Reintroduction

Hello!

Been a while since I’ve written a proper blog, which is no way to start off the year, but with being sick during the change-over from the Year of the Dragon to the Year of the Snake I’ve defined had a bit of a rocky start. 

I want to write a blog about my final numbers for the year of the Dragon, I want to write a blog about the banquet, I want to write a blog introducing my new weapon (as per the challenge that was issued a while ago), I want to share more of the art that I did for last year, I want to write a blog about last weeks meeting, but most importantly I want to get a good momentum of blogging built back up for myself. But before I can do any of that I need to write something, anything, and this is that. 

Sifu Rybak gave us the idea of introducing, or reintroducing ourselves to the team, and I thought that would be the perfect blog to get the ball rolling for me.

Hi! I’m Sihing Kayley Burke!

My favourite colour is the green you find inside a pistachio,

I have been doing Kung fu for 12 years,

I have gone my whole life without ever having a nosebleed,

The worst smell I’ve ever smelled was the inside of an owls gizzard that was accidentally punctured by someone during a zoology lab dissection in my undergrad,

I am an only child,

I have been to Madagascar,

I have over 10 fillings in my mouth,

I am best friends with a reindeer,

I once did a drawing that took me 12 hours to complete,

I was born in the year of the Earth Tiger.

Current Total

Should Be At

Push-ups

1283

1543

Sit-Ups

1000

1543

Hand Form

0

29

Weapon Form

0

29

Blogs

1

1

Sparring

4

29

AOK

13

29

Steps

52

44

Repair Relationship

0

1

Mastery Blogs

0

1

Digital Journal

0


Jaw Exercises

0

35

1-on-1's

0

1




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