Swing Analysis
Kakak went for a one-hour golf lesson with Tony on Sunday 12/3/2006. Tony was pleseantly surprised with Kakak's swing mechanics even though Kakak stopped going for lesson for the last two years.
Tony asked Kakak to hit a few balls so that he can video tape the swing and load the video into the computer for analysis (to compare her swing with Tiger Woods and Ernie Els). Photo below showed Kakak and Tony during the swing analysis.
The photo below showed the swing sequence with some marking made by Tony to point out some areas which need improvement.
The first frame (top) showed Kakak's arms were close together and this need to be improve. The first frame of the second row showed her "casting" problem where the arm is not corked enough which result in early release.
In the next swing sequence, Kakak was taped from the side.
In this sequence Kakak was shown to have problems in gripping the club (second frame top - her finger was shown to be dangling) and the hip was not pependicular to the target line (second frame bottom) which indicated she did not rotate properly during impact.
Play Golf
I played 27 holes of golf last Friday.
In the morning, I played 9 holes of golf with Kakak. We paid for 18-hole but since Kakak's game was not up to my expectation, we decided to stop half-way.
After Friday prayer, I played 18-hole of golf at Monterez with my group of high school friends kopo, aeyol, and juki. My game was bad except for the last few holes.
The Power of Love
I learned something today from my birdie.
Around noon today, one of the chicks (the smaller size) dropped from the nest. I tried help the chick but it flew away. Then the second chick also flew leaving the nest. Both of the chicks ended up in the tree nearby.
A few minutes later, the mother came back with food but could not find the chicks. I could see the sadness in the behavior of the mother. It then when looking for the chicks and flew to and fro for a few times. I think after a while it managed to find both of the chicks in the nearby tree.
The whole afternoon, I spent my time watching the mother bird (in between my meetings) trying to get the chicks to fly into the nest. At last at 6:40pm the mother successfully get both chicks to fly back into the nest. I watched the mother spent a few minutes fending off the attacker and also to pacify the chicks before it flew again. This time to bring food for the hungry chicks.
At this moment, the mother is busy feeding the hungry chicks.
It bring tears to my eyes watching how strong the love of a mother towards its chicks.
Coaching for Kakak
I have arranged for golf coaching for Kakak
- Sunday March 12, 2006 at 11:00am
- Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 11:00am
She will be coached by Tony Maloney - Director of Golf and AAA Member Australia PGA at Pro Tour Golf Learning Centres located at Glenmarie GCC
Want to See My Birdie?
I want to do the unthinkable. I am going to expose my birdie for all of you to see. Are you ready? What I am going to do is to reveal bit by bit and finally will show a bit of head.....
Here we go.....
Now let see a bit of head....
The birdie started to nest a bout a month ago...
The birdie constructed the nest right outside of my office by sticking the nest onto my glass window (see photo below). I think within this two to three days, the chicks (I think there are two chicks) will be ready to explore their world and leave the nest.
My Family
One of the latest photos that I have of my family. The picture was taken during my employer's family day gathering. The only one missing from the photo was my second child. She had to attend the UPSR clinic at National Museum on that day.
Another Golf Game Planned
My daughter will come home for mid-semester holiday on March 9 and I planned to take her for another round of golf on a day after. Hopefully she will improve on her game.
A few weeks ago I met her former coach Tony Maloney at Glenmarie Golf Club. He told me that he just got back from a Junior Golf Tournament and the players from East Coast just the same standard as my daughter if not worse. Tony mentioned to me that a few of Kakak's teammate have progressed tremendously. 3 of them (combined) won 22 tournaments in 2005.
So Kakak, do you think you can represent Papa's birthstate next year or in 2007?
I planned for Kakak to have 2 1-jour session with Tony during the school holiday just to brush up on her skills. Most probably on Sunday and then another one, maybe on Wednesday.
Papa cannot wait for you to come home for the holiday.
Building My Own Golfing Buddies
I am a member of Bukit Jalil Golf and Country Club but I rarely play there due to not having a regular golfing buddies. So, I just pay my monthly subscription fee for nothing.
Starting this year I am building my own golfing buddies. I have trained my eldest daughter (Kamilah) to play golf and now she is able to play an 18-hole of golf. She need to have a handicap before she is allowed to play at BJGCC. So now I have one golfing buddy.
I need two more. My second daughter (Hafizah) and my son (Kamil) are now taking golf lesson at Setapak Driving Range and I think by next year Hafizah will be ready to go to Kundang for her first golf game with me. My son will follow suit maybe the year after.
By 2008, I will play with my kids at BJGCC.
I have also able to convinced my wife to start learning to play golf also. She started he first lesson last Saturday. I am targeting for her to start playing golf with me in six years time (why? by then my youngest daughter, Widad, will be in standard one. She is one year-old now and already know how to make an interlocking grip ;-)).
My forth child, Laila is also keen to learn to play golf, but she is too young to start yet. I just let her play with putter (I bought USKids Golf putter for her) while her elder siblings hitting balls at SGR.
At last I have a concrete plan on how to utilize my BJGCC club membership.
Hybernating
I have been hybernated from updating my blog for a few months now (my last post was Dec. 12, 2005). Work is taking a toll on me.
My PhD also is weighting me down. I am still stuck at proposal stage and two semesters have gone by. I do not want this time to be the same as the last PhD which I registered. Previously, I had to terminate my PhD in Management program due to changes made at the university. This time I will make sure I complete my PhD in Engineering.
Just need to soldier on.
Below are some of the updates which I managed to type today.
