Will's Fountain of Useless Info: Reloaded

Yeah, passed my grading yesterday, though I felt that I didn't do too well. Didn't do very well on Koshinage especially. Kaitenage also so so. The only good thing is that I felt my stamina is much better compared to when I was doing 5th and 4th Kyu. Need to work on the techniques more, as going forward it would be much harder.

This week I attended an IBM boot camp cum certification thingy for 3 days. Yesterday was the 3rd day and we have to complete a certification paper online. Managed to do pretty well on it and passed with flying colors (everyone passed as well, I believe). The 2 trainers are from Canada, one a Chinese, and the other one I believe is a Hispanic. The senorita speaks funny English which had a lot of people scratching their heads. Example, cache should be pronounced like cash, but she said cae-chay. And my favorite is multiple, which she say mool-tee-pel, reminds me of how Leeloo pronounce "multipass" in 5th Element... LOL

And then I almost forgotten that my Aikido grading is TOMORROW! Just realized on Wednesday, when I kept thinking that it's one week later. But I believe shouldn't be too much of a problem. I should be doing fine. :P

Wish me luck!

PS: I just changed the blog template with one of the new ones that blogger offers. Looks pretty neat IMHO.

哈哈，说的是潜水。Last week finally made it to my first dive trip of this year, to Tenggol/Dungun. We did it slightly different from regular trips as we didn't stayed on the island. Instead, we stayed on Dungun side, and went on a day trip to the island because one of my friend owns a boat.

I guess this year was quite a slow start as there's nothing much to see in Tenggol waters. Even the nudibranches are far and few in between. We also did some wreck dives at a Japanese WW2 era warship at an undisclosed location. We're still trying to figure out which ship is this as there are 2-3 Japanese wrecks around this area.