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hey. its been a while, and a lot has happened, but i don't think i'm going to put together a great summary with my limited time atm, so i'll give some awfully short cliffs.

- original shifu (master) left our academy (his friend was fired without pay, and they were both lifelong friends from the same city in south china). i was sad.

- made a good friend, who improved my willpower - Josh.

- smoked a lot of hash, and had some good conversations with people

- learnt a bit of chinese (forgot a bit of japanese)

- gained awesome shifu who can do basically everything, and hope to find a way for him to teach in AU/NZ (he desires this)

- lost 21kg (1kg was probably chest hair tho ;)

- no longer am pursuing Nikki

- am excited about 2010 (planning on living with David and Cole, and making a bunch of gold with GTs along the way)

China and Japan photos on facebook

atm my daily routine consists of rebuilding roll, making plans for the next couple of months, getting to the gym, and trying to hang a bit with my sis (seems to take up my day quickly). trying to fit a trip to Adelaide to see people before i have to head back to Akl (oh yeh, we're going to be living in Auckland for the majority of 2010 - hopefully with a couple months holiday in Europe at the end of the year), but i think i only have about 3 weeks before that happens, so idk if i can fit it (i can ldo, but its probably better to rebuild my roll [am +3k in EV since back tho, oops :P], ugh, priorities..)

missed my flight from Tokyo to Melbourne, and had to buy another :/ i think i've missed 2/40ish lifetime, pretty bad tbh. that 48hr period made me feel like i'd had a bad enough beat to be living Roo's life (notorious for having 'everything goes wrong' days, usually topped off by a car accident - hence my lack of drivers' licence?)

hopefully i'll put together a TR on my time in China when i'm more free (december perhaps), will definitely do if i can get Dave to copy/paste my iPhone notes onto my PC (took daily notes)

now that this is out of the way, i will hopefully be updating on a (near)weekly basis with my movements, and poker stuff :)

Peece