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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
just saw this really touching story from a blog and it really makes u feel that ur physical training is peanuts.
Make sure you click on the video at the end!
"I try to be a good father, give my kids mulligans, work nights to pay for their text messaging, take them to swimsuit shoots, but compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and pedalled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars - all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. on a bike. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs. "He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life," Dick says doctors told him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old."Put him in an institution." But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes followed them around the room. When Rick was11 they took him to the engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate."No way," Dick says he was told. "There's nothing going on in his brain.""Tell him a joke," Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a lot was going on in his brain.Rigged up with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his head, Rick was finally able to communicate.First words? "Go Bruins!"
And after a high school classmate was paralysed in an accident and the school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, "Dad, I want to do that."Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described "porker" who never ran more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped," Dick says. "I was sore for two weeks."That day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!"
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon."No way," Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the following year.Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?" How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick tried.Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four gruelling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you think?Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? "No way," he says. Dick does it purely for "the awesome feeling" he gets seeing Rick with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters.Their best time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the time."No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Father of the Century."And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries was 95% clogged. "If you hadn't been in such great shape, "one doctor told him, "you probably would've died 15 years ago."So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass., always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. "The thing I'd most like, " Rick types, "is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once."
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4B-r8KJhlE
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went for learning journey today, i found it quite alright. in fact, it was fun.
saw lotsa things i've nv seen before/set foot into before. it makes me feel so ashamed coz apart from us, there were tourists. we were singaporeans and yet we've nv been to all this place, visting these places like those tourists. haha.
i think that the supreme court is the best alr. at the st andres cathedral, we didnt really seem much la. then the scenery at the 7th floor of the supreme court was really great.
and if u observed closely enough, u'll see lotsa things going on among others. haha! i guess everyone did enjoy it. well, i hope.
finally, i dun hv lessons tmr. which means i can wake up late tmr. i haven start on my hols hw yet and it's almost a wk alr. so i'm getting a lil afraid yea. i hv 3 wks left and i hv so much to do/wanna do. i haven even caught a movie after the exams -.- been so so busy.
alright, so imma really start on hol hw tmr. coz theres really a lot of it. thats it.
Guorong
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Monday, May 28, 2007
ok, i seriously think my eyesight is getting worse. man, that means i've gotta wear specs if not i wun be able to see clearly. duh.
chi o lvls were alright. did the topic on gambling before, then the paper 2 also noe how to do. not gonna say i'm absolutely confident of an A1, so we'll see how it goes. went with weehoe shiling zhihong eugenia jiani and wenqi to eat at pizza hut. ya then went home then went downstairs to play bball. well, my life practically revolves round these, nth much to do also.
besides being in ahs, i'm just like any other guy hanging around downstairs playing bball talking cock. yea, so thats my life. and i guess it's very much different the rest in school, playing computer, chatting all day long, shopping, hanging out with friends and all. ok no more bout this.
next.
actually i had a gd evening. having dinner with everyone present, chatting and all. i even went with bro to get fighting fish and askcock qns at the boss. dad wanted to put the fish in the tank to keep out mosquitoes, but in the end the 2 fish fought instead. -.- i told him so. lol nvm. so now i kept one of em in a glass bottle and i wonder how long it can last. LOL
oh ya, and i love listening to mum and dad talking bout their childhood, lotsa interesting stories, like how my dad would skive during work, play tt / soccer / bmt during his lunch break. haha, they were really hilarious, he was in his 30s with his colleagues and they were like pri sch childrens playing during recess. haha !
mum's story would bout her childhood living in m'sia and she had lotsa malay friends, and she would go on talking bout her neighbours and classmates. really interesting. ^^
alright so thats bout it for today, i just realise there's tons of hw to be completed this hols. mann.
cya.
i guess i just didnt fit, at all.
Guorong
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Friday, May 25, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELISA !
sch was alright today. short too. ended at 11 am. spent most of the time looking for teachers to settle the dsa thing. to get the cca and cip records. in the end, still asked ms tan to help with with the cca records thing. i think mr chai will not kp as much. but anw, got back results slip and i got a 4th in class. managed to hit at least 70%.
level postition dropped a lil and this showed that i didnt improve, my classmates deproved. LOL. but nvm. just gonna try for dsa now and work on my subs. for the target setting form, i only amended literature target. changed it from an A2 to A1. my maths are still A1 for target setting. tho i wasnt ever close to even an A2 for a math. but, it's a target and goal right !
so here i m, back at home now not feeling like doing chinese, i guess i'll leave that till night, or at least ltr. my compre for chi isnt all that gd now la, and still trying to find the key to doing chi compre. so imma do all the compre from other schs prelim and also study some compo. read some points for newspapers reflection so that i'll get inspirations during the exam. wish me luck k.
Guorong
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
so today's career fair was alright. i think it's just mainly bout choosing the profession u like most and not the one which gives the best pay.
went to play bball after sch then headed home. dsa trial is on 6th june. it's for tjc. so i'm gonna send in my application form tmr but i need mr chai to print out the cca record for me. and he's a tough one. really gets on my nerve all the time with his lousy attitude maybe coz i dun like it. but nvm. just hope that everything will go well. duno what to write for the ' in 300 words, descrive how u would be able to contribute to the school....' LOL. wonder what i'm gonna write. guess i'll get the teacher's recommendation and cip/cca record tmr then get the rest of it done at home.
maybe kirk or leon can help me submit it. dun feel safe posting it. what if it gets lost ? thats kinda paranoid but still, haha.
oh, and i still gotta prepare for chi o lvls eh ? it's on monday. and after that, perhaps i'll slack a while before starting hw and revision. havent caught any movies yet. not even spiderman la. but nvm, theres plenty of time.
alright, imma stop here and revise some chi. cya.
Guorong
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007
today was career fair. the talks were great i think. but it's just too bad that there wasnt tjc. mj and vj were alright and well, in fact mj is a gd choice too. so i'm really not which to try for. maybe tj for dsa in june. then dsa for mj for prelim if if dun get into tj. but but, mj's new and the facilities r great. haven been to tj yet. ... how now brown cow.. ???
maybe i'll check out tj site and maybe it would help. the booths in the stadium werent very useful. maybe coz i left halfway to see teacher in library. and, i think the smu thing is a lil too far. lol. but nevertheless i still paid attention la.
so, they went to catch the blades of glory ytd. i wasnt in the mood/too tired so i gave it a miss. yea. thats bout it all for today. champions league final today so i guess i wun be sleeping too early. um, but it'll be early morning when it ends.
well, i've been feeling really lousy these days maybe it's the weather. ya, it must be.
i guess everyone out there is the same as me, who doesnt wanna be appreciated, who doesnt wanna friend to be there when things just arent going smoothly..
dun ever discredit all the lil things in life coz they really mean something, be it a smile, a greeting, wishes, lil convo and nights.
well, sometimes, u dun hv to speak to get ur msg across. a smile would do. like when i see sueean or brenda or zhuting, or rather, when they see me, they would always call out to me and smile and, it really brightens up my day.
alright thats it. cya.
i'm convinced alr and i'm no longer expecting that much.
Guorong
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Monday, May 21, 2007
cip was fun. we collected whole lot of newspaper and fooled around as usual. haha. history was 25/50. sbq was badly done. practically nv write point for every factor. then seq nv explain well. nvm. next time.
chi mock exam was a failure lol. so noisy, cant concentrate, manage to complete it but duno how it goes. the topic was kinda hard. bout more ppl going to poly ratehr than jc. my analysis was quite superficial.
i saw jon during recess and read his A1 lit paper. man, if he was in sec 4, he would hv topped the cohort. he was really gd. really.
o ya, the part bout andrea getting chased away by the parrot was real funny. but the parrot's cute and obedient. how nice !
thats bout it. really enjoyed much of sch today. of course things werent perfect. i wonder if you r ...
nvm. cya.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANMIN ! <3
Guorong.
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Saturday, May 19, 2007
got back all our papers cept history but it wun matter much. managed to get an A2 for chi tho paper 2 was bad. 39 for compo was unexpected. 34 for oral was miraculous. that is really relieving and giving me more confidence for my chi o lvl. haha.
math was a disaster. well, what could i say ? didnt practise enough i guess, i mma do 3 sums of e math and A math everyday during june.
of course, i'd need to revise on my other subjects and learn the chapters that are still not taught yet. need to buck up on english too.
so in all, literature fared the best. which was totally unexpected. i stil rmb when i got this combi in sec 3. lit was supposed to be a sub for me to hv fun and play around. now i've no choice but to depend on it and i even got an A1 . i was failing it in sec3. mann, how things changed.
so L1R5 is 13 this mid yr. some things to be happy would be my A1 in lit and chem, A1 in chi compo.
however, i needed A1 for chi physics and e math/amath but i didnt get em.
but it'll be different the nxt time round. so nvm !
alright nth much to post about anymore. so cya.
Guorong
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
results weren't up to expectation. no straight As and such.
math and physics were disappointing. coz i lost a lot of marks due to carelessness. i REALLY noe how to do a math one so stop saying that i dun.
not holding high hopes for paper 2 tmr. e math. left 20 marks blank. so if i still can get an overall of A2 after adding up. i'l be glad already.
combined humans um, haha. really dunno what to expect. english part 1 wasnt gd. so also dunno how.
see how tmr then. i guess i just hv to move on and work on it in june. and not cry like other ppl just coz of bad results.
went to train a lil at hall after sch coz it was raining then cant go home. won javan and guanxiang with sch u and no shoes sia. woo. haha they off-form. but still it's a win right
random thought: so what shall i be when i grow up. no idea at the moment. mann.. cya.
Guorong
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
mini olympics was shit. got a lil pissed off with it at some time coz there was only me and binghao there at the end.
and, was having a dunno what to feel feeling at some part of it. then went to watch the tt girls and bball girls play bmt. haha. they were having so much fun la. then afterwards went to do cip. quite slack la. some of the ppl not at home so just put the flyers there lo. so were nice and thanked us and offered and such, while some had a lousy attitude. not alot of these tho.
exam papers r gonna be returned to us tmr. yup. no special feelings too.
i just realised that i'll be busy and short of time even after exam. first, i needa get some birthday presents. then chi o lvls. then trials in 3 days after that then cheers. i'm very worried for trials coz i'm not really sure if i'll be able to get past it. so lil time to train and all. damn.
too lazy to start studying chi alr. i'll prolly start tmr.
lucks for results guys.
Guorong
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
mid yr ended alr.
physics wasnt that gd, well perhaps my expectation was too high. got a couple of mistakes alr. but anw, exams r over and i'll prolly do some correction when the paper is returned, and then i'll noe how to do them the nxt time round. i'm not gonna care if my parents r happy with my results anot.
well, of course, getting bad results wouldnt feel gd, but i guess i'll hv to work on my mistakes then. o lvls more impt right. imma revise during june holiday so i wun lose touch when sch reopens. for the time being, imma slack like 2 days. then chiong my chi.
coz an A1 would mean a few mths without chi and i would hv some free lessons to work on other subs, also i wouldnt hv so much tests and fret so much and all. so it's quite impt. i shld be able to get an A1 la, bu to be safe, i'd better work hard coz i dun think the paper's gonna be easy.
played bball in sch after physics paper. was raining so heavily. then went to eat with binghao and janson at kfc, talked for quite a while bout alot of things. like what we gonna do in the future and microsoft and lotsa general thing.
so i'm not pretty sure what we're gonna do in sch tmr, i'm not taking part in the mini olympics so i'll be quite free, guess i'll wander around and find something to do if that happens.
alright, thats bout it, cya.
Guorong
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Monday, May 14, 2007
20marks gone for emath. chem was average.
was careless for e math and a few doubts made me lose my focus and mood. for the rest of the qn, i merely pondered a while then skipped it instead of trying to solve it. my mind was just telling me to finish the paper asap. gosh,no mood to think and do la.
after the paper, then did i realise that i overlooked some key pts and if i think thru it a few more times, i might get the ans, but well, thats exam for u.
conclusion: computers and tv is huge source of distraction.
i cant get myself to concentrate at home.
sufficient sleep is most impt for ur mind to be refreshed and able to think for the paper the next day.
alright, we'll see how it turns out. no pt regretting it. physics tmr and i'll hv a few days off. it's not the end anw, i'll still hv chance to redeem myself for chi Os and prelims, so imma work hard during june. lol. if i get past trials for dsa. imma work even harder. please, please. haha.
Guorong
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
alright tmr's gonna be e math 2 and chem 1. i haven revise chem yet, slacked pretty much the whole day. studying wasnt productive at all. but manage to do some sums and all.
thats bout it. lol. i wonder what will happen tmr.
Guorong.
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
finally 1 wk of exams r over. 2 more days and 3 more papers and mid yr will end. physics was not very hard. and i was super lucky for lit. studied only 2 themes on war and perspective towards life and they came out. moreover i did the qn on war before and i read up the specific notes for the perspective towards life one. as in they were more concise (is that the word?) la.
pig-ed ytd. ate, slept, tv and played. what more can i still ask for man. LOL.
i went down to eat after coming back from lit paper. and walked around after i ate. LOL. nth to do. so had a lil walk. then went to play bball, i saw weehoe. -.- lol he came to find jr so we played together in the end lo. was so tired after that coz we weren't just playing around like usual. so tense. but i guess i'll stick to bmt LOL.
so came back home and had pizza for dinner. i went down to buy. i almost paid 10 bucks for a 4 dollars fried rice la. was so sleepy. then came back, tv till 12 ? then went to sleep. was too full so couldnt sleep at 1st. but i got sick reading the report on virginia tech mass killing. it was in times. the magazine. wanted to use the com to chat around a lil but bro(s) were playing dota.
physics and chem paper 1 left and e math paper 2 left. i needa go learn the cumulative graph thing. and revise on chem/physics. dun wish to go on anymore tho. so tired. and the thought of having to mug for chi o lvls didnt help.
yes, u need to mug for chi, or rather, u can mug for chi. just do more cloze passage/compre then read more news reports. watch news, read up on yanyu and chengyu, theres so much u can do. 13 days. in 13 days i'll be more than just an A1 kid. haha. i hope so !
i'm so looking forward to playing bmt in the evening, haven played for a wk alr.
thats bout it all. cya. lucks for remaining paper gr.
Guorong.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
i just realised i didnt bring my calling of kindred home when i was bout to start studying on it.
gg ? we'll see o well..
Guorong
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had history and a math papers today. a maths was ok, cept that i feel a lil wasted, coz i didnt rmb the differentiation of exponentials and lon. but in all, i feel that i wasnt very prepared for this paper as i did the paper.
had to use simultaneous eqn to get x values and many of them were in decimals, so i fretted and wondered if i did make any mistakes in my calculations, was so panicky that i think i rushed thru the paper. wasted too much time checking and checking when the eqn cannot be factorize by sqaure method.
luckily the qn at the back were a breeze for me, so i hv some time left to check and do last qn. not sure if my simultaneous eqn got me correct ans but anw, i shld hv been more prepared. wasnt really familiar with the qn. had to stop and think/recall at times. thsi cannnot happen during Os.
history, i only know how to do 1 part of each of the 3 seq qn. decided on jap in the end coz i know part a and 2 pts for part b. i hope my bullshitting is convincing enough for part b. hah.
and now i hv to study physics and literature. physics, i hv lost touch with it for a while alr. and i'm really jaded. dun feel like going on anymore. for literature, i hv nv done a paper 2 before on poems and format like what i'm going to sit thru tmr, so i'm not holding much hopes, just read thru the poems and see how it all goes tmr.
i need to score for physics and here i am, posting coz i'm simply too tired to go on. wasted some time chatting on msn, but still, it didnt help to get me back to studying mood. i guess i'll off the com after this and read up on physics textbk.
just visited feliciachin's blog and gosh, she's pretty. LOL. thx zyh! for the url.
i'm not giving up just yet.
Guorong!
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Sunday, May 06, 2007
hello, it's 3.30am now and i'm not even half way thru lit. gosh.
slept too much today(sat).
wokeup and watched nba then went back to sleep again. i told myself to wake up after fifteen mintues but obviously that didnt happen and well, i woke up at 5. missed the telecast of men's doubles for aviva. but managed to watch singles. ronald susilo was so much of a disappointment. crap, he didnt play as well.
i'm gonna study thru tonight coz i know i would be glued to finals of aviva tmr. i dunno what time i'll last coz theres only me in the living room and macbeth deals with ghosts and murder. ahha ! imagine the mood.
pretty much of an irony of what i told weehoe ytd. i was scaring him when we were walking from indoor stadium to kfc coz the street lamp suddenly when off just when we were walking past it, so i said, what if the next street lamp goes off too. haha he told me to shut up. hah !
of course, it didnt, well, lucklily it didnt. haha. so um, i went to play bmt in the evening as usual and there wasnt much to play la. i won everything. haha. coz i wasnt playing with the fitter players there.
came back home and watched a bit of tv. uncle's here from m'sia and it's hard to start on my work when they r talking. thats y i only started at 1. well, i was talking on the phone for quite a while and watching bit of tv till 1 thats y. didnt talked on the phone for very long alr, well, it was nice. i guess that was some relaxation huh.
mum told me this in the presence of uncle this morning.
she told me that he doesnt sell off the last ice cream that he has for the day last time when he's selling ice cream coz he always save it for mum. isnt that sweet. thats super touching la. uncle didnt know what to say i guess, he merely smiled.
he's um a very loud guy. speaks very loudly but he's very nice. and has got alot of interesting stories. he works as a construction worker and has been to alot of places to build roads and stuff. he often talks bout his working experince in new guinea and all. jovial and nice guy.
ok it's 3.42 alr. and i ought to get back to macbeth alr. alright i typed this phrase last yr and i got an A1 so imma type it again.
i hope shakespears will give me inspiration during the exam.
lol i dun think that would help much but anyway, haha,
cya guys and lucks.
Guorong.
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Friday, May 04, 2007
e math paper one.
had a bad start to the mid yrs. was wasting so much time on the first few qns then i started to fret. then came some qn then i skipped and it sure was demoralising. then after that, didnt feel like continue doing it and completing it alr. 7-10 marks gone alr. just hoping that my other answers turn out correct and i get at least an A1 for this paper 1. i guess i hv to buck up for paper 2 then.
theres still so many papers left to go and i dun wish to go on alr. as in go on studying. ss and lit on monday, i really wonder how i'm going to prepare for it. and all the rest of the subjects. mann.. this is sick.
i wish i can be as confident as last yr about the exams. o well. i guess i'm not as prepared.
i really dunno what i shld do next.
such a letdown.
Guorong.
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
alright. few more hrs and the mid yr exam will start.
emath paper 1 tmr. all the best~
just realised that there is still alot to study for ss and literature( both macbeth and poems)
i guess i would need to plan out my revising timetable tmr. cya.
it's show time >.-
Guorong.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
labour day and all the students still slogging like theres no tmr. owell.
i fell asleep last night so didnt study at all. LOL nvm. i just finished ss and the day's super unproductive. started work at 11. did till 12.30 then lunch till 2. after lunch, it was starting to get bored alr. did so slowly.
and my ss notes seemed so dull and boring and such.
imma go do some chem or physics SOON. and then decide what to do at night. there isnt much to learn tmr so there isnt much need for sleep anw.
just hoping that i dun fall asleep too fast.
2 more wks and it'll all be over.
then another 2 more wks and it'll come.
Guorong.
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