to be a sportsman?

Recently I am thinking about the posibilities of being a sportsamn. Well...I mean more like a pro in the field of triathlon. Triathlon is an endurance sport that requires long time training and most pro triathletes reach their persoanl best record at the age about 35.

Chris Lieto was a college water polo player at his 25. One day when he watched TV, he viewed the triathon game and thought that it seems an interesting sport; so he started to participate in the game. Well...the first triathlon game I jointed in was in 2009 while I was 28. Mn...it's a little bit too late, but I think I still have some possibilities to obtain some honors and be noticed in the field; just give me some more time and more efficient training. (Right now I do need a coach, especially in improving swimming skills). If I keep on training, getting proper drills, and of course increase the taining loading, two or three years could turn me into a pro triathlete more mature in skills and body energy and endurance.

I spent some time reading blogs written by those pro triathletes in Taiwan and had some ideas about their training life. Mn...to be a pro sportsman means that you will live a very dufferent lifestyle; your body is targeted to win in games and all the time you keep it under survaillance. When you finish the 10 kms progressive run within time limit 45 minutes, your body honestly tells you how you feel--not easy, a little bit tired, tired, exhausted, etc. If you feel exhausted, that might be taced back to the feast, carousing, or insufficient rest last night. Sure, you might have a very very sturdy body that incredibly charming; however it's not used to debauchery but to competitions.

Besides training is really hard work. (See the pic above from Yang MaoYong's "Wretch".) No break even on rainny days.

The most hestitates me is the life span of being a sportsman and his rest life after retiring from races is worried. But if I just stayed in the academic field, it won't be so tough; at least, the brain can work longer comparing to the sports body that requires powerful stregth which declines obviously with age. But another voive emerges from my mind--we only live one time. Just one time! So, does my life worth the splendid one time and one day I can say, "I was beautiful" and have no regret? The sublime is fantastic and glamorous becasue of its transience and the sudden outburst of force beautiful like a flash in the span.

Well...I am pondering over this.

fort/da game

偷偷打開，從前從前.....聆聽的音樂
一首接一首
切掉、打開、切掉、打開
記憶的膽囊破裂，流淌的
卻是蜜糖，
那是原諒還是怨懟的偽裝？
連結，縝密
如解一尾秋刀魚骨骸

那些曾經錯置年紀的音樂
呵~
不是寫給我的情歌
終究，聽懂。
原來無關資質，
而是光陰的手只能悄悄埋下種籽

玩不膩的fort/da game，反覆練習
失去與召喚ˋ的咒語，
為了捻滅心底恐懼...
不得佔據、不得猶豫、不得手軟
fort da fort da...

倘若是我捨棄你，便不是我失去你
你不再是構成我的必須
fort da fort da fort da...
瞧！
那烏托邦圍繞著鱷魚與荊棘
頂空卻清朗無雲。

Kitsilano Beach

Yesterday I rode the bicycle again and the destination was Kitsilano Beach. I just heard some people mention about that place, so I went there for "checking". However, I am a little bit later setting off.


People played volleyball on the sand; some chilled out sitting on the lumbers.


Riding along the seaside a harbour was located and many ships parked there.


Many families came this place together; kids played in the sea; the adults viewed the sunset.



Young guys still played volleyball on the sand and the dusk was ignored.


Then I was going to leave here to dt; it's the last glimpse of kits beach.


It's on the way home and I was standing on the bringe of Granville viewing the other bridge across. The lamps in the harbour was dim, but beautiful and calm.

DT and Eng. Bay

Yesterday the bicycle in the garage was fixed, and then I rode it to downtown. About 7 pm I started from my auntie's home; I chosen Granville St. instead of Cambie St. because Cambie was under construction for the Skytrain (like the MRT but overhead). Why did I choose downtown as my destination? I had no idea~ Maybe I just wanna be a flaneur viewing the city scenery. Anyway, I went to the English Bay finally. There was an extreme long cycle path along the seashore linking to Stanley Park. The cycle path was separated from the promenade clearly and not so crowded like the cycle paths in Bali or Danshui, so the cyclists could enjoy the cycling well rather than worry about the pedestrians. It's an easy route for the cycling this time, but while arriving the seaside, I sat on the bench to take a rest as well as watched the sunset and people walking their dogs. It must be great if there were companions sitting beside me this moment; just did some chilling out chatting. After the sunset, I came back to westside. The total distance of this route was about 20 kms and most of them were flat. Waht a carefree trip! lol

laid-back living

These days I got nothing to do, but watched lots of Korean operas. One opera after one anoter opera, the acction is like a drug addict. Anyway, watching too many Korean opreas makes me feel disgusting; it's the same as eating too many cheese cakes at one time. I'd better to do something meanful, like reading some articles and turning my "language system" to the English channel. It seems that I refuse to connect my daily life to Van--too lazy and decadent.




Just couple days ago, I checked the bicycle in the garage. Its tyres were flat. Though there was also a pump in the garage, it couldn't inflate the tube because of the different modes of vlaves. Anyway, the valve of the bicycle is the French mode, so I need to use a transitional stuff to connect the valve and the pump.



Then my sister drove me to the W. Broadway to get one. It's troublesome to buy that stuff because I didnt't know how to call it; I even had no idea of calling it in Chinese...Orz After explaining lots to the storekeeper, I knew it's called "valve adaptor" at the first store, but it was out of stock. I had to go to another store nearby to get it. When I entered the store, a bulky Black received me; he was busy fixing a bicycle. After telling him I need a valve adaptor, he passed me one; it's a very very little stuff. That made me doubt if it's realy the transitional stuff I need. Um...fianlly, he taught me how to use the valve adaptor step by step and the stuff was for free. OMG...I'm so lucky to meet a kind storekeeper....:P

Well, I will try to pump the tubes of the bicycle and ride it on next week, I guess. There are many cycle lanes in Van where the environment is more friendly to the cyclists; i.e. better cycle pathes, fresh air as well as cool and dry weather.

懶散的生活

最近去阿姨家，每天過著懶散的生活，
大概是因為天氣很涼爽，平常又很安靜，一整個養老的感覺....XD
但是今天在車庫忽然發現一台老舊的MTB
看起來是好幾年前的高級車種，應該是吧~
是捷安特的，但是查了車架上的型號，
還是一直找不到出廠的年份，
我想查看看它的車架材質是不是真的是carbon的。

不過它的前後輪內胎都壞掉了，
真希望騎它出去溜溜~
但是我不會換內胎呀~~
怎ㄇ辦ㄋ?!
也沒辦法問小taco~

嗯...ㄧ堆腳踏車的英文名稱我還不會說，像是：法式吹嘴跟pump的轉換器、挖胎棒(?)
去到DT那邊的車行，也沒把握可以說出我要買的東西，
直接牽去車店修又好貴，ㄧ輪好像15元左右，
在新竹大富國一只內胎大概只要90NT而已~
再google看看網路上有沒有資料吧。

QQ + XD

QQ是哭哭
XD是哈哈大笑
QQ+XD是現在的心情....

終於，7/8我交出1萬字term paper
在短短一個月內還補足欠老師的4次meetings
原本是一個學期有5次meeting，但是我只找過一次老師，
然後5/2摔車，之後一個禮拜沒去上課，回新竹接著又忙著看醫生
所以就一廂情願當作沒有meeting這件事...(ostrichism)

總之，接近學期末這一個月來，每天過著像期末考的日子~
唸大學時，總是只有期末考那週我才唸書...
超級刺激~ 唸書超級有效率~ 也超級痛苦~
考前一天決定生死，有唸書大概70-80
沒唸就會0-20分吧....
這能不刺激嗎~~~~

總之，除了大一蠻認真之外
剩下的3年大學時間，我就在這樣的循環中度過

很久以前有一廣告台詞：我是在當霸霸之後，才開始學著當霸霸
嗯...我是在當研究僧之後，才開始學著當研究僧~
好像慢別人很多，一整個發育遲緩+疑似腦中含鉛過量導致腦殘(遊記)...

總之，我要放暑假了~ 爽~~~~~~~~
老師掰掰、同學掰掰、一整間宅男掰掰~~~

ps. 好久沒有開口說英文了，真害羞~
真擔心發/th/和/ph/音，會被發現沒有門牙~