Had a pretty eventful day today. Had to wake up earlier than usual to go to the senior engineering honors luncheon. Hah, man, if luck isn't on my side, this may the last one I get invited to for awhile (or possibly ever). =/ Basically, you dress up so you can have a continental breakfast, listen to some boring research presentations that you don't understand, and get a free meal catered by O's cafe. The food from O's is good stuff though, makes it all worth it to lose a Saturday morning's sleep.
After lunch, hustled back to the dorms to change, then I went to the wushu club's "mock tourney." They had some wushu clubs from Texas colleges come down to compete. Some pretty decent stuff, but nothing that completely wowed me. Anyways, I hurt my elbow throwing a straight punch while warming up, which I thought was rather ironic. I was gonna do 3 events, but I pulled out of weapon after I jacked up my elbow. The traditional category was like taking candy from a baby, despite the tremendous lack of practice on my part. And it helps when no one knows your form, so you can "freestyle" (read: pull random moves out of your butt) and no one will know the difference. I competed nanquan too though, and my lack of stamina was all too evident there. I haven't done any aerobic exercise at all this semester, and it definitely showed. I had to pull those 3+ second stylistic "poses" to regain my breath that I used to poke fun of other people for. =/ Ah well, the 1st place in traditional earned me a free meal at 888.
Also, props to Lena for lending me a scarf to use as a sash- got a lot of comments about how I shoulda gotten extra style points for that, heheh. But yea, I guess for me, there's a certain bit of ceremony in putting on a sash- it's like the equivalent of a knight putting on armor before going off to combat- it helps get me in the game mentally. Also, speaking of knights, I thought it was rather in the spirit of chivalry to be wearing a lady's colors off to "combat". Hah, don't get me wrong, chivalry is very much dead in our society, otherwise it wouldn't be nearly so amusing, haha. I dunno, in the end it probably means nothing, but it's fun to pretend every once in awhile I suppose.
Then, at night, I went to TASA hotpot night at Patrick's place. Just ate and hung out. Fun stuff.
After lunch, hustled back to the dorms to change, then I went to the wushu club's "mock tourney." They had some wushu clubs from Texas colleges come down to compete. Some pretty decent stuff, but nothing that completely wowed me. Anyways, I hurt my elbow throwing a straight punch while warming up, which I thought was rather ironic. I was gonna do 3 events, but I pulled out of weapon after I jacked up my elbow. The traditional category was like taking candy from a baby, despite the tremendous lack of practice on my part. And it helps when no one knows your form, so you can "freestyle" (read: pull random moves out of your butt) and no one will know the difference. I competed nanquan too though, and my lack of stamina was all too evident there. I haven't done any aerobic exercise at all this semester, and it definitely showed. I had to pull those 3+ second stylistic "poses" to regain my breath that I used to poke fun of other people for. =/ Ah well, the 1st place in traditional earned me a free meal at 888.
Also, props to Lena for lending me a scarf to use as a sash- got a lot of comments about how I shoulda gotten extra style points for that, heheh. But yea, I guess for me, there's a certain bit of ceremony in putting on a sash- it's like the equivalent of a knight putting on armor before going off to combat- it helps get me in the game mentally. Also, speaking of knights, I thought it was rather in the spirit of chivalry to be wearing a lady's colors off to "combat". Hah, don't get me wrong, chivalry is very much dead in our society, otherwise it wouldn't be nearly so amusing, haha. I dunno, in the end it probably means nothing, but it's fun to pretend every once in awhile I suppose.
Then, at night, I went to TASA hotpot night at Patrick's place. Just ate and hung out. Fun stuff.
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