practising my 4 ball shower

tokyo in 1 day

osaka

spend 2days in osaka. i love osaka!

"go holiday never spend money not fun"

lets see how much i've spend and what i bought.
$820 airfare
$450 japan rail pass
i change $2500 to yen in s'pore
i change $400 to yen in tokyo yesterday.
total $4120 ++++++ i sign my card twice
now i onli left 40000yen. and i've 6 more days in japan. :(

what i bought?
a lighted diabolo handstick $100
6 russian balls $50
3 card monte $200
multiplying balls $40
other small smal magic stuff $120
1 unniqlo tee $30
porter organizer book holder $130
a camping stand $90
a edwin tote bag $40
total $800
where all my money goes!!!!
accomadation, food, drinks and train tickets are expensive. don't stay in japan for too long!!!
i need to go busking to earn back my money! :(

japan trip

today is my 9th day in japan,
lets see wat i did for my past eight days.
i arrived tokyo on 30th oct, took shinkansen to shinjuku for lunch then went to harajuku and from there we walk down to shibuya. harajuku is fashion district where all the street wear labels are located. shibuya is more like fareast plaza, with more unknown labels but still a nice place for shopping especially for budget traveller like me. after shibuya we went to meet rone, gigi and cipon for dinner. cipon is a producer and she's only 25yrs old. after the dinner with them at izayaki, we went to a manga cafe to stay over night. it cost 1080yen for 8hrs of stay over there. rooms are quite small but its ok for me.
friday 31th oct, we took shinkansen to shizuoka for the daidogei festival.
we stayed at a business hotel in shizuoka, abt 6800yen per night.
days in shizuoka is fun, i saw alot of world class performers and i'm really inspired by them.
world class performers like ryo yabe, tony freborg, kikyo brothers and many many more.
this festival is also telecast on their national tv in shizuoka and this festival started 15 yrs ago.
daidogei festival has 96 groups of performer and a total of 130 performer. its imposible to watch all the performance so even planning to watch the performance is very difficult but exciting.
i think my experience in shizuoka is very difficult to explain in words but i'll come again next yr.
we left shizuoka on monday 3rd nov afternoon and took shinkansen to osaka. 2hrs ride.
in osaka, we stayed in a capsule hotel. 2500yen per night. quite a nice experience and their culture of having a public bathe is something i cannot accept. its feels like when i'm bathing in bmt but this time without walls. osaka is also very happening, with all the nice food like tako yaki
aka tako pachi in s'pore. actually i prefer osaka than tokyo, maybe coz i've stay too long here and i already bored of some places. i think osaka is less crowded than tokyo too. i hate to take the train during peak hrs in tokyo, its really pack!!! the good thing abt during the train ride in peak hr is that even if u are not holding on to anything u w0n't fall coz there is no space for u to fall. very interesting. see it to believe it.
back to tokyo from osaka on wed and meet up with pepper at akihabara.
we went to a maid cafe for lunch. very interesting too, compare to the s'pore maid cafe at chijmes
this is much better. maid cafe is not only for guys but girls as well. maybe 800yen to 1000 yen for a set meal. then we went to naranja, a juggling shop. at night we meet up with pepper's wife and hiyro for hot pot. very nice food and its a all you can eat buffet. 4000yen per person. pepper's wife is very sweet and funny. anyway, hiyro might be coming back to s'pore to perform on christmas.
thursday and friday was shopping day!
" go holiday never spend money not fun, cannot enjoy" i got it!

i've got talent performance at Vivo City

This is my new routine

even though its onli a 3min routine but this time i tried to

do some risky trick. Over all, i'm very satisfied with the routine.

Next i'll plan to do a 8 min diabolo routine. :)

practice session at suntec

i've got talent

on the 6th of sept, knik jing kai and I went for the i've got talent 2008 audition at vivo city.
the audition space is just beside the sentosa express train ticket counter.
when we reach there, we saw many performers there.
there are musicians, magicians, break dancers, singers, beat boxers and etc...
the audition went pretty well for me and i think thats the best diabolo routine i've done ever.
so according to the organiser, they'll inform us if we're being selected for the finals after the next
audition date which was 20th of sept and the finals date is 27th of sept.
2 weeks have passed after our audition and we did not received any calls from them yet, so we thought that we're not selected.
but 2 days ago, the organiser called me.
they said that they have postpone the finals date due to the F1 and i'm selected for as 1 of the finalist. soon after that i received a call from jing kai that he's group routine with knik are also in for the finals.
yesterday pepper zero was here in singapore for performance and i manage to show him my routine video at clark quay. the feed back given by him was really helpful. i'm currently working on my new routine now.
so all the finalist out there, i'm not going to let you win!

my busking license

after 3 weeks of waiting after my audition.

i finally got my busking license.
hopefully i'll get a chance to use the license.
do give me your support when u see me on the streets.

new prop case

I just bought it yesterday.
The size is just nice for all my props.
including 3 clubs, 2 diabolo, 1 pair of handsticks, 3 juggling balls and 4 yoyos.
Look so professional now.
Get ready for my SHOW!

diabolo workshop at east spring secondary

The last session workshop at East Spring Sec for this yr has ended.
The students there are very hardworking.
They pick up diabolo tricks very fast.
They have inspired me to work harder.

performance at clark quay

durian at geylang

we had durians at geylang before the performers went back to japan.

to my suprise, chemi, rone and gigi likes durian.

Variete street theatre

variete street theatre is over!

two weeks have past!

above are some pictures i took with the performers

bye bye hangerman, akira, hiyro, rone, gigi, booly ooly, chemi and megiwa!

hope to see u all next year!!!

hi shizuka

Pepper Zero and Cathy left on sunday 0500am and shizuka and migiwa arrived on the same day at 00 30am. today is Shizuka's sight seeing day (no performance), but i need to bring her to her tomorrow's performing location as she needs to check out the space, the stage. after that since we still have some time before she went back to the hotel to meet migiwa, we went to arab street. she loves arabic stuffs. The first time i saw her at the airport, she looks like a japanese "tai tai" without a LV bag. I'm looking forward to learn more things from her and to see her performance tomorrow.

its 00 21 now, i think Akira have arrived at the airport, but i'm too tired to fetch him already coz after sending Pepper and Cathy back yesterday. i think i onli slept 2 hrs b4 i went to pick up shizuka. But its all worth it! :)

Knik, gambateh! xing ku le!

Bye Bye Pepper Zero and Cathy

Pepper Zero and Cathy was in Singapore for the Variete street theatre.

Both of them are street performer from Japan.

Cathy is here as rone and gigi's assistance.

Being rone and gigi's assistance is not easy, as their routine is so "tight" that anytime u might miss out the timing.

i've learn alot from them. especially pepper zero.

i've spend about 8 days with him.

we even went to maid cafe at chijmes coz he wanted to see the difference from here and Japan.

Guess Japan's maid cafe is much much better. Pepper is a very professional performer. He really inspired me to be a performer. Cathy leaves a very deep impression on me as a very sweet japanese wife. I wanna have a japanese wife! I really hope to see them soon! Hope 1 day they can see my performance. arigato! kyotsukete!

taiwan diabolo performer

They're here in singapore from 24th to 27th of july at bugis junction to perform diabolo.

brought them to eat 兴化莆田food at bencoolen, went to lau pat sat to eat satay, went to clark quay and boat quay for a walk, went to geylang to eat local fruits.

They are really nice and polite people.

Really hope to see them soon.

3 ball juggling (japanese style)

2 diabolo high variation

still working on my 2d high variation

my practice session today

3 diabolo toss, my best record is 7 catches

videos of wjd

videos of my practice sessions at east coast park

namecard for Han Zheng

Han Zheng aka Jacky is 1 of the most hardworking juggler i ever seen in singapore.
below is a namecard i design for him.
hope he can fulfill he's dream.

Diabolo training

from today onwards, i shall keep a record of my diabolo progression.


Vertex variation

World Juggling Day (WJD)

World Juggling Day 2008SINGAPORE
Saturday, 14 June 2008

Jugglers' Picnic at the East Coast Park.Join juggling enthusiasts who are celebrating World Juggling Day at a picnic.Come picnic with jugglers with your family & friends; watch jugglers juggle orlearn how to juggle 3-balls.

Venue: East Coast Park area C,
at the open space grass patch near Skateline andBurger King.
(Near the place marked "Raintree Cove" on this NParks Map.)

Time: 3pm-8pm.

what is diabolo?

some people call it che lin. (扯拎）

and some people call it kong zhu (空竹）

most people like me, call it diabolo