Recreation and Hobbies Articles
posted on 12 February 2012
While Tim was inside the stadium, he had to try so hard not to cry. It was overwhelming for him to finally witness his favorite team play live. You see, Tim never misses any game on TV but it took a long time for him to save enough money to pay for a ticket to watch the game live. He looked around and saw thousands of people all over the place. He was thrilled to see the players in person. He was lucky because from where he was seated, he had a clear view of everyone - including the broadcasters from various TV networks, a bunch of sports psychologists and many others. When the game finally started, Tim thought he was going to have a heart attack because of so much joy. He was the happiest man that day. Although his team lost, Tim was still happy for he has finally done something that he has dreamed of doing since he was a child. He was just sad that his dad was no longer around to enjoy it with him. |
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posted on 31 August 2011
I have been having the worst headache and I cannot seem to shake it off at all. The problem with this headache is that even pain relieve medication is not working for me at all. I inherited my fathers company and being a lady boss is not a very easy position. The workers tend to respect me but I have few friends. Well there is one financial advisor who is very friendly. He came to the office once and found me dipping my head in to ice. I told him about the headache and he massaged my head, he called it the Indian massage and it worked wonders because the headache subsided. He told me to take the weekend off and go get pamper treats uk at a spa treatment center. I refused at first and when the headache came back I decided to go to pamper treats uk. That was the only way he was going to give me that massage again. At the spa I got a brilliant Indian massage I slept for twelve hours straight. |
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posted on 27 February 2011
Sports are great for the better growth and development of our children. Adults too need to get involved in sporting activities in order to strengthen their bones for a longer life. Sports are not only beneficial physically but mentally too, because of the mental satisfaction thy give a person after playing or after winning in a certain competition. They create a mental satisfaction to the player in several other ways. Whether it is soccer, golf, rugby, swimming, athletics etc, all sports are great. A person can choose what sporting activity they want to involve themselves into, and this will depend on their abilities and preferences. I for instance love rugby so much. With or without a sport psychologist, a mentor or even a trainer, rugby will always be my favorite sport and I will always play it. One does not need to play only for competition. They can play for fun especially during their leisure time. You can choose a certain sport to be your passing time activity in order to avoid idleness and to kill boredom. |
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posted on 25 February 2011
My one experience of consisted entirely of fishing at Lake Eildon when I was 10 with my uncle and my cousins whilst on our family's annual Easter trip. I put some bait on - some carp fishing tackle, flung my borrowed rod in, propped my fishing rod up on a forked stick in the sand and promptly got bored and decided to build a sand castle with my cousin. Of course, this led to a bite on my rod which I sprinted back to deal with and with great struggle, I managed to discover that what I had actually caught was the remnants of a tree under-water. To my disappointment, my six-year old cousin managed to catch what was supposedly some (probably under-sized) Brim, which was literally the only catch of the bloody day. With my pride hurt, I managed to will myself to helping out with the cooking of it, which inevitably led a hassle of de-boning and scaling and nearly dismembering fingers in order to taste the deliciously bland meat underneath. Such nostalgia is almost making me want to pick up a rod for myself, actually. |
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posted on 10 February 2011
The other day I visited a mental hospital out of town. I wanted to see what it was like to be in a mental hospital. I had a great time with the patients there. Most of them seemed so normal to me and I could not understand why they were still confined. But the doctor in charge told me that sometimes they were quite normal and other times they were crazy. The reason according to the doctor was that these patients did not know how to control their mental thinking, and when the thinking got to the extremes, then the patient becomes crazy. The remedy to this was mental training in order for them to control their thoughts. mental training is specially important to the schizophrenic patients because they are unable to control their thoughts, leading to the schizophrenic attack. That is why they start hallucinating. It was great to see that he hospital had enough facilities to train these patients, otherwise they would be completely lost in these hospitals. Apparently, their cases are controllable and curable. |
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posted on 29 January 2011
My dad always wanted us to be leaders. At an early age, he started taking us for leadership training classes where our inborn leadership skills were developed. Being a politician, he wanted my brother and I to take after him, altogether I wanted to do something else in life other than politics. I knew my brother wanted to be a politician by all means and that was perfectly okay with me. I took medicine in college while my brother took political science to take after dad. I did not know that leadership was not all about politics, but after qualifying to be a doctor and getting a job in one general hospital in the country, I was appointed to be the leading doctor in the hospital. Everyone now comes to me whenever they have issues. I should have thought about this earlier. It feels good to be a leader especially when you know you have the skills required and when the people you are leading, whether younger or older than you, are appreciating and respecting you. |
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posted on 26 December 2010
Although they have gotten some bad press in the last several months, my favorite car continues to be the Toyota Corolla. Yes I enjoy exotic cars and have sent many of my friends on gift days driving experiences, but you can't beat the Corolla for a general purpose car.
In the mid 1970's I owned one and, as a student always low on cash, this car was the ideal way to get around economically. The stick shift was also fun to drive and there was very little maintenance. I prided myself on doing my own oil and filter changes and the smallness of everything in the car made that and other jobs easy. But most of all it was the car's reliability that impressed me. It was a pleasure to get in every morning and know that when I turned the key, the car would start - and run. And it did for over ten years. When I sold that car, it was as if I had lost a friend. I got away from Corollas, but not Toyotas, for three decades. When I bought another one, I was pleased to find that, although it had gotten bigger and now I had an automatic transmission, the car was as much fun to drive as it always was. |
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