Shogi Festival in Japan Club Kuala Lumpur! (Report)

Hey all,

Before I begin to talk about Shogi Festival, which was held in Japan Club Kuala Lumpur today, I would like to show the book that I have purchase via internet which has cost me roughly around RM 100.

It has 118 pages and I found it very useful for beginners because it teaches us the things we should be thinking while playing Shogi. Unless "Art of Shogi", it teaches you basic joseki (openings or fundamentals) but not too much about what we should be thinking. Therefore it is very good to have Habu's Words for Shogi players.

Alright, it's time for the report on Shogi Festival!
 

Report on Shogi Festival

Yesterday I was told that today Shogi Festival will be held in Japan Club Kuala Lumpur. One of the Japanese told me that it was starting around noon but I thought it was just a normal festival but it turns out that they were having tournaments!

A knockout tournament! I didn't knew they were having tournaments otherwise I would have join them! I shouldn't have went there at 2pm. And this is the first time in my life I've seen so many Japanese playing Shogi in Japan Club!

These are the giveaways and prizes. There are two types of categories. One is for adults and another is for children. Naoki has already finished his game so I have a game with him. Unfortunately I lost. =(   But I knew why I have lost. =)

After the tournament has ended, We were given by a small lecture on tsume Shogi by a 9-Dan pro Mr. Kenji Kobayashi. After the small talk a gift was given to the club leader as a small present...

This present actually has all the signatures of the Meijins! Do not look lightly on this prize. It is actually worth more than RM 3,000!!!

Two tables are set up and Mr. Kobayashi is going to play against 7 players at the same time, including me! He gave me two piece handicapped, Rook and Bishop. The game lasted for a long time and I lost. After all the games Mr. Kobayashi gave evalution on everyone about how well they played. Naoki has the strength of 2-Dan amateur while I have the strength of 3 kyu only. That explains why I have lost to Naoki earlier. Looks like my days of exams have really deteriorate my Shogi skills. =(   But I remember Naoki was playing against handicapped of Rook, Bishop and two Lances... Fortunately Mr. Kobayashi praised me that I have talent and might be a genius. I have never been so proud of myself in my life. =D

After that it's time to hand the prizes to the winners!

The winner of the adult category

2nd of the adults category

 

3rd of the adults category



Winner of the child category

2nd of the child category

Alot of things have been given away as presents and then it's group photo! I'm the one wearing the yellow shirt from the 2nd left...
 

With the Shogi activities over I have been invited over to a restaurant for free dinner! Talk about being lucky!
 

I was the only Malaysian there so I feel a little awkward because I couldn't speak Japanese nor fully understand it. But I'm very grateful that they're being friendly and tried to talk to me in English. =)
 

Prezzies

Speaking of which I've received a lot of presents from them! First off I've received an instant soup. =P And then...
 

Knewing that I play Shogi, they specially gave me this...
 

A book written by Mr. Kobayashi himself! It teaches you how to play Fourth File Rank Rook (Shinkenbisha). And lastly...
 

A calligraphy by Mr. Kobayashi! I really should have thank him for all these great stuffs!
 

Conclusion

It's been a long time I have enjoyed myself so much in Shogi events after AISEP. I'm glad that i have came to this festival just because I love Shogi alot. To everyone in Shogi Club in JCKL...
 

OTSUKARESAMA!

Now that I know I was 3 kyu, looks like getting 1-Dan by the end of this year will be realised soon! I'm going to work hard to achieve 1-Dan! And also I really hope I can participate more Shogi events in the future! Gambatte, Ryou! You can do it! For the sake your dream, work hard!

Regards,
Ryou Takehito

 

 

 

Shogi Full Time!

Hey all,

Today's 28th Nov so that means... exams are finally over!!! WOOHOOOOO!

With my semester ended I can finally play Shogi the whole day! Actually I'm playing Shogi at this moment and I'm taking a break right now to type this entry. I have been learning for Shogi for two straight hours so I still have 6 hours ago! It's great that I can learn Shogi full time, with at least 8 hours per day. Call me crazy, but that's how I love so much about Shogi!

On the night before my last exam, I couldn't sleep at all. Not that I was worried about my exams just because I have to take two different papers on the same day, the main reason is I was too excited about playing Shogi after exams! I found it a little scary that my obsession of Shogi is too strong but... I love this feeling! I did not force myself to learn 8 hours of Shogi. I was actually spending it just like my past-time/leisure! The sense of learning new strategies, discovering new ideas, playing against myself - it feels so great and refreshing!

Tomorrow is Saturday and I'm going to Japan Club Kuala Lumpur to play a few games of Shogi. It has been a very long time since I last visited JCKL. Hope my skills improve!

Alright everyone, I'm going to resume learning Shogi now. Take care everyone!

Regards,
Ryou Takehito

Photo Tag

Hey all,

I have receive the following thing from a friend:

1. Take a recent picture of yourself or Take your picture of yourself right now.
2. Dont change your clothes, dont fix your hair... Just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with no editing.
4. Post these intructions with your picture.
5. Tag 5 people to do this.

But the problem is... I don't have a camera! Not even a phone camera! Since I'm an impatient person, I'm suppose to answer the following questions:

Instructions: Remove any number of questions from below, and add in your personal questions, then tag any number of people in your list, list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1. What do you do most for the time being?
Internet surfing, video games and of course... SHOGI!

2. What is your favourite animal(s)?
Meow~ Cats! =3

3. What is your one regret in life?
Letting go of my first love.

4. Who inspires you?
Let's see... Koyasu Takehito and Yoshiharu Habu.

5. Tell me something I don't know about your family background.
They are strict, stricter than what you think.

6. Do you believe you can survive without money?
Yup.

7. What are you afraid to lose the most?
My Shogi stuffs.

8. What can cheer you up from sadness?
Music Music Music and Friends

9. Have you ever fall madly in love?
Once and the only one

10. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Good guy, helpful and great companion

11. What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Hardworking and loves Japan culture only.

12. What's the best thing that happened to you?
Getting my Tsume Shogi book from my friends as a birthday present.

13. What is your ambition?
Becoming a professional Shogi player. Definitely.

14. Describe your life in one word.
Hatred

15. If you had a choice to be rich or happy, which one would you pick?
None. Maybe I'll just take rich.

16. If you are told you can enter any university in this world, Oxbridge excluded, what university will you enter?
Tokyo University.

17. Who is the persons (peoples) that you can share all your problems with?
None of my friends are reliable or have the patience to listen to my problems but for now I guess it's Xinwen.

18. How do you see yourself in 10 years time?
Dead.

19. You accidentally deleted this question. What do you do?
Oopsie Daisy.

20. What is your dream job?
Voice Actor who writes story just like Koyasu Takehito. If possible I would like to become a professional Shogi player too.

Now that my part is done, I'm going to tag...

Chen Xinwen

I don't really have that many friends to tag so I'm only tagging him. Hope he doesn't slack. =3

Regards,
Ryou Takehito

Hanabi

Hey all,

You think I have forgotten about it? When I said I will post at least once every week I will definitely do it so here's the entry!

Because I have some unpleasant events in my college for the past few weeks, I started to remember about my highschool life. Then I remembered about this blog I created back then. I named it "Yami no Seikai", which means "World of Darkness" in Japanese. The blog's background is black and the font size and colour used are 12 white. And then I add a small yellow-border chatbox at the side of the blog. But what I really think it's cool is that for each post's title I used the name of the song that I'm currently in love with. Just like this post, "Hanabi" is sang by Mr. Children and I have been listening to it recently. Not only that I actually wrote about how the song's mood matches with my current mood in that blog.

Aside from that I remembered why I have created a blog called "Yami no Seikai'. You see, "Yami no Seikai" was suppose to be an organisation (or something similar like an orphanage) where people, who thinks they have no friends or feel lonely, would gather together. I seem to have forgotten about this mission over these hectic years. I'm still not sure whether I should carry this mission once again on my shoulders or not. I always hate seeing people being lonely because it reminds too much about the lonely life that I have struggled and endured over the years alone. For their sake, I want to protect them and let them know there there is always one person caring for them no matter what the circumstances are.

Anyways I have been terribly sick for four days so I don't really feel like typing out more. To make matter worse, tomorrow's my exam and I have yet to study. What the heck am I suppose to do!?

Regards.
Ryou Takehito

Experimental Story to be concluded

Hey all,

I guess it has been a very long time since I last properly post something in this journal aside from my 'experimental stories'. As you have noticed, I spend lesser and lesser time to update those segments and therefore I'm going to put a close to it, for now. Maybe because I'm lazy, maybe because I don't have the time to write it but I can ensure you that I did not run out of ideas. Writing a segment could take me at least 1 to 2 hours, with proper planning! To be frank, I did not have enough proper planning for the rest of the segment, which if I were to type out a segment now it could probably take 4 to 5 hours for me.

Nine segments have been typed out, which I'm actually impressed with myself, and there should be 4 to 5 more segments left. The other reason why I'm getting lazy to write it because I feel demotivated from not receiving any comments or remarks about it! Without any support or comments I have finally run out of passion to write it. However I still do write new stories from time to time.

I will be withdrawing all the segments temporarily and hope to post it again after I have edit, and complete the rest of the segments. At the mean time, expect to see a new story coming out for this year's Christmas, probably.

Regards,
Ryou Takehito