Lee n Tan

A professor stood before his philosphy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The proffessor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous “yes”.
The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognise that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things, your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favourite passions, things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff.
If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another 18.
There will always be time to clean the house, and mow the lawn. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented.
The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of beers!”

Saturday February 20, 2010 – another day of trying to fix the computer & hangin out in the hostel.

Lee actually got to play hockey!!!!!! Catalina kindly picked us up and took us to the pool, most of the club plays for Colombia. It contains the open Mens & Womens and a development side along with some juniors! A few of them speak English which was handy for us (Philipe & Natalia).

?, Natalia & her boyfriend kindly gave us a lift home and on the way stopped of for some very tasty Aerapas for dinner. They were fantastic and the stall was just on a corner outside a local shop in the burbs.

Sunday February 21 – I got my hands dirty today with the computer and fixed the issue Lee was having with the Antivirus software, now we can start scanning to kill this bug.

No hockey today!

Monday February 22 – what to do, what to do! The computer is still scanning from yesterday, so now what do we fill our day with!!!

We walked to the shopping centre which is actually pretty close and had something to eat. We decided to fill the afternoon in with a movie ‘Desde Mi Cielo’ or in English (7,000ea). Very strange movie, we didn’t know anything about it so some bits were a little trippy! Since, we have spoken to a few people about it and the book is supposed to be really good.

Lee played hockey again tonight we caught the Metro there and back.

Tuesday February 23 – well another day of just hangin out at the hostel. Clare has arrived and the 3 of us went out for dinner to an awesome Thai restaurant. Yes we have found one much to our delight, you don’t get a lot of foreign cuisine in this part of the world and it was AMAZING!!! I had Duck Red Curry, Clare had Green Curry Prawn, Lee was supposed to have Red Curry Chicken but ended up with Beef and we shared Spring Rolls with Sweet Chilli Sauce for entree..…soooooooo good!!!!!!

Lee went off and played hockey (and took the key to our room with him). Clare & I hung out on the rooftop deck and chatted! I was able to get a key from reception as we were both pretty tired.

Friday February 19, 2010 – Lee spent the day trying to kill the virus that has infected our computer and it’s 11pm and it still isn’t dead!

I spent the day hanging around reading, sleeping etc. We rang mum & dad and also got to speak to Ethan, Emily, Paul & Nicky, it was great to catch up with them all as we haven’t spoken for a while!!!! Ethan has started school and seems to be loving it.

Hockey was all systems go and then we got a call to say it had been cancelled, will lugging those fins around the world ever pay off!

Went for a walk into the ‘Zona Rosa’ (restaurant, bar & club zone of Medellin) right near the hostel, we didn’t even realise what was here. We got such a shock when we decided to just take a different turn and found the footpaths filled with people over flowing from bars & restaurants, cars bumper to bumper filling the streets and music pumping from all round……….an awsome place to be out and about!!!! Pitty we are not in the mood.

Thursday February 18, 2010 – we arrived around 8am after a 14 hour rough bus trip. I don’t know if we changed drivers once we hit the mountain ranges or the same one just decided to do some rally driving but man we got thrown around.

We found a room at Casa Kiwi Hostel not the cheapest place at 70,000 but they have a room straight away for us. Ah that was the first hot water shower I have had since the UK in November, big rain water showerhead……..who could ask for anything more!!!!

We didn’t wake till around 3 found ourselves an amazing kebab for lunch then hopped on the net for a few hours. Lee touched base with someone from the local Underwater Hockey Club so he can play hockey & in the early stages he was going to play tonight but now Catalina has Skyped & said no because it was a crap pool. He’s a bit disappointed, maybe tomorrow night, they say they play every night!!

It’s 8pm we are back in our room ready for some more sleep. The only thing I can say about the city is it is much cooler than the coast.

Wednesday February 17, 2010 – we all woke feeling pretty dusty!! To begin with Lee wasn’t going anywhere but then we found out checkout was @ 3pm. So we motivated packed our bags, took a taxi to the shopping centre for some much needed food then said goodbye to Clare around 2pm.

Our night bus doesn’t leave till 6pm so Marcus kindly let us hang out in his ’solo’ room till 5. As we walked out onto the street Lisa was coming up the road (by herself……..no chaparon) so we said our final goodbye and she helped us with a cab to the terminal (10,000).

So glad I had a big lunch & that we stocked up on some nibblies as it’s 11pm we have just stopped at a terminal with only drinks & snack food on offer.