All about Kurohane

I felt the need to make this thread because of my name. Type 'yo' or 'you you' and I'll twitch. My name irl is Youyou (pronounced yo-yo), that is why I don't have any nicknames (well, it was Death for a short while before everyone agreed that nothing is cooler than my actual name).

So now onto specifics. Let's see, in the Japanese fashion, I'm a virgo, born in the year of the ram with blood type B.

Current occupation: College student. Which college you ask? I'll give you a hint, it's the most famous of the 7 sisters. So if I fail to understand your Y chromosome, forgive me, I'm not around that chromosome that often. Anyway, if you're wondering how I manage to find time to play RO in such a cutthroat environment, I can't answer you because I have no idea how I manage.

Gemini all the way.

ima Scorpio

Im LEO!! ^^ ram so im Horse?
1 of seven sister ??? o.o

You haven't heard of the Seven Sisters?

wat?

Read all about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(colleges)

Someone look up my birthday an tell me what I am. <.< Writing down things like this might help me to remember them..

College is hard, but RO fits pretty well between studying, or can run Treasure Hunter Guild quests between writing notes. But whatever, There is always room for JellRO. Yo-yo? Where are you from? Don't get names that cool in the US, thats for sure.

Kurohane wrote:

Read all about it here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(colleges)

They look pretty o.o
Im jaleous

I'm from China originally. I grew up in China until the age of 7, and that's when I moved to the US! I speak fluent Chinese (most people won't be able to tell that I was raised in US), which a lot of Chinese adults marvel at (since most kids who come that young loose their Chinese). Youyou (spelled using Chinese pinyin) is a nickname resulting from a fight between mom and dad about my official name. BTW, dad won and gave me a name that's not easily recognized and mom settled with giving me a nickname. So my dad's side of the family calls me by my official name, and my mom's side calls me Youyou. Since English speakers can't pronounce my official name, I settled with the pronounceable name.

Your're not the only one who's jealous Dama. I hear a lot of the MIT girls are too.

When you say you speak Chinese do you mean Cantonese or Mandarin? I need to find someone who can teach me Cantonese so I can eventually finish my training without going over there making an ass out of myself. Is the O accented with a rise, fall, both, or flat?

MIT girls?

Arc Wrath wrote:

When you say you speak Chinese do you mean Cantonese or Mandarin? I need to find someone who can teach me Cantonese so I can eventually finish my training without going over there making an ass out of myself. Is the O accented with a rise, fall, both, or flat?

LOL. I speak Mandarin. I don't get why you need to speak Cantonese since it's only a dialect. Everyone is supposed to be able to speak Mandarin. Plus, kids in China start learning English in 4th grade. Most people choose to finish martial arts training in Shaolin. Where are you thinking of going? As to your question of the O, Chinese is a tonal language, meaning we have tones. The O can be accented with a flat, rise, fall then rise, or fall (in that order; we call these the 4 tones) along with all the other vowels. Start with pinyin if you want to learn the language.

Ha, didn't expect some round eye to know anything did you? =P I understand the rises and falls, but I just need to start learning words. Thing is though I never know if I'm saying it right, since I can't get a formal teacher. Don't suppose your a fan of voice chat. >.> I know a lot of today's children learn English, but a lot of Hung Gar masters are usually old. An I'm just going out on a limb here that they use a lot of metaphors. An if some student is trying to translate the master for me an gets it wrong, then I won't ever get it right. x_X

...martial arts is physical. You only would have to know how to meditate and control your chi. But sure, I can chat with you via Skype. I've been tutoring college students in Mandarin since 6th grade. It's interesting how you prefer Hung Gar to Shaolin, since Shaolin is by far what people want to learn when they think martial arts. Well, the fighting monks are more famous. To be able to understand metaphors that the old master might use, you need extensive knowledge of the classical texts which most colleges students in China don't even have complete mastery of.

Cool, I'll have to put some effort into fixing my mike. For some reason my sound card doesn't want to detect it. >.> The reason I want to learn Hung Gar over Shaolin is very sad. When the Communist take over happened, and most over the temples were destroyed, a lot of text and information was destroyed as I'm sure you know. Even more tragic, the fluent motions of the Shaolin were mixed with...*shiver*....figure skating.. A lot of this can be easily noticed in today's Wushu. I believe it is these practitioners that make the martial arts community look weak when compared to MMgAy. BTW, Grand Circle FTW. When standing in Horse for a long time I use it to keep myself from falling. I feel like Goku powering up. xD

I feel like the all martial arts have a common root. The basics are the same across all forms.

And that's an interesting point about figure skating. I didn't know that and I used to be a figure skater.

Anyway, here are some photos of me performing at New Years:



And here's a picture of me with my friend:

Thats pretty cool looking. Like in the first picture you posted though, that pose? Just looking at it looks totally figure skating. A little PS and bam, you could be gliding across a frozen lake. All the photos from the events we go to / host usually don't look 'cool.' That and I usually look like garbage afterward, for sure if it is a sash test. x_X Nothing as fun as have to exercise as hard as you can then spar a guy with a name spelled Demon. (De-mon is how its pronounced.)

you guys make me feel like i don't do anything fun at all ._.

Admin Kaze wrote:

you guys make me feel like i don't do anything fun at all ._.

Aww, I'm sorry man. You should move down here and join our school! I'd be more than happy to teach you how fun Horse stance is. xD

I was a figure skater too. Now I can't find a rink. I'm going to have to wait until our school's lake freezes up.

And btw Kaz, it requires money to do activities most of the time. Don't feel bad. Try to find out about as many free events as possible. It helps if you're on mailing though.

Yes, things are overly expensive. Luckly you can train at Lang & Derrik's training hall for the low LOW price of 30$ a month! Thats right! You can pay triple that amount learning crappy Tae Kwon Do from some fool. Act now, and your likely to be given FREE Gung Fu gear that Lang stores in his shed! (I'ma be Billy Maze replacement. =D )

My placed jacked up the prices once I got to green belt. They were like, you have to take more classes specifically for higher level students and it costs $100 now. That was another reason I quit.

all the free things you can do is boring, all my stories i have are about how i have hurt myself doing stupid stuff ._.