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A Good Day for the BYU Cougars and for Me

Chen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:31:39 +0000

Last Saturday was a good day for the BYU Cougars and for me. The BYU Cougars crushed the WY Cowboys in a NCAA college football game with the winning score of 52 – 0. Last Saturday was also good for me because it was a sunny day. I’ve heard that the weather in Laramie (University of Wyoming) can get really brutal sometimes. Thankfully, the weather had mercy on me. I didn’t have to use the big jacket and snow boots that my editor loaned me.

Candlelight Vigil

Chen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:43:51 +0000

There was a bus accident in Idaho and one marching band instructor was killed last Saturday night. Her name is Heather Christensen. Since I have never met her, I didn’t how good of a person she was. But the amount of people who attended to her candlelight vigil amazed me. Hundreds of people showed up in different places. Here is more of the story.

An Honest Mistake

Chen — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:08:30 +0000

The most dramatic sports event I have seen this year so far has to be today’s 3A Utah High School Boys Golf Championships. You can read the whole story at the Deseret News here. The short version of the story is that the committee made a mistake announcing that the first two teams were tied and forced a playoff with each other. But then, Park City’s Jack Burrus stood up and shouted to the committee that they made a mistake, and he was right, one stroke less than his competitor, Judge Memorial High School, 603-604. That mistake sank the hearts of the Judge Memorial team hard. Some cried, and some were angry. It was not a good day for them to have, to remember. On other side of the room, the winning team, Park City High School players cheering for their championship title.

I was standing aside in the crowded conference room watching one team cry and the other shout for joy. The entire span of human emotions could be seen in one room at the same time. It was quite amusing to me.