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Friday, August 22, 2008, 3:34 am
#282the olympic spirit
The Olympics is here again. Its in Beijing this year, since the time is close to Singapore, I have been watching so many more Olympic games. Although I have come to Singapore for so many years, I still feel more patriotic towards China. My mom is talking about Olympic spirit just now, and it sort of set me thinking the definition of that word.
I thought Zhang Yi Ning and Wang Nan has shown it perfectly in all of their games. Initially, I thought they were the unbeatables. Watching the match of Zhang Yi Ning and Sinagpore's Feng Tian Wei is like having asthma. I have always loved Zhang Yi Ning, impressed in the way that she can remain calm and concentrated despite carrying the hopes of the country and so many stressful external factors. She had lost a match to Feng Tian Wei previously in March, and her bat is taken away just before the match, I thought emotionally, she would not have been as strong as her previous matches. She proved me wrong though. She's very strong inside.
Wang Nan has been my dad's favourites since long long time ago. I thought she was nice too, always being so steady and trustworthy, you can see she put in everything to every single match.
I thought that these two are the ideal partners to portray the olympic spirit. I congraulate Feng Tian Wei for her superb performance against Zhang Yi Ning, and put up a good fight. I surely believe that her Olympic jouney won't end here, her marathon is not over yet. No matter who win the table tennis women singles finals later tonight, I think both of them are winners.
"We are strong outside, we are stronger inside. It doesn't take long to win, it takes long to prepare and train."
Olympic is all about putting your best. Like how the handicapped women joined in the olympics, I was so touched by that article. Winning may means a lot, but its yourself you're competiting against.
I will beat myself.
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Aftermath
Finally did up another blogskin after (really) almost 4 years.
And this skin alone takes me months since I began working on it.
Conceptualize/ get inspiration to format to consolidate to simplify to coding to trial and error to specific styles...
It's such a long process that it even makes me wonder am I getting too old for doing all these things?
Looking back, I used to make skins like one per day in secondary one to per week or month in secondary two/ three.
Then, somehow, all my design interest or passion goes into fan-art or icons/ banners based.
I guess I have this inherent mentality that any layout based design will drain me out, and it still does.
Then again, it may not be that I'm getting too old for this, but instead
I've raised my expectations? Too perfectionist in other words.
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Anyhow, I'm very satisfied I guess!
The only pure long holidays I would have and I did not let it to go to waste!
With the years to come, I really don't think I would have the time and peaceful mind to revisit and revamp the whole layout design once more.
So, something to take with me to university and eventually work life next time :)
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有时候回忆很可怕，它让你看到你的曾经所以对未来有梦
只愿在慌乱之中，留下这一片虚拟的记忆和画面的潇洒
这一路的赞赏和欣慰，永远不会忘
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