Michael Jackson is gone. Left us too soon. He is truly one of his kind, only kind I would say. While it is still quite terrifying for me to watch the white-skinned MJ peering back at me in his videos, I cannot forget how inspiring his music was. His music often speaks of a worldly view, like in the songs Earth Song and Have you Seen My Childhood. And then there are the eccentric dance moves invented by the King of Pop himself.

If you need a song to remember him, you should listen to "You Are Not Alone".



I don't know why I have such a strong affiliation with MJ. I don't even own any of his albums. But yes I was always eager to catch him on TV. I remembered there was a series of interview shows with him on Channel 5. As much as I know, MJ bleached his skin to look like a white guy because during his time US are very anti-blacks*. And his nose job? I heard from somewhere that he underwent plastic surgery to shape his nose so that he could reach much higher notes.

*Correction: Nah MJ didn't bleached his skin. My bad. He's got a bad skin disease called Vitiligo.

Today it is a all-hell-break-loose day for me. At the very least, I thought the sleep felt revitalising.
I had 2 big drawdowns in my current forex virtual account. -44 and -50pips! The rest of the day I was just going blank. Aimless day at home. I decided I want to go stadium and train a little bit, but after I woke up from my hour long nap, the devil told me not to go! It might actually be my back pain that's bothering me...

-The God is my provider

Today was a wet day at NYP! And my jumps? Well, good and bad. I changed my arm swing action from a single arm to a double arm swing. The first 2 jumps were great according the Ronnie's observation, although I didn't clear at all tonight. He said my body was flying at the 1.80m area and it was my calves that hooked the bar in. But that is not the bad I'm was talking about. After that 2 decent attempts, my double arm swing just died-ed. Every time I ran up to the bar, my arms just wasn't in the right position to prepare for the takeoff. As a result, I always didn't attempt to jump and try to clear. I also got quite bored and frustrated at that as much as the group of jumpers at the pitside. No worries, I'll just fine-tune on that and do better. On hindsight, my shin didn't hurt! Yay, thank God for keeping me safe!

NYP's closed for the whole of next week due to the onset of the H1N1 pandemic so no training there for me...1 long trip less for next week! Wooh!

1. Jumping on wed! Uh, can't sleep tonight... too excited about wed's training. Ronnie told me he did another 2m jump again at his recent competition...Impressive, as he's just half a head taller than me only...

2.I got back from the gym, where I saw Stanley Goon and Joshua(W452) ! It's amazing how many familiar faces I can meet there...

3. Lately, I'm smitten by the piano piece "Kiss the Rain" by Yiruma.

4. Today at Forex($500 demo account)- lost $35 in the morning. Profited $80 in the afternoon. I was crazy to exit that 2 trades in the afternoon. It was still gaining momentum in profits lor... But well, at least I'm on the right track, I think.

I have so much things I wanted to say and upload but I am just too lazy. But here's something I like to share.

It's touted the largest fireworks ever seen and it's MIJ.
From Katagai Japan,





If you can, please go click to youtube and watch this same video in HD. I swear that you will not regret it.

I will be away from 11-17 Jun. Back to malaysia! Part of the itinerary is to go Cameron Highlands!

Can't wait to try out the hometown delights like the super tasty ice chendol, tau sar bing, hum ji beng, kaya kok (box). See you in a week.

Attended prayer meeting at 7am! Wooo. I feel so fresh right now...Haven't got up so early for quite some time.

Today is 8 Jun. And my membership with WMentors is officially over. So i can no longer access their forums nor receive any trading information from them. But I believe in God's grace that I had learned much more from them and I can become an independent options trader now. Just let the right market conditions appear and I'll strike it hard one time, two times, every time. Stupid bears and bulls, kill yourselves yeah and i'll win on your deaths.

I'm planning to head down to NTU track for my training later in the afternoon.

I was incredibly attentive during yesterday's church-wide bible study at expo. I felt I've learned so much things! And praise the Lord for empowering Pastor to hit home the message to me. Some great phrases I've remembered are,

"God works in you for His pleasure. Not the other way round"
"Don't be too proud when you have something going on for you. Hey watch it!"

The best one for me was, "Jesus went through all the extremes of humanity (an illegitimate child, King of Kings, servant, healer..) just so that he could identify with every single one of us on Earth."

Signing off.

I was hardworking today. Went to Xiaogugu's(3rd Aunt) house to deliver sausages from Sugugu(2nd Aunt). Then I helped to clean and speed up the 2nd computer in the house. I must say, thanks to God's grace, I did a good job. That computer was so much faster, and I was able to link the computers up to the internet. I faced alot of problems getting the connection up on one of the computer and I wanted to just give up altogether. Then I cycled on my cousin's mountain bike to BBDC by Brickland Road. It was tedious going up the gentle slope on the jammed high gear.

The driving was quite smooth but I got very confused just before the lesson ended. I guessed I used up my brain's RAM when I drove on the road too much. I had lunch at Xiaogugu house before heading down to NYP for training! Yay today was jumps day! But i'm starting to grow scared of the bar. I forgot how to "attack" the bar. The first thing we do is usually backflips over the bar while taking off from a raised platform or box. I performed that satisfactorily today! Crouch was having problem with that though. Even though he's 1.80m+...Next we did our full run-up. Geez it was problematic for me. Nothing works. My takeoff and attack of the bar is bad. I usually can clear the bar with my entire upper body. It's always the hips and below that's dragging the bar down. And I tend to scratch the mattress on my way up to clear the bar. That means a big fat foul! I landed awkwardly several times. Even Ronnie was worried haha... And then the vampire bite came...My left leg landed on top of my right ankle and the thinner part of the spikes sank into my dear ankle. It got numb after that! I thought I was gonna stop jumping for the day. But after a while the pain was less troubling and I did a few more jumps which I emphasised on flicking out my right forearm into the air. It had a small success I would say, because I had a better motion rotating above the bar and more hang time. I believe I can clear my pb of 1.65m on my next jumps training.

2 shots right into my right ankle.

Tomorrow my workout will be mainly boundings and hops. 10 sets of 10. My gosh!

Great things happened today! A van which beat the red lights barely missed me and had my instructor sounding his horn. I didn't even realise I was in danger because I was focusing on the pedestrians on the far end and wondered why they didn't want to step out and cross the road.

Then I headed to the ClubFitt Gym near the church. Cool it was quite empty. I thought the crowd will pick up as it is the school holidays now. And there I saw my Tanglin Sec senior Azli.

So far today I've been analyzing and carrying out backtests on the forex trades I did. I'm down as much as I'm up. Am looking up to God for guidance and wisdom in trading!