The Outing To Devour Fish

Hey people, I'm back!

Many apologies for the late update this week; I've been rather distracted with some personal stuff lately, but all is well now (I hope) :D

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So last week, on Thursday the 4th of April, we had a club outing! Yay! We started out with watching a movie, The Croods, at West Mall (at Bukit Batok, in Singapore, in Southeast Asia...), then proceeded to JCube for dinner at Manhattan's (at JCube, at Jurong East, etc etc...). Fairly standard fare for an outing.

The movie was pretty cute and all, but the most striking thing bout us watching a movie is, well, us :P SPKC is always the loudest group, no matter where we go or what we do. As can be seen from when we watch a show targeted at kids and end up laughing the loudest and hardest in the entire cinema. I take it to mean that we are all young kids at heart :3

Upon the movie's conclusion, I promptly utilized all I've learnt about footwork and movement towards perhaps the greatest and most pressing issue of all: getting to the toilet to relieve myself. It is at this time that I leave this serious warning to one and all: for your own sakes, never drink too much water before and/or while watching a movie.

Afterwards came the dinner at Manhattan's, where our group occupied a whopping 18 seats. We arrived in two batches, the first being the movie group who took the seats first, and the second being the non-movie group, inclusive of our ever lovable and blur Helpful Fish, Yu Fang. So after Fish and Co. arrived at Manhattan's, we ordered our food.

Towards the end of our meal, I began to heavily regret my choice in seating. I had forgotten that SPKC battles were not limited to the sparring field. For you see, I was seated within reach of Amirul and Ezan, who I now dub the Bandit Duo. I also ordered a mud pie for dessert. Thus began the heated Battle for The Mud Pie, where cutlery became weapons and underhandedness was not only encouraged, but a constant.

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The battle begins!

 

...and to the winner goes the spoils! 

Scavenging for remains!

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I wasn't the only one with mud pie, actually. Yet the others were perfectly safe; no bandits dared brave the wraths of sensei Bryan and senior Ying Zhi. Dessert aside, we also came into luck! Somehow they messed up the orders and we got a free Fish n' Chips, which... did not survive long at all (a quarter each to Hiok Ann, Ezan, Amirul and yours truly, though my portion was later donated to my fishy sister).

Throughout the meal, I noticed many many times that people kept staring at us for how loud and boisterous we were. SPKC is lively, people! Good job! *thumbs up*

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To end off, Yu Fang has asked me to request that all current members fill up a form in the following link, for administrative purposes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Xi398SBXIzpn-8oQ9kRrmXu9Ga1q_RJtQhd-9BXubF0/viewform

That's all for this one, folks!

Kenji The Hedgedog
SPKC Webmaster 2013

The Mock Competition! (suggest names please)

It suddenly occurred to me that I forgot to include something in last week's post! I must have somehow gotten infected by Yu Fang's fishy memory :P

So, without further ado...

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Let us welcome our newest official Intermediate-level practitioners, Darren and Issac! They have successfully taken the first step in the learning journey of our art!

As most of us know, the advancement from white belt to red belt is very significant in our art. It is the change from a short sword to a long sword. The change from one hand to two hands. It is the donning of our gi. It is the very first measure of our progress, and the mark of our serious interest in our art. Congratulations, Darren and Issac!

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 Mock Competitions Official Announcement!

Most of you should have seen the poll I put up on our facebook page about this, but regardless I'll state it again for official purposes!

Some time back, I asked people for ideas and suggestions for this blog, and one Bryan Neo gave me one for a self-organized tournament. The idea behind it being that we can use more competition experience. I took the idea and developed it, and after much planning and tinkering and a meeting with the council... I am proud to announce that the higher ups have approved it! We will soon be having mock competitions!

Currently it is still in the planning stage, but hopes are quite high that it will be ready within a month! The organizing team will be quite busy the next couple of weeks, for certain. Mostly, we will be going around recruiting people to do this and that (more manpower = less work for me :3), so please don't walk away if I ask to speak with you! It's not some secret love confession, there's no need to be scared~

Anyway, some basic information on the mock competitions! It will be completely free of charge for participants, and have outstanding prizes such as pride, a sense of accomplishment, and bragging rights! Yeah, all you get is experience. Really, that should be more than enough, so deal with it. Of course, if anyone is willing to sponsor prizes, do feel free to talk to me! :D

That's all I'm saying on this for now. Everything else is still in planning and may be changed, so there's not much point in posting right now. I will have an entire post up for it when it's ready, with all the itty bitty details that most people just glance over anyway.

On a final note, I am requesting for name ideas. Calling it mock competition all the time just doesn't quite have a zing to it, no? No offense to Master Dav, but I am NOT calling it the Kenji Competition! >.<

I will give a cookie to whoever suggests an Uber Awesome Epically Cool name that I choose to use! :D

Kenji

The Bark Knight
SPKC Webmaster 2013