timtufuga's Journals
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Well, it was not a well run marathon, but, I did do it. There were less than 200 people running the marathon and I had run the first half marathon reasonably well and as I had planned, the second half however, I made an incredulous discovery that at hthe 22km drink station I had ingested an Endura sport drink that did not go down well and I had 'hit the wall' soon after. I had been doing over 100km to 120km per week leading up to the Brisbane marathon. I was used to doing 34km with little trouble at all since I was running to and from Beenleigh which was 34km from my home at least once a week. Strangely, though, that during the Brisbane marathon whilst I was stopping over at one of the drink stations namely the 22km drink station an old man came out to me and offered me Endura which I took and not long afterwards I had 'hit the wall' sooner than I had expected and I flet very drousy and sleepy, still I continued but running much slowly though. This is not my first marathon and I am familiar to whta my body is capable of doing. In the end my finishtime was very unflattering. However, I did jog my way to the finishline not feeling tired at all but annoyed that I had 'hit the wall' sooner than I had expected. I was annoyed at the drink station old man who came at me with the endura drink that was not endura at all, since I was loading up with endura for days prior to the marathon. there were 179 runners doing the Brisbane marathon I came 108. I should have come in the top 40 with my expected training times. Still the marathon has been done and I am bnow preparing for the Gold Coast marathon wherethere ought to be over 2,500 runners. Yes, I have run marathons before and, yes, I do know bad eggs are out there. read my other view on http://spaces.msn.com/timtufuga |
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Well, I have decided to blog something nonsensical after my spate with telephone, mobile and internet bills. All that aside I have reconciled all these spurious bills and arisen above the din. In the meantime, I am alive and well and I am keeping my head just above water. I am continuing running I'm training for a marathon three weeks away. No, I have not been overwhelmed with the cost of living per se. Although, I have sacrificed many things in my life including having a family of my own. A life of a devout bacholar has its shortcomings and no doubt some people would find this seemingly misanthropic existence rather enticing. I am used to being a recluse and enjoy the company of me, myself, and I. As a child I never liked mingling with others in the playground anyways, in fact, I never liked people in general. I had many school friends but I chose them and not the other way around. Being relocated in different countries made cultural shock very acute. So being a loner would make this experience very much the norm. I was undeterred with the company of others and I would never try to adapt and to assimilate to an incrowd 'clique'. I find that the gregarious nature of individuals as truly 'sheepish'. I would never make a decent soldier because I would march to the beat of my own drum. so when iot comes to sport, I was an effective team player in rugby I did my part well in the backline or with the forwards. As a schoolboy, I would prefer to do individual events, so as a muscle bound kid I tried shotput and discus. I represented Wellington regions in shotput being the smallest shotputter in my grade. I came 12th in the national championship in shotput. In Australia, I was selected in the first XV rugby union side for a GPS school, Brisbane State High School, in 1986. I never liked my teammates and never befriended anyone. I was the first ever Pacific Islander, a Polynesian Samoan, to represent BSHS in the first XV back in 1986. Later on Tongans would pass through the first XV including Steve Kefu who would become a Wallaby in the future. In 1988, I was selected to represent American Samoa in rugby league during the Pacific cup, then I was selected for the Samoan rugby league squad for their NZ tour in 1988. I was injured and never toured NZ. I did not like my teammates as well, even though they were all Samoans. In 1992, I had represented Samoa during the World Cup rugby league held in Sydney, Australia. I had played my first test against NZ which we lost by 1 point. I dropped the ball out on the wing over the tryline during the first half, and I had a tear on my left knee ligament which ended my world cup for Samoa. After the world cup I returned to Wellington and continued my undergraduate studied at Victoria University of Wellington. In 1993, I returned to Australia and continued studying at the university of Queensland where I had completed my BA degree majoring in government. It is now called political science. I had graduated in 1994. I was doing my post graduate degree when the Queensland police arrested me for fighting a bunch of rednecks in a taxi rank in Toowong, Brisbane. I thrahsed one of my assailants and I was charged with GBH. Now, this is history now. I am nearing forty years of age and now doing triathlons, and running marathons. Still single and forever tormented from my past. I am still a New Zealander convinced that Australia is not worth becoming a citizen for now or even in the near future. I will continue to remain here forever though. So, what is new with you? Soifua Tim B Tufuga
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My Telstra internet is now disconnected and my mobile phone is cut as well. 0 minutes ago I am no longer on the internet. So this will be one of my final blogs through a public internet access facility in the Marsden public library. Telstra has charged me for the disconnection of my broadband internet for over a $255, plus my mobile disconnection for $355 and not to mention my regular monthly phone charges which means that I am nolonger connected with anyone from my home. Now I am poor having to pay for my Telstra and power bills I have just paid my rent. What does this mean? I can not do the 2008 Gold Coast Triathlon, nor, can I do the Mooloolaba triathlon 2008. I may be able to compete in the Brisbane Marathon. I can not do anymore Youtube video blogs and so this will be closed as well. Telstra has done me a dirty deed and they have beaten me. So goodbye Ia soifua Tim Tufuga |
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January, 2008
A complaint from a triathlete.Yesterday, Thursday arvo on the 24th January, 2008, a triathlete called me up and complained about the serious defaming blogs which I had been making against him, this person is Ray Pogi. After a number of months of perpetual internet psywarfare with email, chat, blogs, and comments, being exchanged between the aforementioned person, or rather his proxies, and I, this had finally come to the fore with a simple phone call.
Ray phoned me and simply stated irrefutably that he did not send any videos to my mailbox. On his words I have simply removed all my disparaging remarks and negative blogs which has irrevocably damaged him as a person and as a triathlete. Furthermore, I would sincerely apologise for all my past actions over the internet against his name, his family, and against his personal character.
Thank you Ray for your call.
Tim Tufuga.
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| 2008 resolutions. Current mood: grateful Category: Life Twas the Sunday before New Years Eve and all seemed well for the Possie the retches had settled down from the conniving misdeeds throughout the year and now looking on hindsight they have reflected upon their ill gotten gains. Well, what have we achieved in the year that was 2007? "Sweet f--- all" but, we did see a tumultuous change in everything from the number of political changes, the changes of governments, from the demise of great living legends, Great Tenors, thespian personalities, political asssignations and democracy being forever challenged with the continual usurpation by the Machiavallian Prince throughout the anarchic world stage. Peace has been a shrinking violet for a while now. There was an endless amount of disappointments for yet another 365 of Earth's orbit around the sun. According to the American Cancar Society some 12 million people were diagnosed with cancer and some 7 million people died from Cancer in 2007, and, get this, some 20,000 people died per day from some form of caner causing death in 2007. In the 3rd world some 6 million children died from malnutrition this year. As a Samoan, I would have to say that this year has been marked by a unique regime change with the passing of the Head of State of Samoa, Le Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II, le ao o le Malo. It is a tragic year for many people and it is not a year in which we can readily celebrate the achievements of many Samoans apart from staging the Samoa games, which was a very notable highlight for Samoa's young and developing sporting history. On the local scene, Australia has finally spoken in the ballot box and have demanded the disendorsement of the federal liberal/national coalition government now the moderate left labour governemnts, dominate state and federal governments in Australia. Paradoxically, however, the labour movement is ideologically riding on the new right wave which has introduced the monetarism philosophy to most western democratic political philosophies of today. In layman terms, the new right still dictate public policy of government and Milton Friedman is still surreptitiously the blueprint architect of the present poltical mindsets of most of the rightwingers' cabal, even within the labour governments/caucases within Australia, and, dare I say, NZ. The 'war on terror', still is high on the political agenda and America will be facing its on judgement day come the Federal elections in 08. It is highly suggested that Australia has set a precendent in what ought to be a real regime change even within the USA elections. In the meatime, Australia, and the rest of coalition of the willing hardliners, will be bracing themselves for the moribund realpolitical outcomes of political choice. The Hawks have dominated American and Australian political thinking for half a decade now America and her allies are facing a change in preference for the less than coercive and more assertive approach to international relations. The key may lie with the Democratic incumbents who will establish the new order for the denouemont of the Jihadi conflict that is now entering its endgame strategies. The Middle East conflicts will be drawn out once again with more political skirmishes to dismantle the peace process, afterall, it is a way of life for most of these people who not known anything else but violence, sport and education, and the concept of lasting intergenerational peace, are cultural shock experiences, which will be alien to the present generation and future generation of Palestinians, Israelis, as well as, Iraqi, Iranian and Afghani people etc. These people will escape to Australia and elsewhere, and bring with them their conflicts onto our beaches and streets. On this note, the influences of the foreign conflicts has impacted Australia so directly that even the likes of David Hicks still makes headline news with his release from imprisonment. He has been considered as a soldier of fortunem a mercenary soldier who wanted to enter a skirmish against a purported religious enemy fighting in Afghanistan for a noble cause which has been considered, on hindsight, a very costly freedom of choice. David Hicks is now free which has become a political well timed exercise in the light f the political ramifications in Afghanistan and America's response being somewhat muted and reserved in light of the increasingly unpopular American foreign policy in Australia. David Hicks was a political pawn used by America and her enemies to pit Australians against themselves within the domestic sphere. The deaths of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan has highlighted the 'wait and see' approach by America and in particular how trhe Australian media will respond to David Hicks and the response of the Australian servicemen KIA families to his release. The anti-American rally, post-David Hicks release, may be muted with the three ADF KIA from Afghanistan. It is a time to be circumspect and to seek comfort in knowing that you and I have survived yet another orbit around this celestrial star in the sky, and yes, I have survived. We are merely star dust and we look at our creator every day and we spin around GOD every year, we have about 2 billion rotations around God before she shrinks and implodes into a death star and 'whammo', she (it) will implode into the black abyss of the "black hole", ahh, then it will be the end of life as we know it. In the meantime, happy new year everybody. Tofa Soifua, Tim Brian Tufuga Currently listening : Greatest Hits By Neil Young Release date: 16 November, 2004 |