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| Fancy a change soooooooooooooo, ive booked a trip to Tanzania, in Africa, to climb Kilimanjaro, should be good fun, 8 days. 20,000 feet up, 4.5 miles above sea level or something like that. should be amazing, though a fair challenge as its freezing and a fair climb, tallest freestanding mountain in the world. hopefully get a day or something to meet some of the locals as well and try out some local food. hope so. thinknig about machopicho thingy in Peru as well. havent decided on that yet. too many places to explore!
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| Still alive peeps.
what can i sayyyyyyyyyyyyyy what a crazy world, i mean the stuff i could tell on here no one would likely beleive me. So ill have to stick to the mundane. Training is PAINFUL. that is an understatement. however the food is amazingly good as are the people and im having a great time. very happy at the moment.
DETERMINATION:
To whom it may concern:
I think Abraham Lincoln summed this up well when he said "hey b1tch,get a life" well thats not actually what he said, what he really said was "In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years."
This is to say that life is for living, and living up to your own expectations takes alot of discipline. i really tire of people that talk too much and have nothing to show for it. Those acheive nothing. People that dream and say one day....yet are not working towards it. Or pretend to be more than they are.
Being good at something is hard, get over it.
If you really want something, no one is going to hand it to you on a plate, you wont get strong if you dont train, you wont get promoted if you dont go to work, you wont sing better if you dont practice.
Where are you now? are you where you wanted to be 5 years ago? are you heading to where you want to be in life in 5 years, or are you going round in circles. If you are going round in circles get a fuking spine and sort it out.
I have been and still am incredibly hard on myself, i dont accept myself easily and the things i do and i find myself intensly frustrating at times. I make many mistakes but i hope and find i get more things right than i get wrong.
The battle is always between i want to be ....... vs but ill start working towards it tommorow.
I dont beleive in, "hey you can get it if you want it". I beleive in " if you really want it youll have to work your ass of f for it"
Wake up from your daydream.
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| alright jade stupid slag. philippinessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss is wicked so cool the beaches kick ass really nice and so is the food and the people. we train about 4 hours a day, its no where near as hard as in thailand buttttttttt its painful cos they go hard with no protection, also im learning weopons here and its fairly new to me still so i ahve a steep learning curve. in the evening we sit about and they sing and chat eat and drink beer. its very nice. the other day we had a bbq on a quiet beach that was lovely and so beautiful. anyway im learning to fight with machette and stick, basically the stick is used as a training version of the machette but some stuff is trained with real machette. when we practice with the stick though they dont holdback and if you dont block you get hit, ouch. makes you learn pretty fast though. i have long periods in the day though with not alot to do, though most people speak english here now ive found out and its good cos i can talk to people. the fooooood is sooooooooo good really tasty much nicer than that japanese rubbish. the beer here is pretty nice as well. just wish i could get more time out of the camp the surrounding areas are dangerous though so we get locked in and proteced by armed guards, niceeeee if you think martin lee has no freinds say HOOOOOOOOOO XD | | |
| today kicked ass, took the bullet train to kyoto and spent several hours there, went to the temple in my msn avatar, that has been a goal of mine for a fair time now, was realy lovely.. kyoto is very nice i like it there alot and will go back again one day.
When i got to the temple i sat there for a good hour or so. i thought about how far ive come and what an unusual life ive led from hiking across the uk, to working in sea rescue and then becoming and IT manager now traveling and training in martial arts and the brilliant people i have met along the way. thats one of the hardest parts, ive made so many great freinds that i know i wont see again. Maybe ill bump into some of them one day on my travels i dont know, some of them i have managed to stay in contact though via email
Sitting beside the temple today i thought about all of them and that they are out there someone doing their thing. . i could say more but that was really the defining moment of kyoto and the bit i want to remember most. sitting there staring at that beautiful golden temple.....amazing. something beautiful like that in a beautiful surrounding can trigger the mind to bring back alot of memories incredibly clearly.
Today has set me back on track and i can really say "its a wonderful life"
Im happy.
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| ok im out of here, im going to the phillippines on saturday to cebu.
ive never been to such a boring country in my life i cant take this anymore im gone!
training has been good enough but i can do this in the uk ultimately and what im after is an experience and training not just training. and the experience of japan has been underwhelming to say the least. not cool.
i just dont want to be here anymore, dull dull dull.
cant wait to get to the phillippines one thing to do though this week is to take a day out to go to kyoto on the bullet train and visit a certain temple. that should be really nice.
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