Jay: C?!!how come?So how much did you score for your math paper 1? Me: errr 48 Jay: 48?!! theortically you should have score at least a B or even an A... you just need to get... 100 marks for paper 2. Me: ........
I'm DAMN pissed off/emo with econs %#$#@#!. A to E omgomgomgomg. Should have studied for econs and not be a cocky ass. I'm happy for the rest of my subjects though maybe with the exception of maths. 40 days!!! Time to speed up the tempo!
After seeing this video again, it still remains as tear inducing as ever.
Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.
Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?
And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life. This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.
"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''
But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''
"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''
Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''
That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''
And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.
Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''
How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.
Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?
Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.
This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.
``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''
And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.
Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.
That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.
``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''
Jay: My target for you guys is that you all finish the math paper in 100 mins. 1 min for 1 mark. Then you will redo the paper again in 80 mins All : =OOOOO *shock Jay: There wont be error cause... its like 2 people doing the paper and checking the answers with each other.
LOL ok it sounds stupid but it actually makes sense.
Yeaa FYI he actually completed his A level math paper in 90 mins.
How do you tell a person how you feel when it involve the smae person who asked the question?
Today is spent lazing around the house to rejuvenate myself for stupid school tomorrow.I think the lack of sleep has lead to some very weird behaviour. On thursday, i thought i woke up at 5pm and thought i overslept for my chem mcq and was panicking and shouting "SHIT SHIT SHIT" like mad, only to realise i just took it today. So jokes man. I did filing today and filing is a total bitchh. I took like 2-3 hours to file 3/4 of my worksheet :@ and there's still some more left unfiled!
This week has been great. Amplify on friday was good but i think the session wouldnt be too comfortable for non christians cause their way of "converting" or spreading the message seems a little overboard to them ;/. The illustrations were good too!
Mahjong on sat! TSK stupid val and sinyean.Die i want to play mahjong again :(
Prelims sucked. Argh i hate doing papers in the classroom cause i would lose focus easily. Math paper 1 is so depressing, there goes my desired grade :( The only comforting thing was that bio paper 3 was a feel good paper. Econs sucked too. Whats up with the essay like questions in a case study?!!
Enough of exams, exams are so boring. MAHJONG ON SATURDAY!!
Oh and i watched prison break season 4. I think its 100000^10000 times better than gossip girl except there's alot of killing in this season. Most importantly... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARA TANCREDI IS ALIVE (L)
I've been catching up on lost sleep today. Woke up at 2pm and slept from 3.30pm to 7pm HAHAHA daman shiok. I'm such a pig. I want to mahjonggg!! I dont feel like studying for chem cause i screwed up my paper 2 badly with ltos of careless ):, this is so similiar to shooting when u screw up a series. ARGHHH SSSSSTTTTUUUUDDDDDDYYYY.
Oh and i watched gossip girl season 2 first episode!
xoxo(actually i dont know what the hell does xoxo means)!
Jay: Hey so hows it going?How many papers this week : er one Jay: What the?! only one paper?Hey hey hey... what is happening?Why only 1 paper? This is very bad. you have no more time . So how?This cannot go on like this huh. *flip to the front of the page* so how many papers have u all done already? *counts* u guys only done X amount of papers. This is no good, u guys are not exposing yourself to as many question as u can.
I think the funniest is when u dont know how to do a easy qns or a question he went through before.
Jay: You are gaining some of haofeng's skill eh
HAHAHA. ok i cant wait for tuition tomorrow. MR TAN is joining!