Well, it's that time again. School is just around the corner, and I feel like summer just started yesterday. I am going into my 11th year. One of two important years that will dictate my future academic life. For some reason, I am not as excited for school as I was the years before. This round, I feel a bit exhausted and nervous.
Enough about school. During the summer, I visited Harbour front, Bluffers Park Beach, Woodbine Beach and Canada's Wonderland. Not too bad, I hope? The following are some pictures that I took. Enjoy!
On August 6th at 05:14:39 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), something phenomenal happened on a special place that is approximately 401,000,000 miles away from Earth. The newest, best yet rover ever landed in the Gale Crater inside the red planet.
Curiosity will look for signs of life on Mars. Not only that, it could potentially be our next home and the start of inter-planet travelling. The 400 pound rover will uncover many secrets of the Martian planet.
NASA's release of pictures on Mars taken by curiosity.
In the Olympics, they say all that really matters is the spirit and the fairness. During the women's swimming competition, both of these precious qualities were torn apart with vicious accusations.
The victim was the 16 year old Ye Siwen from China. The executive director of the World Swimming Coaches John Leonard claimed that Yi had been doping, and that is how as a result she had broken the world record for the 400 metre individual medley and won the gold medal for the event. Soon following this gold medal, came another in the 200 metre individual medley.
It's incredibly biased how the Western world can only accept the success, the rise of their own but not another from a developing country. Michael Phelps broke the Olympics record for the most decorated Olympian of all times, did anyone ever make an open remark about the possibility of the use of illegal drugs? Another example would be the US's own Missy Franklin, who is aged 17. Barely a year older than Ye. She has also won three gold medals, but did anyone accuse her? No. People showered her with their praises.
Ye had sworn that she had never taken anything. She even passed the doping test run three times.
I think they should bring back the spirit of the Olympics, and the fairness along with it. If there's no substantial evidence, no athletes should have fingers pointed at them when they've sacrificed so much for the competitions.
