Ching's Weblog 敬.網.誌 (2004~2005)

Golf w/ my folks

I came accross Fred's entry about Golf...or precisely, anti-golf.

Here's another interesting post on Surplus about anti-golf.

I am not an anti-golf person or an environmentalist. I used to practice a lot with my folks on Saturday night on the driving yard. I did manage to practice (btw I am left-handed...) around 150~200 shots / night, but I knew it's not just golf. I enjoyed hanging out with my folks more than golf itself. There's a lot of man-to-man talks, very good relaxation after the working hours. Prior to this golf addiction, the same thing happened on my late night basketball games every Friday. We will do 11-ball /shots a game on full court, 5-on-5, around 4~5 teams people join the club.

So I can't image any sports played without appropriate social function...

Anyhow things changed since some of us have babies, some no longer live in Taipei, and some, like myself, stopped for no special reason. No better or worse placement for my folks~~

For the winners, too

Check out this blog--http://www.mcwetboy.net/dfl/

The website is designed for "Celebrating last-place finishes at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Because they're there, and you're not".

Surprisingly Taiwan wasn't on the list, and Greece turned out to be the one who keeps the laurel :-P

Hope that Jo can do it again for the Beijing Games (I can provide the Mandarin version).

雅典奧運輸家名人堂　最後一名也能永垂不朽 

（法新社多倫多二十五日電） 奧運贏家可以獲得肥缺、金牌及豐厚的球鞋合約，但是沒有人記得最後一名，直到今天。

一名加拿大作家，身兼網頁設計者、蛇類飼主並自承「專業渾蛋」，將自己投入虛擬世界為勇敢的雅典奧運輸家立下不朽紀錄。

三十二歲的克洛說：「我擔心，我們正對奧運最後一名採取憐憫的態度，特別是他們從聖多美或蒙古這種小國而來。」

他說，這個世界有罪，「因為選手參加就摸摸他們的頭以示鼓勵，又不把他們當一回事，即使我們大部分人都無法接近他們的成就」。

凡相信奧運箴言「所有奧運選手都是贏家」的人，都可能被克洛打敗。他過去十天在網路部落格（http://www.mcwetboy.net/dfl）上記載雅典奧運每項比賽最後一名，細數誰是今年最可愛輸家。

克洛每天統計哪個國家擁有最多最後一名，中國、希臘及吉爾吉斯昨天為這個頭銜搶得頭破血流。