Challenge #9 “Le Moment de Vérité”: THE TEAM
Now is the time to finally reveal who will, with me, take part in the exciting challenge participating to “Le Moment de Vérité”. For purposes practicality, let’s call it the MdV Team.
Here they are, in all their greatness! (and foolishness)
From left to right: Yannick, Myself, Jean-Luc and Marc
As it happens, they’re 3 of my dragonboat teammates. This picture was taken following our last competition, for which we’re proudly showing our gold medals!
- Jean-Luc (yes, as in ‘Jean-Luc Picard’, except he’s not a Picard) : Loud, outspoken, freakin’ strong dude. He’ll be a perfect motivation and energy booster, and I have not an ounce of doubt that if we need strength, he’ll show up.
- Marc : He’s the runner (and a damn good one at that), as well as the does-way-more-than-he-looks kind of guy. He’s always there to lend a helpful hand to everything and everyone he happens upon. Very dependable and very skilled in many fashions, albeit kinda quieter than Jean-Luc (OK, that’s not very hard to do).
- Yannick : I haven’t known him for very long yet; however he’s quickly shown as a very dependable and adaptable kind of guy who likes to have fun. He seems willing to try out anything you might dare him to, and in thus he didn’t hesitate for very long when I asked him to join the Team. I can’t wait to get to know him better.
What’s very cool with the brand new MdV Team, is that we’re all very fit enough to take on any kind of physical challenge. It also happens that we’re all studying in engineering, and very much capable of a number of mental challenges. More importantly, we’re pumped and ready to tackle anything they might throw at us.
I will soon organize with them to produce a presentation video, which we’ll be using to actually apply for the Show. Of course, when it’s done you’ll be the first to know about it!
So, all of this being said…
BRING IT ON!
Lame Excuses and New Challenges
Holà again!
So after this impromptu hiatus, I’m finally back and will hopefully start posting regularly again. What happened is I clearly underestimated the no-break pace on the weeks following my Dragonboat training camp. We’ve had competitions at Pickering, ON and Ottawa, ON, and had a blast, as well as very good results.
Lame excuses aside, I did tell you in my last post that I’d describe the latest challenges people submitted me to. So, without further ado (I’ve always wanted to write that sometime) …
Challenge #9: “Le Moment de Vérité”
Challenge #3: The Metro
Hi guys! Quick post while I’m actually (yes, yes, for real!) building the post to present the next 3 challenges. I know I could just tell you what they are and keep it at that, but I prefer to, you know, do a good job?
For one of them I actually have to select a team of friends to do it with me, so that’s also part of the process. I’ll try and take a picture of us 3 or 4 
Anyway, here’s the actual pic of THIS post:
The metro
I unfortunately didn’t catch his name, as I had barely enough time to actually take the pic; he was just getting out of the wagon. Still, thank you metro guy! Hope you get the chance to find your pic
Aside from that, I had the awesomest of awesome weekends. It was my dragonboat team’s training camp at Lac Mercier, Mont-Tremblant, and you have no idea how much fun we had. Weather was gorgeous, people were gorgeous (our girls being the gorgeous-est, of course), and we did more shenanigans than we can count.
Spending a whole weekend suffering, recovering, and having fun just glues people together. Our team is now FAMILY.
Challenge #3, part 2: THE BRIDGE
Hi folks!
Quick post this time, I’m really tired. I’m on a fast day (it’s a nutrition thing) and I walked all around the Old Port and on half of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.
And hence, here comes the second picture of Challenge #4!
Suzie and I on J-C Bridge
I would like to thank Suzie very much for her time and willingness! She’s a very nice person to talk to.
Looking at the comments I’m realizing that I have 3 new challenges to present! Really sorry for the wait; the next post will cover these!
Bedtime now. Cheers!
Optimism is Overrated
Souce: duelinganalogs.com
In life, shit happens.
Optimism won’t solve all your problems, unlike many buoyant, rosy top-of-the-world happy-talky would like to convince you of (Note the clever abuse of synonyms here).
OK, I’m also a happy-talky. Not rosy though, unless I’m wearing my ambiguous shirt (I thought it was red).
Book Review: His Majesty’s Dragon
Ladies and gentlemen, greetings.
It is with an utmost pleasure that I present to you my very first review of a book: His Majesty’s Dragon.
Gentlemen-speaking aside, this book contains a lot of it, and I found myself enjoying the politeness-and-intricacies abuse more than I cared to admit at first. Considering that despite my very limited free time, I went through this book in but a week, I daresay it’s possible that I might have enjoyed it.
To quickly describe the setting, imagine a 1800-style England, where “Kingdom” still means something, and Napoleon Bonaparte is reigning in France and invading everything around. Therefore he’s of course trying to invade the british, and he holds a most impressive Air Force with which he seeks to do just that.
Wait… Air Force? In the 1800s?
Yup. That’s where DRAGONS come into play.
Challenge #3: First Pic & Sunnyday Walk
So! Quick post today, merely because I spent most of my time this week playing around the new theme. I won’t provide a link to the new theme, because you’re in it. Like, look around you. *Sigh* On the computer!
Anyway, if you want to compare with the old theme (eeeww!), it’s here. Quite a change, huh?
Ok, enough of that. I have officially started Challenge #3, so HERE IS THE FIRST PIC FOR ALL TO SEE:
Are you fully appreciating your life?
As humans, it is impressively easy to take things for granted. Just look at these few examples:
- Food: Go to the store, buy, eat. Repeat. No questioning where it comes from, what’s in there, how is it fueling your body, will there still be more of it next week. Nah. It’s food, tastes good. Ever heard of that question asked to a kid, “Where do eggs come from”? He answered “the grocery store”. Yep, they magically appear there.
Riding On Dragons
Good day to all!
Just a quick note to let you know I’ve been requested a guest post from one badass dude known as Adam T. Glass.
This guy amuses himself with 48kg (104lbs) kettlebells. I’m just saying. Go read his stuff!
Oh, and said guest post can be found here. By clicking on the link. It’s about dragonboat racing.
EDIT: A part of the text is inspired by my team’s inner philosophy. By the way, here’s my team’s website. Take a look! (click here for an automated translation)
Tell me what you think. Makes you want to try it out?
Cheers!
So… what's next?
So in the last couple of weeks, I’ve achieved 3 of my challenges! I am rather proud (read: I feel awesome) to finally be making some tangible progress. I hope you enjoyed it, too!
I promise I’ll try not to hit my proud swollen head on door frames.
Now, far from being one to rest on my laurels (it’s not even comfy), I’m looking at my list and I still got quite a lot of work ahead!
