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Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Memory and change
Hi, it has been awhile, but I have some news regarding astronomy, Chinese and wing chun.
 
I've been following kendo for a year now, and although my wing chun body had some troubles adjusting, I really enjoy it. Most principles are similar for kendo as for wing chun. Centreline, feeling, compact stance and qi (or ki ;-)) is equally important. The most troubles I encountered, was getting used to all that screaming. Every time I had a hoarse throat, they knew I must have been playing with a bamboo sword recently.
 
The reason I took this new path was out of interest of course, but also partly because I wanted to follow martial arts at a school and wing chun is just not popular in Belgium. The only place I knew for that was Antwerp. But two months ago I finally snapped out of solitary training and decided to retake my initial wing chun classes in the Viktor Kan school I started 12 years ago. It seems that the school in Antwerp has some issues with VK's arrogant nature, so we want see him any time soon. Although, he does keep contacting the school to retake teaching, and this probably for pure business purposes I think. Nevertheless, Sifu Bruggeman is a very qualified person, with his more than 30 years of experience in the art, the ring and in the streets.
 
By now, I also concluded my 2nd year of IT-programming, which goes very well, and my 1st year of Mathematical Analysis at Ugent, as part of 1st bachelor's physics and astronomy. Tough maths, and although I enjoy it, I had to keep up the pace of all those mathematicians and fill all the gaps I missed as I have no maths education required to keep up the pace. Nevertheless, I am proud of having done all the hard work for the toughest of all 1st year's university courses. I followed Analysis I and II, followed by 4 exams, two theoretical and two practical ones. The theory went fine for my standards, but the practical parts needed more time, exercise and getting used too. I really liked Analysis II, because it was covering three dimensions and had a more physics approach.
Nevertheless, I decided to follow astronomy and cosmology via UCLan (University of Lancashire) which has distance learning on a level that you could expand to a HE diploma and even to a Bachelor of Hons.
 
The saddest news though is that my former professor for Chinese, Annemie Bonneux, recently passed away after a courageous long fight against cancer. I owe her a great deal of gratitude for the chances she opened up for me regarding my studies in China. A lot of people will miss her enchanting and enthusiastic way of reflecting the cultures and wisdom of the Far East.
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