Heh. It's Thursday of the second week of my holiday. One more week and it's gone. So much things have happened since then.

Most importantly, my father came back from China for a week. Caught us all by surprise. I guess he missed us alot. We missed him too. He came back on a Friday, Monday and Tuesday was my exams. Well, its over now so lets not brood about it. He was back for a week and we had a lot of fun then, our ceiling had fallen, so we patched it up and our whole hall was given a new coat of paint. Baby blue I call it, I think.

Anyway, hes gone back already and we are still missing each other a lot. Meanwhile I have improved in Wei Qi and am going to jump one more rank, 7k soon.

Another thing has happened. Someone actually wanted to pay me to do a blog skin!? :O I'm surprised but express my gratitude for appreciating my work. I've offered to do it for free and will work on it soon. I hope it will turn out nicely.

Until now, I haven't touched anything on my PS2. I keep raving about getting a PS3 soon and just hope it materialises. yea, thats about it, Wei Qi this whole holiday, just like the last. Not much to my life huh. Don't worry, I will make it happening soon. Just you wait :x.




Damn! I am on a hell of a losing streak in Wei Qi. To think that I have just improved to 8k. I'm gonna drop back down to 9k and Wen Jun is chasing up, he's already 10k. Shit!

Every game I seem to play with 8ks, I lose, or even 9ks I make huge blunders that makes me lose the game. What the hell is going on? I haven't experienced this in a long time. I used to play so confidently but now when I play, I just think of, lets hope I don't lose... again.


I think I seriously need a break. This is bullshit . Improving and de-proving at the same time? Gawd, I think its an overload of Wei Qi. I need to get some rest..

This is a period in which you lose many games and your rating decreases drastically, and it often occurs after a period of steady improvement. The theory is that in order to progress, your brain has to reform itself completely, that is, your whole approach to the game has to change. While that process is going on, your technique can get completely messed up, and you make blunders you haven't made in a long time. Put another way, if your basic understanding of the game is constant, then with experience, you will optimise your technique for that understanding (in fact, this might even hold you back).

There are so many levels of awareness in Go, that this process happens many times, maybe once for each rank. It can be depressing whilst your in it, but once you understand what is going on, it is not as bad as being on a plateau and not improving."