Second chance

"If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way." This is what he told me.

"I will fight like hell."

A Rider's Journey back to Life

I am reading about the life of Lance Armstrong, he is a legendary bike rider who was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1996. He was given a 40% chance of survival. But he managed to make it, and what even more, he became the champion of Tour de France right after 18 months of that. The Tour is the toughest sport competition in the world which takes more than 3 weeks and the stages are all over France. And he just bounced back.

He won the tour this year again.

I do not think I realize death is that close to us. This really recall me the old saying, live every day as if your last. I really have to live a life. And I was blessed to see twenty-two.

Lance Armstrong asked himself, "If I live, who is it that I intend to be?" He found that he had a lot of growing to do as a man.

I had a lot of growing to do as a man as well.

I won't lie myself. I was totally screwed in the past four years. I couldn't even believe it was four years from the day I thought I was supreme. Though I have done a degree, I hardly find that the degree was in any form of significance and usefulness. A guy like that, with no motivation and effort, can still easily survived the degree. So, what could you possibly expect from it.

Seriously, I do not consider I have learned anything from it, except I learned that how empty a business degree could be, and of course, how empty a degree graduate can be. Obviously, the burden of that was largely laid on me, I mean I was the one to blame for not putting any effort, but the nature of the degree has something to do with it as well. I supposed only a few subjects there can count to be both academic and sound knowledge.

Hard-working is King, this is another things I learned from the failure. No matter how dumb you are, being hard-working makes you king. If we see life as a real, long, serious battle, just like Tour de France, merely being smart is not good enough. (Given you have the quality of being smart, a lot of people out there think they are, but they were not.) In order to win, you have to work really hard. I have never known any successful people who didn't work hard. As in successful, l mean a remarkable one.

All I have written so far seems so negative, as if it was a loser rambling about the past. Indeed, I am such a loser in that period. What a complete failure.

In the first season right after Lance Armstrong recovered from cancer, he skipped all the races he was good at and he was willing to sacrifice the entire season to prepare for the Tour de France. Nobody could understand what he was doing. A journalist come to him and asked why didn't he enter those races.
"I'm focusing on the Tour."That was what he replied.
The journalist kind of smirked at him and said, "Oh, so you're a Tour rider now."Like he was joking.

"Whatever, dude. We'll see."The rider thought to himself.

K 君

K 君說：「還有很長的路要走。 這一段日子 ，多謝一班朋友。」 這正是我心想的。

Standing Eastward at sunset.

Which JFK?

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement.
-- John F. Kennedy

One more 

Law School -- this is where I attend seminars and tutorials 

Bristol again

I have backed to bristol again.God!Not Again!When I get used to Hong Kong finally, I have to get back here.
But I know clearly that I have to do so, I don't have any better choice.

After four years of near retirment experience (What the hell is that?Someting close to near death experience, I guess so.), I have decided to do what I have to do. That's to do what I was fated,if any.

Still get a lots to prove and show......