competitive and maintain their weiqi standard. If you notice high dan players seldom play against each other unless it is for overseas selection or in competition. Most of these players does not attend SWA class anymore and they only play online when they feel like playing. If we want them to maintain their standard or even improve, they should play more often with the top players in Singapore more often.

2. The new system gives a reason for current players to remain in weiqi. I used to think of ways to attract new people into weiqi but i realize i have neglected those currently player. Many currently players have stop playing because they do not have a reason to play anymore, for example if i am studying i have a reason to play because i am playing for the school, playing for cca point but if i have stop studying and going into the work force i will not have much reason to play this game because the value of this game somehow drop.

3. Being recognized. It is not easy to become a dan player. So many people gave up on weiqi before getting their 1dan. For example out of 100 people who learn weiqi, how many will eventually become 1d? maybe below 5 people?? I feel that SWA have not really make these "dan players" feel proud and important. This system help the weiqi community people recognized them and this system will also push kyu player to improve to be dan players. The result for this system can be put in our newsletter to update everyone of the top players progress.

4. This system have the incentive and reasons for currently weiqi players to work hard and improve and more importantly have a reason to stay on in this game.

Below are the brief ideas of the new " NATIONAL TEAM SYSTEM"

There will be 4 groups in this system, Group A, Group B, Group C and Group D.

The number of people in per group are as follow:

Group A-> 6 males
Group B-> 6 males
Group C-> 6 males and 4 female
Group D-> 6 males and 4 female

To select people for the first batch, the following ranking are used:

Group A-> 4dan, 5dan, 6dan
Group B-> 3dan
Group C-> 2dan
Group D-> 1dan

The games will be played within their groups, meaning Group A will play with people in Group A, Group D will play with people in group D etc..

-All groups will be played in round robin league. So everyone in each group will get to play against each other
-At the end of 1 league, the top 2 player of group D, Group C and Group B will be promoted to the next higher group for example top 2 player of Group C will move to Group B.
-The bottom 2 player of Group A, Group B and Group C will be demoted to 1 lower group for example the bottom 2 player of Group A goes to Group B
-The bottom 2 player of Group D will be out of this National Team System.
- In group D and C, the females will play against the male but the result of female will be separated from male. Meaning even if the last female in Group C is not in the last place of the whole Group C, she will still be demoted. For females only 1 female will be promoted and 1 female be demoted. However for a female to be promoted to Group B, she must be in top 2 position of Group C.

Selection to enter National Team System is 4 times a year. These players must be dan players or recommended by teachers.

Benefits of entering National Team System (applicable to players who survived in this system for 3 or more league)

-Overseas or Major Competition Selections are open to National Team System players only. Public will not be able to join selection like in current situation. (Ppl not in the national team can appeal to join selection if they have reason for example strong player just came back from overseas, strong player busy in workforce no time to be in national team, ns....etc...)
-All internal competition are free
-Able to join weekend class for free (suggesting..)
-Team Singapore Weiqi jacket?? (suggesting..)

The games will be played once a week and SWA will arrange the opponent for each player. They must play in either bishan or bugis any day of the week.

Above are the brief ideas of the National Team System.

Just attended my primary school gathering. Seriously i could not recognize some of them at all and i even ask them do i know you? muhahaha.. Is really good to see them after 10 years. Omg... time really flies...

Playing in tygem really is a test of my endurance for not giving up weiqi. I have been losing till i am sick of it. Yls has been giving me alot of advice and suggestion but i just cant seems to "implement" them cause is just not my playing style.

Playing restaurant city in facebook these few days. Is really a good game to waste time especially when i am working... haha..

I was reading this news article about this young gal aged 2 years old with the IQ of 150++ and she became the youngest member of "mensa" in england.

I am quit interested in IQ stuff so i went to google this MENSA association and realize that there is a MENSA SINGAPORE. Well... not everyone can join this association. You must pass their "IQ" test to qualify enrollment. So is actually an association for the smart people.

http://www.mensa.org.sg/about/

Try their sample test too!!

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