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Monday, February 28, 2005

Wristbands

Live Strong

Wow.. Do you guys know about the yellow coloured "Live Strong" Wristband sold by Lance Armstrong Foundation to a donation drive for their fight against cancer? I didn't know about tt until fairly recently. It is sold world-wide and you can purchase it in bulk (min. purchase 10) via the website. The price is abt S$3 (including shipping).

According to the foundation, yellow is a symbol of hope, courage and perseverance. As a tribute to Lance’s inspirational fight against cancer, yellow wristbands engraved with his mantra, Live Strong, are sold in an effort to raise $5,000,000 for the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF).

Well.. I'm buying it through one of the NS guys. He is ordering 10 and he has 4 extras. Thus I asked to buy from him. I must say that my initial impulse to buy it was because it is kinda cool. But after reading more abt it, I find it rather meaningful. It is afterall a donation to the foundation. However, on the personal level, what yellow symbolises and what the band symbolises are what makes me wanna have it.

Stand Up Speak Up

Another wrist band I'm interested in is the "Stand up, Speak up" wristband. It consists of 2 wristbands (one black, one white) interwined together. It is in support of the fight against racism in football. However, it is still not sold world wide yet. You can see it on this site.

Well.. I admit, I like this one mainly because of the design. However, the other sub-reason would be to remind myself not to stereotype against other races. However, I feel that this band is quite meaningless to me as I feel that stereotypes are nurtured. In a sense, as we grow up in the environment we r in, the stereotype would become ingraned into us. Much as we know tt it is wrong and we consciously try not to do it, we will eventually entertain some thoughtsabout it sub-consciously. And when something bad happens, we will point our fingers to the target of racism.

However, I also believe that it is during the time when "something bad happens" whereby the wristband would come into handy as a reminder for us to be fair.

Anyway, for this band, I will only get if it can be easily purchased. Cuz it is produced by Nike and I dun exactly trust a profit-maximising organisation to do things fair.

Other Wristbands

I also know about some other wristbands. Mainly S'pore based.

Standard Chartered "Seeing is Believing" wristband (comes in green or blue colours). Haha.. I think you can purchase it from any Standard Chartered outlets. It symbolises the fight against blindness

Standard Chartered Wristband

There is also the abstainance from pre-marital sex "Worth Waiting For" wristbands. It was sold by Focus on the Family organisation on Valentine's Day. I'm not really concerned with it cuz I'm still single. wahaha.. Plus I already don't believe in it. However, this is subjected to the circumstances.. wahahahahahhaha.. *evil laughter*

Do you guys know of any other wristbands???? Pls let me know. I'm rather interested in them. Thks..

The Origin. 2/28/2005 08:42:00 pm

quotes

"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true." - Dr. Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

'How happy is the little Stone
That rambles in the Road alone,
And doesn't care about Careers
And Exigencies never fears-
Whose Coat of elemental Brown
A passing Universe put on,
And independent as the Sun
Associates or glows alone,
Fulfilling absolute Decree
In casual simplicity-' - How happy is the little Stone by Emily Dickinson

'This is your last chance.
After this, there is no turning back.
You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.' - Morpheus, The Matrix

'The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Not because you'll get it, but because you're doomed not to want it if you do.' - Unknown

'There are plenty of people with good intentions who take the wrong actions in the end' - Gundam Seed Destiny

'Life is no straight and easy corridor along
which we must seek our way,
lost and confused, now and again
checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith,
a door will open for us,
not perhaps one that we ourselves
would ever have thought of,
but one that will ultimately
prove good for us.' - A.J.Cronin

"Every life has one true-love snapshot
Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know
No life is a waste.
The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone"

"A man can endure alot if he still has hope." - Clyde T. Ellis

" 'Appreciate It.' 2 simple words. A life span of gratitude." - Cinderella Man

"A boxer enters the ring alone. If knocked down, he alone could pick himself up and keep the fight going." - Cinderella Man

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Jame J. Braddock: I know this isn't what you wanted. But I can't win if you're not behind me.
Mae: I'm always behind you."

"People die in fairy tales all the time." - Max Baer, Cinderella Man

"Maybe sometimes people need to see someone do it so they can do it." - Father Rorick, Cinderella Man

"You always got ot figure you're not the best man in the world, there might be somebody better. That's the way it was. That's the way boxing is. The champion don't always stand up. There's always somebody coming up to take him. That's a part of life." - Jame J. Braddock

"If either man falls through weakness or otherwise, he must get up unassisted" - The Queensbury Rules, No. 4

"All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" - Motto of the King's Guard in Ancient Greece

"With each passing day in a good marriage, the love for your spouse grow stronger than the day before" - Cinderella Man

"I take responsibility" - President George W. Bush

"Sow a Thought, and you reap an Act;
Sow an Act, and you reap a Habit;
Sow a Habit, and you sow a Character;
Sow a Character, and you reap a Destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt - Shakespeare in Measure of Measure

"What does your heart tell you?" - Aragorn, LOTR

"To an outstretched hand we shall respond with an olive branch, but we shall fight fire with the harshest fire ever." - Israeli PM Ariel Sharon

"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. " - The Matrix

"Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth, always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath." - Balian of Ibelin, Kingdom of Heaven

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." - Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird

"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices." - Dumbledore, Harry Potter

"Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

"Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten." - Lilo & Stitch

"Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it." - Malcolm Wallace, Braveheart

"Every man dies, not every man really lives." - William Wallace, Braveheart

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