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Kung Fu was said to be first invented by a shaolin monk Da-Mok, who came from India to China. Seeing that the monks were poor in health thus always not able to concentrate well and the fact that the temples were always being looted by bandits, he decided to introduced a form of martial art to strengthen these monks so that they will be able to defend themselves against the bandits and to improve their health. This martial art can be divided into two systems, the hard and the soft system. The hard system trains one to be well-built due to the vigorous training(Kung fu) and the soft, might not make one well-built on the outside but it certainly trains one to have great inner strength(Chi Kung). I remembered once there was a show about a group of shaolin disciples who will be divided into the two systems to learn martial arts, everyone aspire to get in to Luo Han Tang(hard system) and the weaker group was sent to learn the soft art. They were sad and demoralise until their asssignated master did some "Qing Kung" like running across the wall. This amazed them and made their realised that soft system is like a mystery of the Shaolin martial art.

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The art of judo and ju-jitsu has a very special relationship between them. It was said that judo is actually developed from ju-jitsu, by Professor Jiguro Kano, the founder. Professor Jiguro Kano graduated from the Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1881 and wanted to introduce a form of physical exercise to his students. Through the several ju-jitsu schools he attended, he adopted the best principles of the art and developed judo. Judo, literally translated means the “gentle way”. Judo today is one of the most wide-spread martial arts and is a sport event in the olympic as well. However, the founder Jiguro Kano, envisaged judo as the development of a lifetime art, as opposed to a sport. He felt strongly that it was an art with the purpose of training one’s mind and body rather than to be a public competition.

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Getting excited and happy, he paid close attention to see whether the priest will bless another horse. Like before, the priest crossed over to the track again and blessed another horse. The man immediately place all his money on that horse. At the end of the race, that horse came in last.

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One day at mass I heard a story from the Father, it is about a man at the horse racing course who had placed a few bets and lost. Then he noticed something perculiar at the start-line. He saw a priest crossing over to the track and blessed one of the horses. At the end of the race, the horse which the priest had blessed won. Before the next race begins, he saw the priest crossing over to the track again and blessed another horse.

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Jeet Kune Do. The way of the interception. It is a system or principle where one intercept an opponent's attack by striking first. Take for example, when your opponent wants to give you a punch, you give him/her a kick first maybe at the leg.

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An old man gave his grandson two coins and asked him to help buy some sauce and vinegar. His grandson then asked which coin is for the sauce and the vinegar? The old man replied: “Any one will do.” The boy took two bowls with him to get the stuff while the grandpa started cooking.

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One day, at the bank, all things were as usual. People doing some transactions, bank tellers providing their services and security guards ensuring safety. Suddenly, a robber dash in to a bank, took his gun out and shouted at the teller: “ Freeze! No one moves!”

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The play they performed was about how the King’s mother was killed. This was a matter that always caused the King to be depressed. His mother being accused of causing the King’s father who was the previous King to be distracted from the state affairs. After hearing reports of other concubines who were jealous of the current King’s mother, the empress dowager who was the grandmother of the current King decided to force the previous King to bestow a poison wine to his love one.

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But, the ministers were not happy with the decision that a commoner troupe have a quarter in the palace. They feel that it should not be allowed according to the law of the previous king and obviously this upset the King greatly for he felt that he was being surpressed by his subjects.

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The King and the Clown, an all time No.1 Korean Movie has its qualities of being called one. The story is about two ministrel both males who came to the capital to look for more money and one of them really has such delicate features that made him almost a woman. They then met onto fellow ministrels and challenged them during their performance.

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Gone were the days, when one woke up as early as 5.30am just to do some exercise, get breakfast and back to the bunk to do some cleaning. Life was rather routined for everyone but one thing for sure everyone has definately become fitter. Except for those who reported ill or due to certain conditions, they are posted to do lighter chores.

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This was one popular chinese joke I come across. There was a man whose nickname is “None of my business”. One day while he was walking back from the market, a passer-by came to ask him a question: “Will you mind another’s business?” He asked. “None of my business” replied: “ No, no, none of my business.”

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