Haha!!

Despite tons of "F***" words, the following video really entertains me and it made my day! 🙂

 

 

 

National Anthems

One of the nicest things about Olympic Games is that it brings people around the world together and helps each other share different cultures. In this regard, I found the following nice video link from NBC, which collects a series of emotional medal ceremonies for different countries.

 

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0812_SD_MUL_AU_L1638R1

 

Indeed, most of national anthems are great music by themselves. Different countries have different styles in their national anthems. For example, both China and France are of marching rhythms, while U.S. and German are very alike too. But in the end, each piece of music makes their own people proud.

 

The Best Part of Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

All the shows in the opening ceremony are awesome. But the following part is my favorite in the whole night. It’s a little embarrassing but I have to admit that I couldn’t hold my tears when the song hit me. Somewhat surprisingly, I found almost 90% of my friends in U.S. shed their tears while watching this part. Perhaps, only being in overseas can people truly understand the meaning of the word "Motherland."

 

Kudos to the director’s idea to create such a scene that combines the softest voice of our children and the most powerful force of our troops. Brilliant!! Go China!!!

 

      

Run, Kevin, Run!

Feeling pale and fatigue lately, I thought I really need to pick up some excercise. So, I decided to dedicate 1 hour each day in Gym starting this week. More importantly, what could be a better way to celebrate the Beijing Olympic than staying in a good shape? 🙂

 

So here I am, running, lifting, twisting, and cycling. On Monday, after running for 1 mile, I almost had to crawl my way back home. Tuesday? Um… a little better, but still exhausted. However, on Wednesday (today), I found myself making significant progress!!

 

After running for 0.6 mile, I felt great. With 0.8 mile gone, I still felt breezy. After 1 mile, my legs became much heavier. "Don’t stop," I thought, "at least run for another 0.1 mile." So, I kept running and running… After a while, I started to wonder, "Why the hell is this 0.1 mile so hard to finish? It has been quite a while but I still got a lot to finish." On the flip side, I realized that today might be a day that I can make a little breakthrough.

 

So I told myself, "I can make it, keep going!"

 

1.07…1.08…1.09…. In the end, I was almost out of breath and really couldn’t continue any more. So frustrated, I finally gave it up on the brink of breaking 1.1. Stepping down from the running machine, I took a final look at the distance I had run. OH MY GOD! You know what I saw? The number wasn’t 1.09 at all!

 

It’s 1.9.  Faint…

 

(Note: For those of you who are not familiar with Imperial units, 1 mile = 1.6 kilometer)