[public roda]

ok picture posted. now on with the entry.

yesterday i mixed up the actual dates to my btt retest. lol. apparently i was 1 month early. i'm always embarrassing myself there. just my luck. so yeah i had planned on going to the public roda at orchard road after the btt. so since there was no btt i went straight there. i didnt realise i was early for it until i looked at my watch. but nvm my friend told me abt a video rental store in far east plaza which sells martial arts videos. so i went and take a look. bought 2 capoeira vcds and 1 muay thai vcd. $48 in all. i'm not good at bargaining. lol. anyways i heard that the argola capoeira team have weekly rodas at orchard too,infront of takashimaya i think,so i went to find them. didnt have much luck but i sat down and really saw orchard road for the first time. i saw many shutterbugs and weird groups of people holding up signs like "FREE HUGS". anyways,it was almost 3.30pm and was choking from all the cigarette smoke so i went to borders(the bantus team has rodas there).

ok i am seriously a shy person. like freaking shy. i even admit running away from a friend just because she makes me nervous. but i'm not giving names. anyway,i went there and i saw them gathered there so i got nervous. i went into borders and took a look around. that place is like a library which sells books. i think its got everything. probably the best book store around in my opinion. found some interesting stuff there like romance books and martial arts books which i'm going to get someday. so anyways i tried finding a place to watch the bantus team without being noticed. i found one and its really weird. its like at a corner of the building. my description is crap. but u gotta see it urself to know it. so anyways i stood there watching them play. it was fun. the seniors are really really good. i wouldnt dream of going against them anytime soon. i saw claudinho of course. he looked really happy when he's playing. especially when he managed to take a person down ( which was often). wouldnt dream of going against him either. anyways while up there,2 girls came to the place and eventhough they tried to hide it were disappointed that i was there. so after plucking up enough courage i left the place and went down to see it up close.

there were loads of people gathered there just to see the roda. which i think is cool. u dont see many interesting things around nowadays. i saw some of the sp capoeira mates and went to them. talked abit and then watched the performance. super exhilirating. the girls were great the guys were awesome. mann..i'm jealous. claudinho was there singing his lungs out. and when he finally saw me he asked to clap and join in the circle but i didnt want to. i needed to go off soon to meet my parents. i took a crappy video which i just uploaded on youtube. lol. then he came over (my heart was pumping like mad ah) and asked how i was. he shook my hand and before i could answer was pulling me towards the roda. i stopped him(reluctantly of course. his hand was so comforting,eventhough he must have touched the floor so many times and it was sweaty too, i didnt want to let go). he said "just stand and clap!" i said no i need to meet my mother. i couldnt think straight. then he closed one eye, pointed a finger at me and gave me a "you're lying" look which was abso-fucking-lutely adorable i was speechless. then i said "really!" and he just walked towards the other sp capoeira mates and made them join. i sorta felt bad but relieved at the same time. i kept looking at my watch and left reluctantly again. bleah.

as u can imagine i was feeling high. haha! so i went down the escalators to the mrt station and as u know there are 2 sets of escalators. i took the long way down because i realised that nobody was taking that one. i almost took another escalator when i realised that its not moving and that there were loads of people gathered at the bottom of it. so i took the stairs and i found out why. i saw a chinese girl with a pink get-up with her hand stuck inside a hole in the escalator. u know the whole where the handrest goes in. weird but i was feeling to high to care. i just took the mrt home and was hitting my head on the mrt walls recalling what just happened to me.

i'm still recoiling from the shock right now. i miss him already. i hope he doesnt hate me but he probably does now. bleah. i gotta go now. exams coming and i havnt even studied. damn it all. bye and take care.