For those who have been talking to me for the past few days, you should know that I am trying to move away from card magic. Instead, I am trying out something new. Something closer to mind reading.

Psychology.

Basically, I am trying to learn to read natural body signals and incorporate magic into that. And it is not easy, in fact, it is really frustruating.

Just like how I was badly owned today.

To start out my journey on psychology, I chose to tackle one specific premise: guessing which hand holds the coin. As simple as it sounds, the spectator secretly puts a coin into one of his/her hands, and I would try to tell which hand holds the coin.

I decided to try out this simple experiment with some friends yesterday in the RIJC Hall. I tried 3 times, and I succeeded in finding the location of the coin for all 3.

So, to try my luck, I tried this experiment today, hoping that I would suceed again.

But no, I was way wrong. I tried 3 times, and I failed all 3 times. :O

It was then when I realized I was doing something wrong, so I decided to try this experiment YET AGAIN, this time on only Yifan, but 5 times in a row.

I managed to get 4/5 correct. Close, but not exact.

I know this may sound like a 50/50 chance, but I am trying to find a way to perfectly predict which hand holds the coin, for like 5 times in a row or more.

And it is not going too well so far.

So if anyone wants to be my guinea pig, just tell me and I will try this experiment on you. And hopefully I will be able to do some psychological magic at the end of the day… =D

Ok, feeling really tired now (played too much Taiti, linjin Taiti, Hearts, Bridge, Idiot, …), so I shall stop for today.

Ciao.