For Elroy!!!

Found this post as draft months/weeks  ago lol.

When I first heard about the book The Last Lecture, I actually thought it was a fiction book. Once I found out that it was a true story based on this guy’s ‘final’ lecture, it didn’t surprise me that this book became a best-seller book. In short, Randy Pausch were invited to an event where the theme involves the speakers to give lectures as though it was gonna be their last. Randy accepted that offer. Not long before the event, the doctor said his cancer had made a ‘comeback’ and told him that he only have few months more to live. The ‘last lecture’ now really is gonna be his last lecture.

What would you do if you were Randy? Haha for me, I would have travelled around the world!! Well, he decided to spend time preparing his lectures instead of investing all of his last days with his family. The reason? He believes his last lecture is gonna be much more meaningful and inspiring for his sons. His lecture is going to stay on and he believes when his sons grow up, his lecture will be able to benefit them. Randy’s final lecture was titled ‘ Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’.

The event draws plenty of attention and buzz with Randy’s condition and following on the book became even more famous and soon the video recording of the lecture appeared all over the internet. If you’re interested, search for it at Youtube. Randy passed away several months ago and his sons are very young at the moment. Most likely, his sons wouldn’t feel much of the loss of their father but when they grow up and read the book or watch back that video, they will get to know their father through that and be able to receive what Randy has poured out for them.

I would like to describe Randy Pausch in one sentence, he knew how he wants to die hence he know how he’s gonna live his last days. We need to decide how are we gonna be remembered and what kind of legacy we planned to live behind, that way only we will know how are we gonna live our life right now to achieve that final goal of our lives. In the movie The Last Samurai (let me clarify, I;m not a fan of Tom Cruise but i like Ken Watanabe though hehehe), one of the last scene where after the samurai leader played by Watanabe commit harakiri (suicide) the emperor who himself is an ex student of the samurai asked Tom Cruise “ Tell me how he die…”. Tom Cruise replied “ I will tell you how he lived”. It is how we live that will bring impact to other people,not how we die. It is not what we have when we die that will be remembered but it is what we do throughout our lives. A few good movie to watch that deal with life and death are Tuesdays with Morrie and The Bucket List. Checkout my blogger friends review on those movies.

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Friendship among Women:
A woman didn't come home one night. The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend's house. The man called his wife's 10 best friends. None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship among Men: A man didn't come home one night. The next morning he told his wife that he had slept over at a friend's house. The woman called her husband's 10 best friends. Seven confirmed that he had slept over, and three said he was still there.

Despite being lazy on the bike and have not ridden on my baby merida for six freaking months(the Interstate tag is still there!) I still had the guts to say i'm interested in LTDL (le tour de langkawi) but kept missing the midnight highlights on TV1. Ha ha so Jon-ish eh? So to prove that i'm a man of my words, I went for the last stage of LTDL the traditional KL criterium stage. I brought (forcefully yet gently) Joye along and she caused us to be late.

The moment we stepped out of Masjid Jamek station, the peloton just passed by about 30 meters in front. DANG ittt....they started on time!(i was hoping the organizers would follow 'malaysian' time). After instilling some guilt into Joye's conscience we continue walking towards Dataran and right at the last corner towards Dataran, the riders are approaching for their 2nd lap. We dashed to the barrier to watch.

Wouuu here they comes.....


and then......


BANG!! 1 rider smack into the barrier. View of the rider was blocked =(. I wonder whether Joye got a good shot at him or not.


Here we are at the starting/sprint/finishing line.


Too tired/sleepy to smile properly


Introducing Tep Tep (Joye)


I don't remember which lap is this. The vacuum/wind caused by the peloton when it whizzed by us was exhilirating....(4 shots below were shot by Tep Tep - not bad =p)




Notice the funny looking guy in pink? My first glance I thought he was a woman haha. Turns out its a japanese rider from Japan, team Metan Humpo or something, lazy to google their site again. Click to enlarge.







Poor thing, they were dropped by the peloton. Might be due to the blockade of support cars during the crash on the 2nd lap. But they never gave up. Letua rider in front. Note: Letua = a Malaysian cycling team.


Recorded a video for the last lap but I wasn't looking at my camera's LCD screen hence, very bad recording. But I think its worth watching or listening lol.


The Overall Winner Jose Serpa, he also took the King of Mountain title with him. Lazy to mention the green jersey winner. Oh yesh! Tonton Susanto an Indonesian won the best Asian rider. Why am I mentioning his name? He's in Letua hahaha congrats Letua.


Well, as we were leaving Tep Tep asked me to kiss her cheek. Then I said, nahhh its too early, maybe next time.


Then this guy got interested pulak.............hmmm u like him Tep Tep?