whoa, where do i really start. it's been a very...i'm not quite sure if it's eventful but occupied sounds pretty good so i'll used that. it's been a very occupied past couple of weeks. if i'm not working over at the restaurant, or providing my security services, i'm near the water with my fishing rod and the few mates who share the same passion as me.
catching absolutely nothing to be proud of all these weeks of fishing gives me every reason to dissagree with the phrase "there are plenty of fish in the sea" which is pretty sad knowing i've used the phrase many times to comfort heartbroken mates, hopefully they won't ever read this blog.
christmas this year was another one to remember having thought of having a quiet one with a few turning out to be having a loud and roudy one with alot; singstaring, bbqing mingling and lam and ray beating each other up. it was a good one, the meat was awesome which couldn't of been awesome without the awesome marinators myself and martin and the cooks phuccie, bindi, martin and myself.
TBC.
i completely forgot bout this list ay, lets see what i've actually done ay...
hitting up the great barrier reef
going camping somewhere
starting up and working hard on distributing company
starting to study for pharmacy subjects next year
working hard for a good month
find another job or get extra hours
clean the house
sort out all the useless stuff in the house
sort out the backyard sheds
buy new mower and mow the grass
fix up the boats and sell 2
get boat license
start up ebay shop
go chermside shopping
go hot air ballooning
buy a car
renovate the house
fix up light in the hall way and bindis light downstairs
replace all light bulbs with energy efficient ones
change all tap washers, taps and shower heads to efficient ones
go on the 12 week bondy challenge
get the car serviced
start up the garden
fix up that business plan on twentyfour
begin study on sleep
make a youtube video
make a bb.com video
put up kitchen benches for mum
fix the door knobs and handles for the house
fix up all the fly screens
have at least one bbq
man that's one real shitty effort...hahaha 2 and a bit more months to finish everything
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without rice, even the most cleverest wife cannot cook...
just over 2 weeks of freedom and at the moment, i reckon if i had to go back to uni i would be happy. it's been awesome as ay. ever since exams finished and everyones slowly started to settle down a bit; ya know from that feeling after hard cramming where you always feel like you've got to do something.
i can't remember when i stopped blogging but we've done a fair few things since then. got my exam marks back and it looks like i won't be repeating anything next year which i'm pretty stoked about, i had the deep stomach feel while waiting for peter to read out my marks to me over the phone (we were fishing at the time). but yeah, ya feel a bit more free after knowing ya marks ay, it feels like a new start now, the one where you promise yourself that you'll do everything better from this time on; it never really does happen tho.
hmmm, the past 2 weeks have consisted of fishing, watching movies and going to work. justines just bout to get back from dubai, , peter and ming have headed back home and nicks gooooone the usa; man everyones leaving me ay. i found myself a kitchen hand job over at tiens 6 degrees so i'm working over there on the mondays and tuesdays and hit up the clubs on the friday and saturday. i'm sort of getting over the whole security thing tho, just having to deal with idiots. we'll just see how it goes till the start of uni ay, might even find myself a static job in some gatehouse somewhere...fun fun fun.
man, tiens mum and aunt have taught me so much. i feel like a dumbass having to ask them questions with every action i do but i'll be a sick chef hopefully sometime soon. i make the best crocodile and hallumui salad i reckon cause it's specially cooked by the ly. hahaha
but yeah the experience is heaps good, i reckon it's about time for me to learn how to cook as well.
martins been over here a fair bit as well and the fellas have popped by here and there which keeps us all occupied with stuff to do/ or not to do. we mowed the lawn the other day when martin was over; i hadn't mowed it since the start of last year, man, it was more like cutting down treees ay. my lawn mower i bought from kmart for 200 bucks doesn't do the job quick but i guess does get the job done; i swear i'm gonna run this little bugger on high octane fuel, professional racing oil and change the mower blades to chemically sharpened carbon fibre extra light blades, it will become a beast. martin pretty much ended up wipper snipping the whole lot and i mowed over it. we have a sick lawn now.
i've been fishing with the fellas every other day pretty much. paullie, phuccie and i have pretty much travelled the whole of brissie in search for fish. we still haven't found any decent enough to be proud of but its been heaps of fun with heaps of good old memories which we will definately find hard to forget anytime soon.
up until now that's probably all i can really remember but it has been a pretty cool few weeks. ill post up some photos to see if i can remember much else that's happened in the past few weeks. till the next time i post; hopefully tomorrow, take it easy people!
yeaaaaah, 3:24, 2 days from start of exams and i'm pretty stuffeed ay. let me see, ever since my last post, i've upd the dosage of caffeine from that one can or redbull to 2 no dozes and a jug of coffeeeee. i give myself regular lie down sessions and drink plenty of water...i guess if you gotta cram, ya gotta do it sensibly ay (could of been more sensible during the semester by going to lectures and not sleeping in). i guesss what's done is dooone.
i can't fail any of these this term ay....figured out i need at least two 6s and two 5s to get into what i want; my chances are real slim but i still gooot hope. there are 4 exams but the 3 on my mind atm are the consecutive ones which start on the tuesday, anatomy is pretty much sussed out, i've spent alot of my time revising it so i'm pretty confident ay, chemistry is going sorta alright. i finished catching up all my lectures just a few hours back and have beeen relaxing a bit, there doesn't seem to be anything tooo crazy, it's all just concepts but there are a few things which will be stink trying to remember and i reckon i'm gonna get a boo boo trying to study for cellular molecular.
maaaaan, my second no doz isn't going down tooo good for some reason. it's making ma gut feel real....icky ay. hahahaha, we'll just seee in a few minutes whether i get a heart attack or not. i hope not ay. but yeah, i reckon i'm pretty pro at cramming, i promise myself every exam period that i will never cram ever again. i bet everyone does that ay, i just want the holidays to be here finally. after next thursday it's gooone be sweeet, got a few days to study for physiology then even more sleeeep depreviation; i'm hoping to not sleep for another week after that so i can go fishing and do whatever i feeeel like...like cleaning up the shed out the back. yeaaaah, that will turn me on.
only cooool people drink water, do you want to be a loser? rehydrate yourself...stay cooooool
i'm on my first red bull tonight (cut off the v, they reckon it gives ya cancer) and on my 10 minute, (15 now) break from study. i had a goood sleep last night ay, got home earlier than usual cause i got changed to the vale for the saturday shift. it was the a pretty cool shift, having absolutely nothing to do other than talk shit with the super, ross and jodie. i've never seen the nightclub so empty ever!
i'm up to my 2nd lecture now and hoping to finish it all pretty well before 3 tonight, feel like sleeping a bit ay. we had a real choice time at ross's b'day bbq yesterday. had a real mean one over at the park near his place. martin, jimmy, tien ma sis and bondy all chipped in to get him mean gifts; a tacho and shift light for his car, a trd sticker and a car wash kit which i hope he loves.
we got to the park just before ross unloaded his stuff so we helped him set everything up. his sisters rolled the bbq down from the house and people started to arrive. farout everyone came ay! it was a choice as day, i reckon ross had heeaps of fun! happy birthday again brother. after a bit of rugby and having hien slip on concrete giving him a good one on his elbows, we decided to take a break from the insanity of brisies spring weather (it would of been a good 30 i reckon!).
jimmy made an appearance with his boosted civic and ross shat himself after going for a spin with him. after the sun started to ease off, a bit of basketball was played, we cleaned up, a few photos were taken and we all headed home to grab a shower and head for a few games of dota.
it was mean fun, just check out the photos!
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I'm just your average girl next door. I've made a promise that I'll always be there for someone I care. I believe no price can be put on the relationship between family and friends. I want to bury a time capsule with my friends, and only to retrieve it once we've succeeded at our dreams...
a good friends blog. she writes of real meaningful stuff, a really good read ay. check it out!
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as you can see im a boring person and can't find anything interesting to do so i've composed this list i wish to accomplish over the holidays.
hitting up the great barrier reef
going camping somewhere
starting up and working hard on distributing company
starting to study for pharmacy subjects next year
working hard for a good month
find another job or get extra hours
clean the house
sort out all the useless stuff in the house
sort out the backyard sheds
buy new mower and mow the grass
fix up the boats and sell 2
get boat license
start up ebay shop
go chermside shopping
go hot air ballooning
buy a car
renovate the house
fix up light in the hall way and bindis light downstairs
replace all light bulbs with energy efficient ones
change all tap washers, taps and shower heads to efficient ones
go on the 12 week bondy challenge
get the car serviced
start up the garden
fix up that business plan on twentyfour
begin study on sleep
make a youtube video
make a bb.com video
put up kitchen benches for mum
fix the door knobs and handles for the house
fix up all the fly screens
have at least one bbq
yeah something on the lines of that ay....
4 hours of browsing (solid effort) and my room smells started to make me feel lightheaded so i decided to get some fresh air until i noticed i hadn't washed cola for about half a year now (ya know it when you touch her fur and like u get that icky sticky dirty feeling). threw her in the bathtub (there's no way else she would get in there!) and washed her down twice ay; the first time i rinsed after soaping her, the water ran down brown! she's all nice and fluffy now, i reckon i did a good job.
after actually accomplishing something productive, i decided to fix mums leaking toilet downstairs. apparently the float valve that was broken fixed itself and somehow i managed to break it again. instead of water dripping because there was too much water, the float valve started leaking cause i cracked it. mum gave me a few, and after, i replaced the whole thing. i reckon i did well ay, never thought i could actually fix anything. i turned off the mains water, released the water pressure by the nearest tap, drained the toilet water, unscrewed the float valve and replaced it with a new and improved one (man luckily after scavenging through dads shed the other day, i found a brand new one), turned back the water main and bam, a professional job...something i reckon i could actually pay for. hahahah! mum was proud.
i've been on my second v now and it's worn off but i'm trying not to go to bed yet. i actually did do some study today but not much to be satisfied with. hahaha. i'm trying a new way to help me get to sleep by spending at least an hour after study doing something relaxing and completely irrelevant to anything i studied. they (some website) reckons ya shouldn't go to sleep right after anything mentally stimulating, i don't know why but i'm gonna try it ay, whatever helps me get better sleep i'm in ay. but yeah, i'm off to find something insteresting to do now. catch ya!
HAHAHAHA! i've always had something where i can flick to or turn on which makes my shitty days feel better. it's usually past photos where fun memories jump back or my favourites playlist on youtube where inspirational or funny videos make me laugh all the way back to happy again. i was cruising around youtube when i found this, a lift plus ad and well, you'll know how happy it will make you feel once you click the video below. hahaha the only kind of laugh which makes you feel good is the one which stops you from breathing.
i'm on my 10 minute break and am listening to urbangermanys cover of stronger than by gabe bondoc and i think. nothing special or anything, just thinking of random stuff, something that will take my mind off the amazingly interesting (it actually is) anatomy of the human body. just gotta rest up the mind, refresh it enough to keep me interested and awake for another few more hours to finish up.i really miss those days ay. i reckon a hot chocolate will cheer me up tho. haha, makes ya warm and fuzzy inside. what was that quote i read sometime previously...can't remember, something about how hot chocolate when you first pour it in your mouth burns ya and while swallowing it, itburns all the way down and u regret drinking it so fast but when it reaches your stomach and warms everything up and ya feel happy again...:S i'm not sure, when i find it i'll post it, it's a good quote...hahaha.
man, gotta stay motivated! exams are coming and i'm only procrastinating more by posting. gotta do well in this next anatomy practical exam. gotta do well in this next anatomy practical exam!
a few things which have made my days last a bit longer...
playing capture the flag with the boys for 4 hours
parking down the road from a mates house to have an hour long chat
seeing a nick
seeing justine
meeting up with martin to see tien
big angry bosses appreciating my work
a stranger in the city toilets wishing me a "happy monday day"
getting promoted
sitting with the guys afterwork until the sun rises
seeing ming and kerwin
listening to john mayer
blogging more
the feeling of change seems to be lurking just around the corner tonight. i can feel it creeping up on me but although as much as i want to, i just can't seem to embrace it with open arms. that icky sticky feeling is still swirling around in my stomach, (ya know, like that antacid ad on tele). it was a bad day today, well, just not as productive as any other day in the previous week which makes me a bit sad; knowing that every minute means something these days.
i did manage to wake up before my alarm at 7:30 today which was a real good feeling and got some pretty important things done like fixing the dripping bath tap and putting away the tools to an obvious enough place for me to find next time i need to do anyy fixerupering.
today i experienced first hand that persistance again always prevails, fixing the tap today took a mere 5 minutes compared to the first time i tried it for a good few hours and got shocking results. the stupid bell screw last time didn't budge but after a week and coming back to it, sitting there thinking, selecting the right tool and with the correct technique of the the grip, the thing came off like a charm. i reckon me looking at the tap did the job, it got scared ya see.
just finished dinner now and continuing to finish off this post. i'm not quite sure what else there is on my mind but i still feel stink for breaking another promise today tho. hate it when i break promises especially the ones i promise justine. man i feel stink ay but when holidays come round i promise i'll go to soo many meetings u'll get sick of seeing me. hahaha. i gotta go and keep my other promise, the one to study for this last and final quiz for physiology...last prac tomorrow. yeeeeaahhh!
for a friend...man, just you don't want to turn out to be the no.1 so do the no.2 by telling her no.3 and doing what it says afterwards; smoooooth man!
i reckon what does it for me is how the things that are really important in my life, well the things that mean most to me anyway seem to be in top notch at the moment. i've begun to notice the little things in our family which connect us. like the tiny threads which hold a spider web together, we've found the stronger points and put more effort into stabilizing them. i could not of prayed for better friends. i met up with an old mate just yesterday and he showed me that even with time true mates never dissapear. we've definately made our own paths since those afterschool nintendo playing days but without the foundation there would be no path; friends makes up the pavement in that path.
the two most important things in my life have been fufilled to the limit which makes me satisfied, no-one can say that life is perfect, it is those who recognise there are problems but still rise above it. my feeling of joy and fufillment has escalated since the past few days. it just seems that life has taken a new turn and a turn for the better. people always complain of how everyone is always out to get them or that God is just unfair to them, life should be how janice explains it; if life hands you a lemon, ask for tequilla and salt. there is always something to learn and something to cherish from the problems life brings you but if you use it right, you turn out stronger...or drunk. hahaha.
i feel like a bodybuilder whose had too much protein, a solid built bridge stabalized with more girders, a star which is brighter just before it explodes...life feels like with every good thing that happens to me, something great happens..like in excess. life has ups and downs but it's up to you to decide how you want to see them.
thank you
farout, looking over the goals list i don't think i've crossed any out since my first post. i promised myself to cross off 10 goals this year, hopefully i'll be able to in the next few months.
man dis is hard ay....
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0 comments Posted by Ly Truong at 12:44 amhard man....i'm aching at the moment. my arse is prolly limiting me from walking properly at the moment. today, i've never felt so much pain in a workout ever. i reckon i've been through a good cycle of emotions and feelings today ay. i woke up tired and sleepy, getting to uni got me into a soulful mood listening to some buble and babyface but the ride there was frustrating as hell, bloody morning traffic, i'm suprised to hear morning radio blasting out of commuters radios tho, i don't think i'ld be able to stand hearing over-caffeinated idiots blabbing on about politics and insanely interesting topics like the most outrageous way to mistakenly pronouce a word...yeah
hahaha but getting to uni i felt a slight bit of worry after discovering and coming to reality the load of work i need to get through before the end of year exams. i felt a sense of completion and ending after re-checking over all my chemistry pracs and cellular molecular biology pracs and a sense of achievement and joyfulness followed while helping out the other boys with theirs.
hungry was probably what i felt next but i'm usually always hungry, i just never really notice it unless i'm starving. satisfaction was felt when that first bite of chicken burger entered my stomach and regret was felt when the last chip was swallowed when my conscious reminded me to never eat that much again.
hahaha, gym left me the most pain i've ever endured in any workout, as said earlier, and i've never felt soo sick ever while sober. looking into the mirror when i turned yellow was pretty cool for a bit until i wanted to throw up the mushed potato and bread in my gut. man, the gatorade bondy gave me made me feel relieved as when the cold sugary substance cooled me down and replenished my glycogen stores. made me feel a million times better, ur a mad dude bondy. '
but yeah, this can go on for years i reckon, the main thing is now i guess and i feel...enlightened...i'm not sure if that's the word for it but i'm feeling blessed ay. that feeling is still lasting ay. i wonder what it is but yeah man, i just had to tell someone. i've already told nick but i want people to read this and feel it ay. it's like...the feeling of walking through a forest lined with beautiful green trees and plants, birds whistling, animals doing their business on a happy sunfilled afternoon but your walking on a path of nails and shards of glass and fireants. by the time you reach the end of the path your dissapointed that such a beautiful thing can have faults but you notice that you have no cuts nor injuries to your feet. it's a bit weird and i thought of it on the spot so it drags but i hope u feel me. hahahahaa.
like...sometimes bad things just aren't always that bad ay. they are there to remind you that nothings always perfect but if you just live it out, its
yeah man, i''ve got abosolutely nothing to do but i feel soo occupied (yeah...that's why i'm blooogging) but yeah so far i've completed everything that needed to be done today. i've washed the car (did it 4:30 this morning cause it's probably about the only time i can do it), slept a good few, did some cardio, fixed my bike, vacuumed the car, cleaned my room, checked my e-mail and facebooked. there's a good hour or so before i have to get ready for work but for some reason todays not like other days where i complain of how lifes too boring or how lifes not boring enough. it's just, good today, i feel as though i'm actually living it now, maybe this is it?
john mayers playing in the background and i'm about to turn off the tube, the lights and set the mood with a little bit of ambient light. there's something in the air today and i think it's something good. everything seems to be going on around me but i feel so comfortable being able to sit here and really chill. there's nothing to it ay. my sisters listening to the tv in her dreams in the lounge room and mums singing in the shower while dinner sits in the kitchen table. there's something going on tonight. it's not a full moon nor is it hot and humid like other days, the winds blowing and i reckon it won't rain like mum said it would tomorrow. why is it that such little detailed things tonight seem to give me so much more joy tonight than it would any other night. why am i noticing.
hahaha, it's strange ay but nothing at the moment seems perfect nor do they seem disastrous but it's just all good ay. ya know i really hope this feeling last for a little while longer ay. i reckon happenings within the past few weeks have taught me some very important life long lessons and shit's finally hit the fan. lesson no.1: don't plan what's going to happen next, nor dwell on what's already happened, just be there when it happens.
hahaha, far, it's heaps stink, i wrote a huge post but lost it when i tried adding pictures and it froze the computer. ohh well, didn't really write about much i don't really remember what it was about anyway.
studying has been sick as lately ay. physiology and anatomy just clicks with me ay, i've devised a new way of learning as well which is alot better than how i used to study. i don't waste time writing out lectures anymore ay. i'm suprised that i'm actually not behind on any lectures knowing that i've stayed home for a few. reading, trying to understand and then making it fun really does work for me ay. hahaha, yeah, i know what you thinking but i don't care, it's just fun ay, i find it heaps interesting ay. sometimes in my spare time i sit there and see how fast i can name all the bones and muscles in the body and then try and beat the time next time round. i reckon that main thing to remember stuff is consolidation, something not many of us do ay. i've probably gone over my lecture notes twice a week now that i don't waste time on writing them out.
hahaha, yeah, still have to read up a bit more tho, i've still got to catch up on cellular molecular biology which isn't on my enjoyable things to do list but i guess ya just gotta do it ay.
work has been as fun as watching eddy drunk. hahaha, it's been awesome ay, i love it at the 'vale and since last week when i was doing the nightclub at the alex, i love it there as well ay. hahaha.
man i'm a facebook addict these days ay, i'm gonna go and jump on it before my timer runs out. between my breaks i set a 10 minute timer, when it runs out i go back to study. far, it's already run out but someone left me a comment. hahahaha! ciao, post next time. fat
whooooohooo! just feeling good today, post when i get back from work!
first time i heard it was on janice's cd but was just sorting out my youtube playlists and came across this video clip. it's deep as ay, made me realise that i've sorta drifted from what i used to believe in, hope you guys feel the same.
yeah, i reckon it was the week just passed which killed me. our show day holiday wasn't too bad, working at the eagle farm races i got to look after an empty taxi rank all day and got paid time and a half doing it. i was able to study all 67 skeletal muscles anterior and posterior we were supposed to learn for physiology which wasn't too bad. got to sign off early to head over to the vic which apart from nearly all getting our heads kicked in early on, twas pretty much as cruisy as the time at the races. thursday was recovery day, getting to catch up on all the sleep of the week till then; bloody still not used to the eight o'clocks ay. spent the night talking to justine cause she was in a procrastinating mood and fell asleep sometime around 3.
hmmm, the weekend was a pretty choice one, well from what i remember anyway. we had a good lunch over at the pinelands sushi place, the three of us boys ate 4 times more than the girls (it was great sushi ay) and phuccie couldn't man up to eatting his green tea icecream. we went window shopping at garbo until we decided to meet up with a few of d block at southbank to watch chuck and larry. awesome movie ay; well if your into gay homo jokes, u'll know what i mean when you see it. hahahahaha.
that's probably about all i really remember clearly of that saturday. we headed home to get dressed for a meet up with some of my security workmates out at the mustang. i pretty much don't remember much between a game of pingpong, a few drinks and finding myself in my lounge room in my underwear...hahahaha; well not really ay, i find it pretty scary ay...
woke up throwing up bucket fulls of black stuff and blood with my tonsil inflammed the size of one of those really huge marbels. hmmm, i'm really not keen on doing that again ay.
the doctor prescribed me some cough medicine, roids and new antibiotics (the last ones i had for the flu gave me the runs).... hahaha, he reckons my immune system was down from the flu and the drinking pretty much knocked me with some virus it wouldn't of cough if i was all strong and healthy. i feel happy taking roids, it makes me get an itch under my skin and gives me euphoric dreams; bloody awesome side effects; except for the itching.
can't wait to sleep, hope i don't see rabbits, butterflies and teddy bears like i did yesternight. good night people!
yeah man, i reckon i'm well enough to say i'm officially unsick; although my amoxillin doses are still continuing and i've been getting the runs a few hours later due to the side effects, i've been able to suppress my coughing to approximately once every 5 or so minutes. did my first gym session since last thursday and it wasn't too shabby; was able to finish a few sets of chest and triceps but it's been no where near the intensity i was hoping to achieve, none the less, it's still good to do some gym than none. i get to work this saturday which is a bummer but i guess it's not too bad, a few more hours of work i guess gives me a couple of bucks to add to savings. can't wait till my races shift for next wednesday. while you youngns are all out having fun at the ekka, i'll be at the races earning double time for standing around looking after drunk people. hahahaha
yeah....hahah martin just called and he wants to play some dota. i'll blog some more later tonight. ciao
yeah im bloody sick and tired of this ay. hate the flu. i reckon that last weight session i had 3 days ago completely wrecked any of my immune system i had left defending this bloody virus. it hasn't been all that bad though; hanging around at home, in bed or on the couch in front of the tv and mum believing that the only way i'm gonna get better is to feed me as much as i can, i reckon it's pretty cool to be sick once in a while (i get my abs exercises done as well with my constant contractions due to chest coughs.)
its not all glitz and glamour though. well i mean your mind starts to wonder and you sort of reflect and think about pretty much everything; well you can't really do too much else (i'm not one of those game playing sicks). some good sick bed ridden reflecting does the mind wonders but i think i'm at the stage where it's doing more harm than good (i've probably passed that staged 2 days ago). far, i hate it when i'm sick. weights, exercise or some good old afternoon staring at the grass in the paddock usually does me good when my minds been wondering too much or when life needs to be slowed down a little but ya know to stop the fat, it must be pretty bad. hahaha
actually, up until now in my post, i've pretty much felt alot better. blogging helped me rethink what i had to blog and i don't think it really is worth typing anymore, it would just be bitching about stuff now that i think about it. hahaha, i guess all i could say is life could be better, but it's good at the moment so i won't complain too much. take it easy people, thanks for hearing me out.
P.S. oi Thuy, i re-read that post, didn't mean it like u thought, hahaha, you think too much sorry if it sounded offensive. fat
Day:1
Second semester university has begun and it’s officially the first day of my new routine. I’m going to try so hard to follow it but I know I will probably stray away from it in a few weeks, lets just hope ay. My uni timetable is heaps better than last semesters. Although I’ve got a few more earlier starts, the majority of the day I’m either at home or am able to leave uni before 1 o’clock. Wednesdays going to be a hell of a day, cramming 3 pracs and a lecture within the 11 or so hours of contact between 9 and 8 at night. But all is good, sacrifice made for a spare day on the Thursday. So far, just concentrating on uni work, I’m pretty happy with how it’s going. Physiology and Anatomy are sick as, I really love this type of stuff, and pretty much both subjects correlate pretty well with each other. Chem and Cell and Molecular biology are shitty but I guess I’m coping alright. My plan to study and revise lecture notes has been going well, I’ve spent at least an hour or so revising every night which is an improvement since I scarcely did any in semester 1. Everything is slowly flowing into place. My holiday schedule and to do list is finally getting completed, only got the few little things like paying off my parking fines and doing my tax returns but less to worry about in the end I guess. The goal of getting abs is and losing weight is getting there as well, with meal plans and exercise regimes done the day before. I’ve followed most of it but I guess it’s all just a progressive thing ay.
It’s been good, I haven’t wasted too much time doing nothing; fate brought the internet down so I’ve had more time to do necessary doings like catching up on sleep and studying. It’s been a great few days; hopefully it will just get better.
Day: 6
6 days later and life has just got all but complicated. Work has been awesomely great and getting better although having only the Friday shift at the vale to look forward to during the week now. I can finally see the progression I’ve made since the first time I worked there. With a new supervisor taking over; an awesome fellow work mate, I’ve actually noticed how much I’ve learnt and absorbed from spending only a few months in the business. Maybe I’m not as useless as I thought I was. Work I reckon gets a good green tick. As far as family is going, I reckon I could put a good tick on that as well.
There aren’t too many things which need much of my thinking time these days. I mean, what else could worry a 19 year old these days other than work, study and family and friends? I’m not lazing around these days so it occupies most of my time around doing other stuff like studying. I’m working enough to help contribute to the house monies, study enough to keep a few lectures ahead, chill out with mates to catch up and take time off and have enough time for myself. I’m not quite sure why but with everything going slightly on track, I still seem confused about a lot of things.
A few months back I reckon the 2 ticks out of the 3 would be a godsend. Actually, right now I reckon I’ve got it all right for a few moments. But there just seems to be something really bugging me. I’ve only felt the tickle maybe since Thursday but I reckon it was a little bit before then. I think the tickle might be the little bit of light penetrating into my chest. The feeling of warmth and comfort, the feeling of revival, a hand to hold, a shoulder to lean on, that’s what I feel. I assure you, the feeling of happiness and warmth doesn’t have to come from the devils drink or natures weeds. Retracing back a few days it’s only a handful of things which probably got me feeling where I’m at now.
Actually I think it’s only one real thing. Maybe through so much that’s happened in my life up until now, there are only a few things which can make me feel genuinely happy.
Sometimes I reckon that instead of love pulling people together, it separates them with fate bringing them back. Spending a few hours with an old mate this week has taught me that friends come and go but mates I guess make you feel warm and fuzzy all the time; despite the time you saw them last. I guess it’s always better to talk to someone who actually listens and talks back although blogging does help to keep my mind off of things.
I think I’m just a lonely dude who needs to find people to talk to but I’ll make sure I’ll keep those who warm me real close. I won’t let you go again.
i heart you ----\
V
after that little fishing trip, i rested hard till work began early on the wednesday for origin. the blues won *yay*, the maroons won the series *boo* but all in all, the night out at the vic wasn't too bad. thursday was folllowed by a good lazy day out at the muddy where myself and the super played pool and sudoku all night, it was a good bludgy night where good behavioured people sat and stared at pokies machines. friday was cruisy, like every other friday cause i was at the vale. i love the vale! had a cruisy ass 10 o'clock start saturday morning which dragged on untill 6 at the races. the corinda on the other hand was a different story with my super and i wrestling and getting a few guys arrested. bloody drunk people. just why i don't understand?
took the 15minute trip over to the alex from the corinda and evicted a few there. nothing really special ay, the week was pretty much one full of work so didn't really see much of the guys. my little sisters b'day was on the monday, got her a wii and a phone plan which i hope she likes. we chilled out on the tuesday with a few of the boys, about 20 of so ex-state highs which was a good turn up. played a little ball which was awesome and did the old school kfc dinner afterwards. brought back alot of the good times ay; nothing much has changed.
and yeah, it's been a pretty boring holidays so far actually. i've spent a few days just fixing things around the house and cleaning up but that's about it. sent a few of the otago boys e-mails so that was pretty choice, actually trying to keep in contact ay. anyways, i'll try and post later on in the week, i'm stuffed now, just came back from quangies playing a little bit of poker and wii. wii gets ya tired i tell ya. take care people.
yeah, that nrb stuffed me ay. i reckon the marker of the exam is going to shred up my paper after he looks at it. ohh well, it's holidays!
yeah, did the usual dota for a few hours after it cause was way too stuffed to do anything else, had a few late nights before hand to study for the exams. it was good to catch up with a few. we went fishing down over at charlies place for a bit (it was more like driving around than fishing). didn't catch a single thing so jumped over to west end for a bit which was stupid as. the temperature was probably around a low 4 or so and windy as ay. phuccie caught an eel and i caught a stupid catfish. duration stayed = about 8 minutes.
we headed down to thuys at the coast on the wednesday which was pretty fun. didn't do too much other than have a good feed (wasn't too good cause we were all still hungry as), and ross and i played on the computer while the others drank a few and played monopoly and pictionary.
we went home early on the thursday morning and i think i just slepted all day.
that thursday i think i just slept but can't be too sure. had work on the thursday which was heaps fun cause pete and i got to sit around playing sudoku, watching tv and shooting pool all night. it was mean as cause they kept us in till 2:30 as well, good pay for doing not much. hahaha
friday was a pretty fun day. i think we saw janice today, and went to play a bit of bowling with her and he little sis. ross and kerwin were there. (i hate it when i gotta try to remember stuff). had work and it was terrible. well it was good but we had terrible trouble. ripping people apart, grabbing shirts, taking hits; it wasn't too bad, just alot of dickhead drunk dudes who wouldn't leave. 16 evictions i think, 2 physical which isn't nearly that bad. had a good feed afterwards, bought myself a good tub of protein, synergy 5 it's called. gives u an 84% count of protein and probably about 3 percent carbs which is pretty sick for me. its cheap cause it's not a really well known brand but who gives a crap, it's good enough for me.
saturday i worked at sunbar and it was crappy. boring, crappy crowd, crappy venue, not really but it just wasn't my type of place ay. im not too much of a valley or city guy ay, just can't work those places ay.
we went fishing sunday night and brought back a feast. between phuccie, paullie and i we brought home eskys and buckets of 20 bream all up, measuring probably at around the half kilo to 700 grams each. it was sick as. kerwin and ricky didn't have too much luck although kerwin did bring up an undersized mangrove jack. ricky never got to reel in his line with a sinker and hook still attached.
it was stink but i guess a relief as well getting a phone call from the office saying my shift at the koala tavern was cancelled. stink because if they had called me 10 minutes earilier i wouldn't of been half way there and a relief because i didn't really want to work so early; 7 is heaps early hmmmmk. hahaha, so i've been freezing my arse off at home, trying to read through a few of my last exams notes while watching the craziest police chases on tv. an hour or so of doing nothing because there's not enough time to do anything and too long of a time to sit around waiting serves good relaxation time to just chill ay. ohh well, i've gotta go and get changed again, hope this weather stops heaps of people from going out, if it were to me i'ld rather be at home in my cosy warm bed sleeping. fat
i hate being lactose intolerant. growing up i always thought getting runs after eatting a pizza was due to it's preparation. a long period without milk, cheeses and yoghurt followed by a one good dose one morning left me clenching to keep it off of the floor. damn, an easy 30 or so grams of protein per couple of glasses doesn't help either. hahaha, stuff it, i'm gonna go and buy that soy milk from the super tomorrow, i hear it increases your oestrogen levels, gives you tities; hahaha we'll see how it goes. fat
pretty good effort ay, didn't even use a flash.farout bloody damn, chemistry is finally dead! well for now anyway, (can't wait till we get to do it again next semester). yeah, rocked up fashionably late to my exam; its funny how you never learn that closing your eyes for another 5 minutes of sleep just doesn't work ay. woke up an hour after i was supposed to, picked up peter and sped all the way to uni (well i would of been able to speed if it weren't for the stupid insane traffic). peter dropped the kids off at the pool when we arrived and i raced to find m block (after realising that it wasn't the place i thought it was originally).
it's real stink how they structured the exam ay. after the first few questions during perusal it felt choice as finding out that the questions were bloody basic as! confidence was high, i thought my non craming efforts the day before worked brilliantly untill i hit about the 20th question onwards which blasted all hope out of the window. far, they had real strange assed questions with answers where your tossing between two answers and you find that there's a choice where it says none of the above. e) none of the above was probably chosen the most for me, i really hope i didn't do too bad ay. overal the exam i guess wasn't too bad; just gotta get 20% out of the total 60 to pass, don't have to pass to actually pass the course.
we had a good feed at hanaichis afterwards with bondy. got a real large japanese chicken curry wif extra rice and extra chicken. it was a real good feed ay cause i hadn't eatten anything all day. wintergarden down at hanaichis made us forget about the outside weather. it was windy as a mother f*cker and was freeezing ay. i reckon the cold is nearly on the same bar as dunedin ay; maybe it's because i don't have 2 doonas, a heater and an electric blanket but for real it's heaps cold ay. after cutting through the wind and getting to my car on the opposite side of town, i was frustrated to have found yet another parking ticket flapping under my windscreen wiper, my 6th one altogether (i thought because i recently got one from the same place i wouldn't get another one for a while to come).
after dropping the two off home, kicked the ball and did some rugby drills wif ricky and phuc over at dutton park state school. afterwards we dropped over to ipm for a solid couple of hours of dota and starcraft (yeah man!) and went fishing till about 1 in the morning with phuccie and ross. i reckon we would of stayed longer but phuc and i were freezing our asses off. we left after ross had a good fight with an eel. out of nothing, we saw ross fighting to keep the fish on his line. after a good 10 minutes, he finally reeled the bitch up to find that it was a 1metre huge jawed eel, prolly about 10 centimetres in thickness. ross being the man he is, slugged the eel over his shoulder and the night ended with success and a to be feed. (not really, he lost it after the eel pretending to be dead, jumped, making phuccie and i run like a mother f*ck and ross not knowing what was going on let go of the eel and it slipped back into the water).
yeah, that's my story for tonight. it was a good day. fat
damn!
this place has changed ever since the last time i was on to update. blogger has introduced so many nifty things we can add to our blogs; the holidays will give me time to explore all of them. officially not really on holidays yet ay but finals give me a bit more time to chill out and stuff, reflect. hahaha
if it weren't for karan i probably wouldn't of got back on this thing to update (yeah sorry man, i know it was pretty long ago since when you told me) but got so much to talk about and so little people who have time to hear my random ramblings; haha i wouldn't blame them, these days we seem to be able to talk for ever.
it's been over 4 months ay and heaps has happened. it's been a great year so far i reckon. life could be a little less systematic though as it just seems as though if i'm not waiting for the week to end for work, i'm waiting for it to begin for uni.
uni, gym and work seem to work pretty good for me every week. monday starts with the 8 o'clock and the state library is prolly where i'll be after that. by about 3, i'll probably meet up with some of the uq guys in the city and go for a good feed and a few hours of dota. yeah, i still haven't been able to quit dota but it's the only thing other than gym which lets me relax, pretty lame ay. hahahaha.
tuesdays will pretty much be the only day i'm at home after uni cause nothing really happens. the guys rock up to my life sciences lecture in the arvo and we stuff around before going to the library to study (talk) and sit around southbank afterwards when it closes. but yeah, im usually able to catch up on some prac readings and tute preparations when i get back home.
wednesday - thurdays the week of work start and i'm out over at the muddy farmer for the 9 to whenever they decide to close. my super out there is a choice bloke, i love working there. the only place i've worked where i can actually sit on my arse and watch people (usually by then we've only 5 people in the whole place and no-one really cares anyway). love the wednesdays there cause there's karaoke on and time flies by real quick (karaoke finishes at 1 so you know u've only got an hour left). thursdays aren't too good cause music stops at 10:30, after this, ur just sitting around till people leave from the pokies.
friday is probably my favourite day of the week cause it's calamvale day. i don't know why i'm so passionate about working on the friday. its just heaps and heaps of fun ay; a venue i've gotten real close to due to great staff, workmates and just the atmosphere, there's always something thats going on and u just feel it. Saturdays are the same but i've been thrown out to heaps of different places. Looked after eskimo joes concert at the alex one night which was one cruisy ass night (got to stand at the backgate and look after gear and the crew from screaming crazy fans which did not happen).
Sunday we get to sleep till afternoon and exhausted from the whole week, i get to do absolutely nothing cause i reckon i deserve it (bloody lazy arse). stay at home usually and prepare for the whole week as it starts all over again.
gym has been real good ay but could be heaps better. ricky showed us a real mean suppliments shop over at carindale. yeah, i've gone pretty hard with it ay. taking l-carnitine (not fully yet though, im saving it for my cut and gotta research into it a bit more), creatine, glutamine, protein. the creatine i've got atm is sick as. no-explode it's called and it's insano crap ay. really does give you a kick. i've been loggin heaps of stuff, actually trying to do it properly. but yeah, have cut down on all the junk and have watched my diet; pretty much as little carbs as possible. but yeah, it's been sick learning about just how the body reacts to what you give it and do with it. fitness first stopped being my second home, i've been more acoustomed to working at home just because of the convenience; i miss having bondy there to push and spot me though.
but yeah, uni has been alright. haha, that's probably all i can say about it. kerwin and the guys were right when they explained qut for me. "it's just a place to go for lectures and pracs and then you piss off home". just wasn't like that down in otago ay boys, well...sorta, i guess it just didn't seem like it cause everything else was close to uni.
jackpot noodles is the brisbane sampan, the state library is the brisbane link and i swear the weather at the moment seems to be much like dunedin. it's a real noticable cold, probably not as cold as down south but it's pretty freezing.
i went for a pee and came back and i don't seem to remember anything about what i was supposed to blog. ohh well, maybe save it for next time ay. i'll be on more regularly (i say that everytime) now that the holidays are near. take care and wear a beanie. fat
past couple of weeks have been mean hard. uni has been pretty cool. completed first chemistry test for the year and it wasn't too bad. seemed pretty good for the amount of study i did. gotta do a bit more to get into the course i want to tho. don't have an 8 o'clock tomrorow so it's pretty mean hard. have heaps and heaps of time to study for my tuesday lsb exam and nrb exam on thursday.
had our last ray jays dinner saturday and it's gonna be hard to never come back to that place. so many memories ay. anyways, yeah, just felt like posting. i'll try and get some photos from ray jays posted asap.
take it easy people.
farout, yeah, it's been a long time since i posted something and i guess i've got a few minutes before work so why not ay. hahaha, uni's been pretty mean hard. it's good to get back into study mode again, and have a bit more routine in daily life. my time table isn't something too sweet but its good to get up at 8 in the morning and keep active till 6 in the arvo. hahaha, ohh well.
it feels good ay. it's great being at qut. it's a different great from being down at dunedin...it's just different. but its goood ay. great making new friends, great learning new things and just great being a uni student again.
i'm already using what i've learnt in the past few weeks of uni; especially environmental science, beginning to use less and less of my car to save our global warming issue. (not really...just sick of paying for fuel). but it's good ay, catching the bus is pretty fun. it's better now than in high school, just, have time to reflect on everything happening in the day. it's good alone time ay.
hahaha, anyways, i feel more satisfied now now that i posted something. my to-do list is still there in the back of my mind, i'm just trying to fix a few of the major ones up atm. a few tweaks here and there, add in a bit of time and hopefully i'll be able to cross a few off by the end of the year. take it easy people.
fat
hey guys, would love to wish you all a very very lucky, healthy, wealthy and enjoyable chinese new year. had a real awesome time tonight going over to cho tet (new year festival gathering in inala) and stuffing our faces with the popular nem nuong (baked meatballs), bo la lot (beef wrapped in leaf) and washing it all down with some nuoc mia (sugarcane drink). it was a pretty good feed ay. we pretty much just went to the festival to keep our stomaches full before popping over to the temple for some praying and firecracker and lion dancing watching. it feels good stepping into temple again after so long. was just good in general being able to pay respects to our elders and heavenly guardians. was a very great night indeed. got my fortune told on a piece of paper as well...really hope it does come true cause it doesn't sound too bad ay. we waited for the new year to arrive at midnight and headed over to to pick up mark and reagan to see how we would spent our first ours of chinese new year. we drove around for a while hoping to play some pool but the owners too had better things to do. we decided to hang out at kangaroo point in which we were mosotly occupied with our fortune tellings, quangs farting and a "who can run fastest" race. hahahaha, take it easy guys, have a real good one.
UNINSTALLED WARCRAFT 3 - FROZEN THRONE EXPANSION - DOTA 6.31A. NO MORE OF THAT ANYMORE. TIME TO GET REAL MATE.
yay, yet another lunar year is nearly about to commence. i'm excited ay. excited as, hopefully if my fortune teller is right, this year to come will be my year; well better than the year that is about to end anyways.
i can see good changes happening already. i love my job ever so much more, i love seeing my mates heaps regularly now, i'm loving and looking heaps forward towards my new year studies; i just can't wait for the year to actually start ay.
gyming has been heaps awesome lately and i can feel it's just going to get better. with kerwin trading places with bondy in melbourne, bondys homecoming has pushed me even more harder. we're already adding an extra 30 kilos to squats and completing full sets of 12. i was happy as, i can see results.
i'm officially a student of qut. bondy and justine took me around campus yesterday and showed me the places to be. i grabbed my id while i was there and alot brought back memories of studying down in otago. i really can't wait to study. cheers heaps to ming for getting me started, lending me his notes from last semester and saving his books for us to buy for the year to come. damn, if i don't get a good gpa, i don't know what else will.
i've really got to commit myself this year. i know it's pretty late for a new year speech or something similar but there's just an urge in me to do well this year. i reckon it's my year this year. i really really reckon.
i've finally realised that it's probably about the time to actually manage this blog rather than pretending to do it by adding random posts. things have been quite hectic lately so i haven't really had the time to post properly (that's probably a lie) but yeah, i'm going to do it now. have decided to stay home tomorrow because it's going to probably be a 30+ degree day but mostly because i've been out way too much. i know, the guys are probably saying, "your full of shit mate" knowing that my parents aren't at home anymore but you know, it's just a responsible thing you know boys, knowing when to stop.
i'll probably go hard posting and updating till about 3:30 or just whenver the sun rises really. i'm not sure why or how i came up with the deadlines but they just exist ay. at least to me, it will make me a bit more productive knowing i've got to finish something before the set time or unfortunate events that i'm still not certain of will occur.
hmmmm, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig, chop chop, dig dig...just need something to fill in this blank space....ya know....stylish mate, you can't have blank spaces, it just doesn't look right in a blog ya know....
hmmmm, an update on the goals for the past couple of days has left me to cross off:
make a food and supplements chart (still to print out)
put council dog tabs on collar (doing it now)
buy more connecting wires for home cinema (bought the subwoofer cable the other night)
post more pictures on blog (there will be a few pretty pictures for you to enjoy in this post)
buy fish for the fish tank (bought 70 dollars worth of fish which isn't really much)
check for council pickup times on junk (all our junk we want to throw out will be picked up in may) 
yeah, work has been great awesome great lately. nothing really special, i'm not sure if i mentioned that i worked big day out. it was crazy and that's about all i can say about it. it's like looking after a million bevans or a million evans in 40+ degree weather ay. hahaha but i guess i did gather alot of experience from it as well as having a listen to some of the best bands in the world....fark...evermore, the sick puppies, tool and scribe went off ay. i can just remember that evermore: it's too late riff and the reaction it got from the crowd....amazing mate. other than working, it's just been gym, going out and sleeping. that's probably about it ay, ohh and looking after the house.
for gym im soo happy ay, i'm actually progressing, not like all the other years i've been doing on and off and then leaving a few weeks later cause i got bored of it. i guess motivation is the main thing ay, i've gained probably 2/3 cms on my bi's ever since i started and can lift nearly more than double what i started on. cheers to bondy for the encouragment and mentoring ay, he's a pretty choice gym buddy. yeah, gym relaxes me ay....if i get angry or annoyed about something; after a gym session you could beat me with a stick and i would smile and walk off as if nothing happend (most likely not) but you know what i mean.
yeah, i feel a sense of dunedin running in my blood at the moment. i was telling bevsta this just today, just how that feeling of independence and freedom you get down at otago has gotten to me ever since mum left for a vietnam visit. i mean, i know, i know, most have experience this long before i ever thought about it but it feels good ay. as much as i always want someone there to cook for me, wash my clothes for me, clean up after me, doing it all yourself to me gives me some satisfaction, i guess bad habits are results of too much nurturing. i'll probably be back to the same old self once mum gets back home. (i hope i'm not).
with uni just around the corner, it seems as though i've wasted my 6 months on break ay. i've done most of my timetable and am pretty happy to say that i've got mondays and fridays off. mean hard, a four day weekend which will probably be days to catch up on the work i missed out during the week. lol, hopefully it's a new beginning for me and i've been through enough shit to know that this is probably my final chance to get it right ay. i pray ay.
farout, this evanescence song lithium is bloody amazing ay. i've had it on repeat for a while now and i'm still confused and dazed at the fact that there are people out there who are gifted with talents which can make a difference to the world. the main singers voice is absolutely amazing ay. after watching this songs live mv on video hits one morning, i'm still uncertain whether or not it's any different from their actual recording. she sings live exactly how she would sing it on the recording, it's really quite amazing ay.
yep, my head now is leaning on my neck and i've to make an effort to keep my eyes open. sorry but i'll have to break my word that i'll finish up at the time stated. maybe tomorrow or tonight ay, i'll make sure i update my to do list at least. take care people, hope you enjoyed this long blog filled with random accounts of happenings for the past few weeks.
picture1: fat and phuc at the golfing range with kerwin and lam. it was a fun session, poor young asian blokes and "gentlemen" don't mix, go there and you'll know what i mean.
picture2: lams b'day and the 3 litre tequila
picture3: my dog cola
picture4: bondy showing his taste of fashion.
yeah i've been cramming heaps of stuff in lately, mostly because of mums going to vietnam and uni starting just around the corner. i don't think i've done too bad, hopefully i'll get the few things left over done by the end of this month. if not, i guess there's always the next.
finish cloudstreet
step up and look after my cat
check up for my hecs-help
make a food and supplements chart
make gym measurements and record
put council dog tabs on collar
clean the rest of the house
buy more connecting wires for home cinema
fix the lawn mower and mow the lawn
advertise the boats
burn phuc house and step up
start looking over science notes
visit marius
post more pictures on blog
ring qhss and ask for pay slip
update and post completed goals
buy fish for the fish tank
buy flowers for the garden
check for council pickup times on junk
enrol to qut
ask the boys for which papers i should take for my course
re-confirm my shifts for this week (12 monastry, 8 calamvale, 9 alex hills, 6:30am big day out)
clean my roomcall justine (she called)
a few things i've completed since yesterday and some things to be done by the end of the month
finish cloudstreet
watch pursuit of happiness, step up and look after my cat
teach Co Uc how to use messenger on her laptop
just a list of the few things i need to complete by the end of the month. i have a to do list widgit but never really come to ever noticing it; maybe if i blog it i'll be able to keep track of what i've already done and no done.
accept my offer for qutapply for hecs-help
check up for my hecs-help
enrol to qut
ask the boys for which papers i should take for my course
fix up centrelink
re-confirm my shifts for this week (12 monastry, 8 calamvale, 9 alex hills, 6:30am big day out)
ask about big day out information
get creatine and more proteinmake a gym workout chart
make a food and supplements chart
make gym measurements and record
finish looking for alibrandi
return the da vinchi code and the interpreter to video ezy
drink 3 glasses of green tea a day
drink 5 litres of water a day
wash the dog/ put council dog tabs on collar
clean my car
clean my room/ clean the toilet/ clean the house
fold the clothes
fix the lawn mower and mow the lawn
advertise the boats
check my car rego expiry date
find out if any bills need to be paid
burn phuc house and step up
start looking over science notes
visit marius
call dad
call justine
sew the fitness first bag up
post more pictures on blog
ring qhss and ask for pay slip
update and post completed goals
weed and water the garden
farout...looks like i've got a fair bit to do, gotta get off my arse soon.
The 7 Habits of Highly Efective Teens: Sean Covey
when i read, or hear about, or watch stories like these, it lights my heart with joy knowing that even those who aren't as fortunate as others can still live a very worthwhile and fullfilling life. watching the story by Rick Reilly moved me so much that i've decided to review my life and see what i've really done or missed out on. a teary fat says enjoy what's below; it's one of the many contributions to the answers of living life.
[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]
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 Pedaled 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 was 11 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 paralyzed 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 grueling 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.''
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