Chinese New Year in Chaoyang with Wu Di 吴迪
We am spending the Spring Festival holiday in Liaoning province with Wu Di. I will be posting up lots if photos and updates from my trip on twitter so search there for #travelzilla to see all the good stuff. I will be using both my @naromkram and @wushuzilla accounts so searching for the hash tag [...]
Four More Days in Beijing
A mere 10 days after my previous trip to Beijing I was back again for some more Dong Bei goodness. This time around Ruhi was also in town. She had gone a couple days before me to attend a teacher training and she was going to leave a couple days before me too, but we [...]
Four Days in Beijing
I recently took a couple trips to Beijing to visit friends who were in town. My teacher, Hao Zhi Hua, along with several Wushu West students, were taking their summer training trip to Shi Cha Hai, and of course I was also able to spend some quality time with a bunch of other friends who [...]
Hong Kong Highlights in May
This latest excursion to Hong Kong was originally supposed to be a quick 3 day business trip. But due to circumstances it ended up lasting over a week and included a few interesting experiences. This time around I opted for air travel, since I was a bit more pressed for time and train travel does [...]
Beijing – Day 13/14: Training and New Arrivals
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last 2 days. Not that much have happened to warrant a single entry for each day, but now two days have passed. And since I’m waiting for the guest blog entries on the F0rbidd3n City and The Gr3at Wa11 (Pierre and Ashley? Hellooooo?) I’ll fill some time [...]
Beijing – Day 12: Quick Note & The Great Wall
Sunday was our day off and so most of the students went to the Great Wall to see one of the biggest wonders of the world (or at least one of the longest). I didn’t go with them, but I have enlisted Lauren/Ashley to write up a blog about their trip. Until that is ready, [...]
Beijing – Day 11: Weight Lifting, the Forbidden City and Hutong Pizza
Finally our last 8:00 am training was here. I will not be sad to see those be a thing of the past. Next week all our trainings are at 9:00 and 3:30 in the wushu hall. Jennifer eating breakfast Pierre enjoys some cereal We were in the lower wushu hall for basics and forms. Also [...]
Beijing – Day 10: Pierre and Jennifer arrive
The day had finally arrived for two more members of Wushu West to join us in Beijing. But first, we had to deal with some morning training in the upstairs wushu hall. When we arrived in the wushu hall there were a few of the professional athletes stretching on the main blue carpet; Zhao Qing [...]