my sabbatical is kickboxing,and it is SUPER fun. at first i was offered drums cause iam in wushu, but i turned them down. then i almost got chosen for math olmpiad training, luckily i wasn't. so during the sabbaticals selection, i really wanted to go for kickboxing, and planned to put it as my first choice, but there was no kickboxing choice. so i put rock-climbing first, than inline skating. results came out and it turned out that i had miraculously gotten into kickboxing, yay!!!

kick boxing was really fun, first we did some aerobics warm-up. then we did crunches and stuffs like that to strengten our abs. then we learnt on-guard, left on-guard, right -on guard, jab (i think it's spelt like that), elbow, hook, undercut, left side kick, right side kick, front kick. during the practice, the instructer will wear this red leather soft pad which we have to hit, the harder you hit, the louder sound it will produce. so the first time he went around, people could hit it but the sound wasn't veryloud. then he gave some real funny nicknames to some people, like,

bernadette: the dancer, cause she was super gentle
michelle: the actice girl, cause the instructer wanted to encourage her to be more active.
eleen: the pretty girl, haha!
shen lin: the scary girl, because her eyes are quite scary, but when she kick or box is not super scary.
and me!! i am the 'strong' girl, so funny lor. cause when we had to do the jab, which is punching forward, i was the last to try that red pad. i was really motivated to box very hard cause a lot of people were really gentle, and i couldn't stand it. so i hit real hard and fast. and then the teacher said i was very strong, and the whole class started clapping. shumin and yueling said when i box, my expression on my face was very fierce and agressive, like those boxers. i don't even remembered doing anything special to my face.

after all these vigorous exercise, we laid on the floor to relax, very relaxing.

we were realeased like 30 min earlier,so we had 1h 30 min for recess, yay!! i practically feast,cause 1) i was super hungry after all those exercises and 2)i just regained eating normally just yesterday. i bought chawanmushi, sushi, mixed veg rice with two meat and one veg and chrysantemum(i forgot the spelling!!!) tea.

then was the malay culture appreciation. mrs soh made the lesson very interesting. then we learnt about the malay wedding customs. then was the malay dancing. we learnt three kinds but i forgot the names. it was really slack, cause i was behind with ling an and 5 wushu people, wan qing, ping ghee, yee win, lilia and esther.

sabbaticals rock!!! cause we can slack the whole day!!!!

oh yah, watch this mass dance, thanks to yan ying for patiently videoing this even though her arms were very suan.