Squash Tips

Inspired by Chiang's article, I would like to share few squash tips that I learnt. Hopefully this will encourage more brothers including Tua to play the game.

I had 2 sessions of squash coaching session with Aaron Soyza, the Penang State Coach. I still lost to Tatto after the coaching sessions. Hopefully I can keep on practising the reduce the gap.

Enjoy the game!

• tilt your shoulder lower to retrieve the balls
• try hitting the ball in the movement as single hand golf swing
• follow through the movement to have a smooth swing
• after the swing, hold the racquet straight towards the front
• the position of the foot (one of it, the one followed the direction of the ball) should be behind the ball when retrieving shots
• don't try to hit hard on every balls. Try to just lob it using trajectory. The height of the ball when hitting the wall should be close to the middle line.
• only kill the ball when the opportunity arises.
• practice backhand and forehand by hitting and lobbing repetitively.
• go back to T after hitting your shot. Then watch the movement of the opponent.
• on footwork, turn your body to the direction of the ball, then run towards the ball.
• on handling of racquet, try to hold it and with thumb on the rest of the fingers. It is not important whether to hold it close to the edge or to the frame. It depends on the power of shots that you would like to have.
• take time to retrieve the ball. Get use to the rhythm. Hit it when the height of the ball is appropriate.

Btw, Tatto is still our No 1 player. He played against one of the 业馀 China National players (as shown in the picture). Tatto heat her 9:3. Ultimately, this match helped achieving this : 马中绑交更进一步!

Drop By....

Well.. after many weeks of running around, finally, I am settled down in Singapore aka the land of kiasu. The photo shows the apartment complex I am living in... it's called Sunhaven. So, drop by when you are in town.

Moving forward, I am trying to start a healthy life in Singapore...Ah Ham and I have a commitment for weekly squash session. So, Ah Tua - are you joining us??

First Lecture

Dr Lim has a wish. He wishes that all brothers share the knowledge of the respective fields with all the brothers. He also would like us to share business proposals among brothers. This would be a first step towards building a higher-than-PGCC Jasmin Plaza.

On the last day of 2007, we fulfiled Dr Lim's wish - or at least we made the first step.

Ah Pek gave us a lecture on 八字. We had very good participation from the fellow students. The discussions have been lively. The engagement has been extremely good. Such an enthusiasm was last seen in 80s during the English class of Disco Cat.

Personally, it is too complex for me to understand. But fortunately I remembered few key points, mainly from the discussions with fellow students

• huey kaey's best place to do is at car porch. This is located at the south east side of the house
• try to go down from bed at the east side. If the east side is adjacent wall with neighbour, please make a big hole
• the direction where your little brothers are pointing when you are asleep is extremely important. it is always good to tie to the ceiling fan

I hope brothers would put the above into good practices in 2008!

New Year Carnival

Thanks to our greatest hui chang, we had our New Year 2008 Carnival Gathering on 31 Dec 2007 to 1 Jan 2008. The program began with a wonderful seafood dinner at Tanjung Tokong and proceed to Prince's office. All the ladies and children were having fun in front of the office. The ladies were chatting about their children and the children were playing hide and seek. All the men were having fun talking about ...... Not forgetting Hui Kay who brought his fiance, Cindy to the dinner. Their good day will be soon announced.....

New Year Carnival

Just in case you missed the good fun we had last night in celebrating the 2008 New Year. Please watch the video (Don't worry, it is not our Health Minister's sex DVD). See.....What a fun party as our next generation was enjoying themselves!! What a surprise to learn that the number of our next generation has reached the number of 17 and it is growing! More to join in this Wo Men Big Family.

Futsal

Another activities of the Carnival, at 3pm, the fittest brothers of Wo Men came to the toughest activities of the years - futsal at Gembira Parade.

The Hui Chang Team consists of Hui Chang, Huey kaey, A Pek, a Pong and also Pong & Howko juniors. Opui Team formed by Opui, Keun Wei and 2 other imported friends.

Lau Ee came at 4.30pm just in time to have after games hawker food session.

After 45minutes of tough fight. Opui kena yellow card by knocking Apek to the ground and nearly sent to Lam Wah Ee. Apong and Howko handsome sons played very well and could be next Beckham 10 years later.

Finally, Hui Chang Team beat opui Team by 10-8 mainly contributed by 2 fattest brothers, Huey Kaey and APong, thinest Apek and Liverpool No. 1 fan hui chang. This also proof that who said fat can not win.

Squash with China National players

We had our non competition squash session at Bukit Dumbar Squash Center also known previously as Pepsi Squash Court. A bunch of China National players also joined us at the adjacent courts. We were told that they were trying to learn from the best of wo-men. paiseh paiseh.

One of the male players commented "看你们的身材，一定是一星期打三次"

This is definitely a very true and honest comment. We are so fit that I would not blame you if you can't recognise from the pictures

- which one is the China National player

- which one is Aaron Soyza (the Penang state coach)

- which one is Keun Wei

- which one is Huey Kaey

- etc.

Supper on Christmas Night.

I received an instruction from our hui chang to blog the above pictures. The pictures were taken after the yum seng session on the Christmas Night. You can see hui kaey was enjoying his supper even though his stomach has blocked him from seeing his L for many years.

3rd Program - hiking & jungle trekking to No 3

Only the 4 fittest brothers get to join this adventurous and tough junggle trekking. The starting point is near the Children's Playground Youth Park. The hills and the checkpoints have boring names in No 2 Checkpoint, No 3 Checkpoint and No 5 Checkpoint. We wanted to ascend via Youth Park and descend via Ayer Itam Penang Hill route but decided to drop the idea after Ah Pee told us he has a house warming party to attend.

We stop at No 3 peak. Rumors have it that this is the toughest outdoor actvities in recent years for Ah Pee.

The reward of this trip

- beautiful scenery of Penang - overseeing the northern part of the island and the sea

- nice bird chirping sound

- fresh air and green

- curry chicken! Really looked and smelt good!! The good samaritans must be good cooks too. No kidding, you can have curry chicken at the 3rd checkpoint!

However, our captain Keun Wei banned us from eating the curry chicken. Pee, Huey Kaey and I were devastated. We understood the reason of the captain though, at the end of the trip. We were grateful for his leadership.

And, we vow to come back again - to eat the curry chicken.

2nd Program - Bah Kut Tea at Carnation Cafe

What happened this morning is quite typical of wo-men's gatherings:-

9.15am - Arrival of O Pui at Carnation Cafe. O Pui grabbed the seat and read newspaper.

9.30am - Arrival of Keun Wei. Keun Wei sat down.

9.35am - Arrival of Pee and Hong So. We saw Keun Wei and sat with him.

9.38am - Arrival of How Kor. He saw the three us and sat with us.

9.39am - Bah Kut Teh was served with Yu Char Kuih, Soup, Yam Rice.

9.50am - Arrival of Pek and his family. He saw the four of us. Uncle and Auntie Lee and Ah Lah chatted with us.

9.51am - O Pui saw Ah Lah and suddenly ran to us. He cursed us for not noticing him - making him like gong kia. He then join us to enjoy the Bah Kut Teh.

10.30am - Arrival of Huey Kaey citing jam at Green Lane loh tao for his delay.

10.45am - Photo taking sesssion.

11.15am - Ah Pee paid the bill (thank you Ah Pee). We adjourned.

11.16am - End of the 2nd Program.

11.17am - Start of warming up for the 3rd Program