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失眠的夜晚…
2008-10-12 4:15AM / 標準BLOG
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the Highest is UNDER my Feet
2008-09-11 4:54AM / 標準BLOG
the feeling was bad when you have to stay very late to finish something that you have stayed with it long ....
Try to be POSITIVE "" and yet the good will come...
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GIS 之旅…
2008-09-04 12:38AM / 標準BLOG
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Phelps passes Spitz with golden eight
2008-08-17 12:16PM / 新聞
By Andrew Cawthorne
BEIJING (Reuters) - Michael Phelps took a record-breaking eighth gold at one Games on Sunday in Beijing to beat fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven from Munich 1972.
Phelps hugged his team mates in celebration after a comfortable men's 4x100 meters medley relay win contrasting with the finger-tip, split-second finishes that came in two of his earlier Beijing golds.
His 14 golds, which include six in Athens, make him the most successful Olympian of the modern era by a big margin of five.
With Games spectators still agog at Usain Bolt's audaciously brilliant 100m win in the blue riband athletics race on Saturday night, the first gold of Day Nine went to Romania.
Constantina Tomescu had time to relax and wave at the crowd before crossing the finish line in the Bird's Nest stadium after a marathon run that began in Tiananmen Square.
Catherine Ndereba of Kenya took silver and Zhou Chunxiu of China the bronze, with Britain's world record holder Paula Radcliffe struggling for fitness and well back.
In the highest-profile doping case yet of the August 8-24 Games, Greece's defending women's 400 meters hurdles champion Fani Halkia failed a drug test hours before she was to compete.
That recalled the doping sagas that darkened Athens 2004.
But it has been the scintillating sport, not scandals, in Beijing dominating attention and relegating the pre-Games focus on China's rights record and pollution problems.
Having passed Spitz's seven golds of 36 years ago, the 23-year-old Phelps now stands alone in the record books.
Blessed with an arm span bigger than his height, Phelps has pumped himself up with hip-hop before races and always looks for his mother in the stands at moments of triumph.
He is guaranteed a lifetime of multi-million corporate deals.
But Phelps has failed to match Spitz in one aspect. His 100m butterfly gold on Saturday was not in a world record time, unlike his other seven wins in Beijing.
All seven of Spitz's medals came in world record times.
JAMAICAN PARTY
It was Jamaica's Bolt on everybody's lips overnight after he scorched to victory in the 100 meters sprint in world record time. That came despite slowing at the end to check he was ahead and punch his chest in joy in front of 91,000 spectators.
"I was just having fun, that's me," said Bolt, 21.
While Bolt danced around the Bird's Nest stadium in celebration, cars honked and crowds cheered in a victory party on his Caribbean island of 2.7 million people.
"This means a lot to my country. It means a lot to me," said the world's fastest man, whose favored 200 meters comes next.
Sunday offers 37 golds, the most of any day in the Olympics.
China are way ahead in the medal table with 27 golds to the United States' 17 in a Games Beijing had hoped would showcase a more open face as well as its new global economic clout.
Replacing Russia as the main rival to the United States, China came second in Athens with 32 golds.
Greece's Halkia lost her chance of another gold due to an August 10 test while she was preparing in Japan, Greek Olympic Committee officials said.
"I can't believe it," Halkia told reporters, denying she had taken performance-enhancing drugs. "The first thing I thought of doing was to give all the nutritional supplements I have consumed, my vitamins, for testing."
The reputation of Greek sport took a blow on the eve of the Athens Olympics when sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou, both medals hopes, missed a test and withdrew.
In a reminder of the political undercurrents around the Beijing Olympics, the Dalai Lama accused China of mistreating and torturing citizens in Tibet while the Games were on.
"Unfortunately the Olympic spirit is not being respected at all by Chinese officials in Tibet," he told a French TV station.
"Civilians are often arrested, violently tortured to the point where they die. It's really very, very sad."
Some pro-free Tibet protesters from abroad have braved a 100,000-strong security force in Beijing to shout or unfurl banners. But Chinese police have dealt with them swiftly.
Before the American men's triumph in the same event, Australia's 100m medley women's relay team took gold in world record time.
(Reporting by Beijing Olympic bureau, editing by Jon Bramley)
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尼泊爾7月4日至22日之旅後感
2008-08-04 11:27PM / 標準BLOG
從尼泊爾回來的一星期，我還未能執筆記回這趟旅程帶給我的驚訝和體驗。我這個在城市長大的女孩子，沒經歷過貧窮、生活艱苦、失去至親、失去學習機會等等。這些我原以為都是必然的成長條件——富足、健康、開心和機會，我並未有曾質疑它們的存在性，和對它們加以珍惜。但這趟尼泊爾之旅卻為我帶來不單有獨自反思自身的幸福時，更令我深切的確信我可以為社會上有需要的人做點有意義的事。
在我這趟十九天的旅程中，我唯一感到遺憾的是沒法子逼留在Future Village（未來之村）一段更長的時間。那一星期的生活體驗和經歷，我相信自己擁有了畢生難忘的得著。我組從加德滿都到未來之村的車程需時約五句鐘，途中我擔心過如導遊找不到吉普車載我們前行，我們便要徒步行到這村落，它將會足足多花四個多鐘頭的腳程才能到達。我感謝天父給風和日麗的下午，我們在小鎮吃過地道餐館的咖哩雞飯後，我們便坐上Jeep上山落山去。
