Life-O-Life Team 2010 for Mini Sun Run 2.5K

It took three months' organization work. All initiated by the young ladies (the daughters) of the 6 families and supportive work by their parents. Life-O-Life Team 2010 joined the Mini Sun Run 2.5K today, which is affiliated to the Vancouver Sun Run annual event. They have their own uniform. In the front it is the Team's name Life-O-Life, and in the back of the T-shirt it says "I'm ready for my journey!" The idea is to promote health and life!

The weather and temperature is perfect today for Team Life-O-Life's first outdoor activity. Though Sunday, and despite what was the sleeping hours last evening, everyone needed to get up by 6am this morning in order to leave home by 6:45am - 7:00am, arriving at the Concord Place by 7:30am ready to get started by 8:00am, i.e. the official starting time. And before anything happen, a photographic section is important to bookmark such a memorable and important first event of Team Life-O-Life.

A few thousands people gathered at the Starting Line and the Mini Sun Run started. You see parents with the kids, young adults with their elderly, you also see couples walking in pair hand-in-hand, and disabled in wheelchairs and different groups of people and individuals in different and interesting fittings.

You can see people run, you can see people walking, but you can also see people pretending running (i.e. their upper body with hands in running motion, while their lower body in walking motion). But it's more important to participate as no one really pay attention to the time. The whole journey would take about 30 minutes, before you recognized, you are already in the finished line.

Three gentlemen, David Gan, Ron Kwan and Leo Chan have registered for the Vancouver Sun Run and therefore, they would need to walk from where they just finished to the starting line of Vancouver Sun Run in Georgie Street. All the three gentlemen managed the race quite well. They all said the journey was very enjoyable though there were really a lot of people surrounding them.

Well done Team Life-O-Life, keep up the good work! Health and life are indeed both important and we must try our best effort to preserve and enjoy both!

N.B. A few friends and readers asked about the purchase of the Team Life-O-Life T-shirt. Regret to let you know that this is only a limited and once in supply for those participated this time (and was not opened to public). However, if there are future events that may require additional T-shirts to be printed, then the young ladies said they will consider to open for others to place order. Until then, Team Life-O-Life T-shirt will remain an "invaluable" item!

Ready for the Vancouver Sun Run?

There are quite a few good reasons for immigration to Canada. Most of the families that I know of, they put their children education on the highest. Then, living quality, such as a 800 square feet 3-rooms apartment in Hong Kong in exchange of a 2,500 square feet 5 bedrooms house (and with a good size lawn) in Richmond usually would come second. Then, it will be quality time together with the family members, air and environmental super quality versus Hong Kong's continuous struggle for a blue sky and clean air. Often, I also heard people saying although workload is high in Vancouver, it is good that they do respect their holidays and long weekends and make work and your private life very easy to segregate.

The downside, usually in the difficulties of getting a job for the man and it's a luxury item to have a maid/helper at home in Vancouver, unlike everyone gets one in Hong Kong, while the children grew up actually talking in Philippino-English. It is also clear that you cannot be rich if you rely on a local job and local income as the living standards are actually high in Vancouver, especially assuming you have two growing up kids still in their studies.

There are always good and bad in life and everything is up to us to define, as it is our own life that we are living through. I personally see a lot of interesting events around in Vancouver, especially these events have a clear connection with the Mother Nature. One of the events, tomorrow, is once a year event of Vancouver Sun Run, and it's quite an experience. It's actually one of the most attended 10K run in North America, certainly in western Canada. You will experience 55,000 people running together, all the way from Georgia Street downtown, touching Stanley Park and continue into Beach Avenue, through Burrard Bridge and entering into the other side of Vancouver until you take the Cambie Bridge again and finished off at GM Place (yes, where Canucks play). If you take it leisurely, it's about an hour to an hour and a half to finish. There are so many activities going on that morning and you won't feel anything before you finished. The whole 10K is almost filled with drinks, music and cheering people along two sides of the road, and surrounding you will be those half running or walking individuals trying to catch up their breath and enjoy the rest of the run.

It's quite an experience in life and I strongly recommend that you should try it, more for fun than for health in this case. You will not regret this decision!

[This picture was taken back in April 2008. Leo joined me as it's my birthday present, since then, he and I did not stop running, except this year that he will continue to run but I will take a rest. But I shall return ... at least I will try to return!]

[This is my number in 2010 together with it's T-shirt.]