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2016 And Many More

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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freedive, freediving, happy, love, running, shoes

When life throws you a lemon, make lemonade. I pulled myself together and moved on. I will make the most out of this 2016.

I am bit by bit back into my freediving training with my buddies. And now I am also back to running with my running buddy. It is so impressive that he always survives to tag along my running. I run whatever pace I like and he never complains and yet manages to give me extra push until the end. I also learned about running shoes from my buddy. And one of the best things is he inspires me to be back to my active lifestyle which I left behind during the low season of my life in 2015. And now, I am bit by bit back to the person I was before, cheerful, active, and positive. So, thank you! I wouldn’t have bounced back so fast without you.

I can smell a lot of great exciting things are in the air for this 2016.

Lots of love! Cheers!

 

 

 

My 2015 In A Glance

30 Saturday Jan 2016

Posted by noralestari in About Life, Freedive, Random Stuffs

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freedive, freediving, life, live, molchanov, monofin, underwater

2015 has passed and yet first month of 2016 will soon pass. So, I decide this is the time to write a review of my 2015.

It was a year full of ups and downs, more downs to ups I have to say, but look at me, I survived it and came out even stronger and better. Someone very dear to my heart departed. On top of it, my very best friend and I had a fight over something I didn’t even understand why or what, it was just a ridiculous argument which ended up not so well. I went on a very stressful and intensive trainings for my freediving competition. I tried so hard to manage my live and to pull myself together. I held the pieces so tightly and I bent so many times so I wouldn’t break. But I have to say that God has been and is and will always be so good to me. Despite all the sorrows, many exciting things happened.

My friend and I went to Bali to shoot the very first underwater 360 video in the world for the World Expo 2015 in Milan. It was such a precious experience and the team was so wonderful. And to top the excitement, I got a very precious Molchanov’s monofin (which will cost me a fortune if I have to buy it by myself) from a dear friend, Kev, the owner of Fusion Freediving. The monofin is super comfy that I barely feel it, like a second tail to my feet. And it has the signatures from the World Champion – Alexey Molchanov and one of my most favourite freedivers, one of the best in the world, GBR very own – Michael Board. What could I ask for more.

And one of the best thing ever happen in my career, I got my own room with a big window and very nice view. I assumed a very interesting role and yet received many good feedbacks. And the new team embrace diversity very well. We respect each other and work efficiently.

Thank you 2014. It has been a very hard year but in the end, all that matter are how well we live our live and move on.

Cheers!

 

 

My Winning Eleven

09 Tuesday Jun 2015

Posted by noralestari in About Life, running

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asics, friends, friendship, happiness, happy, honey, life, love, run, running, shoes, simple, starbucks, sweet, tumbler

So, today is my day! I celebrated it with….first, few of my very good friends. And I got this very cute tumbler that I have wanted for so long. It’s GREEN! Yes, GREEN! Couldn’t be any better 😀 A very simple yet meaningful gesture. Happiness is simple, as simple as knowing that I am surrounding by FRIENDS. And as simple as I can appreciate my life with all the blessings I don’t even deserve.

Here is the look of that cute tumbler:
Tumbler

And second, I celebrated with….MYSELF. Yes, it is very important to just love yourself because at the end, it is all about you and how you can love your own being before you can love other people. You have to make best friend and make peace with your own self, nobody else can do it for you. So, I did go for a run with my most favourite pair of shoes. How I wish it could have been with my most favourite person (I miss how he waited for me at the finish – of course because he always ran faster and better and beat me). I have decided since end of May that I would make 10 winning laps for my day. But I have been sick for almost 2 weeks now. So early this morning, I thought I would make only 4 laps. Then when I was actually on the running track, I thought that I could make 6 laps. Oh well, as usual, I got warmed up after 4-5 laps. So the sixth felt so easy. I thought “Okay, 8 laps will not be that difficult”. 6,7,8 were just so easy and I ended up finishing my 10 winning laps as I have planed to since the beginning. And one more lap just to cool down. I called it a “winning eleven” 🙂

So, this is my story. I hope one day I will read again this writing and remember the spirit and courage I have put through today and be strong. Give faith a fighting chance. Yes, I still believe it.

Here is the look of my most favourite pair of shoes from my most favourite person ever. Love you….since the very beginning…till the very end.
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Happy Birthday!

07 Sunday Jun 2015

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It’s your birthday today! I hope you know how lucky you are. And I hope you won’t take things in your life for granted.

I wish you happiness, life full of love, blessings, prosperity, longevity, and many good happy years to come. I wish you will always be beautiful, body and soul. May you get everything you want and may you appreciate it.

These words keep ringing in my head, “as long as she is happy”.
If only you know how lucky you are…. 🙂

7th June, Happy 40th birthday!

Be Part of the Miracle – Saving Eliza O’Neill

04 Friday Apr 2014

Posted by noralestari in About Life, Love, Story

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disease, eliza o'neill, family, fund, funding, gofundme, happiness, happy, healthy, rare disease, sanfilippo, savingeliza, south carolina, vonwong

If you happen to read this writing, I do beg you one thing: when you finish reading this, please be part of the miracle for Eliza O’Neill.

Eliza is a 4 yo happy little girl. From what I see in the pictures and videos, she is cute and so cheerful. She was diagnosed with a rare disease, SanFilippo Syndrome Type A. She will lose the ability to talk, to walk, to move, and eventually she will just pass…if she isn’t cured. She will just getting worse and worse. It is irreversible damage to the brain. So time is really precious here. The cure itself is a gene therapy conducted by a hospital in Ohio. They do a trial to cure this disease but the trial is lack of funding. Clock is tickling, they need the money to fund the trial so children like Eliza O’Neill can be cured.

What we can do to help is we can donate or we can do a simple thing, help her by spreading the story. Therefore the world will know about the syndrome and that more people will donate and they can get the money in time. We can be part of the miracle.

Below are some links to the story of Eliza O’Neill:

www.savingeliza.com –> you can donate here

http://www.wistv.com/story/25096571/film-crew-documents-familys-journey-to-find-a-cure-for-their-daughter-with-rare-disorder?autostart=true –> they were broadcasted by the local tv

http://www.nydailynews.com/family-save-4-year-old-daughter-life-viral-video-article-1.1743244 –> they were in the Daily News

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/saving-eliza_n_5078174.html –> they were posted by Huffingtonpost

Please click the video in the link and watch. You can decide what to do, either to donate or to share the story or to just pray for her. Every small things count 🙂 I believe all of us who watch the video will love to see this girl grows up happy and healthy. We will love to see her running around cheerfully. Who knows, by saving Eliza O’Neill, she will one day save the world 🙂

As Eliza said: “Please share” .. “Please share”

Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0IY8qG7J-I  (this video was made by Benjamin Von Wong. He is a very talented young photographer from Canada, you can check his work here: www.vonwong.com)

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