Boom! We’re here. Landed this morning at about 1:30 PM Singapore time, and my YOG journey continues. I traveled over with athletics, the swim team, the tri guy and girl & a few paddlers, (canoe/kayak). I already learned a lot about each sport. It was a pretty cool trip over. →
Okay! So it’s really crowded here at the terminal, minutes from the flight boarding, bound for HKG. I can see some of the athletes through the crowd, we’re all in our red, and most of them are shifting where they stand…probably anxious to sit down on the plane and fall asleep. (It’s 2 AM). →
It’s been busy around here at NG Farrell Marketing. On Friday, we moved to larger offices, this time in Gastown’s historic Petrina block. The building was one of the first resurrected after the Vancouver fire, built in 1888. Looking out my window, I can see the aging space between the brick factory buildings on Hastings, and the early century tops of our W Cordova neighbours.
Amid this history, there are spots and dots of modernity, a lit “Exit” sign here, a telephone cable line there. In one of the windows, of the largest pile of brick I can see from my window, there is a yellow computer desk. The cables running down the back like thick black hairs. →
So today, to celebrate Olympic Day, remember that you don’t have to stand out from the crowd or do something worthy of applause. You just have to do something. That is the beauty of it. You might support a local athlete, cheer for a team on TV or just spend the day happier, because you know that every other Olympic supporter out there is doing that little “something” with you. →
Strong and proud Canadians, unafraid to stand up next to the best in the world, and confident enough to beat them all.
I am going to go help them out. Anything I can do, because as much as this generation of athletes will forge a new definition of Canadian confidence, we’ll also be classically humble and helpful, as always. →
Last night I had the chance to check out Sport BC’s Athlete of the Year Awards.
The swimmers did well, and there was an amazing speech from Mr. John Furlong.
It was a pleasure to attend. →
There are few experiences in my life that have moved me as much as the 6 days last week. Last Friday marked the end of only one small part of what will be an incredible story to cherish in our collective memory and share with others both over the next 5 months and throughout the Games in August. I have 33 new friends, each one with their own beautiful culture, sense of humour, passion and love for the Olympic values. … →
It’s a quarter after one, and we Youth Olympic Games Young Ambassadors have just spent the evening with the IOC, 200+ National Olympic Committees and all the other SYOGOC (Singapore Youth Olympic Games Org. Committee). It was the Chef de Mission Welcome dinner. →
Well it’s 12:15 PM and the captain just gave us the briefing from the flight deck. It’ll never fail to be entertaining how excited the pilot is to make that status update, and how that update always fails to be entertaining. (Cue the related Seinfeld bit here) Just tell me when I’m going to get a shower and shave my man, that’s all I need to know. →
Had an interview last week with the Youth Olympic Games reporter, Kimiya Shokoohi, at the VANOC compound AKA The Westin Bayshore. →
