Welcome to the new danielyeow.com! I’m still trying to figure out how this whole thing works, but hopefully everything will be smoothed out within a few weeks. The idea is that this website will eventually look a bit like a newspaper. I don’t know why, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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This is a facebook meme; one of the few that I took the time to actually do. I thought I would include it on the site because it actually says something about me (not like those “which Bold and the Beautiful character are you?” memes) Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write...
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So I want to save the world right. Turns out the world is a very complicated thing and, in order to have any hope of fixing its problems, one must understand many different fields at the one time. Due to the amount of time it takes to gain a good understanding of even a...
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Enschede Training for the Olympics isn’t easy. It isn’t cheap either. I made a short promotional video recently as part of our quest to find sponsors (it also gives a good introduction to what we’re doing), and here it is in all its glory: ▶ YouTube - (reclame is the Dutch word for advertisement)
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I have recently been occupied in “discussions” on the internet with people who identify with conservatism. Previously, I simply believed conservatism to be a catch-all for the kind of thinking which requires very little actual thought, but I have since learned that the term identifies an entire school of thought (although “thought” is a...
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Enschede Those who have seen the movie “Team America” will know that, to go from being a beginner to a being a pro, you need a montage. So I have constructed a montage of our team training in the gym. Those who frequent the Thialf skating facility in Heerenveen for races are probably sick of...
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When it is cold enough, lakes and canals freeze over and you can go skating on them. The dutch go crazy over this “natuurijs” (literally – natural ice, as opposed to artifical ice). On new year’s day, some of our team took it upon ourselves to sample this experience. ▶ YouTube -
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I thought I’d wait a week so that the fact that I’m older really had time to sink in. How does it feel to be older? Well, it doesn’t feel very different really. I’ve been living in Holland for 59 days training for the 2010 Olympic Games. It’s not easy. As the previous post...
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Enschede This evening I raced on the ice for the first time. Here is what happened. ▶ YouTube - Just in case there was any lingering doubt, this is NOT what is supposed to happen in a typical start
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