2007.12.30

Morning long run from Heng Fa Chuen - Chai Wan - Cape Collison - Shek O road - Shek O Lulu's Cafe. Appox: 13KM at 1:11:34
Road to Half Marathon

2007.12.29 mt best friend wedding

Again, my another best friend wedding: Alpha & Kathy
Congrats!

X'mas run

X'mas long run from Heng Fa Chuen - Chai Wan - Cape Collison - Shek O road - Shek O Lulu's cafe.
Appox:13KM at 1:30:24
Slow and easy pace to burn out my extra fat!

2007.12.23 Andrew & Elanie's wedding

A beautifull night with the new couples : Andrew & Elanie

and the drunkies....

Christian Louboutin

Oh my god! Its hard to found the size of shoe (i'm a size 34 person) and i did my first trial of christian louboutin heels. Omg! its very fit and i doesnt feel any discomfort. I have tried 5 pairs of it and compare with one costume national. And that one dosent really make me fly. The patent pump is my favourite and the peep toes one is not that bad....
HELP!!!

2007 King of the Hill - Race 2

A really tough course, we start at: Tai Po Old Market Temple, Ting Kok Road - Kau Lung Hang Shan (Cloudy Hill) - Sha Lo Tung - near Hok Tau Reservoir - Ping Fung Shan - Wong Leng - Shun Yeung Fung - Wang Shan Keuk Sheung Tsuen - Bride's Pool
Half Marathon Length - 14.75 km 1250 meters cumulative elevation gain
Result:

761

Wong, Gi Wai, Gigi

FO

4:14:37

149

18

Split time:

761

Wong, Gi Wai, Gigi

1:01:00(Sha Lo Tung)

2:02:00(Int.1)

3:03:00(Shun Yeung Fung)

1:11:37 (Int.2)

4:14:37(Finish)

Great to feel that i conquered the mountains and finish the race. But with bad feeling with the ankles twisted after the first 4KM and i have to fast walk the remaining 11 KM to finish it. Really disappointed about my careless on the road that i splint up at the flat after the first 4km. Hate to run down at the last 4km with overgrown situation and i get lost once. Luckily i found one mate named Kirby, then we find our way to finished. This is crazy!

To do list

Hate myself being so lazy and numb these days, expecially before x'mas and new year! I gonna write down my to do list:
Myself:
1. New 2008 dairy for myself
2. Should write my diary everyday, at least once a week! ( i hate myself i'm being so lazy to pick up my pen since my grandmother die in 2002)
3. A pair of black pump size 34 (MUST)
4. A pair of sleek ivory heels for myself being a bridemate for my best Kathy's wedding! Size 34 MUST
5. Sort and publish my 31 days trip photos!
6. Wedding ideas ( Banquets, dress, photography.....etc..)
7. Take back the key from our curtain co. Mrs. Yip
8. Subscribe the magazine DHD, foreign press 2756 8193
9. Took back all the books, magazine that someone borrow from mine. If you read this message, please return the books to me. thanks!
Sports:
1. Run & bike extra, spin faster and keep higher candance. Run effortless and injury free!
2. Buy less apparel
3. Try to swim better in Shek O open water in winter ( though i really scare the wave there)
4.

Gift list:
1. X'mas gift for Mom, Dad & Sister. Mrs. Henrietta Lam, gift exchange for Sonic Sports!
2. Wedding gift for Elanie Lee, Kathy and CMS coach Mr. Jeremy Leung
3. House warming gift for Jacky Mak

2007.12.10

Run: 400m interval running: feeling great and my knee pain is gone!
Set 1:
1 lap: 0:1:48 (HR:202, 164)
2 lap: 0:1:47 (HR: 191, 170)
3 lap: 0:1: 45 (HR: 184, 170)
4 lap: 0: 1:45 (HR:185, 162)
5 lap: rest
6 lap: 0:1:47 (HR: 187, 167)
7 lap: rest
8 lap: 0:1:39 (HR: 188,172)
Set 2: (4 laps)
1 lap:0:1:44 (HR:188, 165)
2 lap: rest
3 lap: 0:1:50 (HR: 188, 153)
4 lap: rest
Swim: 200m wp, 100m kicking, 6 x 50 on time, 2 sets 400m with pull and board, second set without board, ??? (forgot), 4 x 50 on time, 100 cd

上善若水，水善利萬物而不爭，處眾人之所惡，故幾於道。(The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain.Thus it is like the Tao.)

Burn Out

Stark said: Its better to make a creative mistake than a stagnant work in good taste.

Charles Birthday

2007 Nike 10KM challenge

Rib Number: 335

Category: Woman Open Senior

Overall ranking: 1452

Woman Open Senior ranking: 56

Official Time: 00:54:19

Chip Time:

Fogal

Can't help myself turning round and round at his shop! The best stockings in the world, very comfly and super sexy on your heels. Have brought 2 of them today. Am going to check it out tomorrow after work again! Sales start now..
Address: The Landmark Shop no. 208, 2nd Floor Central, Hong Kong

Back to training

Quite tired after the Sunday Aquathlon race! My legs still sore and muscle pain on knees and legs. We have warmed up by 6 laps and follow with a circuit training.
Swim was incredible great! I swam really good and leading the pack on my link. 200m wp, 25m kick + 25m pull w/board x 200m, 8x50m single arm swim w/ alternate side of breath, 200m easy freestyle, 8x50m freestyle swim on 1min., 200m cd.

Aquathlon Race 4 @ Repluse Bay

Distance: 500m Swim + 5km Run

Just come back for 3 days, the race is reschedule on NOV. I have no excuse and i have to race. When i was jump into the water, i can feel that i have almost forgot how to swim with stoke and i have to adjust myself. Can feel my lazy arm muscle pain! I have take a really long time at T1, i heard Mr. Cow said i'm putting on my make up at T1. I keep a really low pace at the 5KM run, and finally finished! Got around 60 dishes of Dim Sum at a 100m running pace to finished by all of us. Thanks S. Bina to taking the photo!

More Photo at our official photo link:http://www.fotop.net/sonicsports

RESULT:

Swim: 00:09:56,

Run: 0:27:44,

Total: 0:37:40

Isabella's Birthday at Milano

FestaEmanueleMovieStar

Day 2 - Barcelona

Check in Hostel: ITACA Hostel
Barcelona,Ripoll 21, Barcelona, Spain Tel: +34 933019751

DAY 1 - HK to Bacelona

Having a great buffee lunch with my Fiance and his family at Island Shangri-La cafe 2. The Soffie is unforgettable and i try to eat everythings i can before i depart. I can imagin this will be tough trip for us.
Our flight schedule as follow:
BA26, HK - London. Depart 23:15 , Arrived 05:05
BA478, London - Bacelona. Depart 07:10, Arrived 10:15

Osim HK ITU

2007.09.19 (WED)

Suffering from terrible inflammation of sore thoat, and flu for a week. Start resume my training this week. Swim on Tue. is q good. Feeling effortless.
For the run last night, i'm too careless. When we jog back to Wanchai pool, i was fallen myself on teh bumpy pavement. Both my knee hurt and bleeding.
I'm very unlucky........
But i'm trying to anti all these factors and looking forward to challenge it.......
WILL RUN tonite.

2007.09.06 (THU)

Easy run for 36 mins.
AVG HR: 133
MAX HR: 168

Motivation come back

After a 3 weeks depression. I'm at the bottom level of training in terms of motivation, fitness and training mood. I have no bike training for 3 weeks, and my October travel plan was occuply my whole training mood. Dont wanna train and dont even want to mention.

The days passed. Luckily i met Stephanie last night during the training. She say somethings that really bring my ehart out. " Gigi, we are going to race together and standing on the podium together" She touches me. And make my move. Not because of the winning, because of the mutual support and we are belongs to the same age group. I'm better dig in to my training now!

Six13 Feminine 1

OH! Finally....and they got size 40.

Six13 Feminine 1 pictured here is Shimnao Dura-Ace and Ultegra equipped with Mavic Ksyrium Elite wheels and a Fizik Vitesse HP saddle. A 39/53 double chainring is standard.

Kula Shaker at Koko in London 10. OCT.2007

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD! I'll be there..................
Just received news from Sheran (Kulashe, a big fans of Kula Shaker):

KULA SHAKER at Koko in London on WED, 10/10/2007. Doors open at 19:00, show starts at 19:30
Luckily, we are there..............

Ticket: http://www.seetickets.com/gat/price.asp?code=253193&userid={9D6F8786-26F9-4181-936E-646585953536}&filler1=gigsandtours&filler2=kulashaker

More to come for our 31 days lost in Mediterranean Europe Journey.............

2007.08.29(WED)

Run:
A non-stop drill training breaking down by short sprint 15m run for 3 set x 3 times. It was fun when we do some of the drill that looks really Hilarious! I think most of us have a good fun last night.
Swim:
200wp, 200m (25m kick+25m swim), 6x50m swim, 6x 50m(25m sprint+25m swim), ........................................last 400m stretch out swim.

2007.08.28 (Tue)

Swim drill training.....
A 1.5 hours swim training focus on the stroke and drill....I feel i'm more focus now.......
I just need to meiantain my balance, straighten my body, kicking harder, rotating my body, turing shoulder, push hard under the water..............

2007.08.27 (MON)

Skip the run, feeel abit faint and i couln,t work today.Take a sick leave...
Charles would love to go to swim, so i go with him.....
Swim: 200wp , 4x50 (25m kick + 25m swim), main sets x 3 for 6 x 100m swim with a faster speed on last set.
Feel my ehad turning so crazy....cannot concentrate.......

My Idol - Nikki Gudex

A mountain biker, a model and a multimedia graphic designer!

What the hell we are drinking last night?

Really in pain, felt like a piece of shit........xxxxxxx hangover till now....
Cannot not bend my body, rotating my head, cannot look back, cannot walk up stair, cannot take the levator and escalator up.HELP!
What the hell are we drinking last night? You guys alright?

Housewarming - 2

Thank you for being my guest, unluckily couples of you got sick and cannot attend our party. Hope you are all well, Karen and Jackson. Hope Fung can join us next time as well. I'm so enjoy my cooking tonight and got a little bit drunk that help my creative cooking. Here is the Menu for tonite:
1. Parma Ham on Baguettes bread with salty capperi salati
2. Organic tomatoes vegetable salad with feta cheese in Balsamic and Olive oils
3. Black Mussel in onion cream and white wine sauce
4. Linguine in Pesto sauce with pan fried rosemary chicken breast
5. Linguine in Tomato sauce with pan fried rosemary chicken breast
Consumed 5 bottle of wine with only 7 peoples for dinner. crazy!

HKU Institute of human Performance Triathlon Programme

Arrived 20mins late, the program is started. I was assigned to swim the first lane to test on the drill given by Fenella. And then quickly jumped into the next two in a faster group. The mainset that Annemarie given us was:
1st set :(200m stretch out swim + 3 x 100m with coming back 50m built up)
2nd set: (200m stretch out swim + 3 x 100m with increasing speed on every 100m)
The program is a bit different, and i found that is good to test my speed work and how long i can maintain.
Run: 2x400m warm up, 400m run with every drill finish. 800m run easy with the drill applied. And 800m aster run with combined drill for time counting. Kenneth is attracted by numbers of triatheles after the drill section finish. I think most of them found it usefull and can help them for a much better running experience.
I'm enjoyed that day, the facilities is excellent and they provide a one off site for the 3 sports, all you can done within a walking distance with greenery, and you can feel like you training q professional. The coach is all professional, some of them participated in the Olympic.
But i think the fee is q expensive, just my personal feeling. If everyone who try our normal sonic training and this one in HKU, i think most of them agree that Sonic is comparatively more economical and worth to stay.hahahahaaaa
The most exciting things is when i leave there, i hardly get a taxi or mini bus there, so Kenneth give me a ride with his super cool motorcycle with really loud gangster music. I'm q enjoy the speed and i can feel that my bike is really slow when compare those speed that Kenneth bring to me. Thanks for the ride! It was cool when driving on the highway!

2007.08.22(WED) - NEVER QUIT!!!

Run: 30mins non stop from wanchai sports ground to Central pier.
HR (AVG): 174
Swim: 200wp, 6x50, 2 sets (4x100m, 4x50m), 2x100, 100cd

Feeling quit good as i and Kim was the only two to finished the program in our lane, we worked together by swarping each other to lead the program. I was surprise when we finished the program, all the swimmers were gone, they quit and DNF. Only left few of us to do the cd. Thats really depressed me! even though i swim slow before, i never think to quit the program except i'm sick.
By the way, i'm shifted to swim at the other lane though Kenneth ask me to coming back, i decided not or may be later, i have no choice recently to swim on the other lane because i dont want to grabed by someone's hand. Or possibly i swim slower than before.

Also, there have some rules that all the swimmers should follow: I just ticked the most i concerned:
1. When u finished your program set, dont grap the wall in the front unless you are the lead, because it will blocked the wall for the first swimmer if they want to make a turn and they will hurt you. If u need to rest, come up on the ground, dont stay in the water.
2. If you want to over take the peoples in front of you, give a gentle sign by TOUCHING his/her feet. The one in front of you should notice and will give way. DONT grap and hold someone feet or pointed with sharp nails. This is dangerous and impolite!

2007.08.21(TUE)

Back to the Tue. Swim session, focus on the drill and storke.
500m warm up and 1.5 hours drill training. Felt q good with the narrow angle kicking, extreamly fast but cannot last too long.

Paula Radcliff's Playlist

Antz trip........I cant wait for it..:-)

Receiving news from Isabella regarding our Oct trip:

"Naples.....see Naples.....and then...die!"

Dear Antzzz,

I finished my south adventure trips for 2 weeks and back milano now,very beautiful in south,too relax and too much sunshine,I miss the beaches and sceneric there.I explored Napoli,Sorrento,Paestum,Amalfi coast,Salerno,Cava de tirreni,Vietri Sul Mare and Pompei! I love Naples(Napoli) much,this city is so Chaotic...really different from any other city in Italy,many ppl told me is dangerous and dirty,but i dont see much bad things,however,anythime should be award of yourself in europe.I hope you gals can visit Napoli at least once in life...one famous motto say "Naples.....see Naples.....and then...die!".absolutely, I dont wanna die after seeing Naples, just thanks God for let me know this world!I will upload my pictures later cos tons of them, 1500pix!haha
I cant do Capri and Ischia ,all ppl going there in Aug,we cant buy the ferry ticket on sun but i haveto depart mon,so i will do it nexttime!

For our adventure trip,I have some suggestions,we can go Monaco(Monte Carlo),Nice,Antines and Cannes..Lake Como(George Clooney's summer house,haha)..Milano(a must!if you girls wanna see LAST SUPPER,better check it online now and book a month in advance...then we can travel by train to Florence,Perugia,Pisa,Roma,,then we can take the flight from Rome or Pisa to Sardinia(ppl told me like Maldive)...or any places you really wish to see, tell me and i will advice!

2007.08.20(MON)

Circuit Training: 1hours
Swim: 200m wu, 6x50m (16+8) sprint and normal swim, 6x 200m with paddles for first 2 set, 6x50m (sprint 25m + easy), 100cd...
Feeling tired and shoulder muscle pain possibly due to the race on Sunday. Hopefully i can get back my shape within 2 weeks and chase up the coming harder session for preparing the HK ITU.

Splash & Dash Race in Shek O, HK

Really enjoy the race today, fresh water, sunshine, challenging race course. And on the podium again, all i can say is i push hard at the run and 2nd swim part. Just want to make sure that i have did my best! Thank you my coach, Kenneth!!
Distance (Challenge): 400m Swim + 4KM Run (hill) + 400m Swim
Venue: Shek O Beach
Here we go the result:
Gigi Wong F2029 8 3 00:44:01
Michael Bucek M2029 10 3 00:33:38
Charles Hui M2029 43 7 00:41:35
Sebastien Stoffel M3039 35 16 00:40:19
Eric Chan M4049 14 3 00:34:46
Kam Tim Wong M50 30 1 00:39:33
Shu Kau Chung M50 54 4 00:43:32
Jeremy Lai MS39 17 2 00:24:28 (Male Sprint) Congrats his first victory!

2007.08.18 (SAT)

Easy run in the morning, super good weather with wind whispering and sun shining over my face and body. Good to tunning along with music, especially running alone.

Distance: around 3KM
Time: 0:31:09
MAX HR:174
AVG HR:163

Would like to share my Run playlist....will upload shortly....

Fixed gear cycling

Cool! If i can perform like this.......

Good bye my Bianchi (2004-2007)

Gigi's Bianchi ML3 (2004-2007)

My first bike when i have memory from in born. She was sold last night. Thanks for my mom, this was the only gift from them to support my triathlon when i kick started at year 2004. May be she never knew how i ride and the speed that the road bike can perform. ahaaaa........

I'm with her through many challenge, and be defeated and on podium wherever i go. She never pissed me off what ever i pushed her or i dont make her clean. Love her and hate her. And now i need to say good bye..............miss her last night.

Splash & Dash Race in Shek O, HK

They were on the banner again....anyway, see you this Sunday morning at Shek O 7AM!

Terra Cotta Army, Xian, China

Glab some time in the morning on 10th August 2007 (friday), can only visit one area. After finishing the breakfast with Henrietta, we rushed for an hours travel to see the Terra Cotta. The site actually is covered and being exposed partially. Only 2 of the pit is now open and the rest remain cover due to the structure of the Pit. I can say that that was so intelligence as being a Chinese, as i never saw any tomb or remaining historical site that penetrate this cover method with round beams in between 2 pillars to protect the army in between.Also, the braveness of the army which can be shown on the first 3 army that they dont wear any ammo, they are ready to flight with their naked body.

Before we left Xian, we are glad that we are invited to visit the site of the coming Kempiski resort which is located in the sub-urban district far from city 40mins by car. No street light, no water facilities with over 500 worker worked on site to rush the soft opening in this October. The curtain wall is hanged, designed by Local Architect. Take a look!

Hotel: Sofitel on Renmin Square, Xian, China
Site: Terra Cotta Army

You've got to find what you love

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005'
You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is theclosest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.The first story is about connecting the dots.I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly thatI should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decidedat the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected babyboy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had nevergraduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday goto college.And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were beingspent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help mefigure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It waspretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn'tinterest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walkthe 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following mycuriosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, wasbeautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I dec ided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. Ilearned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It wasbeautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would havenever had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I hadnever dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might n ot have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course itwas impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in yourfuture. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.My second story is about love and loss.I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grownfrom just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier,and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was verytalented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a fallingout. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it wasdevastating.I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was beingpassed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about runningaway from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had beenrejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful wasreplaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife.Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turnof events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have awonderful family together.I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hitsyou in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And thatis as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is greatwork. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know whenyou find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.My third story is about death.When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression onme, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what Iam about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the bi g choices in life. Because almost everything — all externalexpectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that youare going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreaswas. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctoradvised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say yourgoodbyes.I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put aneedle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscopethe doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit morecertainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let thenoise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know whatyou truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow namedStewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktoppublishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: itwas idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and Iwas your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were soadventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have alwayswished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.Thank you all very much.

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Facebook has Revolutionized College Life and now it is out for the Rest of the
World
NEW YORK, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ --

Facebook revolutionized the way college students communicate with each other since its creation in 2004, but it has also become a tool for people who are no longer students. Facebook officials
claim that more than half its 35 million active users are not college students, and that by the end of this year less than 30 percent of Facebook users will sport college IDs.
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For the cover package featured in the August 20-27 double issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, August 13), Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old Harvard dropout who started the site, recently met with Senior Editor Steven Levy and explained that Facebook is (1) not a social-networking site but a "utility," a tool to facilitate the information flow between users and their compatriots, family members and professional connections; (2) not just for college students, and (3) a world-changing idea of unlimited potential. But the nub of his vision revolves around a concept he calls the "social graph."
As Zuckerberg describes it, the social graph is a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human on the planet. Each of us is a node radiating links to the people we know. "We don't own the social graph," he says. "The social graph is this thing that exists in the world, and it always has and it always will. It's really most natural for people to communicate through it, because it's with the people around you, friends and business connections or whatever. What [Facebook] needed to do was construct as accurate of a model as possible of the way the social graph looks in the world. So once Facebook knows who you care about, you can upload a photo album and we can send it to all those people automatically."
Newsweek reports that 1 million people a week are flocking to Facebook. And the international push is only beginning. Zuckerberg told Levy that Facebook is the top Web site in Canada, and that the geographic network with the most Facebookers is London. While the site is now available only in English, Zuckerberg says that versions in other languages will appear soon, making his goal of having Facebook become the center of online life, appear possible. But the question remains, can Facebook be as much a presence in the life of graduates and geezers as it is to college students? Zuckerberg can't see why not. "Adults still communicate with the people they're connected with."
Despite the need to communicate, Facebook may not be the perfect networking tool for many non-students just yet. At this point, much of the grammar of the site (as well as much of the first wave of applications) are still tilted toward student life. David Rodnitzky, 35, a San Francisco marketing executive, was having a fine time on Facebook until he installed a widget called "My Questions." Unbeknownst to him, it sent out a query to people on his friend list, specifically: "Do you kiss on the first date?"
"Here I was, asking some of my company's venture capitalists, along with some of my guy friends, if they kiss on the first date," says Rodnitzky. "Probably not the best way to interact." Nor is it clear whether grown-ups embrace the new SuperPoke third-party application: instead of a mere poke (the equivalent of saying "hey you" online) you can bite, slap, bump, spank, lick, grope or head-butt friends, acquaintances and, uh, business colleagues.
Zuckerberg and his team feel certain that the Facebook idea will trump all these concerns. He's built a superhigh-IQ engineering team at the Palo Alto, Calif., Facebook headquarters. "Absolutely yes," says Facebook's COO, Owen Van Natta, to the question of whether it will change the world of 30-, 40- and 50- year-olds the way it has on campus. He then amends the question to conform to
the company's new unofficial, and weirdly defensive, motto: it's not just students. "Facebook did not change college life, but it changed the lives of the early adopters ... many of whom were in college. We're entering a phase where every single day we have more people over 25 entering Facebook than any other demographic. So, absolutely, yes."
The cover package also includes the debate over why people love and hate Facebook. Correspondent Kurt Soller who has been a member since his last year in high school says he loves Facebook because the site has allowed him the freedom to build new relationships while still remaining in touch with old friends. On the opposite side of the love/ hate debate, Correspondent Sarah Kliff writes that although she understands the value of Facebook, she hates it. Kliff writes that the constant monitoring and updating takes up too much time that can be spent on more important things and it forces users to obsess over "dull details" rather than focus on connecting with others.

After The Race Is Done

LifeSport Coaching offers 10 steps to get back on the right track
Published on Thursday, Aug 9, 2007 at 02:41 PM.
An Ironman is a major athletic goal with a long period of sustained training and quite an exciting race week leading up to the big event.Even seasoned athletes learn something from each race they complete and continually improve their training, racing and mental skills. When you are starting back training and building volume this year, use the experience you gained last season to build an even better program.
Here are some skills you can adopt that will help you turn your race experiences into education and future success:* Review and re-cap your biggest events soon after they are completed, so that details are still clear in your mind, but wait a few days to let the overwhelming emotional feelings subside. When things go well, we feel on top of the world and that we can do no wrong. Conversely, when things do not go as planned, we feel we must overhaul our whole lives. Give yourself time to process and accept what happened before you review.* Once you are ready for reflection, honestly acknowledge how your race went. Write down both the things you did well and the things you would do better, and include both physical and mental aspects to your race, noting pre-race emotions and race day self talk. How you felt in the days leading up to the race and how you performed your taper are some of things you can ask yourself. Sometimes when we compare what we had planned with what actually happened we are surprised by the differences.* While looking at your list of aspects to the race, note any changes you might make for a more productive result. This exercise can be one of the greatest ways to improve as an athlete, and improving is one of the enduring challenges of sport. You can also gain perspective and advice from coaches and friends you trust to build this into a powerful learning tool for the future. * Make a game plan right away for improving your program and review it frequently in the coming season. Turn your race review into next season's goals. If you lost time in the water because you couldn't see where you are going, you need to work on your sighting skills for this season. Specifically, you need sighting drills, open water swimming, and extra coaching in this area.* While acknowledging disappointment is necessary, do not to dwell on the negative. Accept and move on. Also don't discredit your whole race for one or two mistakes. Perhaps you weren't able to hold pace on the run, but don't overlook the way that you prepared for the race. Perhaps you exited the water in great position, or held your desired output on the bike. The Ironman is a major event with many races within the race, both physical and mental. It can take several tries to get it right. * Make some observations on the way your whole season went. Even if you feel disappointed about what you achieved overall, there were in fact things you did right that you can strive to repeat in the future. Things to look for include the frequency of races, the duration of long training rides and runs, your nutrition plan, and your race tapers. The length of the season is also important. Emotional and physical stamina are important factors in season planning. .* From your reflection of your season and your races, you can start thinking and planning towards your upcoming seasons goals. This is the exciting part for most athletes and coaches, as new goals will be created and last season's success will be replicated. * Keep things in perspective. Many athletes are too hard on themselves in their efforts to reach their goals today. Look at how far you have come as an athlete and give yourself a pat on the back for what you have achieved already. * Be aware of factors that are entirely out of your control, like weather, draft marshals and other competitors' actions. Developing mental fortitude in the face of obstacles and challenges is one of your greatest racing tools. * Adopt a curiosity about racing and keep a lighthearted attitude about it all. Remember that failures are the greatest opportunities of all for learning. Look at everything as a learning experience, not a reflection of your self-worth. This will in turn make the journey exciting and continually fresh as you increase your sport knowledge. Success is the ability to learn from your failures.You have an opportunity to be great every time you train and every time you race. What can you do today to be a better athlete than last year? Reflection and analysis of key races is one way to turn experiences into tools for success. By following the above steps you will start visualizing yourself in 2007 or 2008, racing and executing the goals you have set out for yourself.

Engagement's blessing

Time to consolidate all the blessing from our friends, I'll quote it here for our memory.

"Congratulations!! will have to bring Champagne to the housewarming then..=)"- Edwin Chaim
"Gigi and Charles,Congratulation and I wish you all the best." - Johnson Liu
"Congratulations! What took you so long to announce to us the 'e-way'. It been 5 months since March 16!Cheers," - Philip Penaloza
"Congradulation! Engaged and keep learning together? The school sign is so meaningful!" - Samuel & Babara Yiu
"Congratulations! It's a sweet moments for you two. Being friends, it is so touching. I love to hear and share my happiness with you too. deep from our hear (including my Angel PungPung), we wish you new life would be filled with joyceful and memory moments ^v^ .We are looking forward to join the Wedding banquet in 2008. Any plan for that? in a Beach, mountain? I was so eager to meet you there. ^v^" - Dorothy and Woody Mak
"Cool photo man !!Are you coming to visit us in October ?" - Angelo, Estelle, Felicia & Latitia Tang
" Congratulations! Wish you both forever happiness.Awaiting for your great news next year... =)Best wishes" - David, Maggie and little Darren
" HEY!!!! Congrats!!!! Happy for the two of you!!! Here 's a wish for u 2--Wish u white hair till old, Early born expensive son!! Sweet sweet honey horny-i mean honey!!Yan yan love love!!! Hahaha.. " - Jackie Lim
" it's a good news. maybe i'm free on aut/08, justMAYBE...........MAY i BE there?" - Kelvin Ho(Chi)
" Congrats!!! finally your single days are over! wishing you both everlasting pure happiness." - Cher Ng
" Congratulations Charles & Gigi!!! It is a very handsome picture?nbsp; both of you look very cool! " - Sally Yuen
" Congratulations on getting marry! I know both of you will be theperfect couple, because your two have a same habits.All the best to you two, remember to invite me for your weddingparty." - Simon Lau
" Congratulation ! So touching and romantic engagment." - Vienn Wong
" SWEET!!! Big congratulations to Charles and Gigi!!! Warm wishes for your lifetime joy and togetherness!! Love" - Alice & Yann
" Oh, Congratulations, love your photo...like a film advertisement, with a smart couple planning to go together...Hurray!" - Angel & Denis
" Congratulations Charles n Gigi! I like the pic... very arty... " - Arthur Liew
" Gigi, You are so lucky to marry a man that is so kind and caring.But, I think that Charles is even more lucky to have Gigi marrying you.Congratulations!" - Jacky Mak
" Congratulations! How's your 2008 Autumn wedding plan going? Same time as 2008 Olympic. Coincidence or wear Tri-suit in your wedding, so special? Heard a few weeks ago that there was a couple in German wearing bike pants in their wedding. Wish you two have a very happy life!" Alan Chan
" Congragulations!!!I have a few questions:Q1) Is there any plan for little Charles/little Gigi or a Junior HUI "TRI"relay team?Q2) Will there be a bachelor party??? This will be your last breath of "FREEAIR", Charles." - Jeffery Yue
" Congratulations! Oh...how sweet! May your life together bubble with love and laughter.Charles, you are one lucky man!" - Teresa Mak
" Congratulations and God bless." - Patrick Ip

House warming_Sonic

Finally we have out first house warming, very enjoyable night and lots of lots of laugh...Sorry that our house is just so small that cannot house all the sonic triathletes! Will invite next time..........

My first blog

Hello everyone? Just set up my first blog! I think its time to change my fomat of writting diary, though i wrote my diary since i'm 10 years old. And i was always admire Her Majesty The Queen who wrote diary everyday.
Okay, i'll try to make it look nice and more easy to expore. Hope everyone can know more about me and we can through this channel to bring the people more closer.

Gigi & Charles Engagement

PHOTO COURTESY BY: Alanie Wong 2007 March, London

Hi all friends! Just want to tell you little bit of our news in the 'e-way', finally we are engaged!

cheers,
Gigi & Charles

Durathlon Race 2

Result: Run:0:13:59 Bike:0:51:10 Run:0:08:15 Total: 1:13:24
Sunny Flat road without any shade...Hard to run....It was a memorable day for me! It was great to get back my race feeling! Well, the course is all the flat without any shade. Today is very hot, run is hard, hard to sprint for the first 3KM and the last 1.5KM. All i can say, i need to get back on track for the training......

House warming invitation card

Home finally settle, is one of my agenda before 30s. Thanks Sofia Dale and Annie Morris for the beautiful books and fairy tales illustration.