ChongQing Acrobatics Troupe

Today's bla : When I was sitting inside the bus one day, I heard this kid asking another kid : ''What comes into your mind when you hear ''Dragon Ball?'', the other kid answered : ''Asians''
Kids nowadays... pure racists!

Squeezing inside a bus packed like sardines isn't really that bad. But squeezing inside a bus packed like sardines with one person blasting a big bomb of fart is really bad.

There was a double celebration for the 60 years of New China and 150 years of Brisbane on Saturday at the SunCorp Stadium at South Bank. Like any other celebration, speeches are boringly-long and people attending the event squeezed worse than sardines pack.

One thing I noticed about the night : Asians have no ''excuse me'' and ''thank you's''. Never expect either one from them. I am trashing my own race because frankly, I think it's true. (of course, there're also minorities out there with decent manners)

When my family and I want to get some seats, everyone was like shouting and pushing their way for a seat. Because the tickets weren't numbered, vicious kids and agressive asian parents were just fanatic in grabbing seats.

Anyways in Australia, the Brisbane's Chinese Community has a very good relationship with ChongQing (重庆), China and thus this celebration notes the 60 glorious years of democracy and good accountability. As such, like any celebration, performances were lined up professionally.

But what caught the near-1000 audiences on Saturday night was the performances brought by the ChongQing Acrobatics Troupe. It is not because of their frequent acts (11 various performances) but it's because of their awesome acrobats and gymnatics.

ChongQing being one of the most populated municipality of the People's Republic of China's four provincial-level municipalities, they have established the Municipal Troupe where athletes and professional stage performers who are skilled in acrobats and gymnatics performances travel the world and awe people with their extraordinary feats.

What they can do with their own human bodies put everyone clapping and cheering with utmost enthusiasm. To be frank, I actually laughed at those men wearing tight-ftting gymnastic gear that shows their ''little brother down there''. I am sure most of the people watching would agree with me but when they start twisting and turning, we were shocked and awed like we've lost our own ''little brothers''.

One of the amazing feats acrobats-gymnasts can do is the art of balancing. They can balance almost everything! From placing balls and balls on a stick which is balanced on the nose to doing a complete ballet spin on the shoulder of the partner. Heck, I think they can balance 10 eggs on a spoon!

To travel the world in continents afar, leaving their homeland and venture into the unknown based and equipped with skills, those Chinese acrobats and gymnasts have a knack of making people from all over the world go ''ooh'', ''aah'', definitely loads of ''wow''.

Somehow I admire these people not for their talent ; but their enthusiasm, determination and the passion to perform on-stage. They can't perform by sheer luck or 3 months training. Instead, they start training and stretching their bodies like rubber gloves as soon as they could walk. It's the passion I am in awed of. All in all, they opened my eyes, entertained me and actually taught me something simple I took away after the show : ''Gotta Love what you do, no matter what ; and be good at it''

Oh and by-the-way, I asked my mumm this question on our way home : "Mumm, do you think it's cool if I give up everything and join the ChongQing troupe back to China for training?"

"You will end up in hospital."

Oh mi mummy of little faith...

You know you love me, JOsh