If you can wait and not be tired by waiting...

A really nice trailer for the game Football Manager 2008. A game I think I want to re-visit to take my mind of things. A truely inspiring poem based on the original by Rudyard Kipling called "IF".

"IF"

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

-Rudyard Kipling

And so starts the whole motion again of tutorials, lab sessions and assignments. But yet I am still in the holiday mood. Or rather I am still "sulking" about IT that I have not yet found the motivation to get myself started.

Well I got an assignment due this thursday and I am only 10% done. Will be going out tmr afternoon so that means even less time to complete it. Looks like its going to be one crazy wednesday as I hope to get it all done in one day.

So until then, I guess all I can do is continue to wait it out.

Good Nights World.
Kenneth.