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Muay Thai (Part 1) - First Impression

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I have always been intrigued by martial arts since young. In those days, we only have two TV channels - channels 5 and 8. Channels 3 and 10 were Malaysian channels. Most of our TV programmes were imported TV drama series mostly from Hong Kong, sometimes there were others like Japanese but by and large they have the same old formulas. They were either very sad stories of guys struggling to make a living, women being married and getting trampled or despised by other families and the rest were all sword fighting and about revenge.  The sword fighting genre were always about revenge where the main character's master or family were murdered and he would train very hard in order to seek revenge later. The most popular was Jimmy Wang Yu, most famous especially in the "One Armed Swordsman" ( 独臂刀) - Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quEHEaNsSKA  There were others Yueh Hua (Drunken Swordsman /  大醉俠 / Come Drink With Me)  and later Ti Lung and David Chiang among others. (I actu

Uncle Choo

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Preface It has really been awhile since I have last written and published an article on my blog with the last being in October last year. Before that I have been writing and publishing non-stop for 15 years since 2008.  I was not suffering from writer's block. They say running water never grows stale. So I have to move on to other things since the pandemic has ravaged and torn all asunder. No matter how passionate you are about anything, you will find that after an absence for sometime, the engine gets cold and you find it harder to start.  Just too darned busy and being too busy with one thing means one becomes lazy with the others. The law of compensation. A hiatus if you must.  Covid made it worse as there was no more travelling since borders were closed and eating locally and overseas were curtailed. So I could not write about these things. In fact, I laid out my travel luggage, sat down and spoke to them - "We are not gonna travel for a few years". They have since be

EPL 2022/2023 - Game Week 10

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Messi is still strutting his stuff at 35 while Ronaldo is sulking on the bench at 37. Still both of them are the most remarkable footballers on planet earth for the longest time. You are just so fortunate to have the opportunity to watch them play. World football is now dominated by Kylian Mbappe and Erling Braut Haaland. Both are very fast with Mbappe just slightly faster and both score bucket loads of goals with Haaland just edging it slightly for goals per game. Haaland scored a hattrick and also provided two assists against Manchester United. Before this match, he registered back to back home game hattricks. His goal scoring is epic! In eight games, he has fourteen goals! He does not need many touches, just give him the ball and he scores. He is unstoppable and unplayable. The only way is to stop him is to cut off his supply but City's supply chain is strong, no disruption like the global one. Just picture this - City have 29 goals to date, Arsenal -20, Spurs - 19, Liverpool -

EPL 2022/2023 - Game Week 6

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Did you see Wilfried Zaha's goal? How good is he every season and did you know he once played for Manchester United but United did not think he was good enough. Brighton have been very good and yet Fulham took full points at Craven Cottage with Mitrovic grabbing another goal to bring his tally to 4. I told you that Southampton are very good this season after watching them play but none of us would think that Chelsea will crumble at St. Mary's. Leeds have improved from last season but found Everton hard to overcome. Everton are still without a win but Anthony Gordon has been their shining light.  Bournemouth got a home point v Wolves, Arsenal continued their resurgence with 100% wins, 5 wins from 5 games. If they make themselves difficult and continued winning who is to say they cannot win the title? City were at their rampaging best when they crushed Forest 6-0. Erling Haaland is going to bulldoze his way for City and top the goal-scoring chart. His was the second hattrick in a