walk at home 15 minutes的八卦，YOUTUBE、PINTEREST和Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

To all the Front Liners that are defending Malaysia from the COVID-19:

I was told that some of you are nearing your break down point under the tremendous stress at this juncture of time. I just wanted to write this letter to express my utmost gratitude and concerns to all of you.

How are you, our dearest and respected Front Liners? Do you eat well? Do you sleep well? I do hope that while you are giving all out to care for the patients, do not forget to take care of your own well being too.

You might have all sorts of worries at this point of time. The risk of being infected, the increasing concern on the insufficiency of our country’s medical workforce and equipment, the anxiety (or, desolation) as shown on your family member’s faces, the unreasonable scolding you got from the patients’ family outside of the hospital, the deprivation of rest and sleep....

The stress is simply too much to mention.

Who can deal with such stress? I can even imagine how quickly your fears in reaching the boiling point when you try to think about the possibility of something scarier and harder to control is coming soon.

I am sorry that I can’t be there as your companion at the front line. But, as a Medical Social Worker that had been working in the medical organisation for 8 years, I have some words for you:

1. Please allow yourself to be sad and to cry. Let your tears manifest your inner grief. Feeling grieved do not mean we are weak or defeated, it simply means our hearts are tender enough to feel. Very often, in the face of an extreme challenge what we need is not being strong, but being resilient.

A windstorm can easily uproot the strongest tree, but it could never break a resilient grass. In the time of danger, please pray for our hearts to remain supple and resilient, instead of asking ourselves to be tough and strong.

2. Please give yourself enough stability to live life as ‘normal’ as possible. Regardless how busy you are with your duty in the hospital, allocate a time slot to do something that you like to stabilise and settle down your emotion, even if it is only for 15 minutes. You may choose to watch a drama series, browse through Facebook, play video game etc.

Do not lose grip of your normal routines. The best way to keep our emotions stable and grounded is by maintaining and hold on to at least a small part of our normal life.

3. Stay connected to your energy source. For example, keep a family photo in your pocket, replay the encouraging voice message sent by your beloved family members, motivate each other in your university friends' chat group, perform your daily religious rituals, look out to the sun or sky from the window etc.

While your work duty requires you to contribute your energy continuously, you need to create more channels that replenish the positive energy for yourself.

4. Stay alone. Please allow yourself, as well as your workmates, some time and space to be alone, even if it’s only for 5 minutes. Time to be alone is especially important in hard time like this. Only when you are alone, those anxieties that are associated to and magnified by the crowds can be diluted, or eliminated from your mind.

When you are alone, practise deep breathing. No matter where you are, remember you should always take deep breaths. You can pray to your God, or put your hands on the chest to express how grateful you are for the fact that you have not given up on yourself and the country that you call it home, Malaysia. You had fought hard to carry on and provide the best of yourself to everyone in the country.

5. Please accept the truth that we are limited, helpless and powerless. Honestly speaking, this is the hardest hurdle to overcome. From my past experience working with doctors and nurses, I realised the most difficult part is for them to get over the guilts, self-blame, regrets and anger that come along with a patient’s pass on.

I do not know what should I say or do to stop you from the guilts and remorse. To a big extent that reflects how much you care about your patients, your profession and each and every life. I can see your dedication and efforts. I am thankful for your compassion in every patient you cared of. Nevertheless, I still hope that you can try to acknowledge the part of fact that you are limited, helpless and powerless. Only if you could acknowledge it, you can walk over it and make the subsequent steps in your journey.

6. Please ask for help proactively. When you feel that you’re reaching your stress threshold and can’t take it any more, do ask help from other people. Keep 3 important contact numbers readily in hand that you can call anytime and anywhere, to speak out, to cry out, to vent out, and to give you instant boost of energy in order not to giving up.

Last but not least, I really want to say:

To all our beloved front liners, when you are seeing your patients falling critically ill or passing on one after another, please do not be despaired or losing faith. Though you can’t see us, but I hope these words will make you feel us, who are always standing by you, anytime, anywhere.

We wish to give you a pat on your shoulders, and tell you, mate, THANK YOU. Sincerely from all of us, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Even with the slightest streak of hope, our pain will be made less painful.

"THANK YOU. You stay work for us, we stay home for you."

Yee Leong
A helper whom provides hospice care and funeral care
24/03/2020 (5p.m.)

Malay Version:
https://www.facebook.com/130028873696510/photos/a.318646528168076/3101044599928241/?type=3&theater

Mandarin version:
https://www.facebook.com/130028873696510/photos/a.318646528168076/3100712239961477/?type=3&theater

Mandarin Post: Fong Yee Leong
English Translator: Kaichyne Woon
Malay Translators: PT Tan & SJ Yee
Illustrator: Rongo Wong

เผื่อใครพลาดไปเมื่อเช้าครับ :)

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ไม่ค่อยชอบความรู้สึกแบบนี้สักเท่าไร ความเจ็บปวดที่ไม่จำเป็น การที่มีใครสักคนพาตัวเขาเข้ามาอยู่ในความทรงจำของเราแล้วเดินออกไป ทิ้งที่ว่างที่ไม่เคยมีเอาไว้โหวงๆ แบบนั้น แล้วต้องใช้เวลาอีกพักหนึ่งเพื่อถมทับช่องว่างนั้นให้กลับมาเป็นปกติ เหมือนไม่เคยมีความทรงจำส่วนนี้เกิดขึ้น ซึ่งที่จริงมันก็จะยังคงซุกตัวอยู่ใต้ดินที่กลบทับมันไว้นั่นเอง

2
เมื่อวานนี้หลังจากเปิดเจอภาพแมวน้อยสีขาวเทาตัวหนึ่งในเฟซบุ๊ก ผมกับชิงชิงรีบขับรถไปที่ฟาร์มแมว เสน่ห์ของมันทำให้เราหลงรักได้ภายในไม่กี่นาที ตั้งแต่เห็นรูปและเห็นตัวจริง เรานั่งเล่นกับมันเป็นชั่วโมง ผมคิดว่าจะอุ้มกลับบ้านแน่นอน ส่วนชิงชิงคิดว่ายังไม่อยากได้ ซึ่งเป็นความรู้สึกที่ซับซ้อน คือชอบแต่ไม่อยากมีแมวเพิ่ม และคิดว่าการอุ้มกลับบ้านไปหมายถึงการใช้เวลาร่วมกันอีก 15 ปีของเราทั้งสองฝ่าย ลูกแมวกับพวกเรา

3
คำพูดของชิงชิงว่า "สองตัวกำลังดีแล้ว" ทำให้ผมฉุกคิด อธิบายเป็นเหตุผลยากอยู่เหมือนกัน แต่ต้มมัดกับเหนียวมูนนั้นดู "กำลังดี" สำหรับพวกเราจริงๆ ทว่าเรื่องพวกนี้ก็คิดได้หลายแบบ เจ้าตัวเล็กที่อยู่ตรงหน้าเป็นสีและลักษณะที่เราอยากได้มาเนิ่นนาน ถ้ามี-ก็ดูเหมือนจะครบถ้วนสมบูรณ์แบบ ผมคิดว่ามันน่ารักเสียจนเราอดคิดไม่ได้ว่าความรักที่เคยมีให้ต้มมัดกับเหนียวมูนจะต้องถูกแบ่งไปให้เจ้า "เปียกปูน" หรือเปล่า (ใช่, เราตั้งชื่อมันตั้งแต่สตาร์ทรถไปที่ฟาร์มแมวแล้ว)

4
ผมค่อนข้างชัดเจนว่าจะพาเปียกปูนกลับบ้านแน่นอน ชิงชิงลังเลใจค่อนไปทางไม่อยากได้ (แต่ก็อยากได้) หลังจากใช้เวลาเล่นกับลูกแมวเจ้าเสน่ห์เกือบสองชั่วโมง เราเดินผละมันมาด้วยข้อตกลงว่าจะใช้เวลาหนึ่งคืนในการตัดสินใจ บอกเจ้าของฟาร์มว่า "จะส่งข่าวมาพรุ่งนี้เช้านะครับ"

5
เวลาผ่านมาหนึ่งชั่วโมง เจ้าของไลน์มาบอกว่าจะมีอีกคนหนึ่งเข้าไปดูลูกแมวตัวเดียวกัน พวกเราสองคนใช้เวลาถกกันแบบกระชับว่าตกลงแล้วเราต้องการให้แมวตัวนี้มาอยู่ในชีวิตของเราหรือไม่ เข็มนาฬิกาเดินไปเรื่อยๆ ระหว่างที่ลังเล คนคนนั้นก็ค่อยๆ เคลื่อนตัวเข้าไปใกล้ลูกแมวในฝันของเรามากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ

6
สุดท้ายเราตัดสินใจว่าเราจะรับเจ้าเปียกปูนเข้ามาอยู่ในบ้าน จึงโทรหา และส่งข้อความไปว่า "สรุปว่ารับ" แต่เจ้าของส่งข่าวกลับมาว่าคงต้องให้คนที่กำลังเดินทางไปได้ดูลูกแมวก่อน เพราะเขากำลังจะไปถึงแล้ว

7
คนนี้มีโอกาสซื้อสูงมาก-นั่นเป็นสิ่งที่เจ้าของฟาร์มบอกกับเรา การซื้อแมวมีหลายเงื่อนไข เช่น รับใบเพ็ดดีกรีไหม ถ้าไม่รับราคาก็จะลดลง ราคาที่เราคุยไว้คือราคาในเงื่อนไขที่ต่ำที่สุด ผมแอบคิดว่า คนอื่นอาจรับลูกแมวไปในราคาที่สูงกว่านี้ และถ้าคิดแบบใจเขาใจเรา หากเขาขายได้ราคาดีกว่านี้ เขาก็คงอยากขายอีกคนหนึ่ง

8
เราทั้งคู่อ้อนวอนทางโทรศัพท์ แต่ไม่เป็นผล ผมพยายามแจกแจงวิธีคิดและตรรกะว่า เราไปก่อนและตัดสินใจก่อน แต่ก็เข้าใจว่าเราตัดสินใจช้าเกินไป และอีกคนก็กำลังเดินทางไปแล้ว เรื่องแบบนี้อยู่ที่จะมองมุมไหน ใช้ไม้บรรทัดใคร ซึ่งเหตุการณ์นี้ทำให้ผมมองเห็นความเป็นมนุษย์ของทุกฝ่าย เพราะทุกฝ่ายมีโอกาสคิดว่า "ฉันทำถูกต้อง" ด้วยกันทั้งสิ้น

9
วางโทรศัพท์ ผมรู้ตั้งแต่วินาทีนั้นว่าเปียกปูนคงมีทางของชีวิตไปอีกทางแล้ว ทางที่ไม่มีพวกเราอยู่ในนั้น แต่ก็แอบหวังลึกๆ ว่าอาจมีปาฏิหาริย์ ทั้งที่บอกกับชิงชิงว่า "เราไม่เห็นเหตุผลว่าคนนั้นจะไม่เอากลับบ้านเลย"

10
เรื่องเงียบหายไปหลายชั่วโมง กลับบ้านมาชิงชิงเช็ดตาให้ลูกๆ ทั้งสองตัว พวกเราอุ้มขึ้นมาเล่นด้วยบนเตียง แปลกดีที่มีความรู้สึกทั้งรักและทั้งเศร้า เหมือนเรานอกใจลูกๆ ไปดูแมวตัวใหม่ ขณะเดียวกันก็เสียดายที่จะได้เพื่อนใหม่มาให้ลูกๆ สองตัวก็พอ หรือสามตัวก็สนุกดี สับสน ซับซ้อน ไม่รู้อะไรเกิดขึ้นในใจบ้าง

11
ผมหลับสนิท ตื่นมากลางดึกพบว่าคนข้างๆ นอนไม่หลับ กระทั่งเช้าจึงได้อ่านข้อความในไลน์จากเจ้าของฟาร์มว่าเขาขายลูกแมวให้กับคนที่ไปดูทีหลังเราไปแล้วเรียบร้อย เจ้าแมวน้อยน่ารักตัวนั้นไม่ได้ชื่อเปียกปูนอีกต่อไป

12
ผมแค่คิดว่า เราไม่น่าไปดูลูกแมวเลย ไม่น่าไปนั่งเล่นกับมันเลย "อีกไม่กี่วันก็ลืม" ผมบอกชิงชิง ทั้งที่รู้ว่ามันก็คงเป็นเรื่องหนึ่งที่จะจำได้เสมอๆ ชิงชิงเล่าให้ฟังว่าเมื่อคืนนอนไม่หลับ แล้วลงไปนอนกอดลูกๆ กลางดึก แต่ไม่เข้าใจเหมือนกันว่าความรู้สึกนั้นคืออะไร

13
ผมอุ้มเหนียวมูนขึ้นไปนอนเล่นด้วยกันบนเตียง ลงมาข้างล่างเช้านี้ ต้มมัดขึ้นมาเดินป้วนเปี้ยนหน้าคอมพ์เหมือนเคย หน้าตาลุงๆ ของมันทำให้ผมยิ้มออกมาพร้อมความเศร้าที่ฟุ้งอวลอยู่ในใจ

14
ผมบอกชิงชิงว่า ทุกสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นมีเหตุปัจจัยทั้งนั้น ที่เราไม่ได้เปียกปูนมาก็เพราะว่าเราลังเลเอง และที่เราลังเลก็อาจเป็นเพราะว่าชิงชิงไม่ได้อยากได้แมวตัวที่สาม หากไม่ลังเลเรื่องยากๆ แบบนี้ก็คงไม่เกิดขึ้น และการที่ลังเลก็อาจเป็นคำตอบก็ได้ว่า ณ ตอนนี้เราควรมีแค่ต้มมัดกับเหนียวมูน

15
ผมทำใจได้เร็วขึ้นกว่าแต่ก่อนมาก ความเสียดายมาพร้อมความเสียใจ แค่คิดว่าไม่น่าวิ่งไปให้แมวน้อยคว้านบางส่วนของหัวใจออกไปจากร่างเลยจริงๆ หากเย็นเมื่อวานนี้พวกเราอยู่บ้านกัน วันนี้คงไม่ต้องรู้สึกว่ามีอะไรหายไป ทั้งที่สิ่งนั้นยังไม่มีอยู่ในชีวิตเราด้วยซ้ำ

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จินตนาการในอนาคตก่อร่างขึ้นในใจเราอย่างรวดเร็ว เมื่อพบสัมพันธ์ใหม่ มันงอกงามเติบโตไปไกลกว่าความจริงตรงหน้ามากมายมหาศาล และเมื่อมันสิ้นสุดลงหรือหายวับไปกับตา จินตนาการสวยงามเหล่านั้นก็ถูกควักคว้านหายไปจนทำให้ใจว่างโหวง เจ็บทั้งที่ไม่ควรเจ็บ

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จึงเป็นเรื่องประหลาด, บ้านของเราเหมือนเดิมทุกอย่าง แมวที่รักสองตัวยังเดินป้วนเปี้ยนอยู่ในบ้าน แต่กลับเหมือนมีบางอย่างแหว่งหาย ใช้เวลาอีกสักพักแผลจึงสมาน ช่องว่างจึงถูกเติมเต็ม

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ผมลบรูปลูกแมวตัวนั้นออกจากโทรศัพท์ทีละรูป เหมือนพิธีกรรมเพื่อลบความทรงจำ เราทำได้เพียงเท่านั้นเพื่อให้ตัวเองสบายใจ แต่โชคร้ายที่ความทรงจำไม่มีปุ่ม delete

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จึงไม่มีรูปลูกแมวน้อยตัวนั้นในสเตตัสนี้ เพราะผมไม่อยากจดจำ แต่ภาพของมันยังแจ่มชัด

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บางเหตุการณ์เกิดขึ้นเพียงเพื่อให้เราเข้าใจตัวเองมากขึ้น หลังจากคิดทบทวนอะไรต่อมิอะไรหลายรอบ ผมเข้าใจตัวเองว่าผมมิได้ไม่รักต้มมัดกับเหนียวมูน แค่อยากมีแมวหน้าบากสีเทาขาวสักตัว ซึ่งเป็นแมวในฝันของผมกับชิงชิงมาตลอด ส่วนชิงชิงอาจเข้าใจว่าการยืนอยู่ตรงกลางระหว่างความรู้สึกตัวเองที่ไม่ต้องการแมวเพิ่มกับความรู้สึกของคนรักที่อยากมีแมวอีกตัวหนึ่งนั้น เป็นเรื่องที่ตัดสินใจได้ไม่ง่ายเลย

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นับตั้งแต่ขับรถไปที่ฟาร์ม กระทั่งวางโทรศัพท์อย่างหมดหวังจากเจ้าของฟาร์ม ผมไม่เคยมีแม้วินาทีเลยที่เปลี่ยนใจว่าจะไม่รับเจ้าเปียกปูนกลับบ้าน แต่ชิงชิงบอกว่าเวลามันกระชั้นเกินกว่าจะตัดสินใจได้อย่างชัดเจน

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เรื่องราวทั้งหมดที่เกิดขึ้นมีมิติของความรักมากมายอยู่ในนั้น ตื่นเต้นกับรักใหม่ จินตนาการสวยงามถึงความสัมพันธ์ครั้งใหม่ ความกระอักกระอ่วนกับความสัมพันธ์เก่าที่เรามีอยู่ และอื่นๆ อีกมากมาย แต่ที่ผมเห็นชัดเจนคือ ความรักคือการตัดสินใจร่วมกันของเราสองคน แม้เสียดายและเสียใจกับเหตุการณ์ที่เกิดขึ้น แต่มีส่วนหนึ่งของเหตุการณ์นี้ที่เป็นเรื่องสวยงาม นั่นคือ ความเห็นอกเห็นใจกัน และพยายามสลับรองเท้ากันใส่ของพวกเราสองคน-ผมกับชิงชิง กระบวนการทั้งหมดอาจใช้เวลานาน ไม่ฉับไวเพียงพอ ทำให้เราพลาดลูกแมวในฝัน แต่อย่างน้อยก็ไม่มีใครตัดสินใจไปโดยไม่นึกถึงความคิดจิตใจของอีกฝ่าย

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เมื่อสับสนก็สับสนด้วยกัน รักคือสองหัวใจ และมันอาจไม่ลงตัวในบางหน แต่มันจะมีทางออกในที่สุด

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"เสียใจหรือเปล่า" ชิงชิงถามผม ผมตอบว่า "ก็เสียใจอยู่แล้ว แต่ไม่เป็นไร ก็ move on" อันที่จริงในใจผมก็แปลกใจว่ามันมีสองความรู้สึกระคนกัน อีกใจหนึ่งก็ไม่เจ็บปวดมากนัก อาจเพราะมีคนคนหนึ่งถามผมว่า "เสียใจหรือเปล่า" นี่เองแหละ

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ผมกำลังนั่งเขียนสเตตัสนี้โดยมีต้มมัดนอนอยู่ข้างหลัง เหนียวมูนก็หลบไปนอนในที่ประจำของมัน แมวผูกพันกับเราไหม ผมไม่แน่ใจ มันผูกพันกับเราบางเวลา แต่ใจคนเรานี่แหละที่ผูกกับอะไรได้ง่ายดายเหลือเกินและแกะออกยากเย็น

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ภาพเจ้าเปียกปูนก็ยังไม่หายไปจากความคิด อ้อ แมวตัวนี้ไม่ได้ชื่อเปียกปูนแล้วสินะ ชะตากรรมเป็นเรื่องแปลก เปลี่ยนนิดเดียวก็เปลี่ยนชีวิต ชีวิตเจ้าแมวน้อยตัวนั้นก็เปลี่ยนทิศทางไปภายในเวลาไม่ถึงสองชั่วโมง

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ส่วนชีวิตของพวกเราอาจไม่ถึงขั้นเปลี่ยนทิศ แต่ก็ได้เรียนรู้อะไรไม่น้อยจากความเสียใจและเสียดายในครั้งนี้

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ผมไม่ค่อยชอบความเจ็บปวดที่ไม่จำเป็น ซึ่งก็คงไม่มีใครชอบ แต่เรามักจะหลีกเลี่ยงมันไม่ได้ ถ้าไม่เจอก็ไม่ต้องเจ็บ แต่เรามักจะต้องเจอก่อนจึงจะคิดแบบนั้นได้ นี่แหละหนาชีวิต

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สิ่งที่ดีที่สุดคือเรามีความรักอยู่รอบตัวเรา ชิงชิง ต้มมัด เหนียวมูน อย่างน้อยที่สุดก็เป็นรักที่เรายินดีมอบให้ รักที่เกิดจากความผูกพัน

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ชิงชิงบอกผมว่า เราไม่ต้องครอบครองทุกสิ่งที่เราชอบก็ได้ ผมว่าคนเรามีคำปลอบใจให้ตัวเองได้หลายร้อยหลายพันวิธี แต่เราหลอกตัวเองไม่ได้หรอกว่าเราเสียดาย เสียใจ เมื่อไม่ได้อยู่กับสิ่งที่เราอยากใช้เวลาด้วย ก็แค่ไม่หลอกตัวเอง เดินหน้าต่อไปโดยไม่ต้องมีสิ่งที่เราชอบสิ่งนั้น เพื่อพบ "ความสมบูรณ์" หรือ "ความสวยงาม" ของชีวิตในแบบอื่นซึ่งรอเราอยู่ในวันพรุ่งนี้

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ลูกแมวบางตัว คนบางคนอาจผ่านเข้ามาในชีวิตเราเพื่อบอกความลับข้อนี้ของชีวิตให้เราฟัง "ไม่ต้องมีฉัน ชีวิตเธอก็สวยงามได้อีกแบบหนึ่ง"

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ผมหันมองต้มมัด เหนียวมูน และช่องว่างของเปียกปูนที่ไม่มีใครเห็น เราทำได้แค่เพียงใช้ชีวิตอยู่กับความเสียดายสักพัก ไม่นานนักคงจางหาย เป็นแค่อีกหนึ่งเรื่องที่ผ่านมาแล้วก็ผ่านไป

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มีแค่บางคนเท่านั้นที่ผ่านเข้ามาแล้วอยู่กับเราไปตลอด และคนคนนั้นนั่นเองที่จะทำให้เรารับมือกับเรื่องราวที่ผ่านมาแล้วผ่านไปได้โดยไม่บอบช้ำเกินไปนัก

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ความเสียใจมักทำให้เราเห็นความรักชัดขึ้น

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ต้มมัดกระโดดขึ้นมาบนคีย์บอร์ดอีกแล้ว
1
I don't like feeling like this. The pain that someone brings him into our memories and leave a space that I never had. It takes a while to fill the gap. Back to normal as if there was never a memory. This part is actually going to be tucked in the underground.

2
Yesterday, after opening a grey white cat on Facebook, I drove to the cat farm. It made us in love it in a few minutes since I saw the real one. We sat with it for hours. I think I will carry you home. I don't want it. I don't want it. It's a complicated feeling. But I don't want to have more cats and think that carrying it home means spending 15 more years together. Both of our kittens with us.

3
The words of Ching " two of them are good " makes me think about the reason too. But it's a sticky moon looks " good " for us. But these things can think of many types in front of them are in front of color. And the way we want to come for a long time. If we have - it seems to be perfect. I think it's so cute that we can't help but think that the love that I used to boil with sticky moon will be shared to "wet" ( Yes, we named it since the car started to the cat farm)

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I'm pretty clear that I'm going to take you home for sure. I don't want it (but I want it). After spending almost two hours of time playing with a charming kitten, we walk with a deal that it will take a night in Decision to tell the farm owner, " I will send news tomorrow morning

5
An hour ago, the owner said another one went to see the same kitten. Both of us spent the time debating whether we wanted this cat to be in our lives or not. Keep walking while hesitating. That person is slowly moving closer to our dream kitten.

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Finally, we decided that we would take a wet plaster in the house, so I called and texted "so I received" but the owner sent me the news that he would have to let the person who was traveling to see the kitten first because he was about to get there. So I am.

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This person has a high chance to buy - that's what the farm owner says to us. There are many conditions such as getting a degree card. If you don't accept the price will be reduced. The price we talk about is the lowest price in the lowest conditions. I secretly. I think that other people have cuddle kittens at a higher price. And if you think like my heart. If they sell better price, they would want to sell another one.

8
We both beg on the phone, but no result. I tried to explain how to think and logic that we went first and decided first. But I understand that we decided too late and the other one is on the way. This kind of thing to look at. Who do you use. This event makes me see the humanity of everyone because everyone has a chance to think that "I do right" together.

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Put down the phone. I knew that moment I was wet. There would be another way of life. The way without us in it, but I secretly hope that there may be a miracle when I said, " we don't see the reason that person won't take it home

10
Quiet story for many hours. Come home to win the eyes for both of our kids. We carry them in bed. It's strange that I feel love and sad like we cheated on our kids to see new cats. Meanwhile, it's a pity to get new friends for two kids. The body is enough or three of them are fun. Confused, complicated. I don't know what happens in

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I slept tight. Woke up in the middle of the night and found that the person next to me couldn't sleep until morning, so I read a message in line from the farm owner that he sold the kitten to the person who went to see it later. That cute kitten is no

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I just thought we shouldn't have seen kittens. I shouldn't have gone to sit with him. "I forgot" I told you that it would be one thing to remember. I told you that I couldn't sleep last night and went down to sleep and hug my kids. Late night but don't understand what that feeling is

13
I carry sticky moon up to sleep in bed this morning. Boiled up and walk around the computer as usual. His uncle's face makes me smile with the sadness that is in my heart.

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I told you that everything that happens, there are factors that we didn't get wet because we hesitated. And the reason we hesitated, it may be because I didn't want a third cat. If it doesn't hesitate. This kind of difficult things wouldn't happen and hesitation. It may be the answer that we should only have boiled and sticky moon.

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I can get over it faster than before. Pity comes with regret. Just thought I shouldn't have run for the little cat to grab some of the heart out of the body. If yesterday evening, we were home today, we wouldn't have to feel anything missing even if that. Not even in our lives yet.

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Future imagination quickly build up in our hearts. When we find a new relationship, it grows beyond the truth in front of us. And when it ends or disappears cuddle baht with the eyes, those beautiful imagination is gone. It makes my heart free. Hurt. Even if it shouldn't hurt

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So it's weird, our house is the same. Two beloved cats still walk around in the house, but it seems like something is gone. It takes a while, so the wound is filled.

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I deleted that kitten from my phone one by one to delete memories. We can only make myself feel comfortable but unfortunately, there is no delete button.

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So I don't have a picture to grow that little cat in this cuddle status because I don't want to remember, but the picture of it is clear.

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Some events happen just to understand ourselves more. After thinking about many times. I understand myself that I don't love with sticky moon. I just want to have a cat in front of my dream cat with Ching. I have always won. I may understand that standing in the middle of your feelings that I don't want to add more cats and the feeling of having another cat is not easy to decide.

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Since I drove to the farm until I put down my phone from the farm owner, I never had a second I changed my mind that I wouldn't take the cement home, but Ching said that time was too much to make a clear decision.

22
All the stories that happen, there are many dimensions of love in it. Excited with new love, beautiful imagination, new relationships, disconcerning with old relationships we have and more. But what I see clearly is love is a decision. Together we are sorry and sad about this event. There is a beautiful thing. That is compassion and trying to swap shoes on both of us - me and I may not take long enough to miss Lou. Dream cat, but at least nobody decides without thinking about the mind of the other.

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When confusing, we are confused. Love is two hearts and it may not fit sometimes, but there will be a solution eventually.

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"Are you sad Ching asked me," I'm sad, but it's okay, move on In fact, I'm surprised that there are two feelings. The other heart is not too painful. Maybe because someone asked me " Are you sad

25
I'm writing these cuddle status with a boil in the back. Sticky moon. I go away to sleep in its regular place. Is the cat bonded with me? I'm not sure. It's connected to us some time, but our heart is easy to tie to anything. So much and it's hard to unpack.

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The picture of the cement hasn't disappeared from the idea. Oh, this cat is not the name is wet anymore. Fate is strange. It has changed a little bit and changed his life. The little cat's life has changed the direction in less than two hours.

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As for our lives may not change direction, but we have learned less from regret and regret this time.

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I don't like unnecessary pain that no one likes, but we often avoid it. If we don't have to hurt, but we often have to find it before we can think so that. This is thick

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The best thing is that we have love around us. At least it's the love that we are happy to give to love caused by the bond.

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Ching Ching told me that we don't have to possess everything we like. I think we have hundreds of consolation for themselves. But we can't fool ourselves that I'm sad when we don't live with what we want to spend time with. Just. Don't fool yourself. Move on without what we like. To find " fullness " or " beauty " of life in other ways that awaits us tomorrow.

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Some kittens may come through our lives to tell us this secret of life. "no need me. Your life can be beautiful"

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I look at the sticky moon and the gap that no one can see. Just live with a pity for a while. It won't be a while. It's just another story.

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Only some people come through and stay with us all the time and that person who will make us deal with the past story without being too traumatized.

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Regret always makes us see love clearer.

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Boiled, tied up on keyboard again.Translated

[[ INSPIRATIONAL STORY ]]

In Memory of Dr. Richard Teo (1972 - 2012)

Below is the transcript of the talk of Dr. Richard Teo, who is a 40-year-old millionaire and cosmetic surgeon with a stage-4 lung cancer but selflessly came to share with the D1 class his life experience on 19-Jan-2012. He has just passed away few days ago on 18 October 2012.

Hi good morning to all of you. My voice is a bit hoarse, so please bear with me. I thought I'll just introduce myself. My name is Richard, I'm a medical doctor. And I thought I'll just share some thoughts of my life. It's my pleasure to be invited by prof. Hopefully, it can get you thinking about how... as you pursue this.. embarking on your training to become dental surgeons, to think about other things as well.

Since young, I am a typical product of today's society. Relatively successful product that society requires.. From young, I came from a below average family. I was told by the media... and people around me that happiness is about success. And that success is about being wealthy. With this mind-set, I've always be extremely competitive, since I was young.

Not only do I need to go to the top school, I need to have success in all fields. Uniform groups, track, everything. I needed to get trophies, needed to be successful, I needed to have colours award, national colours award, everything. So I was highly competitive since young. I went on to medical school, graduated as a doctor. Some of you may know that within the medical faculty, ophthalmology is one of the most highly sought after specialities. So I went after that as well. I was given a traineeship in ophthalmology, I was also given a research scholarship by NUS to develop lasers to treat the eye.

So in the process, I was given 2 patents, one for the medical devices, and another for the lasers. And you know what, all this academic achievements did not bring me any wealth. So once I completed my bond with MOH, I decided that this is taking too long, the training in eye surgery is just taking too long. And there's lots of money to be made in the private sector. If you're aware, in the last few years, there is this rise in aesthetic medicine. Tons of money to be made there. So I decided, well, enough of staying in institution, it's time to leave. So I quit my training halfway and I went on to set up my aesthetic clinic... in town, together with a day surgery centre.

You know the irony is that people do not make heroes out average GP (general practitioner), family physicians. They don't. They make heroes out of people who are rich and famous. People who are not happy to pay $20 to see a GP, the same person have no qualms paying ten thousand dollars for a liposuction, 15 thousand dollars for a breast augmentation, and so on and so forth. So it's a no brainer isn't? Why do you want to be a gp? Become an aesthetic physician. So instead of healing the sick and ill, I decided that I'll become a glorified beautician. So, business was good, very good. It started off with waiting of one week, then became 3weeks, then one month, then 2 months, then 3 months. I was overwhelmed; there were just too many patients. Vanities are fantastic business. I employed one doctor, the second doctor, the 3rd doctor, the 4th doctor. And within the 1st year, we're already raking in millions. Just the 1st year. But never is enough because I was so obsessed with it. I started to expand into Indonesia to get all the rich Indonesian tai-tais who wouldn't blink an eye to have a procedure done. So life was really good.

So what do I do with the spare cash. How do I spend my weekends? Typically, I'll have car club gatherings. I take out my track car, with spare cash I got myself a track car. We have car club gatherings. We'll go up to Sepang in Malaysia. We'll go for car racing. And it was my life. With other spare cash, what do i do? I get myself a Ferrari. At that time, the 458 wasn't out, it's just a spider convertible, 430. This is a friend of mine, a schoolmate who is a forex trader, a banker. So he got a red one, he was wanting all along a red one, I was getting the silver one.

So what do I do after getting a car? It's time to buy a house, to build our own bungalows. So we go around looking for a land to build our own bungalows, we went around hunting. So how do i live my life? Well, we all think we have to mix around with the rich and famous. This is one of the Miss Universe. So we hang around with the beautiful, rich and famous. This by the way is an internet founder. So this is how we spend our lives, with dining and all the restaurants and Michelin Chefs you know.

So I reach a point in life that I got everything for my life. I was at the pinnacle of my career and all. That's me one year ago in the gym and I thought I was like, having everything under control and reaching the pinnacle.

Well, I was wrong. I didn't have everything under control. About last year March, I started to develop backache in the middle of nowhere. I thought maybe it was all the heavy squats I was doing. So I went to SGH, saw my classmate to do an MRI, to make sure it's not a slipped disc or anything. And that evening, he called me up and said that we found bone marrow replacement in your spine. I said, sorry what does that mean? I mean I know what it means, but I couldn't accept that. I was like “Are you serious?” I was still running around going to the gym you know. But we had more scans the next day, PET scans - positrons emission scans, they found that actually I have stage 4 terminal lung cancer. I was like "Whoa where did that come from?” It has already spread to the brain, the spine, the liver and the adrenals. And you know one moment I was there, totally thinking that I have everything under control, thinking that I've reached the pinnacle of my life. But the next moment, I have just lost it.

This is a CT scan of the lungs itself. If you look at it, every single dot there is a tumour. We call this miliaries tumour. And in fact, I have tens of thousands of them in the lungs. So, I was told that even with chemotherapy, that I'll have about 3-4months at most. Did my life come crushing on, of course it did, who wouldn't? I went into depression, of course, severe depression and I thought I had everything.

See the irony is that all these things that I have, the success, the trophies, my cars, my house and all. I thought that brought me happiness. But i was feeling really down, having severe depression. Having all these thoughts of my possessions, they brought me no joy. The thought of... You know, I can hug my Ferrari to sleep, no... No, it is not going to happen. It brought not a single comfort during my last ten months. And I thought they were, but they were not true happiness. But it wasn't. What really brought me joy in the last ten months was interaction with people, my loved ones, friends, people who genuinely care about me, they laugh and cry with me, and they are able to identify the pain and suffering I was going through. That brought joy to me, happiness. None of the things I have, all the possessions, and I thought those were supposed to bring me happiness. But it didn't, because if it did, I would have felt happy think about it, when I was feeling most down..

You know the classical Chinese New Year that is coming up. In the past, what do I do? Well, I will usually drive my flashy car to do my rounds, visit my relatives, to show it off to my friends. And I thought that was joy, you know. I thought that was really joy. But do you really think that my relatives and friends, whom some of them have difficulty trying to make ends meet, that will truly share the joy with me? Seeing me driving my flashy car and showing off to them? No, no way. They won’t be sharing joy with me. They were having problems trying to make ends meet, taking public transport. In fact i think, what I have done is more like you know, making them envious, jealous of all I have. In fact, sometimes even hatred.

Those are what we call objects of envy. I have them, I show them off to them and I feel it can fill my own pride and ego. That didn't bring any joy to these people, to my friends and relatives, and I thought they were real joy.

Well, let me just share another story with you. You know when I was about your age, I stayed in king Edward VII hall. I had this friend whom I thought was strange. Her name is Jennifer, we're still good friends. And as I walk along the path, she would, if she sees a snail, she would actually pick up the snail and put it along the grass patch. I was like why do you need to do that? Why dirty your hands? It’s just a snail. The truth is she could feel for the snail. The thought of being crushed to death is real to her, but to me it's just a snail. If you can't get out of the pathway of humans then you deserve to be crushed, it’s part of evolution isn't it? What an irony isn't it?

There I was being trained as a doctor, to be compassionate, to be able to empathise; but I couldn't. As a house officer, I graduated from medical school, posted to the oncology department at NUH. And, every day, every other day I witness death in the cancer department. When I see how they suffered, I see all the pain they went through. I see all the morphine they have to press every few minutes just to relieve their pain. I see them struggling with their oxygen breathing their last breath and all. But it was just a job. When I went to clinic every day, to the wards every day, take blood, give the medication but was the patient real to me? They weren't real to me. It was just a job, I do it, I get out of the ward, I can't wait to get home, I do my own stuff.

Was the pain, was the suffering the patients went through real? No. Of course I know all the medical terms to describe how they feel, all the suffering they went through. But in truth, I did not know how they feel, not until I became a patient. It is until now; I truly understand how they feel. And, if you ask me, would I have been a very different doctor if I were to re-live my life now, I can tell you yes I will. Because I truly understand how the patients feel now. And sometimes, you have to learn it the hard way.

Even as you start just your first year, and you embark this journey to become dental surgeons, let me just challenge you on two fronts.

Inevitably, all of you here will start to go into private practice. You will start to accumulate wealth. I can guarantee you. Just doing an implant can bring you thousands of dollars, it's fantastic money. And actually there is nothing wrong with being successful, with being rich or wealthy, absolutely nothing wrong. The only trouble is that a lot of us like myself couldn't handle it.

Why do I say that? Because when I start to accumulate, the more I have, the more I want. The more I wanted, the more obsessed I became. Like what I showed you earlier on, all I can was basically to get more possessions, to reach the pinnacle of what society did to us, of what society wants us to be. I became so obsessed that nothing else really mattered to me. Patients were just a source of income, and I tried to squeeze every single cent out of these patients.

A lot of times we forget, whom we are supposed to be serving. We become so lost that we serve nobody else but just ourselves. That was what happened to me. Whether it is in the medical, the dental fraternity, I can tell you, right now in the private practice, sometimes we just advise patients on treatment that is not indicated. Grey areas. And even though it is not necessary, we kind of advocate it. Even at this point, I know who are my friends and who genuinely cared for me and who are the ones who try to make money out of me by selling me "hope". We kind of lose our moral compass along the way. Because we just want to make money.

Worse, I can tell you, over the last few years, we bad mouth our fellow colleagues, our fellow competitors in the industry. We have no qualms about it. So if we can put them down to give ourselves an advantage, we do it. And that's what happening right now, medical, dental everywhere. My challenge to you is not to lose that moral compass. I learnt it the hard way, I hope you don't ever have to do it.

Secondly, a lot of us will start to get numb to our patients as we start to practise. Whether is it government hospitals, private practice, I can tell you when I was in the hospital, with stacks of patient folders, I can't wait to get rid of those folders as soon as possible; I can't wait to get patients out of my consultation room as soon as possible because there is just so many, and that's a reality. Because it becomes a job, a very routine job. And this is just part of it. Do I truly know how the patient feels back then? No, I don't. The fears and anxiety and all, do I truly understand what they are going through? I don't, not until when this happens to me and I think that is one of the biggest flaws in our system.

We’re being trained to be healthcare providers, professional, and all and yet we don't know how exactly they feel. I'm not asking you to get involved emotionally, I don't think that is professional but do we actually make a real effort to understand their pain and all? Most of us won’t, alright, I can assure you. So don't lose it, my challenge to you is to always be able to put yourself in your patient's shoes.

Because the pain, the anxiety, the fear are very real even though it's not real to you, it's real to them. So don't lose it and you know, right now I'm in the midst of my 5th cycle of my chemotherapy. I can tell you it’s a terrible feeling. Chemotherapy is one of those things that you don't wish even your enemies to go through because it's just suffering, lousy feeling, throwing out, you don't even know if you can retain your meals or not. Terrible feeling! And even with whatever little energy now I have, I try to reach out to other cancer patients because I truly understand what pain and suffering is like. But it's kind of little too late and too little.

You guys have a bright future ahead of you with all the resource and energy, so I’m going to challenge you to go beyond your immediate patients. To understand that there are people out there who are truly in pain, truly in hardship. Don’t get the idea that only poor people suffer. It is not true. A lot of these poor people do not have much in the first place, they are easily contented. for all you know they are happier than you and me but there are out there, people who are suffering mentally, physically, hardship, emotionally, financially and so on and so forth, and they are real. We choose to ignore them or we just don't want to know that they exist.

So do think about it alright, even as you go on to become professionals and dental surgeons and all. That you can reach out to these people who are in need. Whatever you do can make a large difference to them. I'm now at the receiving end so I know how it feels, someone who genuinely care for you, encourage and all. It makes a lot of difference to me. That’s what happens after treatment. I had a treatment recently, but I’ll leave this for another day. A lot of things happened along the way, that's why I am still able to talk to you today.

I'll just end of with this quote here, it's from this book called Tuesdays with Morris, and some of you may have read it. Everyone knows that they are going to die; every one of us knows that. The truth is, none of us believe it because if we did, we will do things differently. When I faced death, when I had to, I stripped myself off all stuff totally and I focused only on what is essential. The irony is that a lot of times, only when we learn how to die then we learn how to live. I know it sounds very morbid for this morning but it's the truth, this is what I’m going through.

Don’t let society tell you how to live. Don’t let the media tell you what you're supposed to do. Those things happened to me. And I led this life thinking that these are going to bring me happiness. I hope that you will think about it and decide for yourself how you want to live your own life. Not according to what other people tell you to do, and you have to decide whether you want to serve yourself, whether you are going to make a difference in somebody else's life. Because true happiness doesn't come from serving yourself. I thought it was but it didn't turn out that way.

Also most importantly, I think true joy comes from knowing God. Not knowing about God – I mean, you can read the bible and know about God – but knowing God personally; getting a relationship with God. I think that’s the most important. That’s what I’ve learnt.

So if I were to sum it up, I’d say that the earlier we sort out the priorities in our lives, the better it is. Don’t be like me – I had no other way. I had to learn it through the hard way. I had to come back to God to thank Him for this opportunity because I’ve had 3 major accidents in my past – car accidents. You know, these sports car accidents – I was always speeding , but somehow I always came out alive, even with the car almost being overturned. And I wouldn’t have had a chance. Who knows, I don’t know where else I’d be going to! Even though I was baptised it was just a show, but the fact that this has happened, it gave me a chance to come back to God.

Few things I’d learnt though:
1. Trust in the Lord your God with all your heart – this is so important.
2. Is to love and serve others, not just ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with being rich or wealthy. I think it’s absolutely alright, cos God has blessed. So many people are blessed with good wealth, but the trouble is I think a lot of us can’t handle it. The more we have, the more we want. I’ve gone through it, the deeper the hole we dig, the more we get sucked into it, so much so that we worship wealth and lose focus. Instead of worshipping God, we worship wealth. It’s just a human instinct. It’s just so difficult to get out of it.

We are all professionals, and when we go into private practise, we start to build up our wealth – inevitably. So my thought are, when you start to build up wealth and when the opportunity comes, do remember that all these things don’t belong to us. We don’t really own it nor have rights to this wealth. It’s actually God’s gift to us. Remember that it’s more important to further His Kingdom rather than to further ourselves.

Anyway I think that I’ve gone through it, and I know that wealth without God is empty. It is more important that you fill up the wealth, as you build it up subsequently, as professionals and all, you need to fill it up with the wealth of God.

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For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.