Stitching, Hiding and Pondering

OK, it’s been a while. I’m towards the end of the course that I may have mentioned before but haven’t really described at all. I prefer to talk about making clothes, or fashion, but actually it’s a sewing course which doesn’t sound half as cool (or acceptable). I sometimes wonder what bizarre mix is under my skin, that I’m interested in kung fu and sewing.

Anyhow, most of the learning that I do is very familiar and basically revolves around academic cramming, and rapidly absorbing information. I’m quite surprised to learn that this also works with totally unrelated skills – I’m finding that I can pick up the skills on the course quick rapidly for the same reasons that I’ll learn a new technology quickly.

The part which I really shouldn’t mention is that I’m making a blouse in class at the moment. It’s stripy. It was either stripes or birds, and the birds were brown. Now I wouldn’t say that brown birds are bad, but the stripes were better in my head. The part which is even more amusing is that I’ve already made a miniature blouse to learn the various skills involved and to practice.

Right, now that I’ve covered one half of my brain, I should briefly describe the other. I’ve been hanging around with Dan recently and I’m seriously considering returning to Wing Chun after realising how much I seem to love going on about Kung Fu without having actually returned to training. I’ve had a little time to recover and come back to myself after a few years of heavy commuting, and it seems like a suitable time to cut the excuses and make a comeback. I might have a slaparound with a few familiar faces before heading back, but the whole thing is starting to seem quite appealing.

On a totally unrelated note, the next book I’ll be reading is Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith which came out recently. I would have already been stuck in, but the old, faithful technical section at Folyes came up blank. I would imagine they have good enough taste to have ordered some stock, so might check back again in the next few days.