2010 Most Memorable Moments & Highlights

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To share with you, here are just some of the precious moments I had this year =)

H I G H L I G H T S

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  • Making of ‘A Single Step’

  • CinemAsia Film Festival

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  • Birthday Party

  • Raften

  • Hong Kong

  • China Festival Utrecht

  • GTST

  • Ataraxia

  • NCRV TV SHOW ‘Ik weet waar jouw huis woont’


  • Wu Dao Kungfu Group

Wu Dao Dragons – Koon Chan, Alex Cheung, David Moh.

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS

Most Luckiest moment

Winning the CinemAsia Shorts Entries

Sweetest moment

Getting kissed on my cheek by ..

Funniest moment

Australian Ice Salon incident

Most exciting moment

The minutes backstage before our entrance @ China Festival

Most emotional moment

When playing the piano, thinking about the moments.

Most touching moment

Girl friend cooking for me

Most frustrated moment

caused by a girl friend

Most uncovering moment

with Keren & Grace

Most horrible moment

Shu Yung Lam murdered

Most discouraging moment

Exam board disapproved my internship @ Int. cross media company

Most Exploded moment

Fight @ Pizza store

Most Hollywood Action Movie moment

A2 Racer to Amsterdam Premiere ‘A Single Step’ film festival

Most timeless moment

Lying on the snow, watching all the snow flakes falling down . . .

Most Romantic moment

Meteor Rain at the beach

Most Beautiful moment

Premiere ‘A Single Step’

Most Relaxing moment

Hot bathing after a long day of filming

Most feel good moment

When I think about life

Most LOL moment

Having fun with sales girl in Hong Kong Shopping mall with YL

Most ROFL moment

a lot

Most Sexy moment


Most Hippie moment

Driving too fast on the fast lane in Dark Angel, enjoying the sun and music. Suspected as Chinese Triads in a run away deal, almost got away but stopped by cops at the traffic light (it was red). [Read the full story at : come back later]

Most Dangerous Moment

Most crowded K-night


Most Shocking Party


Most All You Can Eat Moment

@ Stella’s birthday (restaurant)

Most frightening Sushi diner

Overload of sushi’s @ Sushi Today

Most WTF moment

being chased/robbed after screening ‘A Single Step’ by group of youngsters

Most inspirational moment

JUMP Martial Arts Slapstick Comedy show

Most heavenly dinner

Most Healthy moment

Jogging to the Wudang Mountain

Most adventurous moment

Sealand trip

Free as a bird moment

When driving in my Celica.

Most thankful moment

Now

Most happiest moment

Well, I can’t remember this, but it should be some kick ass fun!

I Love You All for making my life so colorful! When I close my eyes, I can picture those wonderful moments with you my dear, ~ Love my family, love my friends and every single one of you for the love you share with me.

I feel lucky to be one of the seven billion people on earth. Enjoy life! ~

Leave me a comment if you like this blog. I would definitely appreciate it, every single comment motivates and encourages me to create and share =) It could be anything! opinion, expression, ideas or even complaints! (as long as they are about others =P ) I’m just kidding.

‘If you love life, don’t wast time. For time is what life is made up of.’ So true.

Cheers to life!

Alex Cheung

XieXie! 70 Likes on Fb

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Thank you all for supporting me, at least to like this Facebook page! Every single new like gives me energy to continue my passion for film making/promoting Chinese martial arts and its philosophy/ able to share this with you makes me feel so lucky. I’ll keep up the blogs and hopefully work on aCreations when I have more time. For now I will actively work on Wudao and media. I hope to inspire and help more people in the future. Cheers to life and may you all attain success in your own values!

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~ Wish you all a Merry Christmas! ~

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Ps. Did you know that ‘XieXie’ means Thank you in Chinese!

ACSU Wushu class

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KUNGFU KIDS !! Cool Right?

The first two weeks of the Wushu class was like oh my gosh, how did I land with those naughty kids?!

But after some weeks, I remember their names and the kids are starting to listen. So that makes it a bit easier. Some are really cute, some are very naughty. I think I must got my patient from my mother’s side, because most of them are teachers. And my father would do it more in the traditional strict and nervous way.

Working with kids is different, I try to be interactive and strict at times. Kids are playful.

Watching those kids doing Wushu makes me remember the old days, when I was just like one of them.

These pictures are taken after some weeks of training. We have one hour training session each Saturday.

To learn the art, one should be patient,

To teach the art, one should be patient,

Patience is vital to a good learner.

Patience is vital to a good teacher.

Wise man: Don’t give up, if this is the way.

China Festival Show [Backstage]

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(Excuse me for blogging back in time, please see it as a flashback right =P )

Well, first of all thanks Kit our networking manager for giving me the opportunity to cooperate with Kosmopolis and so to give you guys a great show. As you know I was in Hong Kong this late summer. I just left my friends apartment at Cathay City in Hong Kong, crossing the Tsing Ma Bridge when he called me up for this event and we talked for half an hour a long distance call. When I was back in Holland, I contacted Kosmopolis who is organising this China Festival. It is a very interesting event because it was the celebration of Chinese overseas who established in Utrecht a 100 years ago and also the Chinese Moonfest, so very meaningful. But the missing part was to involve the younger generation in this event apart from all the traditional activities such as Chinese Opera, Acrobatics, traditional dance and instrumental playings. There were also looking for some modern art etc. So, I was programmed in this big event along with my short film ‘A Single Step’. Then I started to contact our Kungfu Performing team and did the choreography and rehearsal. I was happy to ask around in my network and tip my friends to participate in this event .  . Because you can’t be successful alone, you need each other!

Carmen our hard working volunteer, look how happy she is!

To me, it was very challenging to have a good Kungfu show in front of so many people on stage of Stadschouwburg Theatre. Remembering when I was a kid watching shows in the same theater.           July 1998

I was so excited about it and able to do something for the Chinese community, promoting the culture to different societies is really great! It is meaningful and you can learn so many things and the experience it’s just goood.. It brightens up my life more and more! And I hope you guys are enjoying it too!

Oké, enough talkies, time for some pics right? 😉

Here are some VIP BACKSTAGE PICTURES

wow, this plug is huge!                                                         and the floor was kind of hard . .  ouch

The big day =)

This is the place where we transformed ssssst, and I was wearing my artists bracelet which able me to get access to the backstage and of course the food supply =)

Well, this is my auntie. She has taken care of me for a while when I was kid. I am happy to see her here, sharing the stage with her and our thoughts about the performance. She’s part of the Chinese traditional dance group.

Nervous?  Of course more or less we are, especially the last few minutes before the show, but once on stage you are so focused to your performance that you forget about it. The most exciting moment to me was when we were upstairs at the top row of the balcony looking down on the stage, fully crowded. That was really amazing. It felt like butterflies in your stomach. Standing next to me was Koon, I remember that moment; Koon, we are performing there on stage . . man, that’s amazing, wow!

5 minutes left, we were getting ready backstage. It was quite funny at that special moment, because we all had our own posture. Koon was lying on the ground looking to the cool blue ceiling and David was meditating, the other was lying flat on the floor, everyone has its own way to release, which was quite special. We were waiting for the technical sign, I saw the previous performing group walk by, then I heard one of the Chinese opera performers whispering my name, and I walked to the woman in the beautiful emperor’s costume. At first sight I couldn’t recognize her, but it is another auntie of mine! So I to talked to her spontaneously and she answered immediately: Ssssst.. the microphone on my neck is turned on! So everybody could hear us talking haha

My auntie doing the Make Up

The sphere was great! Really love being on stage entertaining the audience, for the fans and warm applause! Love you guys!

I want to thank everybody for coming. It was a wonderful day and love all  the great responses!

Alex Cheung training Butterfly Twist

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The Butterfly Twist. Somewhere deep in my childhood memories, remembering my Wushu Sifu in his white shaolin vest demonstrated it in those days. Wow, I still find it very cool.

Realizes more and more that for demonstration purposes, showing kungfu is not enough, what is useful does not always looks good. Especially if not a practitioner of kungfu you can easily be blinded by the fancy movements and flying kicks etc. which the average spectator applause for.

So I decided to take some time of my training schedule to learn more of these good looking moves . .

Mystery Kungfu Man

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This evening, I have met someone very interesting and inspiring to me.
I went to a local Ving Tsun School to check out how their lessons are given, and hopefully to pick up something. I had made an appointment with the instructor to come by. Then I told Kithang about it and he picked up Koon and Waila where they just had kungfu training. So we arrived at the Ving Tsun School. Then Kithang yelled; I need to fight ten! But there were only 6 students. No, I’m joking. But it was really like we are in for a challenge. Later on my friends left the school because the instructor didn’t appreciated people watching alongside..
I had a chat about Vingtsun and he checked my background, I just said I do kungfu but not this style, and asked about their lineage. This was the Wong Shun Leung line, who is a student of Yip Man. Also trainer/sihing of Bruce Lee. To me it was quite confusing, not trying to show my kungfu knowledge but actually repeating the same moves and theory that I already know. The worst part was when the instructor sent a student to teach me the first basic form. I almost did the complete form, he was like, wow this guy picks it up really fast. Then they did some sticky hands which is the most interesting part of it. But I was not surprised. In my opinion the lesson was quite boring and not inspiring to me at all. There was a lack of sphere and spirit. The class was not energized.
After the class at ten, one of the students came to me. He said; Young man, are you the kungfu man on the tv show?
AC: Yeah, we all look alike, but I’m not Jackie, neither jet nor Donnie.
Mystery man; You must be the wingchun master from Hong Kong to check out our kungfu right?!
AC: Haha, I wish I am. Nice to meet you, I’m Alex Cheung.
We both laughed and so we started talking about Kungfu. Bak Mei, the different lineage of Vingtsun or Wingchun, Leung Ting, Wan Kam Leung and Wong Shun Leung. He also practiced Bak Mei so we had things common. When everybody went home, we were standing at the street talking about Kungfu. He said to me: Finally, I found someone really knows about Kungfu! Well, that is what I can tell you is not very often, first you’ll need to have the chance to meet up someone who is willing to share with you about the inner thoughts, then you’ll have to be aware of the existence. Otherwise you wouldn’t even notice when a master is standing in front of you, ha ha ha and missing all the heavenly glory. I believe there are always good and bad things, if you are open minded, you’ll able to find the balance. Just when I thought I wasted my time at the gym court I met this inspiring person. It made me think of my Bak Mei master. So pure, just standing at mid street in the dark with some streetlights doing kungfu. Very cool silent sphere in the midnight darkness.
We showed some movements, and surprisingly the old man did a split in front of me! We talked about the internal kungfu essence until someone opened up the window and yelled: Quite! People are obviously trying to sleep. I check the time and we’ve talked for 2 hours! Wow, isn’t it amazing. Wushu one family. It doesn’t matter you have age difference or what nationality you have, it connects martial artists.

The deepness of Kung Fu . . .

Tai Chi Helps Fibromyalgia Pain

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That a Kung Fu practitioner have a stronger body and mind, is a common saying. But does it really improves ones health? Well, in this article Fibromyalgia patients benefited from Tai Chi.

To start with, Fibromyalgia produces pain in the muscles, ligaments and tendons. The nervous system processes pain. The common symptoms are: Pain, Fatigue, Memory and Concentration, Sleep Disorders.

Fibromyalgia patients who took tai chi classes twice a week for three months experienced less pain, stiffness, and fatigue than a control group that attended lifestyle education and stretching sessions, according to the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Read more about this story at: www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH

Why are thousands of people gathering in National Parks of China  to do Tai Chi in the early morning? Because they know that Tai Chi is a real good meditating method to benefit from.

The practice of Tai Chi promotes the circulation of chi within the body, encouraging wellness and vitality of the person. Although many of these movements originally comes from the martial arts, this art form has developed into an exercise meant for relaxation and reduction of stress.

I personally like Tai Chi a lot. It’s movement in calmness and Stillness within motion. Formless as Wind, Fluent as Water and strong as rock. It includes elements of the Taoism and teaches us to center ourselves both emotionally and physically. Tai Chi practitioners builds up tremendous inner leg strength. The Beauty of the Tai Chi movements, filled with relaxation and that flowing sudden explosiveness. The picture next here seems beautiful, but is unfortunately not a form of Tai Chi.

In the old days most of the people practice Martial Arts to defense itself and the weaker. Nowadays, people practice Kung Fu to maintain its body health, or simply because of interest. Some practices it to gain confidence, discipline and respect, the other does it for a living and so on . .

How about you?