alrightee fixed the comment problem. if i ever change the template again all the comments will be wiped out though. :)
tired tired. i made myself bathe before one! haha. so proud of myself. was gonna surf net first but if i do that it'll be 3pm before i do anything else.
unicycling had a gd turnout today, maybe cos the reporters were there. and so was yeeling with her stilts. took me a while to get used to cycling again due to my 2 week absence and i wasn't that enthusiastic going there but it turned out to be a nice session.
i'm back to using the wall. haha. everytime huifang saw me she'd start screaming "yvonne why are you at the wall again!!??"
she was saying the only way you can really learn unicycling is to literally fall and get up until you stop falling. she's been thru it so maybe she's right, but i wanna try my way and see if it works. my way is to basically break down the skill into smaller steps, see what i need to work on and try it until i'm comfortable. when i'm quite confident cycling near the wall without using it i'll try veering out.
i would say her way is more like flashing 5 balls all the time until you get it one day, while my method is more like let's do 3 ball snake, 4 ball LLRR, work on these small patterns first then fit into 5 ball cascade. both methods work, depends on the individual's style. one works with small steps (less frustration but slower to learn) and one works on the big picture (more frustration, maybe faster).
maybe she's right though, for unicycling falling is the fastest way to learn. my way will take me months and years...haha. what to do, god cursed me with chicken shit courage. He made up for it by blessing me with persistence though, if it's gonna take me 10 years to ride the unicycle then so be it. the unicycle will probably rot way before that....oops.
right now fear overrides my impatience. heh. one day when i get really impatient i might try the falling method, either that or i sell the uni.
unicycling is pretty much a pyschological thing too really. the ability is easily picked up it's how gung ho you are to just take off. it's a nice tool to use to see someone's personality. haha. things i learnt abt myself: i'm risk adversed, but i'm patient and optimistic ("if i cycle 50 rounds every week one day i'll get it", "if i practise 100 throws a day one day i'll get the trick"). i like breaking things down into small steps, taking it one level at a time.
today was a gd unicycling day though. unlike previous sessions i wasn't that hot and tired and stressed. it was pretty fun zooming up and down the walls. improved from past sessions, more comfy now, the 2 week break was good. :) still a long way to go though, and usually after a gd session a bad one will come so beware....next week.
had pyschological boosts watching alice try the giraffe unicyle and others doing stilts and all. watching them makes me feel quite dumb for being scared of falling off my very very very short uni.
just learnt from boon teck that only min jiang and i are performing for WJD. hahahahah....shit. i thought many pple are performing so i perform for fun. shit. now i'm really not gonna get off the stage at all. i'll be on stage 3.5 hrs out of 4 hrs i think. oh dear. shit.
jolyon came down as well and started blasting michael jackson songs on his amp. he was playing the sax on his uni while ben started doing MJ's crotch grabbing moves on the uni. quite a sight. haha.
we started chatting a bit abt busking. apparantly clarke quay's contracted jolyon i think. min jiang has gotten really smooth with his routine too from all his busking. see where persistence gets you yvonne? gee i'm now embarassed to say i'm a persistent person.
busking is strange. it gets me all excited, then i get disillusioned and down and give it up completely, then i get excited again and the cycle goes on. but that's what interest/passion is abt i think, it's not abt being happy ever after. it brings you to the extremes of emotions and if you keep coming back to it after it gets you down then there's something abt it that captivates you.
right now i'm getting pretty excited at all these things happening ard me. haha. but i analyse and i think too much and i might just be setting myself up for disappointment.
i'm under no illusion that i'm a gd juggler/performer. i'm chicken shit. actually the standard in s'pore is not very high compared to europe and the states. there's jason garfield who doesn't tolerate chicken shit jugglers and there're all these fantastic multi talented performers around. oh well. the solution is to stop watching garfield. haha. i'll see what i can come up with. it's a bit like chinese isn't it. my vocab and grammer is chicken shit compared to most pple so i work on writing the weirdest stories in my compo, with simple chinese phrases. haha. i can't compete in terms of skills (though i'll try hard to improve and still keep it fun), only way is to find myself a niche.
see i'm setting myself up for disappointment already. get ready to burst the big "oh i'm just so creative" head of mine.
the wish list now: To emulate meiling's (not me ah) confidence and the way she carries herself, jolyon's enthusiasm and min jiang's relentless persistence. probably ben's genorosity too. all my heros. hahaha.
off to burn cds. sentosa guy gonna call tmrw. he's gonna hear the groggy me again.
oh yes, before i forget...for the millionth time, i'm job hunting! Not collecting and circling classified ads!!!! (personal reminder)
quote of the day:
"yvonne why are you at the wall again!!??"
tired tired. i made myself bathe before one! haha. so proud of myself. was gonna surf net first but if i do that it'll be 3pm before i do anything else.
unicycling had a gd turnout today, maybe cos the reporters were there. and so was yeeling with her stilts. took me a while to get used to cycling again due to my 2 week absence and i wasn't that enthusiastic going there but it turned out to be a nice session.
i'm back to using the wall. haha. everytime huifang saw me she'd start screaming "yvonne why are you at the wall again!!??"
she was saying the only way you can really learn unicycling is to literally fall and get up until you stop falling. she's been thru it so maybe she's right, but i wanna try my way and see if it works. my way is to basically break down the skill into smaller steps, see what i need to work on and try it until i'm comfortable. when i'm quite confident cycling near the wall without using it i'll try veering out.
i would say her way is more like flashing 5 balls all the time until you get it one day, while my method is more like let's do 3 ball snake, 4 ball LLRR, work on these small patterns first then fit into 5 ball cascade. both methods work, depends on the individual's style. one works with small steps (less frustration but slower to learn) and one works on the big picture (more frustration, maybe faster).
maybe she's right though, for unicycling falling is the fastest way to learn. my way will take me months and years...haha. what to do, god cursed me with chicken shit courage. He made up for it by blessing me with persistence though, if it's gonna take me 10 years to ride the unicycle then so be it. the unicycle will probably rot way before that....oops.
right now fear overrides my impatience. heh. one day when i get really impatient i might try the falling method, either that or i sell the uni.
unicycling is pretty much a pyschological thing too really. the ability is easily picked up it's how gung ho you are to just take off. it's a nice tool to use to see someone's personality. haha. things i learnt abt myself: i'm risk adversed, but i'm patient and optimistic ("if i cycle 50 rounds every week one day i'll get it", "if i practise 100 throws a day one day i'll get the trick"). i like breaking things down into small steps, taking it one level at a time.
today was a gd unicycling day though. unlike previous sessions i wasn't that hot and tired and stressed. it was pretty fun zooming up and down the walls. improved from past sessions, more comfy now, the 2 week break was good. :) still a long way to go though, and usually after a gd session a bad one will come so beware....next week.
had pyschological boosts watching alice try the giraffe unicyle and others doing stilts and all. watching them makes me feel quite dumb for being scared of falling off my very very very short uni.
just learnt from boon teck that only min jiang and i are performing for WJD. hahahahah....shit. i thought many pple are performing so i perform for fun. shit. now i'm really not gonna get off the stage at all. i'll be on stage 3.5 hrs out of 4 hrs i think. oh dear. shit.
jolyon came down as well and started blasting michael jackson songs on his amp. he was playing the sax on his uni while ben started doing MJ's crotch grabbing moves on the uni. quite a sight. haha.
we started chatting a bit abt busking. apparantly clarke quay's contracted jolyon i think. min jiang has gotten really smooth with his routine too from all his busking. see where persistence gets you yvonne? gee i'm now embarassed to say i'm a persistent person.
busking is strange. it gets me all excited, then i get disillusioned and down and give it up completely, then i get excited again and the cycle goes on. but that's what interest/passion is abt i think, it's not abt being happy ever after. it brings you to the extremes of emotions and if you keep coming back to it after it gets you down then there's something abt it that captivates you.
right now i'm getting pretty excited at all these things happening ard me. haha. but i analyse and i think too much and i might just be setting myself up for disappointment.
i'm under no illusion that i'm a gd juggler/performer. i'm chicken shit. actually the standard in s'pore is not very high compared to europe and the states. there's jason garfield who doesn't tolerate chicken shit jugglers and there're all these fantastic multi talented performers around. oh well. the solution is to stop watching garfield. haha. i'll see what i can come up with. it's a bit like chinese isn't it. my vocab and grammer is chicken shit compared to most pple so i work on writing the weirdest stories in my compo, with simple chinese phrases. haha. i can't compete in terms of skills (though i'll try hard to improve and still keep it fun), only way is to find myself a niche.
see i'm setting myself up for disappointment already. get ready to burst the big "oh i'm just so creative" head of mine.
the wish list now: To emulate meiling's (not me ah) confidence and the way she carries herself, jolyon's enthusiasm and min jiang's relentless persistence. probably ben's genorosity too. all my heros. hahaha.
off to burn cds. sentosa guy gonna call tmrw. he's gonna hear the groggy me again.
oh yes, before i forget...for the millionth time, i'm job hunting! Not collecting and circling classified ads!!!! (personal reminder)
quote of the day:
"yvonne why are you at the wall again!!??"
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