“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~by Og Mandino

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Boys’ Battle on Chessboard

Watching my two students – WeiSheng & YongZhang sitting face-to-face, paying full attention and taking every serious move as though one is carefully walking on the string, is indeed wonderful and interesting.

Almost everytime after the class, these two boys will always quickly rush out the classroom, put on the board and the pieces in Chinese chess and sit down opposite to each other. And, finally start their so called “Young Men’s Battle”, which is happened on the chessboard. Ha. It happened again tonight.

They both quickly setup the things and started the game after my tuition. Everyone was surrounding them and watching the competition excitingly.

During the game, YongZhang was kinda more careless and therefore, other boys had been so kind to remind him when he almost met the danger. Well, this was in fact not very encouraged because all the audience should have to keep silent when watching the game. But no one would care about this now.

In the other side, WeiSheng showed the better skill and stronger tactic than YongZhang. He would count on the next impact of his every move before he really did it. He tried to think well before act. This was what people should always have in their life. Because of his steady performance, he kept wining the game in the past. But, the history gotta be changed tonight.

Two avid players kept moving their pieces aggressively especially the chariots, the horses and canons on the board. Go horizontally, vertically, sometimes blocking the others, sometimes nearly checking the General and the most interesting part was that when one held another two at bay. Oh God. You know, it’s liked you were watching a live World Cup show. I felt a hit of adrenalin and sometimes punched the air with quiet whoop. Gosh. It got everyone so keen to know who would win in the final Armageddon.

Every dog has its day. No one would have thought that YongZhang could defeat WeiSheng. But it was true. At least for this time. Great! Congrats boy. May be you should buy a meal for your friends who had been supporting you through the whole game. Ha~

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