Monday, June 2, 2008
Healing

Getting yourself sprung from the hospital requires a set of skills, which I have, in abundance, namely lunacy, enthusiasm and knowing how the system works. It was a snap to get out of that place, but Healing requires a skill set I am woefully short of. I get an A in tolerating pain, but patience, surrender, grace at being reduced to the schedule of a 3 month old neonate are all tough.

Since coming home, I have been reduced to sleeping enormous amounts, drinking tons of green tea and moseying into the white porcelain god to pay homage on a 2 hour basis. The god is a stern taskmaster. There is nothing I can do to heal faster, no amount of stubbornness or ingratiating myself to the sleep fairies will make me heal quicker.Now that the major balloon which was my lower half is shrinking the real pain starts particularly when wanting to reach something as simple as a book or my third set of glasses I had put close enough to reach with my foot. All of this requires ASKING FOR HELP. Yeah, not in this birth package, but that’s the deal here. It’s all about surrender, time, and acceptance.

Harambee was a great time. It was amazing to see how beautiful the center was, all the
people having such a good time. We did well for our first fundraiser and I thought how grateful I was to everyone who helped. I hope they appreicate it in Kenya. It was a lot of work.

I wanted to wait until it was over to write this piece. It was written a couple of weeks ago but for obvious reasons I figured it was better to wait.

I called my doctor on Friday, mostly to complain about how tired I was after the surgery he had performed the week before. I assumed everything was all right since I hadn’t heard from them. It’s that joking with God thing that I always seem to get caught in. When the secretary put me through to him, I thought it’s just because we are old friends, Dave and I. Alas, he cut right to the chase and said cancer. That’s when my listening skills went right out the window. I was lucid enough to get the names of the doctors he wanted me to call on Monday (which became Tuesday since in Boston we must take the entire day off to run the Marathon or watch it or something else which no one in the other 49 states does).

Saturday 31st May at 09:00 Chengdu:

Have been in this earthquake struck city for the past couple of days. But apart from seeing a completely demolished building, the only signs of the effects from the devastating 8+ magnitude quake has been cracks and downed electricity in certain part of this sprawling metropolis of 11 million inhabitants. I've not been able to get much closer to the epicenter where the real destruction and loss of life occurred. Perhaps it was better since I could have become a burden on the already stretched and stressed resources. So instead I do what I do best...and that's to spend, so in my own private crusade I'm helping support the cause financially, and of course through my prays.

This will be my final report before I head home to the US, where the only thing I have to worry about is the price of gas!

Leong

Wednesday 28th May at 09:00 Beijing:

On Monday, May 26 at 21:22 China local time, Leong sent the following update from China, where he is on a business trip but also trying to get near to the earthquake zone where he intends to help in any way possible:

I woke up in a hot, humid and smoggy day in Beijing. As I sat down for breakfast I read in the China Daily the main headline story reporting continued strong aftershocks in the already devastated Sichuan province. The death toll is now officially above 60,000 with final estimates to exceed 80,000. On meeting my colleague we talked somberly about getting me into Chengdu, the state capital of Sichuan on Thursday. It will likely be a last minute decision whether I will be able to set foot into the earthquake zone. For the time being I continue to share life with the inhabitants of Beijing as they plough industriously through their normal daily routine, not even a hot, humid and smoggy day will slow them down.

Leong

Received this from my networking buddy Stephen Cotterell , from Ecademy. Worth my time, hope it will be the same for you guys.

 A Dog's purpose (from a 6-year-old). Anon

Angels and Demons

All around us the laws of nature work for us and against us, and
everywhere you look, if you are observant, you see the results. Ying
and yang, good and bad, positive and negative working all about us and
moving in the natural cycle of things. Balance is the force that holds
everything together, the glue of all. My friend and Globonder Leong Ying
has a great understanding
of these princibles, but more importantly he proves it through his
mathematical physics formula which is a twin universe theory called "The

Thursday, February 21, 2008