Tuesday, 16 September 2014
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Sunday, 9 March 2014
Run for a Reason - MSF Orienteering 2014
Dear friends
When you pray, what do you pray for normally? A better world? Good health? A harmonious family? Better performance at work? Be more efficient?..
Doesn't matter what it is, I am sure everyone's prayer is out of good intention.
This year, I joined the MSF Orienteering (https://ssl.msf.hk/oc/home/en) after 8 years. While running across Cheung Chau Island, I felt this rush of adrenaline again. Remembering how it felt that year with my hand tied with a map and an ecard, running frantically like a maniac for a checkpoint, reading a map and discussing with groupmates about the landmark and land feature of the each checkpoint, calculating the marks we obtained and which checkpoint to forgo.... I love that feeling.
So, this year, with my besties M and T and a new member, K, we ran a total of 11km and registered at 22 checkpoints, gaining 520/900 points. The result was not bad indeed. I am so proud of myself because truly, I ran all the way without feeling tired. And, unlike last time, we completed the race as a team.
4 people, 8 feet, 1 direction.
Team Yggdrasil, go go GO!!!!!
When you pray, what do you pray for normally? A better world? Good health? A harmonious family? Better performance at work? Be more efficient?..
Doesn't matter what it is, I am sure everyone's prayer is out of good intention.
This year, I joined the MSF Orienteering (https://ssl.msf.hk/oc/home/en) after 8 years. While running across Cheung Chau Island, I felt this rush of adrenaline again. Remembering how it felt that year with my hand tied with a map and an ecard, running frantically like a maniac for a checkpoint, reading a map and discussing with groupmates about the landmark and land feature of the each checkpoint, calculating the marks we obtained and which checkpoint to forgo.... I love that feeling.
So, this year, with my besties M and T and a new member, K, we ran a total of 11km and registered at 22 checkpoints, gaining 520/900 points. The result was not bad indeed. I am so proud of myself because truly, I ran all the way without feeling tired. And, unlike last time, we completed the race as a team.
4 people, 8 feet, 1 direction.
Team Yggdrasil, go go GO!!!!!
Tuesday, 18 February 2014
Hong Kong - The Pearl of the Orient
Dear friends
Do you know why so many foreigners came to Hong Kong are so eager to stay, find a job and settle down, rather than going back to their home country so much so that including the locals and the Mainlanders, we have more than 7 million people?
Yes.
It's because it's a multi-national, democractic, free, convenient, civilized, well-managed, fair, efficient and effective city where you can find opportunity everywhere and at any time.
Other than being a world-class city, we also have many UNESCO world heritage sites. Most of the sites are in the country parks, which makes up of 40% of Hong Kong's precious land.
Please click on the link and you will understand what I mean.
Hong Kong
Please help preserve our dimiishing countryside. Please preserve our backyard. And most important of all, please help preserve what makes and help this Pearl of the Orient grow and glow. And our first step, please help sign this petition:
Stop damaging our countryside!!!!
Happy Feet
Do you know why so many foreigners came to Hong Kong are so eager to stay, find a job and settle down, rather than going back to their home country so much so that including the locals and the Mainlanders, we have more than 7 million people?
Yes.
It's because it's a multi-national, democractic, free, convenient, civilized, well-managed, fair, efficient and effective city where you can find opportunity everywhere and at any time.
Other than being a world-class city, we also have many UNESCO world heritage sites. Most of the sites are in the country parks, which makes up of 40% of Hong Kong's precious land.
Please click on the link and you will understand what I mean.
Hong Kong
Please help preserve our dimiishing countryside. Please preserve our backyard. And most important of all, please help preserve what makes and help this Pearl of the Orient grow and glow. And our first step, please help sign this petition:
Stop damaging our countryside!!!!
Happy Feet
Monday, 17 February 2014
When Spring is Calling, We keep Blooming
Dear friends
Spring, a season of love, is also a season of 'nuts'.
Kind of self-absorbed right?
Well, let me be. :)
Spring, a season of love, is also a season of 'nuts'.
A season of forcefulness that kind of pushes you to start looking for something divine, something that makes your heart skip a beat, something that scares you a lot, yet the only thing that helps you grow.
I am this kind of person. One that is always looking for adventures which can help me become a better self, physically, psychologically, mentally and spiritually. The adventures that can help me feel complete. So this year, like last year, I take on a lot of challenges.
The first one being Standard Chartered Half Marathon. I guess what doesn't kill me, really makes me stronger. It is because the longest distance I had ever finished in one go was 14km. In view of this, I trained very hard and within two months, my accumulated running mileage was 200+km. And now, I am right here, having fulfilled my dream of completing my first half marathon with flying colors - net time: 2:02:34hrs.
I am proud of myself.
My friends and family are my fuel.
These quotes that we used to encourage ourselves were the flags that waving in the midair on the race day:
These quotes that we used to encourage ourselves were the flags that waving in the midair on the race day:
1. Sweat is fat crying!
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2. Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must. Just, never give up.
3. Our greatest glory lies not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.
4. Impossible is just an option, not a destination.
5. I was born to be awesome, not perfect.
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Kind of self-absorbed right?
Well, let me be. :)
Love
Happy Feet
Happy Feet
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Today I am...
Dear friends
7 years ago, a girl joined her first 10km marathon to see how far she could and would go. During the race, she kept telling herself she couldn't make it.
But, with her friends and students' support, today, this girl joined another marathon under the same organizer. This time, she is no longer afraid of the distance. She is no longer afraid of not being able to complete the race. Today, she rose above all the circumstances and completed her first Half Marathon, with flying colors.
Today, indeed, is a day of celebration.
Official Time: 02:03:17
Net Time: 02:02:34
Thank you for all your trust, support, guidance and love.
Love
Happy Feet
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