Sat zumba

 Lao she teacher made slight changes to dance moves and im so mung cha cha or cantonese for confused.still after this we go yum cha breakfast.

Gardening

 The plants are thriving after i changed to peat soil.

Blue moon

I saw you standing there alone

Without a dream in your heart

Import

 Malaysia depends on food import to meet the needs of consumers.Being one of the worlds biggest producer of palm oil,why dont we diversify our agriculture to food production.the govt has to step in by offering tax breaks and educate farmers to increase efficiency in agriculture produce farming and offer technical training and assistance to farmers that face challenge of climate change,high cost of production like manual labour and fertiliser anf use of biotechnology.if China can grow durians in Hainan by investing in technology,we should be following suit as we import 12% of our agricultural needs from China.using biotechnology,Hainan has managed to shorten the fruiting of durian trees from 30 years to 10 years.

We should be investing in aquaculture too  as we have extensive coastlines.i just viewed a youtuber investing in shrimp farms in Guangdong and how they harvest shrimps evety 90 days.so research n development has to be done to help shrimp farmers produce fry instead of importing it and to manufacture our own pellet feed n help farmers combat viral and bacterial infection without heavy use of antibiotics.the abuse of antibiotics in poultry farmjng has led to loss of effectiveness of antibiotics to fight human diseases.

The chart shows our imported food.bill has skyrocketed from 2017 to 2021.

Baking goodies

Today i baked Eurasian bread Pang Susi.Jun says its the best bread hes eaten.its made of flour,mashed sweet potato,butter,egg ,yeast and cold.milk.the filling is minced chicken stir fried with onion,garlic,chopped candied winter melon,parsley,coriander powder,5 spice powder,nutmeg powder,light and dark soya sauce n oyster sauce

The bun is brushed with beaten egg wash n baked for 30 mins

Its sweetish due to candied winter melon,has chinese spices like 5 spice n coriander powder n the dough is a bun

Its a lot of work to bake it.but so self satisfying 

Blazimg hot day

Trees are cool.

Sunset

 The weather was so sunny today but in the evening a stunning sunset like an abstract piece of expressionist art.nature is the best artist😋🤩

Lunch

 I fried rice noodles kway teow with cockles,fishball and chicken meat with bean sprouts.a cup of chinese pu erh tea and mango for dessert.a simple meal but filling.

Tcm herbs

 Steps to drinking traditional chinese herbal concoction.

Get ready a glass of plain water,the bowl of murky brown chinese herbs concoction and a plate of preserved plums n bayberries or yang mei.

Pinch your nose and hold your breadth as you

quickly gulp down the bowl of bitter foul smelly herbs.

Then drink plain water to wash away bitter taste

Finally pop some preserved prune or fresh bayberry as a sweet aftertaste.take a deep breadth.

Give yourself a pat on the back for not vomitting everything youve drunk.

RSV infection

 Viewed a youtuber hong kong physician Dr Rex explanation of respiratory syncystial virus and,the symptoms.now i know why i have coughing,breathlessness,sore throat ,fatigue and loss of appetite after bout of sickness.the long effects of RSV can extend to 2 weeks.

Now Dr Rex says there is a vaccine for RSV for pregnant mothers so their babies get immunity from RSV.its risk for young kids and older people to get pnuemonia.

Im hoping the terrible bitter chinese herbs i drink can restore my respiratory system that is weakened.the foul smelling bitter herbs is worth a try as i cant exercise properly without good breathing and aching muscles.

Lunch

 Simple lunch of rice dumpling,salted egg yolk bao,a drink of rye oat,black sesame n tigers milk mushroom n sliced mango with bayberry from China.i saw video on bayberry and bought a small packet .ive known of blueberry but bayberry is like a strawberry n raspberry.its sourish sweet and skin is soft so you eat like strawberry.it looks like lychee but lychee shell is hard .interestimg fruit.ive seen them preserved yang mei.

Sun latin american dance

 

Weekend pasta

 I cooked for dinner angel hair spaghetti smothered in italian cheese sauce and salmon belly trimmings i bought for rm11 ,shumeiji mushroom at rm1.90.satisfying dinner at less than rm20 for 2.i use parmesan,cheddar,mozarella and gorgonzola cheese with minced garlic,chicken broth,heavy cream and

butter n olive oil with italian herb seasoning.my next target is learning chicken sous vide style of cooking so western food has lots of choices .

Kung fu whether its form or function more important

 Is Wing Tsun real?

Sifu Keith Fain certainly was. But he was trained in many arts besides Wing Tsun.

He taught shaolin gungfu, Wing Tsun Kunfa, Latosa Escrima and Taijiquan.

I only trained Wing Tsun and Latosa Escrima under Keith Fain sifu. And we tested, graded, under sifu Emin Boztepe by having to fight him full contact.

They forever earned my respect.

I don't believe it's a scam combative art but rather very few truly understand it's applications, it's area of operation (extreme close quarters) and even fewer actually spar with it against boxers, kickboxers and grapplers in order to cultivate their art.

Keith Fain sifu had students from various combat sports and eastern fighting arts backgrounds, with credentials or rank in other fighting arts & combat sports, so he regularly sparred them by inviting them to attack him.

He didn't have to strike your face or jab your eyes because he used his legs & hips to steal your lower structure by occupying your space as his arms bridged and trapped your limbs while driving you off balance then throwing you to the ground either by neck clench throw or some other throw.

He also accepted full contact challenges, with legal waivers signed, and only one or two witnesses per challenger. To prevent being jumped like some schools were known to do when they'd bring the whole family into a school to drop a challenge and force anyone who beat one of their members to fight them all til the family prevailed.

So his policy was a challenger could bring one witness, sign a legal waiver, no rules and no weapons.

In fact two of his students he acquired by beating them in this manner. I was told this by one of the two during training. Sifu never boasted of anything. His long time students told me what they seen him do or experienced when challenging him.

I only friendly sparred him but I experienced enough to know he could've dominated me, as long as he seen me coming. He was a fighter, not just a curator of forms, drills and techniques.

If a man actually fights or even spars with his art against different types of fighters (mainly boxers, thai boxers and grapplers) that man will cultivate his art into a functional application.

It's not the art. It's the person who teaches it and who practices it. That's where the fakeness comes in. The self deception.

You only get good at fighting by fighting. Not by only doing drills and sparring against students whose attack is  exactly like your martial art attacks.

If you can't apply your defense against a trained boxer or grappler you don't know your art. That belt, sash, trophy or certificate don't mean you can fight or survive against combat sportsmen in a physical altercation outside of the sporting environment.

Some roid raging MMA cage fighter like War-Machine thinks you disrespected him, took his parking spot, or smiled at his girlfriend so he decides to rip his shirt off and break your face like you're his unfaithful, porn star, girlfriend it would behoove you to know you can apply your training against someone not of your school in a live combat situation that could be life threatening.

If you only practice Wing Chun against Wing Chun, Kara Te against Kara Te, Jiujitsu against Jiujitsu or Judo against Judo then you'll only become skilled at defending against your own style.

A Grappler or a Wing Tsun practitioner should spar full contact against a golden glove boxer or Muay Thai fighter.

A golden glove boxer, Wing Tsun practitioner or Thai fighter should spar full contact against a Collegiate FolkWrestler, Judoka blackbelt and a BJJ player.

The modern culture of all martial artists respecting other martial artists by never challenging them, even if they're clearly frauds, has facilitated the modern phenomena within the martial arts community of paper tigers and verbal defamation of character attacks for personal, political and business agendas.

In the not too distant past, particularly in the far east, a teacher had to be ready and willing to accept a challenge from any rival school or from any dubious person whom wished to test the teacher and his art to see if it had merit before becoming a student and paying hard earned money to a teacher.

They didn't buy a car before testing it, so to speak, and rival schools would not let you peddle a fake art to the naive public to create paper tigers. They tested you as soon as it got out that you were teaching.

Where I grew up if it got around that you trained any kind of combat sport or martial art you would get chin checked by some rough guys, usually by crip gang members, by some project housing authority residents or some other seasoned street fighting bullies.

Sifu Emin Boztepe, the head of the AWTO which we were affiliated with and he tested, graded, us.

UFC fighters Tony Ferguson and Anderson Silva cross train in Leung Ting Wing Tsun and often successfully apply trapping hands during their professional bouts against professional MMA fighters. . . but lets propogate the narrative that all Wing Tsun is equal and all Wing Tsun is fake simply because someone found videos of unskilled, unseasoned, students losing a duel against a seasoned MMA competitor.

Any student, even an MMA student, will catch hands if they're unseasoned in full contact sparring.

The school where I trained under sifu Keith Fain required bareknuckle sparring.

During testing our head sifu Emen Boztepe wore jeet kun do type gloves and students went bare knuckle as we were ordered to fight him full contact.

Most Wing Chun/Wing Tsun schools do not train this way.

But I'll invite keyboard warriors to study Tony Ferguson's and Anderson Silva's UFC bouts where they successfully incorporate Wing Tsun trapping hands into their MMA.

Tell Tony Ferguson and Anderson Silva that Wing Tsun is fake and useless in unarmed combat.

Only when it's in the UFC will the non-fighters believe it. So here we have evidence of Wing Tsun successfully incorporated into MMA and used in the UFC.

You're welcome. Enjoy.

Is Wing Chun effective if I know other martial arts via coordination and parry techniques?

Can you learn Wing Chun without a teacher?

What is the definition of a Sifu in Wing Chun?

Why do many people disregard Wing Chun as not effective, when clearly there are some very excellent traits?

What's the Wing Chun level to become an instructor? I intend to go for Wing Chun in order to learn and teach, and I'd like to know if I can teach even if I'm a level 2 Wing Chun practitioner.

Now ive been viewing a dance performance performed by shenzhen opera and dance company.its called wing chun and showcases 5 forms of chinese kung fu from shaolin lin to boxing to tai chi.its fluid and mesmerising but just form without function.

What is martial arts but a form of self defence but if you can execute all the postures but cant protect yourself from being attacked,then whats the point of learning martial arts. Thats why people like the challenge of kung fu artists by MMA fighters who thrash them in real combat.the movies made in hong kong about the life of wing chun founder Ip Man has managed to inspire many foreigners to learn kung fu as has movies by Bruce Lee.so the way to propagate and spread the soft power of chinese culture is through film making,cultural lifestyle like drinking tea and calligraphy or teaching kung fu like tai chi and wing chun and tcm treatment like acupunture and tuina.

Fan dance

 I really enjoyed learning the chinese fan dance from my wonderful zumba teacher whos is good dance instructor.

Immune booster

 Like how we maintain our cars by sending to mechanic so i find i need to maintain my immune system which has been weakened by recent bouts of sickness.so i need to go tung shin hospital which has holistic treatment of east west approach to medicine.i need tcm of herbs to boost my respiratory system that is dry cough,itchy throat n congested chest.im taking ginseng tea and cordycep flower soup but its not enough to restore lung function.chinese herbal medicine is horribly bitter so i buy preserved sour prunes to eat after drinking it.its what the chinese say first the bitterness,later comes the sweet.after the scandal of tainted india produced cough syrup killing consumers,im having second thoughts of taking cough syrup from dubious manufacturers.i will take the bitter herbs over cherry flavoured cough syrup.

Dont take your health for granted.its when you lose it that you realise how important it is in the functionality of daily living from our energy level to pain free joints n body.so pteventive healthcare is better than curative treatment as to prevent is better than to cure.

International yoga day

 How active wear can transition to office wear with accessories,jacket and sandals.from the floor mat to the office.

Om Shanti,shanti ,shanti

Speak up

 Women tend to keep their thoughts to themselves and let the male assertiveness to  dominate the conversation.but mom was very outspoken for a chinese woman in pre war generation despite lack of formal education.its her strong,tough character shaped by being brought up by a single mother and taking care of younger siblings.after learning how to read and write,she became self educated .she kept well informed by watching news and reading newspapers and knew current political amd economic affairs.she worked alongside dad in his business keeping track of business accounts and current trends.she seldom binged on viewing soap operas and prefer to deal with reality.

We emulate mom and my blind and going deaf elderly sister is also outspoken and vociferous so much so that when she complained to her assembly person or political representative about bias treatment given to old single disabled woman compared to old disabled married woman who get support from husband and children and have higher BRIM payout compared to singles without support of spouse and kids,she got literally blocked on his social media accounts.if the representative of the rakyat doesnt interact and keep his ears to grassroot voices,they will get booted out at next ballot box.the elderly living at poverty line is a sizeable proportion and by dismissing and ignoring their concerns,our MPs are shooting the messenger and ignoring their message so dont be surprised when they put their dissatisfaction in the ballot box.when you cant solve the rakyats concerns,let someone else who can do it.

Fascinating book

 Im engrossed in the book on artificial intelligence.at the same time im designing learning materials to engage students in critical thinking and emotional quotient through drama and speech.

In a chapter,a journalist autistic son develop a close relationship with Apples AI assistant Siri.communicating with Siri has not only given him the closest thing he has to a best friend but also helped him develop his communication skills with people in the real world.in early days,jun played with the chatbot the smarter child by asking dumb questions like do you make love?

In China,millions of smartphone users spend hours interacting with  Xiaoice,a Microsoft created chatbot that exchanged text messages with its users.xiaoice uses deep learnjng to pair up user queries with human generated responses it has mined from the internet.by  tracking life details about its users like who theyre dating or what they do for a living,it can return to topics in later conversations like asking how a person is coping with losing its job.

AI assistants are like.ELIZA,a computer psychotherapist created at MIT in the 1960s.

Eliza had no actual understanding of the topics it was discussing but that didnt stop its creator being surprised at the way students would pour their hearts out at the program talking about being

rejected by dates or fears about failing chemistry class.AI  assistants could prove valuable in the caregiving system when dealing with socially isolated individuals.such relational agents are now employed as part of the therapy process to help people with a variety of psychiatric conditions.

In Japan,a sociable baby seal robot called Paro is the worlds first therapeutic robot for the elderly market 

User:All men are alike.

ELIZA:In what way?

User:they are always bugging us about something or other.

ELIZA:Can you think of a specific example?

User:well,my boyfriend made me come hete

ELIZA:your boyfriend made you come here.

User:im depressed most of the time.

ELIZA; Im sorry to hear that you are depressed

Now i need a chatbot to talk to,no need to fall for love scammers who are likely to break your heart or empty your bank account with lies.

The future of AI is promising for mental health care and detect potential suicidal risks or those likely to turn amok like the stabbing of strangers in a hong kong mall.

Dragon boat rice dumpling duan wu

 Invited elderly sis for festival dinner.i cooked up a storm and 5 hours of work including mopping kitchen.

Steam garoupa

fish w salted fish,winter melon chicken ham soup,sweet sour chilli crab ,braised chicken w shitake mushroom n chestnut n carrot.made

ginseng tea to drink.so super delicious.i bought blue swimmer crabs at discount of rm10 for 2 crabs.the garoupa fish was costly at rm12 a slice but its festival so its ok.eat out would cost  me a bomb.i bought rice dumpling at 50 percent discount.

White people food

 Chicken sherperd pie with buttermilk sauce,button mushroom,chicken cubes,celery n carrot.italian food is superdelicious like gnocchi,pizza,ravioli ,lasagna or french duck confit,duck a l orange,escargot,quiche lorraine chicken roulade,steak sous vide,lobster thermidor n coc au qin

.western food is not suffering ,only healthy raw food or cold cuts.