Tai mang.
Today was quite busy. I woke up early and put the finishing touches on the DVD. I finished it. Only thing I gots to do now is print up covers. I hit up the bank and tried to deposit the remaining cash into Jacky's account. It sorta worked. I gave them the 4020RMB and they only deposited 4000 thinking that the 20 was for service charge. It took me about 15 minutes and a fone call to Mountain to get them to deposit the last 20RMB. Crazy. The lady wasn't there today. I felt sad. I hope she is alrite and not sent to go bust up boulders in Tibet.
After that I came home and did some other work.
At 530pm I started getting ready for the wushu demo. I headed over to the warehouse and apparently it was just Sifu, his daughter, Hong Kong, and me that were going. There were some Macau folks visiting and playing with each other on the floor.
The van ride to the outskirts of Shiqi was long. And Sifu is just as bad a driver as all the other chinese. I had to grip the seats and brace myself a couple times cause I was afraid of a car accident. I can't help but want to yell at people that ride their bikes out in front of cars on the highway.
We got to the area which was on the southern outskirts of Shiqi. It took sifu awhile to find the place. Once he did, he drove us to get some dinner. This resturant's menu had some really bad english. So i took a bunch of fotos of it. My favorite one was this for a food dish.... "All Kids of Rapes". I had a good laugh and explained it to the daughter who explained it to the others. We all giggled.
After dinner we headed back to the location. It was a cement basketball court. The place had filled up with chinese people. I was very surprised. There were a bunch of different teachers from all over Zhongshan visiting with some of their students. I saw alot of cool forms and alot of old guys and young guys performing wushu. The old guys were doing more longfisted practical type things whereas the younger folks were going for the full out wushu. There was this one old dude that was 83 and he was hopping around a little bit on the court. It was neat. As far as visual entertainment is, the old guys/sifus were pretty lame. The young folks were where it was at. There was this one guy who had a bull whip who was amazing. Very good. And a couple guys with swords. One guy did some Monkey style.
My performances? well, I think they were better than my New Year's ones, but still, I felt the performances could have been better. I guess this is what you get when you haven't been focusing on the form for a couple weeks. I have been doing it everytime, but I haven't been analyzing it like i usually do. I have been trying to learn some more stuff. I originally was gonna go 2 times at the end, but I got bumped up for my firts form up into the beginning. There were about 80 performances. Lost. We were there for like 2.5 hours.
I found the audience very rude. Whenever a person came out and performed and if they made the slightest mistake the audience would bust out in laughter. I found it rude and repulsive. I don't see you imaciated chinese doing anything like this? You try it. I got laughed at once when I slipped after touching ground from a kick. I didn't let it bother me though at the time. But a few others got laughed at.
After the performances were over we all had some food together. The hosting Sifu was thanking all the teachers for visiting then he said something like, "And we even have a white guy here who has come all this way to learn Chinese Gong Fu!" And I thanked everyone. It was nice. He said Chinese Gong Fu and about 3x the volume of the rest of the sentence. It was quite humorous. I enjoyed myself. It was a good time.
Then we headed home.
Goodnite.