True Budo

From O-sensei Morihei Ueshiba,  founder of Aikido
A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing

Something like the willow tree

Training ended early last Friday because a whole row of seats were booked for the whole class to watch the movie N.in.ja…which we discovered in the first 20 min that it was a B-grade movie with bad acting and very gruesome violence.
Just to make our money worth, we looked for something positive out of the [...]

The tiny baby snail on the kitchen sink

“Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.”-Morihei Ueshiba O Sensei
I was going to take the evening shower just now when I noticed a tiny moving thing contrasted against the white bathroom sink. I thought it was the bug but it was a tad too small to be a bug, [...]

Merry making, et al

So many bloggers have updated their blogs about their Eid/Raya this year with colorful photos of happy families etc. Our Eid was in Singapore for about a week. 2 days of Ramadan there and 4 days plus of Shawal and I had a blast. I ate and ate ( ok, that’s nothing new about me ). [...]

neun neun neun

Murphy’s Law, to put it simply states that “anything that can go wrong, went wrong”. I had a bit of Muphy-ism on the neun/neun/neun 090909 day today.
First it was a student who screwed up his exams, and then a situation which threatened quite a bit of problem as it involved a shipment of goods not [...]

A love story, a reflection, an excitement and everything else

You know it has got to be something about it when friends from Vancouver to Paris to Singapore to Australia yelled at me over the facebook not to give spoilers until they catch the episode on tv3 catch up tv. By now, many women of the households, and surprisingly many who do not, on normal [...]

Karma

” I’ve made up my mind,” I told him one night as we ( or rather him ) were just about to call it a day and succumb to slumber.
“What about? ” he asked almost half asleep. In that mode, I knew that even if I had told him I wanted to paint the house [...]

The way

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him. If he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido.

Over oneself

If there is one important thing I learnt the whole of last week, for 7 full days under Sensei.H is that the concept of “ Masakatsu Agatsu”, which means ‘the true victory, is the victory over oneself’ which is the fundamental principle of aikido as practiced by the founder O-sensei. It is a belief system where [...]

Back in

It’s like being deprived of having your favourite meal for a long time and when you get the next opportunity, the taste is just so nice that you feel like you want the meal to last forever. Well at least it felt like that for me. After being out of training for 2 months, I [...]