La Connexion Française - The Ezekiel Ryan Ho BLOG

Mikio Yahara
{ 10:20 PM }

I was doing some reading on Karate takedowns and I found the Yahara Crab Claws, which is basically a scissor takedown. So I dug deeper, and this is what I found:

"Mikio Yahara is a Japanese Shotokan karateka and Chief Instructor of the Karatenomichi World Federation. After graduating from Kokushikan University, he became Kenshusei in the Japanese Karate Association and had a competitive career from 1974-84. In April 2000 he established the Karatenomichi World Federation (KWF). The KWF is a Shotokan karate association that is dedicated to developing technical excellence. Yahara believes that the purpose of Karate is to be able to destroy an opponent with one killing blow." - Source: Wikipedia

Talk is cheap, and actions speak louder than words. So check out for yourself the raw ability of Yahara sensei in the following videos. Enjoy!

I'm loving his reaction speed and raw aggression
Zeke

June 30, So sick.
{ 8:50 PM }

For the first time in 4 years, I'm sick.

So I started thinking.

Oh yeah, did I mention that a douchebag dropped a 5-foot table on my lower spine on Monday night and it hurts when I punch now? And all that sick wank could do was smile.

I've been going out so much lately that I totally forgot how miserable it is to just stay at home and do nothing. So I started reading the news on the internet. Not the enriching variety, the trashy variety. And I found out. . . a whole garbage load of garbage. Like how there are so many kids who puff their chest out and bark more than they bite, and bite like Paris Hilton's chihuahua which means it's technically not even a bite. In English?

I found this blog where kids actually organise "fights" and live by the motto which disgusts me the most - "Brothers for life". Enough of those losers though, this blog is too hot for such tripe.

List of things I wish to accomplish by the end of July:

- Mastery of Yahara Crab Claws and Kani Basami
- Mastery of Osoto Gari and other takedowns which can be used in Karate
- Mastery of Ura Mawashi and Do Mawashi
- A thicker, fatter wardrobe!
- Cable skiing
- 35 Knuckle Push Ups per set
- A more solid defense
- A new FB display picture

Long list? Not really. Tedious? Not really. Sporty? Really.

I've gotta stop snacking out so much, it's become a real hazard for me. From now on I'm just sticking to the 3 basic meals everyday, with lots of fruits and vegetables. Alright, fruits not so much. . . vegetables more so.

Due to my injuries, I won't be partaking in anymore exercises or trainings this week, which means I'll be left bored at home most of the time. But nothing beats looking forward to this Saturday, which is the only one true awesome day of the week (for this week)!

Oh yeah, @Noah: Dude, I just linked you, do the same for me and look forward to training with you next week!

Note to self: Rest well,
Zeke

June 17, The Chronicles of CRMCC
{ 7:42 AM }

Finally settling into the CRMCC lifestyle!

The previous batch of CRMCC-ers were mostly awesome people, everything I look for in people is present - enthusiasm, outgoingness, randomness, outbursting abilities, and most importantly, extroverted. You will not believe how many introverted (and mentally twisted) people there are in Singapore!

With that said, I think it's only fair to mention that our batch of CRMCC-ers are equally (or maybe more) awesome people than our previous batch; it's hard to say now, only time will tell. But as bimbos of the long-gone era of the year 2008 used to say, "We're like, gonna be bff's. Totally~!".

On the whole, I'd say CRMCC is just like what a real life working experience is like. It's as far as we can get to what our futures will look like - if we screw up in school. All that we can do is to study hard hard hard, I guess! OMG I sound like some dork, scratch that last statement and replace it with this: "All we can do is work smart smart smart!". Way better!

I've been watching so many fighting videos on YouTube everyday, I'm only surprised that they haven't run out of material for me to watch. Every style has it's pros and cons, and based on this video I watched, Judo + Karate = WMD. Don't believe me? Check it out yourself:

Also, I'm thinking of bringing this awesome outdoor game concept into Singapore, hopefully by this coming Halloween. Ever thought of what it'd be like to experience a Zombie apocalypse? Or simply put, ever thought of playing L4D in real life? That's pretty much the whole idea for Humans VS Zombies, but what we'd need is

1. A large, empty premise, preferably an abandoned office building or similar
2. NERF guns for each individual player
3. Clean socks to be used as melee weapons
4. Armbands for the zombies
5. Student cards for each player
6. Financial funding from some external organisation
7. A commitee of people who are fun loving, but hate the great outdoors, for planning

Point number 7 is almost impossible - after all, which fun loving person doesn't like the great outdoors? There ARE exceptions though, but I usually classify those people as freaks. Who are they exactly? Hmmm lemme think. . . oh yeah, PEOPLE WHO ARE ALMOST ADULTS BUT INSIST ON SPENDING 40 - 70% OF THEIR AWAKE TIME PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES. Then again, planning will be tedious but rewarding. We'll see who's up to it and decide from there! For now, all I wanna do is make calls calls calls and CALLS.

I'm a phone - sex maniac (not in a dirty way)
Zeke

T - H - T - H
{ 8:08 AM }

For all the confounded, it's T__ H_T T_ H___L_. Got that?

Zeke

June 14, Je Veux Ton Amour
{ 7:50 AM }

Hola compadres, I know I haven't been blogging as much but here goes.

World Cup fever? Naw, I didn't catch it. It's bad enough that 22 men are chasing after the same ball on a field, and worse still that millions/ billions of people are chasing after the action on their tellies, but to lie about liking soccer just to fit in the crowd? God would strike me down with divine spite for that.

For every sucker who says they actually like soccer, mention that you were surprised that Maradona won the World Cup for Italy and if they nod, douse them in cold beer. That's a light penalty for lying through their bleeding teeth. Anyways, I think I'll catch up on it during the semi-finals. It's a. . . family tradition.

What have I been up to? I'll post some of what I've been up to in the next blog entry, I just. . . I'm just head over heels in love with it. Just SO in love with it. I mean seriously, I can't stop talking about it, I think Kenneth was gonna go loco if I so much as mentioned it one more time.
Wanna find out what it is? Stay tuned and find out more!

Sounds cliche? Yeah I know, but then again 76% of you out there are trend zombies anyway, so it doesn't matter much.

Was posted to CRMCC today, went for a 9 to 5 session of pure snorefest-ism and got knocked out on the way home. I have absolutely no idea why - but when I'm at home, I can forego lunch and breakfast and not give a crap about it. But when I'm in school, all the warning sirens go off the moment I get within 5 meters of Koufu or McDonald's.

I've utterly given up changing my blog display picture. The ugly girl in the two icons you see has won, and I'm only saying this grudgingly. I'll leave it as it is.

Next post - Ezekiel Ryan Ho's big love!
Zeke

June 04, Hollywood can suck my. . . wood.
{ 9:10 PM }

I can proudly say something that 97% of the people in the world can never say: My shoe got stuck in the escalator and jammed the entire thing. And not just your average escalator too, one in the middle of Orchard Road.

Okay let's face it, it's nothing to be proud of, but I will repeat the 3 words I said that day -

THIS - IS - AWKWARD.

On a more positive note, it made an innocuous day meant to be spent watching Shrek a tad livelier. For one thing, it sure as hell got a 6/5 from my resident movie critic, as opposed to the 3/5 she gave Shrek. Eat my dust, Hollywood!

Speaking of Hollywood, I have 3 words for you people -

BURN - IN - HELL.

Stop doing remakes of classics, unless you're gonna make the storyline better. Even so, just don't touch them. And I'm dead serious about this. For example, you wouldn't drag your grandma to the nearest nip/tuck clinic just because she looks old, would you. What're you gonna do, give her Megan Fox's body?

Moral of the story - If you're a scriptwriter/ director from Hollywood, and you've run out of plots to use, stop digging in the trashcan and come up with something new. And if you don't have something new, travel! Go to different parts of the world, see new things, and make new movies. But don't you dare hybridise movies - if I so much as see a Haruman School Musical or a Top Gandhi in the cinemas, I'm gonna turn my attention to Japanese/ Korean/ Hong Kong/ Taiwan (ok maybe not)/ British movies.

And I'm not just speaking for myself, but for every other red blooded, patriotic, movie - lovin' person in this world.

In other news. My body hurts like hell and there's nothing I can do about it. Once upon a time, when I was younger, I thought I could do anything and get away with it. But now one year later, everytime I do something I have to reconsider, or risk hurting my bones/ joints/ muscles.

I am, as they say, an old man in a kid's body.
Zeke