Bone Bruise

I din realised that a bone bruise is such a "hard to heal" kind of injury until my classmate told me about it.

And as I was searching through the internet, the few sites that I've visited gave me similar responses.
The bruise will take some time to heal and there's no cure except to rest and ice. Why din the dr tell me about it? The injury takes weeks or even months to recover. Oh crap..There were ppl writing in the forums commenting dat their bone bruises is still giving them problems after months.

I guess mine will be taking some time as well.

Cast Away ..

My boy drew on my cast =) Mummy said dat it's q a good picture! heh...




The mousy on my bedsheet =)





ENdorsed by Adidas heh..

I should have taken a photo of him drawing on my cast! He looked accomplished ..haa

To remove or not to remove?

I've juz made a call to CGH to ask for an earlier appointment. And the earliest I can have is tmr! It's a little earlier than I have expected. But oh well.. I want it removed. Seriously, Im nt sure whether it's myopic on my end but I really dun want the inconvenience from this cast. Having to tk a cab to and fro to school..not being able to move from one place to the other when Im out. I know it's for my good..but how bout going to a sinseh? hm thou Im afraid that the traditional massage will juz make the swell worse.

But Im really not an advocate of juz sitting ..I believe in strengthening!

Actually I oso dunno what to do to strengthen. At least it's recovering. I'll juz take things one at a step. And removing the cast is my choice..which I have to stick to, whatever consequences. It's one week earlier but i've already been resting for 2 weeks.

I watched ANTM in ONE day!

I took one day to finish the 11th cycle of American's Next Top Model! woohoo

Every one of these ladies sees themselves as the American's Next Top Model. Every one of them claims that they want it more than the rest of the ladies out there. But have they really see who they really are.

Sometimes being who you really are is different from who you wan urself to become. Is it true?

Something i've extracted from the Internet. Im super impressed with the Jamaicans! The way they pulled away from their opponents on the track.. Under the pressure of the US favourites, they proved to the world that they are the worthy ones for the medals. Thou Usain Bolt was a lil "yah-yah" I muz say but who wouldnt be exhilarated with the win! Come on...celebrate with them! As long u have trained hard, dun be shy to tell the world u have. I believe their opponents are impressed with their speed on the track and have congratulated them as well. So having the talent and the training might nt be sufficient to nurture world champions! Nutrition also plays an important role in the athlete's performance! Nourishing Our Champs

Dania Bogle Thursday, August 21, 2008

Veronica Campbell-Brown enjoys a breakfast of fruits in Beijing. (Photos: Bryan Cummings)

"IT'S all in the yam, dumpling, and banana" has become the standing joke posited by locals in explanation of why Jamaican sprinters have done so well at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and why they generally excel on the local and international circuits.

It may really be all in the yam, dumpling, and banana if the word from the families of some of our star athletes at the Olympic Games is anything to go by.

Decathlete Maurice Smith

Maxine Simpson, mother of 100m gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser, said her daughter likes to eat yam and banana and a bit of rice, but that she spends most of her time drinking.
You'll find Shelly-Ann sipping bottles of Gatorade, carrot juice, Lucozade, Guzzler, and cranberry juice.

When she does eat meat it is chicken, or liver. Maxine explained that her daughter doesn't have a favourite meal: "She likes every little thing and she will eat anything I cook for her."

Sherone Simpson's father, Audley, says on the family farm in Devon, Manchester, lots of cow head, cow skin, and tripe were eaten by the Olympic silver medallist.

Sprint hurdler Brigitte Foster-Hylton

"A lot of ram goat - not sheep - ram goat...ram goat soup and plantain porridge," he laughed.

Asafa Powell's mother, Cislyn, was jovial as she talked about her son's special relationship with cornmeal dumplings: "At one time he used to eat a lot of yam and bananas, but now he says he is cutting down on the starch so he doesn't eat them so much, but he is not putting down the dumpling."

Asafa also enjoys a good plate of rice and peas with fried chicken. He has cut most of the meat out of his diet but still relishes escoveitched fish with onions and pepper as well as 'run down' with salt fish and, of course, dumplings.

"He loves when I cook red or gungo peas soup with pig's tail," she said. "Sometimes he calls and asks me if I can't cook some peas soup for him."

However, she says, stew peas with pig's tail - a Jamaican favourite - is not well liked by any of her children, including Asafa, as she says it has always made them sick since they were youngsters.

"He doesn't like to drink tea," she adds. "Sometimes I have to quarrel with him... the young people nowadays just don't like to drink tea."

For a sweet treat, Powell's favourites are fruit cake and the potato pudding Cislyn often bakes.

Brigitte Foster-Hylton is very conscious about her diet, her husband Patrick tells us. She has a very controlled diet consisting of protein shakes, eggs or fish with vegetables, tomatoes and fruits for breakfast and lots of water throughout the day.

The sprint hurdler is not very much into dessert. "She kinds of spoils it for me when we go out for a meal because I want to order dessert and she asks why do I want to eat all of that stuff that's not good for me," he joked.

Usain Bolt's mother, Jennifer, is spending the week in Beijing at the Olympics soaking up the atmosphere and the sheer joy of having her older son being crowned the world's fastest man, but dad Wellesley is pretty au fait with Usain's favourite culinary delights.

"Mostly rice and peas, chicken and pork," he said. The chicken is best enjoyed stewed and the pork - the Jamaican speciality - jerked.

He added that Usain likes dumplings, doesn't fancy stew peas, and loves a nice slice of fruit cake with a drink of sorrel at Christmas time.

The thing his mother prepares specially for the 6-foot 5-inch tall sprinter when he returns after a long sojourn from his family home in Sherwood Content, Trelawny, however, is a nice big pot of crayfish soup, which, according to Wellesley, Usain "loves".

Luckily for all our athletes, Jamaica's management team has brought along a Jamaican chef to Beijing to prepare the favourite meals of those in the camp for the Olympic Games.

SlideShow

eh im quite impressed by this slideshow thing which is appearing at the side of my blog. haha..was juz exploring the widgets thing. And Im able to add this slideshow function from the Picasa range of photos dat the web community have taken from the Beijing Olympics. oo..nice photos =)

After Years

Time to change to a new site.=)

Since I cant really understand the point of HTML codes, think i shall stick to the normal layout.

So here goes: The Launch of Qi's New Site !!( While my left foot is stuck in the cast =( )