Benjamin "Mr Miyagi" Lee
These are interesting times, to say the least. “Circuit Breaker” starts tomorrow, and Hossan and I felt that we had to spend time talking about it, even if we don’t know what form our conversations should take. We just talk cock the way we always do. I don’t know why, but I think it makes us feel better. I hope it makes you feel better too.
Thanks Dwayne for joining us and winging it when we throw you the world’s most difficult questions.
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Nick Singh stood at a traffic junction for 30 minutes to record all manner of jaywalking and dangerous behaviour and distilled it into this short video. He might have missed out on instances of people texting/facebooking/tweeting while crossing the road. Still, Pedestrian safety is everyone’s responsibility, including the pedestrian.
You’re probably all festival’d out since Christmas, and it’s only a couple of days since Chingay, and now, no matter what, there’s this thing called Valentine’s Day hanging over your heads.
It’s hanging over this dude’s head, and he gets all worked up and makes a video – and it’s quite apt that VD falls on a Monday for him:
If you don’t have enough of a tear-jerker among your Korean drama downloads, or you are simply inured to so many otherwise moving things in life, then you have to be told the story of Team Hoyt.
Rick Hoyt was born severely disabled and his parents were told he would live in a permanently vegetative state. His parents thought otherwise, and believed their intelligent son was merely trapped in a body that his mind couldn’t control. They were right, and the miracle didn’t stop there.
When they managed to rig a computer up so that Rick could ‘speak’ to them by tapping out letters, they discovered he was a sports fan, and then some. After Rick got his father to run his first road race with him (Dick pushing his son in a wheelchair), he said, “Dad, when we were running, it felt like I was not disabled anymore.”
Team Hoyt has since competed in 85+ marathons, 200+ triathlons and Iron Man events. I’ll leave you to read the rest of their stories. They moved me, and they should you too.