Monday, August 16, 2010

好小子,不管三七二十一! Oh Boy, Just Do It!

他在大雨中、炎热下,与大约一百个青奥圣火火炬手保持近距离,奔跑了超过两个小时,跟随着火炬经过学校与住宅区,共跑了大约十五公里。他这样做时,他只穿了T百慕达式短裤人字拖。在这个过程中,他甚至还把他父母的相机给弄坏了。
这件事于810日发生于新加坡。他的名字叫做劳伟杰,一个12岁的小学学生。
2010第一届青奥运在新加坡举行。它于814日起,一直举行到26日。青奥运火炬旅程为青奥运旋开了序幕,目的是要把世界年轻人围绕在奥运会运动之下,激励他们去接受、拥抱与表现奥运会的价值观 - 卓越、友谊与尊重。
现在,一个小孩进一步体现了‘不管三七二十一’的热情,和为所喜爱的事物而行动的决心。
这个年轻人失去了和两位同学一起拿火炬在新加坡东北区跑步的机会,据说是因为他跑得太慢了。所以他决定自己跟随着圣火走。这位满身湿透的年轻人解释他为什么要这样做:‘我在报章上知道圣火会来到这里,我要亲眼看到它,追随它,不然我可能没机会再看到它了。’
新加坡报章在811日报道了他的故事。明显的,他感动了很多新加坡人,包括他的校长、新加坡青奥运组委会的负责人和松下公司的管理层。
811日那天,他的校长当着全校的面前表扬了他,还代表松下送一架新的相机给他。在813日,新加坡青奥运组委会帮他圆了当圣火火炬手的梦。
干得好,保持下去。
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He ran in heavy rain, then in scorching heat, keeping pace with around 100 Youth Olympic Flame torchbearers, running for more than two hours as the torch went past schools and residential districts, covered a distance of around 15km. He did it wearing a T-shirt, bermudas and flip-flops. And he even damaged his parent’s camera in the process.
This happened on 10 August in Singapore. His name is Low Wei Jie, a 12-year-old primary school student.
The inaugural 2010 Youth Olympic Games is being held in Singapore. It started on 14 and will end on 26 August. As a prelude to the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG), Journey of the Youth Olympic Flame (JYOF pronounced ‘JAY-of’) seeks to connect youth around the world to the Olympic Movement by inspiring them to embrace, embody and express the Olympic values of Excellence, Friendship and Respect.
And now, this youngster further embodies the passionate spirit of ‘Just do it’ and determination to act on something that is dear to his heart.
The youngster missed out on a chance to join two schoolmates carrying the torch around the North East community district of Singapore because he was deemed too slow. So he decided to follow the flame run on his own. The drenched boy explained why he needed to do it, 'When I read in the newspapers that the flame was coming here, I just wanted to see it for myself, and follow it, I might never see it again.'
His story was reported by the local newspapers on 11 August. ">He clearly moved many Singaporeans, including his principal, the people in-charge of the 2010 Singapore YOG Organising Committee, and the management of Panasonic.
On 11 August, his principal prasied him in front of the whole school and presented him a beand-new camera which was given by Panasonic. On 13 Aug, his dream of becoming a torchbearer finally came true – thanks to the YOG Organising Committee.
Well done, keep it up.

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