Handwritten work, then a letter home
Stories from the table
These notes name a sitting and a habit, not a score. One of them is dissatisfied with the pace. That one stays on the page.
Swing Chart Studio
I came in with a habit of moving my swing high to whatever wick looked tallest that night. By the fourth Tuesday Niran made me leave a crossed-out mark on the page, dated, and it annoyed me until I saw I had been rewriting October to match November. The notebook is slower than my old screen habit. That slowness is the part I still use.
Swing Chart Studio
I swing a small set of SET names and I wanted someone to look at the weekly chart before I talked myself into the daily. The room does that. Nobody offered me a list of names to buy, which is what I had half expected from a class and did not get. I marked my own sheets. The deposit felt steep until I counted eight evenings and the printed pack.
Two-Day Structure Workshop
I flew down for the weekend because the Tuesday course does not fit a shop I run. Saturday's work on swing highs was clear. After lunch on Sunday the retest examples moved faster than I could write, and I wished the pause had been longer. I still came home with one marked sheet I check on my own Sundays. I would not pretend two days did the job of the full studio.
Private Chart Review
I booked the ninety minutes after a month of ugly swings in bank shares. Mali would not let me start with the trade I wanted to complain about. We marked the weekly swings first, in my handwriting, and only then looked at the entry. I left with four pages and a list of two marks to redo. I had hoped she would tell me the next level. She did not, and the pages are more useful than that would have been.
Swing Chart Studio
The 18:30 start is late if the expressway is wet, and I missed one evening entirely. The makeup hour the next week was quiet and useful. I would have liked the printed weekly sheets a day earlier so I could mark them on the train instead of arriving and clipping a blank page. The seat itself is worth keeping: twelve people, one table, no one performing.
A clerk’s six swings, rewritten
Yusuf works nights near Khlong Toei and swings a handful of bank shares on the weekly chart. He arrived for a private review with six printed sequences and a wish to start with the loss that still irritated him. Mali turned the packet over and asked for the weekly swings first. The irritating trade was third in the stack, and by then the earlier marks had already shown a swing high placed on an unfinished bar.
They spent the middle half-hour on that bar alone. Yusuf rewrote the sentence twice. The second version admitted the neighbours were missing. He left with the instruction to redo two marks at home before he added any new name to the watchlist. He wrote back three weeks later to say the redo had changed which pullback he was willing to sit through, and that he had not asked anyone to confirm the next order.
One seat, and a notebook that went home to Bang Phli
Pimchanok enrolled in Swing Chart Studio and, for the first two weeks, tried to narrate the evening to her sister over dinner so the sister could follow along. The marks did not survive the retelling. On the third Tuesday she stopped summarising and instead left the notebook open on the table at home. Her sister could read the crossed-out swing. She could not borrow the seat.
The reservation Pimchanok still holds is practical: the printed weekly sheets arrived as she walked in, and a wet expressway had already cost her one evening. She wanted those sheets the day before, for the train. The academy now sends the week’s pack on Monday when the printer is finished, which is the change her note produced. The seat count did not change. Twelve chairs, one person each, including hers.