What's been the news from lynx central since the fabulous Loreena concert, you ask? Studying... lots of studying. I've scheduled my next Architectural Registration Exam for the first of June, so I've been hitting the books (all 2400+ pages of them) pretty consistantly. Work has also been mightly full, with multiple projects on the go, both big and small (plus, of course, ADT implementation). Getting to work on two projects right now that are design heavy, but from two different angles: one is very technical oriented, the other is more artistic oriented. On that latter I haven't been working on the design directly, but I have had my input, and had the great experience of suggesting a direction and having Jose later show me the design opening with "So, I took your idea and totally ran with it." Woo!
The hand continues to heal -- no iron palm for me yet alas -- and I'm back into the Kung Fu swing of things. The past couple of weekends I've pulled off some good Shaolin practice, doing straight sword, all three staff sets, the spear set, the cane set, along with all of the hand sets I know, with the accompanying great feeling of a workout that comes the day next. We've also completed 'learning' the Five Elements form of Xing Yi -- of course, the movements look simple, but to excecute them with all the concepts and energies is where we are developing ourselves, so learning is a somewhat imprecice term. It's neat to take Sun Style Tai Chi and discover the Xing Yi and Bagua influences inside it.
Still on Kung Fu, tuesday Evan brought in his new HD DV cam, which has a rather fun feature: a high-speed mode. That is, the camera records four seconds at a high frame rate, and then plays it back at .33x speed (so the 4 seconds is displayed over 12 seconds). We did some tornado kicks in front of the camera... A) I did some really amazing tornado kicks (and have a very sore left hand as reward) and B) wow the replay is very smooth and very interesting to watch at the slower speed. This could be lots of fun and one heck of a training tool.
In the short bursts of WoW I've been playing in between studying and other things I've been focussing on doing the Battlegrounds, which pretty much constitutes my only foray into the world of PVP. Definitively a different world, and with whom I'm being about it it's been overall quite fun. With my aims there nearly complete however (30 tokens from 3 of the BGs so I can get a nightsabre mount) my PVP time will likely come to a close.
Apart from alllll of that I've managed to hang out much with many friends and visitors, hit the Maker Faire (and find a way to work on a project I've been wanting to do, mmmmm), done some gaming, had BBQs, ridden the bike a bit and all the general goodness.
What I hadn't done was written here... oops! Now I'm up to date(ish).
Posted by kannik at May 30, 2007 08:10 PM in Daily, Gaming, Kung FuGood to hear from you again, and that KF is going so well. I'd love to see that camera replay. :)
Posted by: Wendy at May 30, 2007 08:36 PM