Sunday, January 2

I has absolutely nothing to do this afternoon. So I played ffx and played and played. I was trying to increase my characters' lvls to prepare them/myself for the oncoming boss fight feat. Seymour. Finally I got bored of the training and came to the comp.

I really had nothing in mind when I launched my IE. But then I read many interesting high jump stories be it local or international...
David is my net friend's friend...so I really felt the impact of the story on me. P.S I copied the entire story from www.alvinny.blogspot.com

Story of David Woon

Was the lousiest high jumper among the TCHS jumpers in secondary 1. People call him "shit" or something, ask him to go join the Sao-Di-Zhu (sweeping group, for the lousy athletes in the team) ASAP. But he persevered, and kept bugging Mr Ang Ka Soon to teach him how to jump the High jump. Quote: "He never asks me to come to him to get pointers, cause I go to him all the time instead." With all the hard work, David soon became the best high jumper of his batch, and many batches to come. Set the C-boys record, and then went on to cross 2m, and even represent Singapore for the SEA Games some years back.

Yet another Quote: "I'm not especially bouncy, unlike many jumpers. All my achievements came about from pure hard work, and hard work only."

End

I am very very impressed. Indeed, a success story that is inspiring to all. He forgot, btw, that he is tall and light also, 2 attributes that help in high jump as well. So he's not exactly a talent-less high jumper afterall laa. But anyway, I respect David in this aspect. Never giving up, and also never getting too cocky and arrogant about his abilities, as can be seen from his happy-go-lucky ways, laughing along with the rest about his "fall from grace" due to army life as a Commando(he could only do heights of around 1.70m - 1.88m recently), about his "stupid brain" as he retained 1 year in JC and so on. To all sportsmen and sportswomen out there, as well as those who have found that happiness has been avoiding them like the plague, do learn from this excellent role model. I emphasise, EXCELLENT.
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